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Fission Fridays: October 6th, 2023

This week, we shared a recap of our jam-packed time in St. Louis and hosted a UCAN Community Call.

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Fission in St. Louis: TrainJam, Strange Loop, and LoFi Unconference

TrainJam, Strange Loop, PWL, and LoFi Unconference. Our trip to St. Louis was filled with fascinating talks, discussions, and inspiration.

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Fission Fridays: September 29th, 2023

This week, we announced the first slate of speakers at IPFS Connect Istanbul, hosted a couple of community calls, and reported on our experience at Berlin Blockchain Week 2023.

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Berlin Blockchain Week 2023

Fission's Head of Design, Ryan Betts, reports on his experience at Berlin Blockchain Week 2023.

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Fission Fridays: September 22nd, 2023

Fission headed to Strange Loop this week, and we explored decentralized web tools that make the web more open and agentic.

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10 Decentralized Web Tools You Should Know

Here's a list of 10 tools helping end users and builders move away from centralized entities and toward more affirming and humane software.

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Fission Fridays: September 15th, 2023

This week, we hosted a fascinating discussion with Ramsey Nasser and Jon Corbett on programming language theory and announced the official poster artist for IPFS Connect Istanbul.

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Announcing İlker Türe as IPFS Connect Istanbul Poster Artist

This talented Turkish artist is designing a beautiful poster for IPFS Connect Istanbul.

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EP03: Alternatives to Modern Programming Languages with Ramsey Nasser and Jon Corbett

For episode 3 of the Causal Islands Podcast, we are joined by special guests Ramsey Nasser and Jon Corbett to discuss their work creating Arabic and Cree programming languages, and what they learned in the process.

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Fission Fridays: September 8th, 2023

This week, we explored the history of local-first software and how to get started.

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The Evolution of Local-First Software: Empowering Users in a Connected World

The Local-First Software Movement seeks to empower users by providing them with the benefits of collaboration and connectivity while preserving privacy, security, and data autonomy. Today, we'll dive into the history of the LoFi movement, notable local-first projects, and how to get started.

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Fission Fridays: September 1, 2023

This week, we recorded a new episode of the Causal Islands Podcast and prepared for several upcoming events!

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EP02: A Conversation with the Strange Loop and Papers We Love Conference Organizers

For our second episode, we discussed building community and the future of tech conferences with the organizers of Strange Loop and Papers We Love.

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Fission Fridays: August 25, 2023

This week, we hosted several community calls and shared how Subconscious is using UCANs in its local-first decentralized note-taking app.

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Projects We Love: Subconscious

You should own your thoughts. Subconscious is a tool for thought build on the open source Noosphere protocol that empowers users to do just that by avoiding centralization and enjoying the networked intelligence effects of a worldwide knowledge graph.

Fission's Upcoming Events

Fission's Upcoming Events for August 2023.

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Fission Fridays: August 18th, 2023

Announcing an IPFS community event in Istanbul and a new Web3 funding primitive.

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Introducing Fund Ring: A Web3 Fundraising Primitive

Fund Ring is a Web3 funding primitive that seeks to help Filecoin and IPFS-connected open source projects get long-term support for maintenance, security, and feature updates with monthly or annual funding.

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Fission Fridays: August 11th, 2023

We're coming to you with the exciting news that we've received a grant from IPFS and the Arcological Association to continue our work on IPVM! We also chatted about DWeb, wrote about CRDTs, and set a date for EP02 of the Causal Islands Podcast!

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What are CRDTs?

Nodes in distributed systems can store and edit files offline and in geographically diverse locations. Each node accessing the file has a copy. When it's time to bring the changes together and synchronize the copies, Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) handle this efficiently and accurately.

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Announcing IPFS Grant for IPVM Decentralized WebAssembly Computation

We're pleased to announce that Fission has received an $ 800,000 USD grant to support further applied research of the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine (IPVM) protocols and the Homestar reference implementation from the Arcological Association and the IPFS Network Capital Pool.

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Fission Fridays: August 4th, 2023

This week we explored user-owned data solutions and shared the research papers that have influenced our IPVM and Rhizome work.

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Fission's Favorite Papers: IPVM & Rhizome Edition

Fission's work would not be possible without the research that has been published in various academic computer science papers. Today we share some of our favorites that have influenced our work on IPVM and Rhizome.

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Empowering Users with User-Owned Data: A Path to Data Privacy and Control

At Fission, we believe that people and the communities they belong to deserve more agency over their data. Let's review some solutions to preserving data agency and their advantages.

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Fission Fridays: July 28, 2023

This week we hosted the monthly UCAN Community Call and shared a guide to UCANs, the open source protocol that enables authorization in distributed systems.