Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat

Re:Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat by mxuribe on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:13PM (#12271586)

@pfraze: This browser is a great idea! I'm getting more and more into decentralized web stuff, and this browser is exactly the kind of thing for decentra-newbies like me to keep diving in! Kudos!

[decentra-newbie or decentra-newb: a term i just now coined to refer to newcomers or novices utilizing decentralized digital technologies. ;-) ]

Also - off-topic - but I just checked out the patchwork project, and wow, very cool! I'm in the midst of running an internal/family-only experiment running my own matrix.org server...but when i have a free chance, will definitely check out patchwork.

Keep up the great work!

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Re:Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat by pfraze on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:26PM (#12271662)

Thanks! Nice term-coining work :)

I was really just the frontend guy for Patchwork. Much more credit goes to Dominic Tarr [1] for building the underlying tech, and I should also mention Cel [2] and Mix [3] for their work there. Hopefully we'll have Patchwork running in Beaker soon. More about it: https://scuttlebot.io/

I have a lot of interest in Matrix as well. The work looks very solid, and it could make for a good infrastructure solution for push notifications, webrtc signalling, and chat in general.

1. https://twitter.com/dominictarr

2. https://github.com/clehner

3. https://twitter.com/whimful

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Re:Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat by brokenmachine on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:50PM (#12272810)

Patchwork seems interesting.

How I'm picturing it is a kind of anonymous decentralized Facebook. Is that about right?

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Re:Show HN: Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat by whimful on Saturday August 13, 2016 @06:17AM (#12280968)

that's pretty much it. You store a copy of your world of content out to 2 degrees of connection. Messages are gossiped along lines of trust (friendship)... technically it doesn't even need the internet, just computers periodically bumping into each other and gossiping

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