I'm Karim Jedda and this is my personal blog.
I believe that the architecture of the modern web not only makes meaningful decentralization difficult but that it also structurally precludes it. As a consequence, seemingly "decentralized" systems built on top of modern web architecture inevitably collapse toward centralized intermediaries.
We built the internet on email & passwords, coupled with an analog payment system based on typing 16-digit numbers into forms. If someone pitched this today, we’d laugh them out of the room. The answer might be in places most of our brightest minds aren't willing to look at - yet.
A better way to interact with Web3. Forget extensions, Polkadot on-chain Metadata coupled with Polkadot Vault show the way.
Write-up of how I created my first generative NFT collection on Polkadot.
Free software is better when it's simple to run, simple to understand, and simple to adapt. I argue that a lot of free software actually comes at a price that is not 0, and provide some hints and ideas for how I quantify "simple".
This article makes the case for offline mobile signers. Instead of juggling multiple wallets and trusting browser extensions, what if we had one secure tool that just handles the critical stuff?