I consume a lot of information. Sometimes people ask me how I've come to know what I know about political ideologies and many issues that crop »
Humanity needs the future of software to have the following two properties: Security Simplicity Rust makes software much more secure, and significantly less simple. Security Security-wise »
Today, almost everyone who thinks they know what WebAssembly is is wrong. WebAssembly is not a toy that runs in the browser to sometimes make your »
Pony's design goals are commendable, but its author does not sufficiently care about simplicity, or does not know how to achieve it. Example line from https »
Steve Phillips is an ultra-ambitious programmer, entrepreneur, philosopher, humanist, and cypherpunk. In 2019 he was featured in Wired magazine journalist Clive Thompson's book Coders: The Making »
I just did a quick semi-deep dive into learning assembly! Why? Because revolutionizing computer programming is a high priority for me, and I no longer trust »
Open source pioneer Bruce Perens has written a close-minded, condescending, fallacy-laden blog post defending something that is not even under attack, namely the definition of open »
Slides: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/cryptoparty-nb-aug2019/ Virtual handout of recommended privacy tools: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/tools.pdf »
Policies that I believe would make the US a dramatically better place: Tax some substantial fraction (~20%?) of the money companies save outsourcing jobs and use »
TL;DR: Wire doesn't make you use your phone number as your identifier, which is huge IMO. But Signal has the best security track record and »
Since some people have recently asked, the supplements I recommend to everyone (at least give them a try!) and that I take every day are: Lecithin »
Here are some techniques for discovering your values: Ask yourself (and write your answer) -- who are the greatest people who have ever lived, and why »
Dear Frode and company, What am I working on? I am building Effective.af (code): secure task management software with a bevy of unique features, designed »
I consider the following statements and achievements awe-inspiring, and I hope you do, too! Voyager In 1977, Jimmy Carter wrote the following statement, which hitched a »
Scaleway's servers are half the price of DigitalOcean's... but is it worth it? Let's find out. DigitalOcean's 2GB RAM instances ($5/month): $ cryptsetup benchmark # Tests are »
Here is a super-fast way to get started with Checkup, which provides "[d]istributed, lock-free, self-hosted health checks and status pages". Checkup is pretty great, but »
On 2018.11.15 I gave a talk at Noisebridge's 5 Minutes of Fame (5MoF)! Here are my slides: https://r1it4g6we08inkj4ynop.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html »
My slides: https://zgv2t96qauu2agbgexs6.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html?transition=none#/ I will post the video when it's up! »
Here's a rather extensive AMA/Q&A session I did for the CodeBuddies.org community last year, in which I go quite deep: https://medium »
How to contact me, and where to find me online: GitHub: github.com/elimisteve Keybase: keybase.io/elimisteve LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sdphillips Twitter: @elimisteve Email »
Here they are! https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/slides/pursuance-c4sf/index.html?transition=none#/ »
In January 2018 I gave a talk at RIOTcon about -- you guessed it -- Pursuance. Here are my slides. »
My criteria when deciding to work on a project: Long-term: I must be not just willing, but excited to spend 10+ years of my life on »
How to Decide What to Work On You should pursue a project if and only if it: Maximizes your values Is valuable to the world Is »
Mine The End State Here's where we need to get to as a species: I want every person in the world to be doing exactly what »