Kodsnack 336 - Less like the web and more like Unix, with Paul Frazee

Fredrik talks to Paul Frazee about Beaker browser and making the web more peer-to-peer rather than client-server. Beaker also aims to make it radically easier to create and publish your own content rather Paul explains what Beaker browser is and the technologies it builds on. The central piece of technology is the distributed file system Hyperdrive and the DAT protocol which provides a sort of file- and folder-based API for building applications and handling their data.

Paul discusses the hard problems of Beaker and P2P networks - such as deciding when and how you as a peer start to share something online in the system. Sharing everything all the time does not feel like the right solution to the problem. We also discuss how to think about things more like applications and dynamic web sites in the Beaker way.

Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!

Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.

If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi.

Paul Frazee
Beaker browser
Secure Scuttlebutt
Electron
Chromium
Hyperdrive
The DAT protocol
SAAS
Bittorrent
Mathias Buus - head of protocol development
Magnet links
The discovery swarm
Distributed hash table
RSS
Symlinks
Unwalled.garden
Burying the lede
Peter Wang
Anaconda
Tara Vancil
IPFS
ICO
Proof of work
Proof of stake
Smart contracts
Plan 9
QT compiled to WASM
QT
WASM - Webassembly
Markdown
Beaker browser on Twitter
Paul on Twitter
IRC
Meetings of the DAT protocol working group happen in #datprotocol on Freenode

Titles

Trying to move to the next version of the web
Just a little hobby project
P2P and web decentralisation
A peer-to-peer file system
Bittorrent, but a little bit better
Bittorrent upgraded
That was the easy part
The discovery swarm
Poor behaviour still gets punished
Does it get pushed to a wide audience?
(We are not what I call) topological purists
Less like the web and more like Unix
A global file system
Social design by nature
A totally client-side architecture
Inverting the server-client-relationship
Making the server very dumb
This giant distributed computer
Millions of files in a single folder
navigator.filesystem
Just a little bit broken
Not the web browser you know
/public/friends
You know that has presentation in there
The web is somebody else’s computer