Hi, I'm cblgh, a crowdfunded independent researcher + engineer!
Among other roles, I am the current editor of the Secure Scuttlebutt newsletter and one of the main devs behind Cabal, a peer-to-peer group chat I develop together with cool internet friends. During 2019-2020, I researched and proposed a subjective moderation system, TrustNet, for my Master's thesis.
My work focuses on combining usability with peer-to-peer concepts and applications. The intent is to create easy-to-use, sustainable infrastructure + tools for people and their communities. I also spend time putting my experience into words by writing about experiments, observations, and ideas.
Every donation helps bring new projects & ideas into the world and creates breathing room for maintaining existing ones—thank you so much!
Featured work
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cabal-club/cabal-cli
Terminal client for Cabal, the p2p chat platform.
JavaScript 524 -
cblgh/trustnet
a flexible and distributed system for deriving, and interacting with, computational trust
JavaScript 134 -
cblgh/monotome
a personal knowledge base system. markdown markup, runs in the browser
JavaScript 202 -
cblgh/cerca
lean forum software
Go 128 -
cblgh/lieu
community search engine
Go 233 -
cblgh/plain
network .md into .html with plaintext files
Go 77
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