meri's missives

flower power 🌼

Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts

A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto

Meri|April 10, 2026

Burnout Phase Transition

Modelling chronic stress effects on my mental health and the end of monopolies

Burnout Phase Transition

Meri|March 21, 2026

Owning group data

Thinking about how communities can manage shared data on and off ATProto

Meri|December 20, 2025

Using Keyhive in WASM to model capability groups

Demo/POC of using just the delegation parts, in the browser

Meri|August 20, 2025

A deep-dive explainer on Ink and Switch''s BeeKEM protocol

A eventually consistent approach to scalable group key agreement

Meri|June 14, 2025

Leaf Render Update 0

A generic templating system in Rust and WASM

Meri|May 25, 2025

What happened to the earlier version of Organ?

Postmortem for an activist social network project

Meri|February 18, 2025

Analysis of proposed protocols for metadata protection and decentralisation in Secure Group Messaging

Research report on two papers

Meri|November 17, 2024

Public research notes

stuff i have been interested in recently

Meri|September 11, 2024

Local-first and data sovereignty vs knowledge aggregation

Militant data politics

Meri|September 11, 2024

How is technology used for political repression?

A research project

Meri|November 02, 2023

Design Justice - A Reading List

Introductory essay for a reading group I was part of

Meri|June 12, 2023

feminism is a magic key

Some trans IWD thoughts

Meri|March 07, 2023

Tech is a minefield

But then again, so is all modern life I guess?

Meri|December 15, 2022