meri's missives

flower power 🌼

Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts

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

April 10, 2026

Burnout Phase Transition

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

March 21, 2026

Owning group data

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

December 20, 2025

Using Keyhive in WASM to model capability groups

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

August 20, 2025

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

A eventually consistent approach to scalable group key agreement

June 14, 2025

Leaf Render Update 0

A generic templating system in Rust and WASM

May 25, 2025

What happened to the earlier version of Organ?

Postmortem for an activist social network project

February 18, 2025

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

Research report on two papers

November 17, 2024

Public research notes

stuff i have been interested in recently

September 11, 2024

Local-first and data sovereignty vs knowledge aggregation

Militant data politics

September 11, 2024

How is technology used for political repression?

A research project

November 02, 2023

Design Justice - A Reading List

Introductory essay for a reading group I was part of

June 12, 2023

feminism is a magic key

Some trans IWD thoughts

March 07, 2023

Tech is a minefield

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

December 15, 2022

meri's missives