It's important not to ignore the power of the Azimuth layer alone. Azimuth gives us 4 billion secure, convenient, transferable, cryptographically self-sovereign network endpoints.
Once two computers have secure names and secure keys, it's almost impossible to keep them from exchanging packets. Once names are scarce, it's straightforward to block undesired traffic. Azimuth is a natural foundation for any network which wants private
This document is a complete historical overview of the Higher Order Company. If you want to learn anything about our background, a good way to do so is to feed this Gist into an AI (like Sonnet-3.5) and ask it any question!
It all started around 2015. I was an ambitious 21-year-old CS student who, somehow, had been programming for the last 10 years, and I had a clear goal:
I want to become the greatest programmer alive
A hundred years ago, humanity answered that very question, twice. In 1936, Alan invented the Turing Machine, which, highly inspired by the mechanical trend of the 20th century, distillated the common components of early computers into a single universal machine that, despite its simplicity, was capable of performing every computation conceivable. From simple numerical calculations to entire
| import Foundation | |
| import SwiftUI | |
| import UIKit | |
| extension UIBlurEffect { | |
| public static func variableBlurEffect(radius: Double, imageMask: UIImage) -> UIBlurEffect? { | |
| let methodType = (@convention(c) (AnyClass, Selector, Double, UIImage) -> UIBlurEffect).self | |
| let selectorName = ["imageMask:", "effectWithVariableBlurRadius:"].reversed().joined() | |
| let selector = NSSelectorFromString(selectorName) |
| import SwiftUI | |
| struct ChatGPTTextField: View { | |
| // MARK: - State | |
| /// State to hold our `TextField` query. | |
| @State private var queryMessage: String = "" | |
| /// Focus state for our `TextField`. |
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| +$ ulam | |
| $~ [%coin *coin] | |
| :: leaves | |
| :: | |
| $% [%coin =coin] :: atom, noun, or compound coin | |
| [%path =pith] :: hoon path syntax | |
| [%page =mark noun=*] :: %foo|bar, bar is coin blob | |
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This is a proposal for a "lure service".
While this can serve as the foundation for countless features, the primary goal is to solve the "boot into an empty landscape" problem. In other words, it's trying to close the loop of "one person uses Urbit" -> "they invite another to their group on Urbit" -> "they get on Urbit and immediately know what to do with it" -> "they invite another".
Thus, we will first consider the case of inviting someone into an Urbit group who may not already use Urbit.
Invites should be regular links. These work on any device, can be transmitted over any transport (including publicly in a tweet or physically via qr code), and are very low-friction to click. When you click this link, you should expect to receive an invite to that group.
To make this happen, we must somehow establish an association between the person who clicked the link and their @p. We should make this work for as many cases as possible -- especially, it should work even if they don't yet have a @p.