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Hackathon Results
We recently held an invite-only Urbit Hackathon for graduates of our Hoon School program, and the submissions really impressed us across the board. Submissions were judged on several criteria: creativity, usefulness, and code quality.
~lodleb-ritrul
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The Missing Middle
Urbit stars can facilitate a flexible continuum of community norms.
~simfur-ritwed
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Tools of Our Own
What is a digital environment? What does it mean to shape your own digital environment?
~haddef-sigwen
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Platform Decay, Decentralized Marketplaces, and Urbit
Urbit is calm computing. Calm commerce follows naturally.
~simfur-ritwed
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Introducing OS 1
OS 1 is somewhere between ‘productivity software’ and a ‘social network’. We think it’s the beginning of an altogether new breed of social computing.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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The Value of Urbit Address Space (2 of 3)
Scarcity, utility, liquidity, and network effect.
~patnes-rigtyn + ~ravmel-ropdyl
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Infrastructural
A reflection–meditation on OS 1’s initial form development, and the attitude we brought to bear in designing it.
~fabled-faster
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The Value of Urbit Address Space (1 of 3)
An expansion of our position on Urbit's address space value.
~patnes-rigtyn + ~ravmel-ropdyl
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The Understanding Urbit Podcast
An interview-based podcast series about the Urbit project, as told by those working on it.
~satsyt-sogleb
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Urbit is for Communities
Urbit is for giving communities the tools to shape their own environments; for us all to feel a sense of life and self-directedness in the digital world.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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Precepts: Discussion
The precepts aren’t arguments. We discuss and justify them here.
~wicdev-wisryt
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Precepts
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
~wicdev-wisryt
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Urbit for Normies
A layperson’s guide to the coming new internet.
~patnes-rigtyn
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Creating Sigils
The origin and design process informing Urbit's generative user avatar system, Sigils.
~ridlur-figbud
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Designing a Permanent Personal Identity
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system for binding a set of keys to a name. Sometimes a small amount of metadata is included.
~wicdev-wisryt
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Stable Arvo
This year we set out to get Arvo to a point that we can credibly call ‘stable.'
~poldec-tonteg
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Why Hoon?
The promise of Urbit lies in its reimagination of the digital world using components that are as constrained and limited as possible.
~rovnys-ricfer
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Simple, Durable, Yours
We built Urbit from scratch to be a system that’s simple, durable, and yours. Everything that computing today is not — but should be.
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Urbit and Bitcoin
A sound money deserves a sound computer.
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Your Last Computer
Your Urbit is a simpler computer, a quieter computer, a more private computer. We want it to feel predictable, safe, and reliable — things only a complete, sealed system can do. This, we hope, can get us a world where technology keeps us connected, but doesn’t dominate our lives.
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~2019.10 Roadmap
Galen Wolfe-Pauly on the road ahead for the identity/OS/interface/community stack.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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Landscape: A Portrait
On the latest Urbit user interface, and the interfaces to come.
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Announcing: Urbit Grants Program
Announcing Urbit Grants, a way to earn stars through contributing.
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Azimuth Security Bounty Program
Inviting you (and your friends) to help us make Azimuth as secure as possible.
~poldec-tonteg
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Urbit Grants and mid-2019 Gifts
Announcing an upcoming Urbit grants program and star gifts for Mid-2019.
~ravmel-ropdyl + ~mignyt-mogseb
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~2019.5 Roadmap
Where we are and where we're going as of mid-2019.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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Azimuth as Multipass
What if everyone had a single 'civilizational key'?
~ravmel-ropdyl
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The State of Landscape
An update on the state of Landscape and the Urbit network.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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The 100-Year Computer
One way to think about Urbit: as a "100-year computer."
~ravmel-ropdyl
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A Founder's Farewell
My goal was always to fire myself at the first possible opportunity. I'm super happy to reach it.
~sorreg-namtyv
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Azimuth is On-Chain
The Urbit address space, now called Azimuth, is on the blockchain. And too many other things to fit into a single post.
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Governance of urbit.org
Stewardship of the Urbit Project.
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Urbit and the Blockchain Wars
A bit about the 'idea maze' of choosing to bootstrap from Ethereum.
~sorreg-namtyv
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Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum
We've decided to launch Urbit's constitution as a system of Ethereum contracts.
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Toward a Frozen Operating System
Is it possible to freeze an entire OS?
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Toward a New %clay
Urbit's revision-control system, %clay, is itself due for a (medium-sized) revision!
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Why Urbit Probably Doesn't Need a Blockchain
Urbit (probably) doesn't need a blockchain, because the Urbit address-space PKI is a special case of a consensus ledger.
~sorreg-namtyv
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Common Objections to Urbit
Some common objections to Urbit, discussed.
~sorreg-namtyv
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The DAO as a Lesson in Decentralized Governance
What's the right lesson for the decentralization community to learn from the collapse of the DAO?
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Interim Constitution
The governing rules for the early days of the Urbit network.
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Magic
A thought-experiment to explain the Urbit user experience.
~sorreg-namtyv
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The Urbit Address Space
An overview of Urbit's cryptographic address space.
~ravmel-ropdyl + ~sorreg-namtyv
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An Urbit Overview
A high-level overview of Urbit.
~ravmel-ropdyl
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Beliefs and Principles Guiding the Urbit Project
We believe.
~sorreg-namtyv + ~ravmel-ropdyl
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What is Urbit For?
A vision of the Urbit-powered future.
~ravmel-ropdyl