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GP&CTO @blueyard.com Author, musician, speaker, developer https://chadfowler.com/

1,919 Followers  |  368 Following  |  322 Posts  |  Joined: 10.04.2023  |  1.723

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the running gag around the office is "multipath will fix this", so we wrote a blog post about what the heck multipath is & why it's going to make everything better: www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-on...

05.08.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I'll never not enjoy the elegance of destructuring in a language that supports it.

04.08.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Already in the works

02.08.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminded me of: blog.oshineye.com/2013/04/open...

01.08.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sax player Ivo Perelman with legendary bassist Reggie Workman & drummer Andrew Cyrille plus reeds player Chad Fowler explores jazz’s unifying and exploratory spirit, transcending geographical and generational boundaries. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ivo-p...

28.03.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was such a pleasure to see old and new friends at the last @rubycentral.org RailsConf <3

31.07.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Context Wars: Notes from a Gathering of the Rebel Alliance What side are you on?

We wrote this after a gathering of folks working on the messy edge of identity, memory, and intent in agentic systems. The ideas are still forming, but the stakes are clear: whoever shapes context, shapes the future.

Get in touch if you're work around this.

31.07.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

We'll break down how context and intent shape discovery, awesome conversation with @chadfowler.com coming up! πŸŽ‰

30.07.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building a Privacy Preserving Intent-Driven Discovery Protocol YouTube video by BlueYard Capital

Can discovery happen without exposure? Join @chadfowler.com and Seref Yarar for a conversation and live demo on how Index Network is building a privacy-first protocol for intent-driven discovery.

πŸ—“οΈ Tuesday, August 5th | 3pm ET
πŸ“ www.youtube.com/live/oFFs9je...

30.07.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

How much of it was spam I wonder?

24.07.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow 😩

23.07.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAI can fake all kinds of things, but it cannot fake a cryptographic signature” – @gordon.bsky.social

Watch the full conversation with @chadfowler.com on censorship-resistant data archiving with SZDT: www.youtube.com/live/ZRh79JQ...

github.com/gordonbrande...

22.07.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Offshore outsourcing

19.07.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if the axe could sharpen itself?

19.07.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's happening

19.07.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to chop the tree. Hopefully it’s big after all that sharpening.

17.07.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does it really take four hours to sharpen an axe?

17.07.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join @chadfowler.com for a livestream with Tim Robinson as he walks us through the motivation and architecture behind FreePay - the worlds first open source, fee-free payment terminal.

πŸ—“οΈ Wednesday, July 23rd | 10:00am ET / 16:00 CET

πŸ“½οΈ www.youtube.com/live/eaqPCXq...

15.07.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ALBERT AYLER Quintet  Live in Berlin, 1966 | THE JAZZ LIBRARY
YouTube video by The Jazz Library ALBERT AYLER Quintet Live in Berlin, 1966 | THE JAZZ LIBRARY

Happy birthday to the late #jazz saxophonist and composer Albert Ayler #jazzsky #goat

13.07.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Evan said it better than I could.

10.07.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live from the final keynote of the final #RailsConf...

And of course, it's @tenderlove.dev πŸ₯²

10.07.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you @rubycentral.org for having me. It was a beautiful last RailsConf. 19 years. Not bad for a hobby project 😁❀️

10.07.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Ruby Gems Podcast A Ruby Central podcast that takes an inside look at the people, projects, and progress shaping the Ruby community.Β  Discover the gems in Ruby and connect to this vibrant group of amazing people.

A fun announcement, @davidhill.dev and I are hosting a new podcast from @rubycentral.org. We dropped the first episode at #railsconf. @chadfowler.com joined us for the first episode on how this all got started.

09.07.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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OG ⁦β€ͺ@rubycentralorg‬⁩ founders reunited at the final ⁦β€ͺ@railsconf‬⁩ ❀️

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08.07.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The LLM just responded to my suggested course correction with: β€œhell yes.” I think I might have just leveled up.

07.07.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’d be tempted to apply for this job if it was real.

It’s only a matter of time.

07.07.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

on in 15min to talk about SZDT, Blake3, and censorship-resistant data

02.07.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You're not the first person I've disappointed with that background

04.07.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are you waiting for? CT the A!

04.07.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

super fun to chat about content addressing, Blake3 verified streaming and all that jazz

03.07.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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