expede / awesome-relay

Awesome resources for Relay

Brooklyn Zelenka

Hey there, I'm Brooke 👋 I'm a composer-turned-programmer living in beautiful, rainy Vancouver.

Depending on the community, I'm best known for:

• UCAN, a form of distributed, user-owned JWT+SPKI auth
• Witchcraft, which ports Haskell idioms to Elixir
• Specifying Ethereum Virtual Machine improvements

I also give conference talks. You can find many of them on my Notist profile.

What I'm (Currently) Excited About 🙌

• Programming languages & PLT
• Distributed systems
• Database design
• Tech community
• Startups & advising

Live Stats 📊

Fission ⚛️

I'm the cofounder and CTO at Fission, where we're eliminating the need for a backend & DevOps (really!) The web as a platform is incredibly powerful, and we're building tools to give everyone a native app feel, right in the browser, without plugins. Filesystem (Webnatiev FS), DB (Dialog), user-owned accounts (UCAN) & data, encryption at rest, automatic offline support, privacy out of the box, and everything else you'd need to get up and running with a modern web app. No messing around with k8s, no server setup, no differences between production and your local environment.

Conference Talks 🗣🗺

I gives conference talks (slides here), often on the topics of functional programming, the future of programming, and models of computation.

Tech Community 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻

I've been involved in the tech community in Vancouer for several years now. I founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup, and for a few years helped organize Code & Coffee YVR. In 2018, we ran Conf & Coffee, a 2-day tech conference.

Witchcraft 🧙‍🔮🐈‍⬛✨

What started as a teaching tool at the FP Meetup turned into a suite of libraries porting common Haskell idioms into Elixir. Witchcraft is a suite of libraries that work well together, including:

• Algae
• Quark
• TypeClass
• Witchcraft

You can help support Witchcraft by getting involved here on GitHub, or contributing on Open Collective.

Web3 ✨🕸️✨

Web3 is so much more than blockchain, though that's obviously included

UCAN Auth

I am the editor of the User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) specification. You can think about UCAN as roughly an end-user controlled, offline-first, extensible, capabilities-based variant of OAuth that enables:

• Users to directly authorize each other without a backend at all
• Services to collaborate without prenegotiation
• Restrict processes to be only able to perform a narrow set of actions

Ethereum

Once upon a time, I was fairly involved with Ethereum. I coauthored a number of standards in the space, including (co)authoring:

• EIP-615: Subroutines and Static Jumps for the EVM
• EIP-902: Token Validation
• EIP-1066: Status Codes
• EIP-1444: Localized Messaging with Signal-to-Text
• EIP-2315: Simple Subroutines for the EVM
• EIP-3779: Safer Control Flow for the EVM

Filecoin

I also been getting involved with the Filecoin VM design:

• Filecoin VM Architecture contributor