Fission Courses

UCAN and WNFS for Filecoin: Decentralized Identity, Auth, and Encrypted File System

Explore decentralized identity, auth, and encrypted file systems for IPFS with UCAN and WNFS. Learn about root proofs, cosigning, user-owned deals, and advanced file system features.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Emerging Code Licensing: Open Source Trends and Alternatives

Explore innovative code licensing approaches, from open source to ethical and fair source models, discussing their implications, benefits, and challenges for developers and organizations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IPFS Cluster Overview - Data Orchestration Across IPFS Daemon Swarms

Overview of IPFS Cluster: data orchestration across IPFS daemons, allocating and tracking distributed pinsets. Covers history, roadmap, garbage collection, production use, and key features like load balancing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Shared Private Files Design in Webnative's WNFS

Explore WNFS's innovative approach to private file sharing, including content addressing, key exchange, and decentralized identities for secure and efficient data management.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Cortex - Tools for Action: Building a Conceptual Operating System

Explore Cortex, a tool for action that revolutionizes note-taking and knowledge management. Learn about its development, features, and future plans through an insightful presentation and demo.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Alternatives to Modern Programming Languages - Causal Islands Podcast Episode 3

Explore the creation of Arabic and Cree programming languages with experts, discussing challenges, cultural implications, and innovative approaches to non-Latin alphabet-based coding.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IPVM Community Call - Content-Addressed Computation in IPFS

Explore IPVM's content-addressed computation for IPFS, covering calling conventions, distributed scheduling, and more in this implementer-focused community discussion.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How To Write A Joke That Will Still Be Funny In Two Thousand Years

Explore sustainable computing and long-lasting software systems. Examine cultural influences, industry constraints, and alternative models to build a robust future for technology in the face of global challenges.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IPVM Community Call - Content-Addressed Computation in IPFS

Explore IPVM's content-addressed computation for IPFS, covering distributed scheduling, session receipts, and mobile computing. Learn about recent developments and future plans.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Before You Program

Explore computing education research on novice programmers' challenges beyond coding, uncovering insights to enhance learning experiences and improve teaching methods.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Holistic Local-First Software on the P2P Web

Explore how peer-to-peer protocols, mesh networks, and cooperative governance can create a new foundation for community-focused technology on the web.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Creation Myths of Computing

Exploring computing as worldmaking, examining the role of technologists in shaping social imaginaries and alternative futures through the lens of pluriversality and ecological systems.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Dynamic Documents as Personal Software

Explore Potluck, a prototype enabling users to transform text documents into interactive tools for managing daily tasks, promoting personalized and adaptable software experiences.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Seamless Services for an Open World

Explore the next generation of open services with verifiable data and computation, enabling seamless, location-free, and privacy-respecting systems that scale superlinearly and interoperate without pre-negotiation.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Many Stories of Algorithmic Improvisation - Artistic Live Coding

Explore artistic live coding: real-time algorithmic creation for artistic output. Discover its global impact, diverse histories, and potential futures through demonstrations and performances.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video