Willow
S01:E09

Willow

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Episode description

Known as a well kept secret and hidden pearl of the P2P scene in Europe, Aljoscha makes a rare appearance in this podcast and brings us into his mind and the theoretical computer science of P2P data structures.

As someone who can relate to Lockharts Lament and in the pursuit of beautiful solutions, Aljoscha found an idea which could be improved on, and in turn presented the solution of Range Based Set Reconciliation, although he prefers a less formal description than the published paper.

As one of the two main developers of Willow, Aljoscha, together with Sammy, keeps a dev-diary filled with music and illustrations.

Willow is created by Sammy and Aljoscha and stems from Earthstar which in turn comes from Scuttlebutt as the late Cinnamon’s re-imagining of Dominic Tarr’s idea 🐌🌱✨

0:00Introduction
7:15Fragility and Care for People
10:33Singletons
12:20Care for People 💙🧡💜💚💗
14:09Lockharts Lament
20:10Dev-Diaries
25:55Qualities of Willow
30:30Deletion in Distributed Systems and in Willow
39:37Data Hashing, Content Addressing and Append-Only Logs
42:44Link Rot and CypherLinks
45:56Willow's Solution
56:46Range-Based Set Reconciliation