This is the personal blog of Daniel Buchner, a product designer, software engineer, and open source developer. Currently I work at Gemini on an array of products.
Where my career has taken me:
- Block - Head of Decentralized Identity
- Microsoft - Helped launch the Edge browser, started the personal digital identity group (now known as Entra Verified ID)
- Mozilla - Led the Developer Ecosystem team, Web standards development
Featured
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Identity Is the Dark Matter & Energy of Our World
Published: at 11:44 AMExploring identity as a cosmological analog - proposing that like dark matter and energy in the universe, identity forms the vast unseen infrastructure that powers all our daily interactions.
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Scaling Decentralized Apps & Services via Blockchain-based Identity Indirection
Published: at 04:02 PMExploring how blockchain-based identity indirection can address the scalability challenges of decentralized applications and services while maintaining consensus guarantees.
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S(GH)PA: The Single-Page App Hack for GitHub Pages
Published: at 09:41 AMA clever hack to enable single-page app routing on GitHub Pages by leveraging the 404.html file and preserving SEO-friendly status codes for crawlers.
Recent Posts
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Demythstifying Web Components
Published: at 03:58 PMDispelling common myths and FUD about Web Components by clarifying what they actually are - encapsulated, declarative, custom elements that enable reusable, interoperable functionality.
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Recapping the W3C Blockchain Standardization Workshop @ MIT
Published: at 01:52 PMA recap of the W3C blockchain workshop at MIT discussing potential Web standards for blockchain technology, particularly focusing on blockchain-based identity authentication.
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The Nickelback Persistence Conjecture
Published: at 09:57 AMDebunking the fallacious arguments about data persistence in decentralized systems and why economic incentives in distributed networks are more robust than critics claim.
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The Web Beyond: How blockchain identity will transform our world
Published: at 12:32 PMA vision of how blockchain-based identity systems could revolutionize daily life through seamless, secure, and interoperable digital interactions across all devices and services.