web native

Introduction to Web Native Apps

An initial intro to Fission's web native apps. Browser as operating system, with the addition of identity and files, like an open source iCloud.

web native

Web Native File System Technical Design Overview

Brooklyn and Daniel from the Fission team present a technical overview of the Web Native File System.

Technology Highlight

UCAN: Authorizing Users Without a Back End

User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are a way of doing authorization ("what you can do") where users are fully in control.

App Ideas

TiddlyWiki as the original serverless

Using TiddlyWiki as your own open source Roam or Notion using the Git saver, plus an App Idea for running this on Fission

How To

Experimenting with HLS Video Streaming and IPFS

Walk through of encoding video using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and publishing to Fission.

FISSION

What colour is your yak? Visualizing developer jargon

We've created some fun illustrations around software dev jargon. Help us pick which ones we should work on next.

DWeb Lunch & Learn

Weekly Decentralized Web "Lunch & Learn" Video Calls

We're hosting weekly decentralized web related video calls on Thursdays. Watch the video from the first one on the topic of cryptography, browser APIs, and macaroons, presented by Daniel from our team.

cryptography

Everything you wanted to know about Elliptic Curve Cryptography

So you've heard of Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Maybe you know it's supposed to be better than RSA. Maybe you know that all these cool new decentralized protocols use it. Maybe you've seen the

Presentations

Fission on the IPFS Community Call

Fission presented what we've been up to on the IPFS Weekly Call on March 9th, 2020.

Events

Fission team retreat and Fernie Internet Next

The Fission team held their quarterly retreat in Fernie BC, as well as a remote presentation series on decentralized web tech called Fernie Internet Next.

Events

Back to the Future (of Drupal)

Boris will be presenting on Drupal and the Decentralized Web at DrupalCon Minneapolis, May 18 - 22.

FISSION

Fission Drive Preview

We're pleased to present the Preview release of Fission Drive, the web native file system browser that we're including as a base component of the Fission stack.

FISSION

Screaming Snake Case

Introducing SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE — our first developer-centric swag.

IPFS

IPFS on Hackage

This library offers a high level API for interacting with IPFS nodes. Most of the functionality was refactored out of our Web API, which provides a convenient HTTP interface for accessing the IPFS network.

IPFS

IPFS Storage Adapter for Ghost Blog with Heroku Deploy

We wrote an IPFS Storage Adapter for the Ghost blogging platform, and have packaged it as a one-click deploy to Heroku.

Events

Drinks with Canadians in SF, January 2020

We're hosting a meetup in SF on Wed Jan29th at Southern Pacific Brewing. Fission & Headphones.com invite you to find out more about our teams and what we're building.

Presentations

Let Business Write Business Logic, Ben Church at The Big Elixir

Last month I was in New Orleans giving a talk on Erlang's lexer and parser libraries: leex and yecc. Essentially I was hoping to show that given a bit of creativity and the right tools hard problems can be solved with very few resources. Not too far off Fissions end goals

Product

Fission one-click IPFS publishing for VSCode Extension 🎉

Put your whole project, folder, or file live on the internet from VSCode in just one click. Uses IPFS, and is powered by Fission Live.

Don't Ad Me Bro...

What are we if we're not dictating our own thoughts and outcomes? The saying is "I think therefore I am". Should it now be "I'm statistically significant therefore I'm not"?

Presentations

A Universal Hostless Substrate for a Post-Serverless Future at Øredev 2019

Brooke was at Oredev 2019 in Malmo, Sweden and presented a talk covering the evolution of server architecture that we call "hostless". This also serves as a high level technical roadmap for what we're working on here at Fission.

How To

Exporting your Facebook photos to Fission

A quick how-to on getting the Facebook export of your photos and videos, and then hosting them on Fission.

Events

November Europe Decentralized Web Meetups

Brooke is in Europe for the month of November, so we're pulling together three Decentralized Web meetups in different European cities: Berlin, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. Sign up now to attend, get involved as a community partner, or volunteer to give a short presentation.

Diffusion

Fission at Diffusion 2019 Wrap Up

The Fission team met in Berlin to participate in Diffusion 2019, a developer conference hosted by Outlier Ventures. We shipped Fission Live and had a great time. Read on for the whole experience.

Presentations

Open Source Licensing Evolution at Diffusion 2019

Boris presents Open Source Licensing Evolution at Diffusion 2019 in Berlin.

Presentations

A new open source deal for Web3

Boris' presentation at the ETC Summit in Vancouver, October 4, 2019.