Mostly from Josh Johnson

Clipboard support in the Wayland driver.

Nice!

This seems like a restatement of X. We still don’t understand Y. I’m especially confused about:

• Why are SHA-256 and friends ok, but IPFS CIDs are not? They have basically the same functionality.
• Do you need a distributed network, or is a single server ok?

There was some hint that maybe you’re concerned about reproducibility for CIDs? If you fix the block size, hash algorithm, and content codec you’ll get consistent results. SHA-256 also breaks data into chunks of 64 bytes as it happens.

Anyway Wikipedia has a list of content-addressable store implementations. A couple that stand out to me are git and git-annex.

I’ve mainly worked as an employee so I don’t have as much experience with freelance gigs. But nearly every job I’ve had in 18 years has been through networking. Organizing and speaking at programming meetups opened a lot of doors for me. It gets a lot of attention on me while I get a chance to present myself as an expert.

Eventually I’d worked with enough people that when I’ve been looking for work I find I know people who’ve moved to new companies that are hiring.