Hi, I'm Kay Lyon! I'm a software engineer by trade and have been programming since I was 8 years old, starting with games in Basic and branching out as my interests and career have progressed. My professional focus is in infrastructure/operations, large-scale data ingest and transformations, and backend systems architecture. But I do other stuff too!
My main passions lie in building revolutionary distributed systems with a focus on least-authority self-organization and its intersection with privacy and economics.
My time not behind a keyboard is spent skateboarding bowls, surfing the California coast, being in nature, dancing, and reading. <3
Projects I'm working on
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StampStamp is a distributed cryptographic identity protocol and implementation built in Rust ala GPG, with a focus on ease of use, resilience, and group-based identities. It's a foundational building block for other cryptographic and p2p/distributed systems. |
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TurtlTurtl is a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with a focus on security and collaboration. Turtl was born out of the necessity for surveillance-resistant information storage and exchange. |
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BasisBasis is an exploratory economic protocol based on the principles of internalizing costs of production externalities and using signals other than profit while preserving distributed production. Its ultimate happy place is to be used as the foundations for a dual-power economic network. |
Recent writing »
- 2023.12.12 Stamp protocol: a p2p identity system
- 2020.04.10 The property "ownership" myth (and other thoughts on socialization)
- 2019.09.13 The Five Components of Economic Systems: A discovery through explorations of Socialism
- 2019.04.02 The mystification of pricing
- 2017.10.27 How to really save Net Neutrality
- 2017.02.01 Debug comments (or how to save your sanity using git)
- 2016.06.05 Ansible: included handlers not running in v2.x
- 2015.11.22 SSH public key fix
- 2015.09.05 Nginx returns error on file upload
- 2015.07.29 Turtl's new syncing architecture