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Posted: July 7, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
The Future of Digital Defiance: A Crossroads
Digital Defiance has reached a crossroads. While our commitment to producing open-source software remains unwavering, sustaining the organization in its current form has become untenable. Despite the momentum behind flagship projects like BrightChain and Warp 12, we have not yet secured the external funding needed to cover our operational baseline. It costs roughly $1,000 annually …
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Posted: April 28, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
Not Your Father’s Blockchain
BrightChain is not “just another chain”. In fact, it’s barely a blockchain at all. Digital ledger was almost an afterthought. It is non monetary and it is designed to offer a storage and identity revolution, not waste compute on mining- there’s none of that.If you’ve seen my posts before and skipped over because of the …
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Posted: April 28, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
BrightChain and You
BrightChain/BrightDB is designed to replace the Mongo based stack you’re used to, and we have built extra components to make life extra easy if you’re a React developer. BrightDB can be run in a standalone cluster, but it is designed to be part of the BrightChain constellation. However, both modes are supported. You can run …
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Posted: April 28, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
A Lifetime Project: The Healing Power of Code.
Years ago, the concept of the Owner Free Filesystem captured my curiosity. It became a long-term personal passion—a project I’ve iterated on, set aside, and returned to many times over the last decade. It has always been my personal “architectural sandbox.” When I went on medical leave for cancer many months ago, I found myself …
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Posted: February 3, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
In Defiance, We Stand
Digital Defiance is about defying mediocrity in code and standing up and providing value to the world in the form of open source and free speech which forms the backbone of modern society in a way that I don’t think most people truly comprehend. An incredible amount of infrastructure is riding on the work of …
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Posted: January 30, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
Thank you from Digital Defiance
Thank you from Digital Defiance to the DuLightSkov Family Giving Fund and Fidelity Charitable for their unsolicited gift of $250 to Digital Defiance. Your support is greatly appreciated!
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Posted: January 16, 2026 by Jessica Mulein
Voting
I recently had the privilege of receiving a new Macbook M4 with lots of hardware features to exploit and have been developing Node.js libraries to do so. The last library there, Node FHE Accelerate was developed with e-Voting in mind. We Built a Voting System Where Nobody Can See Your Vote—Not Even the Server How …
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Posted: May 4, 2025 by Jessica Mulein
BlueSky Custom Domains, Email Aliases
If you’re a member, you’re using BlueSky, and want me to add an _atproto.yourname.digitaldefiance.org TXT record so you can do a custom handle (eg @yourname.digitaldefiance.org), let me know. I will gladly add the DNS record for you. Go to your account settings in BlueSky and go to Account -> Handle -> “I have my own …
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Posted: August 25, 2024 by Jessica Mulein
Guild Email
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Posted: June 6, 2024 by Jessica Mulein
DreamHost Email Migration
Don’t forget to complete your DreamHost email migration- the M365 accounts are expiring in a couple months.Digital-Defiance/Dreamhost-Migration.md at main · Digital-Defiance/Digital-Defiance (github.com)