Hi, welcome to Web of Trust, Sam Hart’s workshop-style blog, containing a variety of ideas and notes from in-progress experiments.

Since most of my work is digital, I’ll be treating posts like a series of virtual studio visits. Writings will capture some kernel of interest, but the degree of polish will vary.

I’ll reference open source software projects I’ve developed to work through these ideas, including Aura, Telltale, and Jacquard. Subject matter will orbit around a few topics of interest: natural philosophy, ideology, aesthetics.

The name “Web of Trust” owes to the concept of distributed key authentication proposed by Phil Zimmermann in 1992, as a solution to PGP’s social scalability challenges. I’ve always been fond of the term because it frames a deeply technical system in human terms.