Hello, I’m Sam Hart. Welcome to Web of Trust, a workshop-style blog that contains a variety of the ideas I’m currently working through and notes from my experiments.

Since most of my work is digital, I’ll be treating posts like a series of virtual studio visits. Writings will aim to capture some kernel of interest, but the resolution may vary as I continue to learn.

I’ll reference open source software projects I’ve developed to work through these ideas, including Aura and Telltale. Subject matter will likely orbit around a few topics of interest: software architecture, distributed systems, physics, political philosophy, 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.