Welcome to Web of Trust, a workshop-style blog that documents ideas and experiments by Sam Hart.

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

I will frequently mention open source software projects I’ve written 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 terms of human relationships.

I’ve repurposed the weboftru.st domain, which was originally home to a friendly event series I organized in 2019.

You can find more about me at hxrts.com which, like all personal websites, hasn’t been updated in ages.