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Resource Description Framework

The underlying conceptual model for enabling graph data structures for web applications.

RDF is the marsuprial data structure of the web development world.


2024.10.21

HATEOAS and Ontological Space

Hypertext As The Engine of Application State, or HATEOAS, dreams of generic clients navigating a constellation of server applications. One of the core missteps of the RDF project from the beginning is thinking that this is a good idea.

2022.04.11

An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework

An overview of RDF, what it is, how it works, and why.

2023.01.06

An App for the Pluriverse

A web application baseline for many possible worlds.

2021.06.29

The Shape of the Problem

Ontological data structures, real-time editing, and what a web app _really_ is man.

2022.11.10

Tables, Documents, and Graphs

An in-progress examination of strengths and weaknesses of rectangular databases, NoSQL document stores, and graph data structures.

2022.05.04

Thinking About Octothorpes

A proposal for connecting content across communities without closed platforms.

2023.06.06

Welcome to the Fediverse

A very brief, high-level introduction to just wtf the Fediverse is.

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