What on earth is this about?
"I was recommended ... Liber3 ..., which uses ENS domain names ... running on ENS and IPFS ... they appear to be using Glitter ... a ... service built with Tendermint."
This sounds like a signal from outer space to me. In a language used in a different galaxy.
I tried that Liber3 thing, but whatever I do, I get "Oops! Something went wrong. Please refresh or try again later".
What is this all about?
* ENS -> Ethernet Name Service. DNS but for blockchains. * IPFS -> Interplanetary File System. Distributed object store, think immutable P2P S3. * Glitter -> Sounds familiar but it's not coming to mind * Tendermint -> Consensus engine for blockchains, forms part of a toolchain meant to enable interop between blockchains alongside the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol and the Cosmos SDK
The blockchain ecosystems really are their own little world unto themselves. It's all pretty cliquey, not in an exclusionary way but if you're not actively seeking it out then there's very little chance of you hearing about any of it.
Side note: IPFS is well worth checking out if you're interested in databases or decentralized zero-trust systems, and even if you're a blockchain skeptic. They're doing some really interesting work under the hood. The team hasn't latched on to the gold rush mentality the way so nearly all blockchain projects have.
The title is the de-jargonized version. It's a set of instructions to build an open-source ebook search engine. (Admittedly there is still some jargon in that description, but not to the level of naming specific libraries.)
The bulk of the article is implementation details, helpfully hyperlinked.
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