Post #1439517
2026-04-09 23:17 UTC
We quickly realized that to explain the Cykas protocol, we'd have to back up and explain what causal message delivery even *was*, and say something about the classic approaches to implementing it. So our zine became a bit less about Cykas and a bit more about causal delivery generally. We went through lots of iterations on the writing. One of our goals was to explain concepts precisely without needing to introduce a lot of jargon. Feedback from @b0rk and @omarieclaire helped *a lot* with this!
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@lindsey@recurse.social 2026-04-09 23:52
We had to leave out a lot of details -- for example, we mention logical clocks in passing but don't explain how any particular logical clock algorithm works. Even so, this zine ended up almost twice as long as the choreography one! Because so many of the ideas we're discussing are quite old, I ended up going back to primary sources many times, sometimes learning new things myself in the process. There's a lot of enlightenment to be found in dusty old papers from the last century. ❤️