With DECS, the developer now has the ability to freely create end-to-end encrypted snippets in a decentralized fashion.

DECS – is brought to you by:

• KRISHNA Bommana @krrish1110

• Santosh Tirunagari @tsantosh7

• Venkata Chandrasekhar @chandu_nainala

• Krishna Pemmaraju @KrishnaPemmara2

In the creators own words: DECS is “Decentralised Encrypted Code Snippets organiser for developers.“

See DECS on Product Hunt too.

One of the main reasons the creators designed DECS is in the question/answer from the creators:

Why do we need another app when we have GitHub gists, Bitbucket and Gitlab snippets?

1) Security

2) Reliability

3) Decentralized and free

4) Accessibility

Some of the features of DECS include:

• own your data
• encrypted
• organized
• import and export
• embed
• free
• ux/ui
• share

We have not tried out DECS at this time but hope we can in the future. In any event, we hope to be able to update this post as new features are added to DECS.

Please find some additional screenshots from the website for DECS.

Some basic contact information for dPage:

• DECS website
• DECS on Product hunt

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Blockstack Meetups

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, distributed, blockchain, bitcoin, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meetings at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

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Generally, and directly from the Open Source site – “open source software is software that can be freely accessed, used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.  Open source software is made by many people, and distributed under licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition.”

Recently, a new decentralized communication application was launched on the Blockstack browser home page.  The new dApp is called Stealthy and it uses open source software to build its application.  Additional information on stealthy can be found here. 

Like Blockstack, there are many software programs that are open source.  A couple of great resources for finding open source software and programs might be Github, NPM and React.

Github

GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and build software alongside millions of other developers.

NPM

NPM opens up an entire world of JavaScript talent for you and your team. It’s the world’s largest software registry, with approximately 3 billion downloads per week. The registry contains over 600,000 packages (building blocks of code). Open-source developers from every continent use npm to share and borrow packages, and many organizations use npm to manage private development as well.

React

React is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces from facebook open source with an MIT license.

A general premise is that open source is used to share freely with others.  And, when you share something, it perhaps – makes it easier for others to learn and/or building something e.g. bootstrap the learning curve or building curve.  In addition, open source provides transparency and promotion of the same.  One should not reinvent or need to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.  In other words, a developer can develop from scratch or bootstrap with software developed by someone else.

Now, in connection with above, we recently learned that stealthy made substantial use of an open source project to bootstrap its application to a user-ready level.  And, remember, Blockstack is open source and provides a foundational infrastructure for all dApps that are built for use on its internet network. 

The particular program stealthy used to complete its dApp – along with Blockstack’s libraries – was from a developer and computer scientist named Feross Aboukhadijeh.  The program Mr. Aboukhadijeh wrote is called 📡 Simple WebRTC video/voice and data channels.  And, like stealthy, Mr. Aboukhadijeh used an open source project called WebRTC. 

WebRTC – is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

An open source (WebRTC), being used in an open source (Simple WebRTC), being used in an open source (Blockstack), being used to bring stealthy to fruition. Now, is stealthy open source?  Not sure but assume that it is or will be.  Hopefully, stealthy will disclose that and declare its license chose very soon.  Please stayed tuned for more on that here. 

But, the stealthy project shows sharing of open source to the n^th degree – the bottom line for open source. 

And, along with being open source, the open source project can use a license e.g. MIT license to help outline the parameters or criteria for its use.  In connection with the above, the following licenses are attached to the following projects:

📡 Simple WebRTC – uses an MIT license

WebRTC – license at this link

Blockstack – uses a variety of license e.g., MIT, MPL-2, GPL-3.0 …

For more on the various licenses and some brief information on each, please see this link.

The open source license community is very active and provides a wonderful resource and vehicle to spread information.  It needs to be supported.

With regard to Mr. Aboukhadijeh, we are providing below some basic information in an effort to support his efforts.  Thanks again Mr. Aboukhadijeh for your code.  And, please see his new page (shown below) – Thanks – which is a vehicle to help support all of the open source community contributors like Mr. Aboukhadijeh.

Mr. Aboukhadijeh’s website

Mr. Aboukhadijeh’s twitter page

Mr. Aboukhadijeh’s github page

Mr. Aboukhadijeh’s Thanks page for support of the open source community – another way to help support the open source community

WebRTC’s website

We are glad to spotlight open source and Mr. Aboukhadijeh, and hope that this brief overview on the same is helpful and informative.  In addtion, another way to support the efforts of Mr. Aboukhadijeh – along with Thanks shown above – is to support him on Patreon!

Other helpful links for more information on Blockstack include:

Blockstack – the new decentralized application platform and ecosystem for the decentralized/re-decentralized internet (dApp, dApps, blockchain, bitcoin, distributed and Web 3.0)

Blockstack’s Forum

@Blockstack

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, decentralized, a decentralized internet, distributed, bitcoin, distributed, blockchain, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meeting at Blockstack, please visit the forum. Blockstack makes the internet you use better!^TM

Thanks again for visiting The Stack Cafe^TM and we look forward to hearing from you. Please help us put out the word on Web^3.0 by posting a comment below and signing up for e-mail notifications for future updates (right side-bar). Let’s help build the new internet | The Decentralized Way^TM. A decentralized internet | The Way The Future^TM.

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Okay, you have worked hard, put in long hours and it is done – the best dApp the planet has ever seen, open source of course.  You have put it up on Github and now you are wondering what would be the best license to use for your open source project dApp (or anything open source). 

Well, we ran across this useful site full of information about the entire spectrum of open source licensing alternatives, thanks to Github.   The site is called – Choose A License.

Welcome to the Developer’s corner (not only for developers though)… Open Source License overview.  In this post, we hope to give you a brief overview about the myriad of licenses available to developers once they have finished an application build and want to choose an appropriate open source license.

MIT license – A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

MIT license – green circle (the green circle definition is applicable to all licenses found on this site): e.g. commercial – The software and derivatives may be used for commercial purposes

MIT license – blue circle (the blue circle definition is applicable to all licenses found on this site): e.g. conditions – A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included with the software.

MIT license – red circle (the red circle definition is applicable to all licenses found on this site): e.g. limitations – The license includes a limitation of liability.

Apache License 2.0 – A permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

GNU General Public License v3.0 – Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights.

Other Licenses

GNU AGPLv3

GNU GPLv3

GNU LGPLv3

Mozilla Public License 2.0

The Unlicense

The Choose A License site further explains that the licenses (on the Choose A License site) represent the entire spectrum of open source licenses, from highly protective to unconditional. One of these should work for most new open source projects. Many other open source licenses exist, including older versions of and close substitutes for some of the above. See the resources listed on Choose A License about page if you’d like to read more.

So, if you have built an application that is open source and you need a license to go along with it, try the Choose A License website – found here.  We hope this post has been helpful.

Note: If you do not have the Blockstack browser, please see this link (note – to enable the full functionality of any dApp built for the Blockstack ecosystem (e.g., building a new internet, a decentralized internet, re-decentralizing the internet) you need to use the Blockstack browser).

For more on All things Developer^TM, see this link here. For more on the engineering meeting at Blockstack, please visit the forum.

Thanks again for visiting The Stack Cafe^TM and we look forward to hearing from you. Please help us put out the word on Web^3.0 by posting a comment below and signing up for e-mail notifications for future updates (right side-bar). Let’s help build the new internet | The Decentralized Way^TM. A decentralized internet | The Way The Future^TM.

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