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Building a Block Protocol block
This workshop provides a practical introduction to the Block Protocol. Attendees will be guided through building and publishing a “block” which can be used across any supporting application immediately.
The Block Protocol – a new project from Joel Spolsky – standardizes the interface between web applications and individual content blocks (e.g. a table, chart, or video). Its goal is to enable any block to be usable by any web application without any configuration or human intervention, once both are compliant with the Protocol.
The workshop requires basic skills in frontend development. Blocks can be built using any web technology or library (e.g. Web Components, React).
Ciaran Morinan
Head of Product Engineering, HASH
Ciaran is the Head of Product Engineering at HASH, a company dedicated to helping everybody make the right decisions. Ciaran has developed and designed HASH products since its inception in 2019, from its original simulation platform to the more recent project to unlock more data-insight tools via the Block Protocol.
Jude Allred
Co-Founder of HASH, former CTO of Fog Creek Software
Jude's professional career started in the Fog Creek Software Internship Class of 2008, the "Dingos". Learning the the ropes of product incubation and development alongside the creation of Stack Overflow and Trello, Jude worked as a full-stack engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset. Becoming Fog Creek's CTO in 2015, Jude oversaw Fog Creek's new product creation and incubation cycles. One product landed strongly and grew into Glitch, prompting us to double-down on it, raise VC, and reorient the company as Glitch, Inc. In 2019, Jude helped create HASH.ai, serving as co-founder and CTO. Building upon the lessons of the Fog Creek product methodology, he worked to create a simulation engine (largely in Rust and leveraging Web Assembly) to augment human decision making. This work continues. Jude enjoys speaking at gatherings like NYC CTO School and Rust NYC, and shared a lightning talk at Strange Loop 2017. He lives in Brooklyn with his daughter, plants, and software simulations.