mashbean 黃豆泥
mashbean.eth
Works
Personal builds
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Show Your Wallet
Lightweight verification of digital credentials. Works with Taiwan MODA's digital credential wallet and Bonds — purpose, minimal-disclosure fields, privacy notice, and one-click Cloudflare deployment are all open to inspection.
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Pocket Polis
A lightweight Polis with no server to run: launch an online deliberation in one click and watch the opinion map surface divides and cross-group consensus in real time. Want your own? One sentence to an AI agent plus a Cloudflare account deploys it.
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Call-in
Put your slides, an audience QR code, and live reactions on one speaker screen. Supports PDF, Google Slides, and public URLs — an open-source interactive tool you can also self-host.
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LibreOffice Taiwan Card Signing
Let LibreOffice on macOS and Linux sign ODF, OOXML, and PDF directly with Taiwan's Citizen Digital Certificate — with a full trust chain, PAdES B-LTA long-term validation, and a notarized installer.
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OpenBook Taiwan Open Budget
Adapts Harvard Allen Lab's municipal budget-transparency tool for Taiwan: browse the compiled budgets of all 22 counties and cities in one place, reconciled across three layers — official data, OpenFun, and TwinkleAI.
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civic-proof
An academic research site tracing the path from state credentials to civic self-proof: a 25-article series spanning digital identity, normative theory, engineering practice, and cross-border governance.
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ROOST Taiwan Traditional Chinese Guide
Brings ROOST's open-source community-safety materials into Traditional Chinese — from detection and investigation to review and enforcement — as governance workflows and tools small communities can adopt directly.
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AI Anonymous Peer-Review Platform
A runnable experiment in AI literary creation and anonymous peer review. Participants complete a single-submission write-up, blind review, staged reveal, and results reading, while research data is kept under anonymized IDs.
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Bonds
The weather may be fine today, but a BEAR could break in at any time — back up your identity and proofs ahead of time, and come prepared.
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Hard Problems
A research-report site where mashbean poses the questions and AI drafts the answers — many of these problems have no settled answer yet, but someone has to start asking.
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Fiction Collection: Ordinary People
Five short stories: framed by mashbean, written by AI — turning unresolved hard problems into stories.
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Qian-Dao · Fortune Check-in
Clock in before work — with a fortune stick. An online oracle of 128 original fortune poems: state your case, cast the moon blocks, shake the cylinder, and confirm with three sacred casts — the deity is allowed to say no.
Matters Lab open source
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Onion Gateway
Matters' read-only Tor reading portal: anonymous readers browse articles, look up authors, and download Markdown without leaving a trace — no logs anywhere on the site.
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Matters Safety Guide
A safety guide for independent journalists and writers on sensitive topics: from research, contact, and publishing to receiving payment — making sense of platform notices, the Onion Gateway, IPFS, and personal backups.
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Seven-Day Book Museum
The archive of every Seven-Day Book round: each edition's seven prompts, the grand-slam finishers, and the roll of participants — everything written, kept.
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Lifeboat
One-click backup for matters.town articles: download a ZIP, pin to IPFS, or grow it into your own standalone site. Your words, kept safely by you.
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Fediverse Gateway
An ActivityPub gateway that carries Matters long-form writing into the fediverse: follow, reply, and boost from Mastodon, Misskey, and Threads.
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Community Watch
Lets a small group of trusted citizens clear spam comments — every action public and auditable, appealable, and reversible, putting moderation in the open.
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Platform Janitor
Censorship or anti-censorship? Using Matters' 2018–2025 governance history as a case study, an explainer on the dilemmas of spam cleanup, ranking algorithms, and radical transparency.
