Introduction | Layers Documentation

Presentation layer

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the presentation layer is layer 6 and serves as the data translator for the network.[2][3][4] It is sometimes called the syntax layer.[5]

The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol

Context is a new, developing layer of the internet, write Mallory Knodel, Evan Friedman and Brad Friedman.

4-Layers, A Narrative Design Approach

Introduction This blog post will be about a new way to approach narrative design in games - the 4 Layers Approach. It is based on a GDC ...

Wardley Maps & Pace Layering for Senior Tech Leads and Engineering Leaders

Intro to both tools, why they exist, how they overlap and pragmatic tips how to use them and when

Pace Layers 02025 Annual Journal

Long Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work. [Learn more about Pace Layers](https://longnow.org/pacelayers/)

Announcing Pace Layers

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.

The layer that decides the final pixels has the most power

In platforms, higher layers often have more opinion, and also typically have more power, because they have more control over the final output the user sees. This means that the layer that legitimately

Strukto · The Structured Layer for AI Agents

Strukto is the structured layer that makes AI agents actually do work. A Lite Agent OS and a Unified Virtual Filesystem Workspace.

Article: Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.

Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

Solid Protocol

This document connects a set of specifications that, together, provide applications with secure and permissioned access to externally stored data in an interoperable way.

UI Is a Conservation Layer - The Phoenix Architecture

Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative

ATProto Architecture

Visual summary of the AT Protocol architecture: PDS, AppView, identity, records, lexicons.