gm. be careful out there folks.

gm. software engineering in the classic sense is dead. before you dismiss that as obvious, consider the following: 1. agents have reached a critical level where they're better than almost all human programmers. even when it comes to planning complex architectures. 2. we don't need to drive things on machines we have with us any more. in fact, sitting in front of a screen all day is now an anti-pattern. a powerful laptop can't beat a good desktop (and is less upgradable). you can also leave your iOS, Android, browser, and other hardware attached to your desktop for agents to use. 3. the judgement of what to build (vision) and how to build it (the values that drive decisions while pursuing that vision) has become THE critical skill. a lot of engineers and builders (myself included) are still holding on to vestiges of a bygone era, mostly because we enjoy the process, but if we're serious about building something impactful, we have to learn to get out of the way. The Way™ 1. Define the problem to solve (vision) 2. Define the constraints (values) 3. Deliver feedback (your own to start, from users as soon as possible)

god, i love new model days. ✨

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GM 🌞 It's eternal september and I'm tingling with excitement! Today is also our monthly Marmot community call. Join us at 16:00 UTC https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

@ODELL was always right. nostr shitposting was always just the bootloader for everything else.

so cool:

Paul Miller — Noble cryptography

Paul Miller. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things

thanks madeira. ❤️ it’s been amazing.

gm. what’s the highest performance, most reliable relay on nostr right now? not a codebase, an actual relay that’s running. most strfry instances i know of are running old versions (that still have the 502 issue that was fixed a few weeks ago). many other relays are slow or go down regularly.

another day, another company announces a data breach.

gm. 🌞 build something new today.

Never underestimate compounding. Some ideas take time. Some problems require other ideas to come to fruition before they are tractable. My experience at @Sovereign Engineering has really driven this home. Ideas from several cohorts ago are now unlocking solutions that seem like magic.

Dinner with the CEO

GitHub

GitHub - erskingardner/wok: strfry, but in rust

strfry, but in rust. Contribute to erskingardner/wok development by creating an account on GitHub.

I built something new this week. Wok started as a port of srtfry to Rust because, as @calle says, humans shouldn't write C. It's progressed beyond strfry now but it still shares the same super fast LMDB database under the hood.

GitHub

GitHub - erskingardner/wok: strfry, but in rust

strfry, but in rust. Contribute to erskingardner/wok development by creating an account on GitHub.

It supports more NIPs and has a handy admin dashboard for managing config and seeing basic connection stats. Feedback and contributions welcome!

grateful.

sic semper tyrannis

GM. In all the turmoil, remember to enjoy your life.

GM 🌞 Other than laughing about the apparent double agent inside Ocean we can finally stop paying any attention to BIP-110.