Mason Hall
@mason
Building @meritsystems, prev a16z crypto, engineer @ bloXroute labs, Consensys.
Creator of farcaster-py.
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Our 10x dev CTO @rfs is going to be building YOUR app ideas this weekend. Insane opportunity to get an MVP out for FREE
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This is the culmination of nearly a year of work from our team. And we are just getting started.
Today, weβre launching the Terminal:
Pay anyone and any project on Github.
Merit is the financial stack for open source software. We built the Terminal to make it simple for anyone to build enduring projects.
Any Github user can use it today. Any open source builder can sign up for the payments beta.
Open source
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Have you guys noticed the βgreying of open sourceβ? It was all the old-heads could talk about at this conference. Open source needs a makeover for the next generation
Went to Denver for the OSS Summit with @mason.
Three big takeaways:
- OSS remains the best form of distribution for enduring dev tools. OSS is non-negotiable deep in the stack.
- Everyone is excited about the open source infra enabling AI. The tech is so deep and specialized that the industry has converged around hig
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Interestingly all of the top feature requests in Godot are related to typing, which immediately makes you think that a Rust-based game engine like Bevy would be preferred. But then you read articles from devs who use Bevy that are giving it up because the typing is too strong. Feels really hard to get this balance right.
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Excited to announce that we at @meritsystems have raised $10m from our friends at a16z crypto and Blockchain Capital (with participation from @dwr) to accelerate what we are calling Open Source Capitalism.
Open source software is eating the world. It empowers every major company - and supports trillions of dollars of ...
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