Today, we’re 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 software is powerful because it’s multiplayer. In what other industry can you build in the open with friends and collaborators from across the entire globe, and explore every layer of the stack?

Merit solves the high-friction parts of open source development: paying contributors and building enduring projects.

The Terminal enables multiplayer software with drop-in payments: builders can install Merit on their repository, and easily pay contributors using stablecoins.

This is the culmination of nearly a year of work from our team. And we are just getting started.

opensource

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 highly optimized public infra for serving, auto-scaling and training. Startups can build atop without worrying about building the vertical stack from scratch. 
- OSS is aging out and it's existential. Proportion of maintainers under 25 is down 50% over the past 5-years, the industry knows they need to engage the next generation. This is something we're laser-focused on at Merit, with contributor payments and project monetization. More on this coming very soon

Have you guys noticed the “greying of open source”? It was all the old-heads could talk about at this conference. Open source needs a makeover for the next generation

teddit

building farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

I saw a Ted on there and briefly wondered, could that be @ted ??

dev + founder | @vibesengineering.eth @herocast

Both are great ideas! Love shadcn for mini apps especially.

What are the best open source mini apps?

Looking to read some awesome code and explore the available developer tooling.

My coding philosophy: ruthlessly open-source.

I report every bug I find and feature request I have — no exception.

I encourage everyone to do this.

The more we do it, the faster human knowledge grows.

Philosophy

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Assuming you came out on top given the dry board, and limited flush/straight potential?

Roblox and Fortnite both have really powerful UGC tools, this is the path I'd go as well. That being said, I don't think you can use them to publish games outside of their respective universes

Wow, this tutorial incredibly easy to follow. Phaser seems to have a really intuitive developer experience:

a16z crypto, prev engineer @ bloXroute labs, Consensys.
Creator of farcaster-py.
0xMasonH.twitter

Wow, this tutorial incredibly easy to follow. Phaser seems to have a really intuitive developer experience: https://phaser.io/tutorials/making-your-first-phaser-3-game/part1

/frontend dev (HTML/CSS)・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・contributor /ethglobal /walletbeat・hackathon bounty hunter・music maker・dropout・nomad・25

From my initial research it seems like the most popular/mature are Babylon.js for 3D games, and phaser for 2D games

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.

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.

https://deadmoney.gg/news/articles/migrating-away-from-rust

firefits

not my first rodeo 👨🏾‍🚀 |
@a16zcrypto 👾

Cool jacket definitely have never seen it before

I do love me some good engagement bait. Well done

Jay you don't want this smoke. I can take you down faster than your $DEGEN bags did. And I don't need compliance approval. 🫳 🎤

The Github contribution graph but it's Conway's Game of Life. I had to do it.