There's been a lot of chatter about Farcaster this weekend. Wanted to share some thoughts as the first employee to have joined the team.
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To set the stage, a little background on me before Farcaster:
- I've always wanted to write software for social good and to help connect people
- Interned at companies like Face...
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Have tried these and couldn’t stop snacking! The founder spirit runs strong in this family
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Thinking is a mechanical process, but the act of experiencing—that is something machines cannot do. Would recommend folks check out Annaka Harris' excellent exploration on the fundamental nature of reality, as it is worth reflecting on what makes our conscious experience so precious
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Following an account is not an endorsement. Sad this happened, but there is zero culpability
Hey Bangers! 🔥 🔥 🔥 Yesterday, during the official launch of the $banger token from @superfluidlabs team, two accounts — @sekoweed.eth and @farcasterintern.eth — issued fake tokens and attempted to deceive members of the community. Such behavior is unethical and harms the integrity of the community.
I would like to
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The team is fully behind Linda—respect is paramount
A little update from me. Part of my experience staying sane with a decent online presence outside of Farcaster is being comfortable ignoring disrespectful interactions. I have a harder time doing that on Farcaster since well these are our users and I care about them
If someone is being disrespectful to me in casts or
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Feels familiar
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This was a delightful Wikipedia deep dive—language and music potentially arising despite no evolutionarily advantageous purpose? Makes you think
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In the context of private messaging: absolutely right.
But also, let’s not forget that computers can’t necessarily be trusted: www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487...
This is why what @cassie is working on at quilibrium.com is so important
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Königsberg is an important stop on humanity's journey of knowledge! Euler's proof to the Seven Bridges problem paved the way to more formalized graph theory, eventually leading to the design of the internet
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I don't generally promote, but having used eyebloc for a couple weeks now I must say it's a wonderfully simple solution. You should know about it. www.amazon.com/stores/Eyebl...
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Really touching to see the original owner add some color to this post.
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
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Post a picture of yourself from a different era
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A new year's resolution is to write more technical blog posts about challenges we're working on for Warpcast + Farcaster. Here's a post discussing our migration from Faktory to our own hand-rolled job processing framework, and the lessons learned.
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Taking a moment to reflect, I can’t help but marvel at the fortune that we have experienced as humans.
Yes, we have our challenges. There are things to be mindful of, even fearful of. But the universe continues to demonstrate that we are on a trajectory that is full of opportunity.
If there’s anything we need to emb...
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Using stored procedures for complex query patterns makes sense, but I don't have an intuition for the kind of query complexity necessary before seeing tangible benefits switching from prepared statements.
Glad someone is experimenting!
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Fish just released their rewrite in Rust! A Herculean effort—very impressive.
Recently switched from using Z-Shell for the past decade to Fish [1].
When paired with the Fisher plugin manager [2] and the Tide prompt plugin [3], it's been a much more pleasant experience than I was expecting.
Like many before me, I have synthesized my setup into a bootstrap script I can run on a brand-new mac and
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We've released a simple tool for those running on AWS: github.com/warpcast/awsh
The Snapchain team has been running a number performance tests to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the Rust implementation. These tests run in our AWS environment because of the quick setup+teardown convenience.
However, conn...
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Recently switched from using Z-Shell for the past decade to Fish [1].
When paired with the Fisher plugin manager [2] and the Tide prompt plugin [3], it's been a much more pleasant experience than I was expecting.
Like many before me, I have synthesized my setup into a bootstrap script I can run on a brand-new mac and...
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Generous offer
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46% of the new companies entering the New American Fortune 500 in 2024 were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/new...
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I'm behind the times—apparently folks have been running Postgres on unikernels for quite some time†.
www.prisma.io/blog/announc...
nanovms.com/dev/tutorial... †
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Switched over from Docker Desktop to OrbStack (orbstack.dev) on my mac for the last month, and a way better experience—well worth the small cost.
Warpcast's test suite runs almost twice as fast under OrbStack compared to Docker Desktop (running a few containers).
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Was curious how much more radiation I was exposed to while flying, and was surprised by the magnitude of the difference.
This prompted looking into the trade off of increased exposure vs time saved. In short, for the occasional flyer: still totally worth it.
But if you go to the CDC, you’ll get a lot of facts…and no...
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Once DCs are decentralized, you won't need email. One day...
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Very slick: postgres.new
Now make a system that takes your schema and inspects pg_stat_statements on your production system and makes actionable recommendations of migrations to improve performance.
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Just squeaky clean fun.
Particularly loved hearing Protoculture's "Out of Reality" (~1:00:20) and Underworld's "Dark and Long - Dark Train" (~1:23:23) elegantly incorporated into modernity.
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Well this is fun.
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Out of Africa
Movie · 1985 · ★★★½☆
Didn’t know what I was getting into with this one—was just looking for an African-themed film for the flight. Ended up springing a few leaks in the process.
While the delivery is at times clumsy in the typical way of 80s cinema, Streep and Redford’s performance shines through to sho...
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie · 2023 · ★★★★★
Late to this one, but that's what long flights are for.
In traditional Scorsese fashion, it's a slow, painful burn—poignant.
Casting all around was stellar, but the Lily+Leo interplay was particularly special.
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Impressive tool from Xata providing a solution for zero-downtime, REVERSIBLE (!!!) migrations—the holy grail.
Excited for this to eventually reach v1. Current feature set is very impressive, but it's not yet ready to handle all possible migrations just yet. Something to keep an eye on.
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Great post on how PG lock behavior during schema changes. It's surprising (but obvious in hindsight) how a statement that obtains a lock which doesn't conflict with a schema change could still be blocked by another statement that does obtain a blocking lock, due to the FIFO nature of the lock queue.
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Anyone ever used a higher-level language like PQL for expressing complex SQL queries? pql.dev
Looks like heavy use of CTEs under the hood to make it easier to express queries as pipelines rather than declarative statements. Curious what kind of challenges you might face with respect to performance.
A CTE (WITH) can be MATERIALIZED or NOT MATERIALIZED.
When MATERIALIZED, the query is computed only once for the outer query. Good for reducing work. Not good when you reference the CTE multiple times with different predicates.
NOT MATERIALIZED forces PG to "inline" the CTE which allows predicate push down but possib
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Huge kudos to @sanjay for extracting this into a reusable component that we also use to power Warpcast itself!
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About time.
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Our public dashboard now shows the worst-case time for messages flowing in both directions:
- Messages sent to Hubs received by Warpcast
- Messages from Warpcast sent to Hubs
You can find the public dashboard here: p.datadoghq.com/sb/6aa1f434-...
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When the PR is merged upstream
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