vrypan |--o--| (vrypan.eth)

I was talking with a generative art collector and realized that over the past years I've built a number of things that are not easy to find, and even when found, they are not presented the way I want them to be. Well, here is this Sunday's project: https://art.vrypan.net/

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When US pushed the rest of NATO to increase their spending, the silent assumption was the extra spending will go to the largest defense provider, the US. It turns out, Canada and EU are indeed increasing their defense spending significantly, but due to the current geopolitical landscape, they prefer not to direct these funds towards the US. Of course, Europe and Canada depend on US for various components of their defense, like intelligence, comms, air defense and other sectors, but the trend is there. https://www.ft.com/content/cde7c236-e62f-4ced-9667-7115f16a40e6

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I think we will see a LLM-oriented "programming language" in 2026. Building an app with an AI tool today is more like a craft, and honestly, not much different than what a solution architect does today: Write the specs, give them for implementation to the dev team. You can do it ad hoc (usually the first time) and in more structured ways that makes dev life easier, and the outcome more predictable. My expectation is we will see something like a "LLM software development framework" that lets someone provide the specs to an LLM in a structured, consistent way, and on the other hand, LLMs that offer native support for these frameworks. After all, building with an LLM is an abstraction, not very different than going from assembly to a high-level programming language. Keep in mind we all know that "everything is zeroes and ones for a computer", but 99.9999% of us have no idea how to transform "echo hello world" to this series of zeroes and ones that will cause the screen to print "hello world".

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lemon3 is an open source program that uses IPFS and Farcaster to allow decentralized file hosting and sharing. It's a mini Farcaster client and an IPFS node, and allows uploading and downloading files. Lots of rough edges, this is the mvp, but I'm very excited. https://blog.vrypan.net/2025/03/23/lemon3-farcaster-ipfs-decentralized-file-sharing/

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Everyone has the right to their feelings, but I don't share the hard feelings for Dan and the team many users have at this point. I disagree with many MerkleM decisions, and a strongly disagree with some of them. But at the same time, I can see that right now, (especially) Dan is cornered by many of us, and he is not reacting the way he used to. Reaction to social pressure is not easy, because pressure can scale, but you have so much energy and time, and at some point it's reasonable to say "fuck it, I'll either go down while trying to explain myself and convince them, or grow a thick skin and push back". My ideal outcome is not a civil war that destroys Farcaster. I don't want it to be a miserable place where hostility and mistrust are the default. Many of us have been here long enough to know there is a core of a great people in Farcaster. I think everyone needs to take a step back, try to be less emotional and more open to hear what others have to say, and assume good faith. Cassie did the right move a couple of hours ago, by posting three FIPs that try to address the core issues people who care about the protocol have, like curation and decentralization. This is the way. Dan and V have to show they are listening. This does not mean necessarily implementing or embracing whatever pops up. But they also need to understand that the strategy of focussing 100% to "growing the user base" and dismissing everything else may actually be hurting the project. We are not liability, we are an asset. As for people who are fully emotional at this point, and want to see this place burned down to ashes to feel vindicated because Dan insulted or ignored them, sorry, I'm not with you. I've invested too much time, effort and social capital in Farcaster to feel good with such an outcome. Peace ☮️

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I wish I had the energy to contribute to Q. Farcaster's trajectory in 2025 totally drained any passion and energy I had for this space. Hubs were far from perfect, but they were what I've been looking for years. "RSS+" was something I could fall in love with, the same way I had fallen in love with RSS, before Google cut its legs. Then, snapchain appeared as a necessary, temporary, compromise and in just a few months the compromises ossified, governance became unapologetically centralized, and they made it clear that they are not interested in what I'm interested in. What brought me here does not exist any more. I stay because there are still enough people I like, and for small conveniences that became part of my routine. @cassie's work and passion could bring the spark back, but personally, I need time.

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The token is $lemon3 0xe0907762B1D9cdfBE8061aE0Cc4A0501fa077421 If this works, I'll use the profits to work on lemon3 for the next few months. Or more, I think I'd love to work for long on this. Join me.

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