wbnns ⚡️
@wbnns
Apps & aerospace • ran bitcoin.org, led teams @coinbase • editor of Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • building money machines & forever systems
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Every week, I'm building and working on apps to supplement my income to buy more time to work on Mru
Mru is my life's capstone project, a system designed to run a thousand years with no maintenance or maintainer
We're now at a point in history where designing software to outlive its makers shouldn't be speculation bu...
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This eruption was also the largest lava flow in recorded history, releasing 100+ million tons of SO₂ (acidic gas) killing an estimated 23,000 people in England, over 1800km away
Long Now Foundation
@longnow
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When the Laki fissure erupted in 01783 in Iceland, a witness wrote that the earth “swelled up, with a chorus of howls… like a rabid animal rips something to bits.” Gases decimated the crops, killed over half the country’s cattle and three quarters of its horses and sheep, and https://t.co/9x882GMdlp
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Financial markets are the largest real-time time-series machine on Earth with millions of updates a second and very small maintenance windows
The engineers who keep them running learn a narrow discipline: state that survives replay, clocks that disagree with each other, and filled orders that have no undos
There's on...
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Made quite a few performance improvements over the last 24h to make everything faster :)
A bit tricky b/c there's always new market data streaming in
Still more room to improve (sub-second everything is the goal)
Harder to do the higher the volume is
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There's this person in my life I absolutely freaking can't stand sometimes, tries to randomly show up during the week, trying to get to me
Bothers me online and knows where I live; tries to see if I'm home
Follows me around
Second-guessing what I do; making comparisons to others and pointing out my flaws
Critiquing...
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The second half of this was especially interesting around coordinated industry-wide sustainability initiatives
e.g. make less, waste less, sell higher
If a large poultry producer wants to treat birds better, raises fewer for more space, and there's less, so it costs more
But the price lands on the person buying it b...
Analogue
@analoguegroup
6d
Not all collaboration is automatically good (take a cartel, for one). How can we, in philanthropy, collaborate truly well?
This is episode 5 of Confessions on Modern Philanthropy with Denise Hearn (@denisehearn_).
Denise has written about monopoly power and the concentration of https://t.co/flTEHFkZtB
All of Stalewatch is now available as structured data
Every page publishes its own numbers, and full history for all Coinbase tokenized stocks is available for download to make it easier to build on, or to hand to AI to run scenarios
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Made my first code contribution to Omarchy, a suggested change to improve privacy so when a person submits a debug report, all the device addresses on their network and basic service set identifier (BSSID) wouldn't get publicly posted to the internet
I think this was an important one because with a BSSID and a war-dri...
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