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This week in Pinetree 🚢

- kicked off v1.1, worked on specs for new features 👀 
- added Datadog logging (you gotta pay the dog 😮‍💨) 
- improved mini app settings menu and added link to full app
- increased max video size to 30GB
- investigated a gnarly bug with video uploads -- thank you @infinitehomie and @coolbeans1r for helping us debug!! 🙏

Side note -- my favorite thing about Farcaster is how many people are willing to test out your app and give constructive feedback, even if the app is nascent. While I often feel embarrassed about the bugs / issues they run into, it is helpful that early users seem to be more excited than judgmental. This is a journey of a 1000 miles, and each day we'll make the experience slightly better

Shout out in particular to @retalien for this thread -- we will improve the player UX to work better on mobile!

is anything important changing w the new stablecoin bill..?

I realized today that I've tuned out this news bc I can't imagine it impacting anything I do day-to-day (e.g. use USDC onchain),,

Crypto: The Game

"Have fun and make friends on Farcaster"

when was the last time you had fun or made friends on any other social network? there is a cultural playfulness here that doesn't seem to exist elsewhere

[just desperately throwing out ideas that don't involve putting money in the tagline :)]

"Have fun and make friends" https://paragraph.com/@builders-garden/preview/SPWD3bu1H6WIgXnRzk5Z

We sold 10,000 x $120 pro subscriptions for the protocol today with stablecoins on Base. No hiccups. For less than $10 in gas fees.

Remember when Dan thought 1000 was a good number for pro subscriptions? I don’t either

I almost quote casted him with the “don’t believe his lies” picture from memento, then decided i wanted to photo shop a picture of the cast in, then decided it was dumb and abandoned it

Really wish I had seen that thru now

Economics

The only* chart that matters for societal welfare.

* not really the only chart, sorry not sorry

what are other fundamental inputs to an economy beyond energy?

land, labor, education, technology, culture, and institutions all come to mind. What else?

Basic accounting tools are live now behind a feature flag -- spend more time building and scaling your product :)

Basic accounting tools are live now behind a feature flag -- spend more time building and scaling your product :)

https://splits.org/changelog/splits-changelog-accounting/

> Refreshing to see a product presentation like this. No fake enthusiasm, or over polished speech. Just an older gentleman talking 10 minutes about his new vacuum stick.

i'm pretty sure my wife is going to lose her shit when she sees this

> Refreshing to see a product presentation like this. No fake enthusiasm, or over polished speech. Just an older gentleman talking 10 minutes about his new vacuum stick.

i'm pretty sure my wife is going to lose her shit when she sees this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6JuJV17FQ

what Solana did with Ethereum? 😅 😬 😥 

(from https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/)

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Yeah more impressions if you drip the ship

you vs the guy she told you not to worry about

something about China & America here too, perhaps

we opened the mini app (then called frames v2) dev playground 6 months ago on the day 

there was handful of early adopters in Dec like @ponder @framedl and @farcade 

Jan and Feb were slow with notable launches of @bracketgame @ampsfun and @paragraph 

March is when the fire caught

sorry china i don't make the rules https://www.ft.com/content/ab1f74c5-4b07-465f-aa1f-3bf89418ba87?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b

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