Every so often I have the inexplicable urge to write C++ again

The new Bangalore airport might be one of the best airports in the world. 

Inspiring to see the rate of progress in India over the last few years!

Perfect is the enemy of great.

I’ve watched companies spend 3–6 months interviewing 50+ candidates while their competitors ship and win.

If you’re optimizing for a flawless candidates, you’re playing the wrong game.

I’ll take the opposite side of this bet any day

Being anti skilled immigration is bad policy for the American economy.

This should be obvious because India and China work really hard to keep their best people from leaving for America. 

Their job just got a lot easier.

gen-tex

two days to go -- submit your papers, workshop ideas or performance proposals to the Algorithmic Pattern festival (Sheffield, UK) 

img: 'Nine Diamonds' (a page from 'Kolam' magazine, Tamil, India) from the paper "An attempt to combine computational and human-centered approaches to Kambi Kolams using the N-line drawing method and a graph structure algorithm." by Anu Reddy

https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/

The only parasite that functionally replaces an organ. The tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua) is one of the strangest and most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom. It enters through the gills of a fish and attaches itself to the base of the tongue. It severs the blood vessels, causing the tongue to wither and fall off. Then it replaces the tongue, attaching itself to the stump and functioning like a prosthetic tongue. The fish can still eat and live normally—with the louse acting as its new tongue.

I regret asking for non crypto content on Farcaster

There are 4 Solana token airdrops lined up to Farcaster users totaling ~$70k. Having at least $10 of SOL in your Farcaster wallet increases your chances of qualifying for some of them

Hold SOL in your wallet to increase your chances of qualifying for airdrops!

Please be extra careful when exporting your Farcaster wallet private key. Have had 2 users message me today that it was compromised after storing outside of Farcaster and funds were drained :(

Don’t use your FC wallet keys in other wallets. 

If you get compromised, there is no way to rotate the wallet with our key storage model today. 

It’s ok to export your keys and put in a password manager, or to send funds out to another wallet.

Solana

As promised, here’s a Solana sniper bot mini-app! Farcaster finally supports it!
Just finished coding — be careful, there might be bugs.
Looking for beta testers and risk-takers ready to snipe tokens!
The bot buys new tokens on Raydium and sells when price moves past your set thresholds.

https://dbee.be

Senior Dev: dalresin.xyz
Creator: /dbee 🐝
EX: /farswag /farkitchen /farhelp /crazy-penguins dalresin.xyz/chrome

interfaces

Spent many years building VJ sets in this UI. 

What a throwback

Running into some issues with cast actions today. Investigating.

We're updating our labelling system to have two labels: 

1. Account Verifications - a measure of how much work the user has done that is hard to fake (e.g. winning rewards, adding socials) 
 
2. Account Spamminess - a measure of how spammy a user's account is when interacting with others.

you do not know what @sds protected you all from

Building @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.

Asked “how are you?” on a work call and the guy hit me with “let’s stick to the agenda”.

Okay terminator, my bad.

I've heard the @farcaster dev team doesn't do code reviews, is this true @v? 😳

we don't block on code reviews to ship something by default. but there are two important nuances to this: 

1. post-facto code reviews, where people can give you feedback on improving something after it ships. this is good for more pendatic, stylistic or perf stuff. 

2. requested code reviews, where people working on sensitive code know that they should ask for reviews. this happens often when working on security critical stuff.

QC an album that gets zero skips 

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Farcaster Verifications are coming soon

Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet. 

Verified accounts are less likely to get the spam label and show up higher in the feed, replies and search. 

They are necessary to earn weekly rewards and qualify for airdrops

A few people have pointed out that they have neither an X or a Github. We're making changes to support them:

1. If you're active and earning rewards, you won't have to connect socials. Exact threshold TBD. 

2. If you're a brand new user, you can pay to skip connecting socials.

3. We're also going to add more socials and onchain verifications over time to make this easier.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun