Justin Hunter

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When Steve and I started orbiter.host, there were two things we wanted to focus on: 1. Playing in a validated market. 2. Using /pinata for all our IPFS needs. We did exactly those things even if point 1 means dealing with heavy competition. I think we have some nice advantages that will grow over time though.

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Jackson Merrill has felt off since he came back from the IL on May 6th, but when I look at the splits, he's actually batting about what we'd expect or maybe a little lower than expectations. K rate is way higher than 2024 though.

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Great little interview of Dennis Lehane about how he came up with and approached writing Mystic River, which imo is his best book by far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lbi1gFkWWA

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This is so confusing. Who gave the green light on Magic Eden’s announcement? I can’t imagine they just did it on their own. https://www.theblock.co/post/357350/eric-trump-says-world-liberty-bought-substantial-position-in-trump-memecoin-nixes-official-wallet

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With every extension, China and ByteDance have to be getting more and more comfortable and have to feel the power dynamic shifting back. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tiktok-ban-extension-f242c36a

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If this kind of what if scenario is interesting to you, I highly recommend the book Nuclear War: A Scenario. https://www.aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025/0606.shtml

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Really good breakdown of how Cloudflare used Claude to build a production OAuth library. https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-claude-generated-commits/

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I would like to see people build some fun games with this and host them with Orbiter. I love the simplicity of this game engine. https://odyc.dev/

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Am I understanding this correctly in that storage free means no disk storage but instead a massive amount of memory is onboard and that’s used for all storage? Would make sense if it’s brain-like since brains only have memory. https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/06/sandia-turns-on-brain-like-storage-free-supercomputer/

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It wasn’t AI that took jobs, it was tax code. https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

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Wordpress feels like a relic that survives only based on inertia at this point. It will take time, but their market share will decline significantly https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/

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Corbin Burnes out with Tommy John. That’s brutal for the DBacks.

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My youngest son just said “why would you buy music” and I died a little inside.

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Baseball is the best https://x.com/tradingmaxisl/status/1930675078640849278?s=46

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Insane catch by Bobby Witt Jr. https://x.com/BradHensonPro/status/1930803597375148144

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My big gripe with text to speech has been the ability to control emotion and keep the context of the text when it’s translated to voice. This is impressive! https://elevenlabs.io/v3

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This is a good, nuanced take and applies beyond fiction. In my MFA program, we had our own outside of school work writing group that we named Sexily Adverbing https://countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-adverbs-exuberantly-if

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Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-its-terms-to-bar-training-of-ai-models-using-its-content/

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I don’t like the idea of keeping personal data around, but: A) there’s plenty of legal precedent for this B) statements like this come off terribly defensive and immediately steer my perception toward skepticism

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Farcaster’s steep hill to climb is in replacing revenue creators make at a juggernaut like YouTube. There is demand, and crypto UX is getting good enough that it can work for generally non-crypto people. But as this guy mentions, he can’t justify moving somewhere with an audience 100x smaller. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

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