Today I’m excited to announce a new project with @polluterofminds  called Orbiter: a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites.

Writer. Building @pinatacloud. Working on simple static site hosting https://orbiter.host \ https://polluterofminds.com

Today I’m excited to announce a new project with @polluterofminds  called Orbiter: a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites. 

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orbiter

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Name your favorite movie that involves a road trip

Farcaster Pro update

A) The limited edition NFT will be airdropped early next week to the first 10,000 pro subscribers. It will appear in your in-app Farcaster wallet. You will be able to send it to another wallet.

B) We have 3 Pro subscriber benefits that will likely ship the week of June 16th:

1. 10K character casts

2. 4 embeds — originally it was going to be 4 images but we've expanded it to 4 embeds including images, videos, URLs, CAs and mini apps.

3. A new, previously announced feature: profile banner images

C) We'll have FIPs up later today for the proposed protocol implementations.

D) We're finalizing the Pro subscription contract on Base. It will accept USDC and allow for monthly or yearly subscriptions permissionlessly at the protocol, i.e. any app can allow Pro subscriptions.

There will be some clean up work to do in the Farcaster app to reflect monthly subscriptions. We don't have immediately plans to offer UX for monthly in-app but people will be able to build mini apps that do this.

Can I buy 8 subs so I can post 80,000 characters?

pinata

Elroy is now a mini app and live on Base mainnet! For the small price of $0.001 you can send a message to Elroy, and behind the scenes the payment is sent to hardware running a local AI model with x402 🔥

www.elroy.computer

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I work at the posts office

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The rush of deploying an immutable contract for $700 will never be matched

Deployment Roulette 

Everyone’s contracts are thrown into a pot. Pay a fraction of the gas but only one contract gets deployed.

Btw, this is who you’re talking to with when using  www.elroy.computer

Meet Elroy - a crypto-native, no-account, no-subscription AI chatbot that leverages x402. Soon to be a mini app coming to a Farcaster feed near you.

This is still on Base Sepolia, but feel free to play around. 

@stevedylandev.eth will be mini app-ifying it tomorrow and we'll likely go to mainnet with it then. https://www.elroy.computer/

Just submitted a PR for x402 🫡 

@polluterofminds and I are building an app that will make direct requests to our x402 server from a client site via the browser. The existing fetch/axios implementations were not compatible with client side fetch APIs so I built our own version which works with Viem, Ethers, or raw Ethereum signing.

Just submitted a PR for x402 🫡 

@polluterofminds and I are building an app that will make direct requests to our x402 server from a client site via the browser. The existing fetch/axios implementations were not compatible with client side fetch APIs so I built our own version which works with Viem, Ethers, or raw Ethereum signing. 

https://github.com/coinbase/x402/pull/219

teddit

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud” 🤠

heard same feedback from people who churned. this is one of the reasons i'm bullish on channels and driving discovery of channels around some of these topics/interests.

the argument that channels don't drive growth lacks the nuance that growth also requires immediate engagement and retention sinks. channels are a great candidate for this.

Still a big believer in channels. Don’t think they need to be dropped, just changed up a bit.

Perhaps incentivized onboarding for specific people to run a channel? We already did that to some extent for journalists, what if we did the same thing but the person being onboarded would be tasked with posting lots of content for that subject? Tell them up front there won’t be much engagement to start, convince them it’s worth it or pay them directly, etc. If they’re well known in those communities would make it even more desirable; bring the existing followers with them with invites.

H/T to @pugson for sharing this channel originally; incredible focus music

🔍 ensdata.net ✦ 🖼️ pugson.net/rfe ✦ 𝙽𝙾𝚆: design engineer @family ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈

H/T to @pugson for sharing this channel originally; incredible focus music

https://youtu.be/iL6S4YyMoJs

The random numbers/people messaging me always change, but I always respond the same

Heads up!! Pinata's public Snapchain node will be possibly offline for a few hours starting at 1:00pm EST. We've been working with Merkle and they have a deeper root fix, but in the meantime we'll be doing a full re-sync so we can try to get it back on track for users. Sorry for the inconvenience and we appreciate your patience while we try to get this fixed! 🫡

THE HOOKS

https://pinata.cloud/blog/react-hooks-for-ipfs-uploads/

Giving this a shot over stow as I update my dotfiles repo, so far it’s really clean and simple

Giving this a shot over stow as I update my dotfiles repo, so far it’s really clean and simple

https://github.com/bbkane/fling

I only use Neovim occasionally these days but was excited to see a guide on setting up lsp natively vs using a plugin. Nerd sniped on a Sunday afternoon in the best possible way 🤩

https://youtu.be/IZnhl121yo0

Refactored my Neovim config and oh boy it's clean. Startup time is 38ms 🔥

birdwatching

ANOTHER ONE

This one was waaay off, wouldn’t have been able to ID it without the binoculars. Could hear it do a few calls as well!!

DX Engineer | Head of Developer Relations at /pinata | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own