On macOS, use CoreLocationCLI to get your current location in the cli. (I think it requires wifi enabled).
On “creators”
I don’t like the term, at least not the way it’s used today.
Of course, anyone who creates something is a creator by definition. But over time, the word has been loaded with a kind of metaphysical glow. First by social media platforms that wanted to flatter their users, and later by crypto, which tried to elevate the space’s raison d’être “above money.”
Yes, there are people who create content professionally like journalists, designers, photographers, musicians, and others who rightly expect to be paid for it. But in my humble opinion, most people don’t create content to make money. And let’s be honest: most don’t make any, at least not in any meaningful way.
People want to be heard. They share their thoughts, designs, music, and news publicly because they want to be seen. Sure, getting 100k likes or making $1,000 is nice, no one will say no to that (and once you do, you start seeing your online activity through a different lens).
But for most of us, a comment or a reaction from three, five, ten people we value is more than enough. Or meeting someone in real life and hearing them say, “I rarely post in public, but I read you regularly,” or “I really liked what you posted the other day.”
Solitaire and Minesweeper
Microsoft first included Solitaire with Windows 3.0 in 1990. While it seemed like just a simple card game, its hidden purpose was to help users learn a new skill: dragging and dropping with a mouse. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire)
Minesweeper joined the Windows lineup with Windows 3.1 in 1992. It was designed to help users get comfortable with right-clicking and left-clicking. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Minesweeper)
Among tech enthusiasts, there was a long-running inside joke that MCSE (officially, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) really stood for “Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert.”
silicon can render your source code into a beautiful image. Like Carbon, but it's implemented in Rust, and runs locally, without requiring a remote web service.
If Play Store blocks the app in some regions, how about Farcaster adding the android version of the app on @ethos dGEN App Store?
PSA
Farcaster is adding more crypto functionality, and mobile app store policies in some regions don't allow crypto apps. Other popular wallets also have to follow these rules. A very small number of users will be affected by these changes.
If you are one of those users, the app will notify you and will let you export both your Farcaster and wallet recovery phrases.
--@dwr
Got starship.rs to work the way I like it.
Nice, easy to use charting tool for the terminal: YouPlot https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot
The QNX Operating System: An amazing story of an OS that started 45 years ago. Today it's used by Boston Dynamics and SpaceX, among others.
Who can ignore this? 👇
Versions 4.2, 4.22, and 4.24 all released in 1995. The final version 4 release was 4.25 in 1997. At least one QNX 4 installation ran for over 20 years without a reboot at the ESA. This was possible because peripherals could be hotswapped, drivers could be changed, and network nodes could be added or removed without bringing the system down.
I found this gem: The Original Illustrations of the Voyages Extraordinaires by Jules Verne. https://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/
The first Jules Vernes books I read as a kid were my mother's, who had read them as a kid too. And they had these amazing illustrations that guided (not too much, just enough) my imagination as it recreated Verne's amazing worlds.
This chart shows the number of casts I’ve posted each month since I first joined, in July 2022.
What happened in August 2023? I started running my own hub, and in October, Farcaster opened signups to everyone (until then, it was invite-only).
That p2p version of the protocol, with all its flaws, is what really got me passionate about Farcaster. I ran my own hub, and it had the same privileges like any other hub. But if I discovered Farcaster today, would it feel as exciting as the 2023.09 version? I’m not so sure.
I was thinking about this while watching this presentation about the “ATProto ethos.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A-0k58TfPo
We used to have these kinds of discussions here, too. Not so much anymore. The Farcaster ethos has become "DAU growth", there is no passion about extensibility, data ownership, censorship resistance. I don't feel there is any vision about the protocol, how they want it to look in one, two, five years, just a list of feature requests, prioritized according to some DAU metric.
Yes, I know, "none of these matter if we don't have millions of DAU".
Like I said: "DAU growth".
I also know I'm a niche audience, you can't grow to millions of users like me. Oh, well..
"The short head will be human, the fat middle social and the long tail algorithmic"
The recent LLM-generated feeds reminded me of this. Said in a different context, but it can be interpreted through a totally different lens today.
The post is no longer available, but here's the WayBackMachine link.
Connecting with people on a social wallet is even less interesting than connecting with people on a professional network.
Static site generators are simple, but if you've used them long enough you know there are a thousand details that can make your life easier or harder.
I finally built the SSG I always wanted.
The "long tail" is a beautiful concept.
Chris Anderson coined it to describe how businesses like Amazon and Netflix to sell a large volume of niche products, but for me it's everything not captured by the spotlight, the mainstream, the "most users".
The long tail is beautiful and diverse and niche and weird. I like it more than the fat head.
Early rain.
In Greek we have a special word (πρωτοβρόχια) for the early autumn rains, that come after a long, dry summer.
