AmitU is building fastn.com

Open Source Sustainability for fastn - FifthTry Launches Rust Consultancy - fastn.com/podcast/sustai…

@IndicGames @_svs_ @tsoding Lot more people know programming than they accept, 65-70M people do non trivial formulas in Excel. Are they "normies"? Are they "developers"? Meaningless labels in my opinion. Humans are smart.

@IndicGames @_svs_ @tsoding > Still needs a "developer" to build something with fastn. I do not believe this. A typical 13-14 year old can learn fastn in a week. The statement maybe true today, but I feel it is not a desirable thing about the world, but a bug, even a bet against the world.

Sat down for a chat with @amitu who is building fastn, a new UI-first language and a peer-to-peer protocol to host fastn sites! Fastn compiler is built in Rust. It's all open source so if you're a PL nerd or a networking/protocol afficionado, you should definitely check it out and contribute. The youtube version is here - youtube.com/watch?v=joTOW3… Apologies about the sound, I tried my best to fix it. Hope you find the content interesting. Happy to hear any feedback on any aspect of the video. If you'd like to attend talks like this on the discord, hit me up on DM for an invite.

Hey @ThisWeekInRust, I did a podcast about a product that I recently launched: reddit.com/r/rust/comment… Is this the kind of stuff suitable for ThisWeekInRust? Happy to send PR if you think so.

@_svs_ @amitu Back in 2007 I first learnt of django from him and got started. He had commits and fixes in django back in 2008-09.

@amitu sir is building cool stuff, got a chance to chat with him an year ago about fastn and now he has launched malai, a p2p protocol check it out

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service. The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller. Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured. No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control. This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue. All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all. The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing. How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes. The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great. Trump refused the deal and look what happened. Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may. They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes. It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible. They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

@Tandem, I just got the update, but updated it without clicking on release / change log. I can't find it on website, am super excited that the app is back in development, been using every day since many years now.

I wanted to convince my team that we should build an app, and rather than describing it and doing wireframing, etc I decided it would be faster to just build a full prototype w/ @cursor_ai + @Replit and send them a deployed link. Heres a video of that. 00:00 Introduction and Initial Setup 02:36 Firebase Configuration and Error Handling 06:47 User Experience + Note Management 12:29 AI Integration and Draft Creation 14:07 Template Management and Customization 17:23 Final Adjustments and Testing 27:25 Deleting Lists and Drafts 28:13 Template Type and Data Entry 29:07 Creating and Testing New Notes 29:22 Handling Errors and Debugging 30:23 Adjusting Note Layout and Design 42:19 Voice Note Feature Implementation 48:05 Final Adjustments and Testing

Founder Mode - The most worrying thing I learned about an MBA is that people think it's about learning business. It's called business school, after all. Well, the full form of MBA is Master of Business Administration. It should be called admin school, not business school. It selects for academic credentials and industriousness. It does not select for courage and creativity. Neither does it foster it. And what's worse, standard corporate culture rewards politics and industriousness. It does not reward creativity and courage - ie nobody got fired for buying IBM. Therefore, the people that come up through corporate ranks are many times selected against courage and creativity. Because the job of an administrator is to administer. So where will courage and creativity come from when required? If you founded a company, you're the only person who can provide these qualities. No one else has the political incentive to be either of these things.

Some feedback: Miss Cmd-Up to scroll to the top of the page. Search in Cmd-L does not include history stuff, hate typing Cmd-Y after Cmd-L fails. Cmd-Click on preview window should do the right thing. Cmd-Left, Cmd-Right not going back/forward. t to open tab search breaks Github.

Been using @SigmaOS since two days now, best browser, and the best OSX App experience so far! Good job @aliattar.

If you're not grinding your teeth into bloody nubbins, you're not paying attention.

@btbytes Hehe, glad to meet you :-)

When you see a guy with a Rust sticker on his mac at TWC, you just go and shake his hand and introduce yourself. NVM that he is on a call 😎

New batch of d̶r̶e̶a̶d̶f̶u̶l̶ dad jokes I came up with, on demand by the offspring, sitting at a tea shop with a nice decor. /begin Q: Which Bollywood celebrity is the best with spices and condiments? A: Saunf Ali Khan

Reading this today evening. 'How to do Great Work" - Paul Graham paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

Graviton vs X86: community.aws/tutorials/buil… (graviton is cheaper too: $51.83/month vs $42.92/month).

The way we drive (make sure we stay okay no matter how many traffic violations are happening) means maybe self driving cars will become a norm in India sooner than say the US.