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physical 3rd spaces disappearing = room for digital 3rd spaces imagine meeting people because their agents and yours have been collaborating for months and figured out you'd actually like each other - so they book you both an activity to do together an agentic meet-cute

@sternhenri @debsoon @privy_io 😂 can't believe they bamboozled you like that!

@heavygweit @debsoon @privy_io feedback heard :b!

this is what founder mode looks like @sternhenri @privy_io

@manoharkale1110 @alexkehr they raised $330M

@alexkehr yeah it’s rough… but honestly, shipping something imperfect is still better than not shipping at all

the Lovable app is shockingly bad. how did a team build this and feel proud enough to ship this hyper-slop?

what fixes it is version control where: 1. every writer is signed 2. every contribution gets attributed by the graph itself 3. capacity scales like a protocol does that's a different system. we're building it.

the first git commit was made 20 years ago, on 04/07/05 by Linus Torvalds git was designed for humans, when agents were science fiction. the system was never designed for who the writer is now everything we're seeing break down now is downstream of this. no patch will fix it.

@robjama they're coming for the waterloo kids

Anthropic starting to post jobs in Canada...Toronto office coming soon??

Four things we solved for this on @makechainnet: 1. Deterministic merges. (parents, patches, strategy) → hash via BLAKE3. Anyone can recompute and check. e.g. A wrong squash produces a wrong hash — the server can't hide it, and any client catches it automatically. 2. Signed intent. The author signs a capability token over {source, target, strategy, constraints}. Any merge that deviates fails verification at every node. So there's no surface for server-side "reinterpretation." 3. BLS-certified inclusion. The validator set attests your op is in the canonical DAG. And any client verifies the cert + Merkle proof without an archive node. 4. All messages are part of an append-only, content-addressed history. A bad merge can be superseded, never silently rewritten. Detection is local and instant for users, agents, build systems. Plus QMDB inclusion/exclusion proofs. You won't need an email four hours later. DM if this makes sense to you; we're hiring. GitHub will see more of these as the internet scales with AI.

looks like it's the perfect time to be building an alternative to github 👀

ngl the older i get the more appealing renfaire and larping becomes like yes i'd like to play pretend swords and speak in ye olde english and fight for my woman's and family's honour instead of thinking about the world's current state of existence

@SHL0MS it's giving ✨the illusion of work✨

micrographics is overdone to hell, reads as uninspired slop now

@ChainLinkGod sometimes i hate that i understand this

Look guys, it's actually really straightforward, a bunch of people staked their ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield, except they didn't want their capital to be locked up, so they actually staked with a liquid staking protocol called Lido who provided them a liquid staking receipt token called stETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer, except they didn't want to lock up their capital, so they actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided them with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH, except they decided to juice their yield further by depositing their rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called Aave so that they could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero that was hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry

built a fun little ascii masking brush tool over the weekend :) vanilla JS + webgl2 added both fg and bg colour to each cell for a touch of extra depth in the final image output

@mirandamartell show them the voice note tool and let em rip

Claude onboarding for Seniors ?!? Please advise

@tednotlasso @coachella @AnthropicAI is this you attempting another instance of "i want to go to F1/i want to try apple vision pro"

bucket list collab: getting sent to @coachella by @AnthropicAI

@ormanclark psytrance or 70s rock there is no in between

what do you listen to when you're designing?

@skullface this is exactly the script i need ty 🙏

normies do not know what design eng is so i tell artsy people i code i tell techy people i do design i tell strangers i do tech stuff my partner tells people i do “idk smart computer shit” my dad tell his friends i am a “senior engineer” it works, no one asks follow-ups

@benjitaylor @darnfish overkill orrr a small piece of joy when people attend to it, harmless when not attended to

@darnfish this screen is opened hundreds of millions of times a day, so as much as i like some animation, this would quickly feel overkill

I kinda wish the pfp used a shared element transition

@typicalmitul if you make this into a print book...let a girl know

the montreal metro is so great, it deserves a gallery website