Jonathan Brown

Incredible video about using pi sub-agents: youtube.com/watch?v=KRVYUk…

@ApexGemz I'm going to be rebooting the project with all the ACU balances intact. Watch this space.

@jbrown_acuity chains.acuity.network is down? Its not opening for me anymore on any browser Also discourse.acuity.network is down or you do not use it as a Acuity discussions?

Just released v0.9.1 of Acuity Index. It helps dapps on Polkadot/Substrate consume blockchain event data through a real-time indexing API. Since v0.8, we shipped config-driven index specs, explicit query keys, hot reload, reindexing across spec changes, composite/multi-field keys, Prometheus metrics, event proofs, JSON-RPC 2.0, better throughput/reliability, and stronger production safety. v0.9.1 adds simpler subscriptions, cleaner event payloads, top-level timestamps and WS heartbeats. github.com/acuity-network…

@neogoose_btw Switch to Pi already

I really can't understand why claude code is always trying to create an additional toolcall just to echo the information it JUST SPIT OUT ON IT'S OWN is it an efficient way to eat my tokens?

@ApexGemz staking is available here: chains.acuity.network/#/explorer

@jbrown_acuity Is it possible to start staking $ACU already?

New blog post: How To Build Real Dapps With Acuity Index index.acuity.network/blog/real-dapp…

Honestly, it's kind of beautiful

What happens when you run a @Polkadot node on hardware it was never designed for? A Parity engineer tried it on a RISC-V board over a weekend. Not for production but to see where things break.

@Leo_Glisic @yacineMTB I don't use office software very much, so I'm not the best person to advise you on that. LibreOffice and Google Docs are probably the best avenues to explore on Linux.

@jbrown_acuity @yacineMTB Are you solving your problem (winning the argument) or mine (running Excel / PowerPoint / word)?

seriously literally who is still using windows these days

@Leo_Glisic @yacineMTB There is LibreOffice and Google Sheets

@jbrown_acuity @yacineMTB How would I run Excel in gnome, in your suggested setup?

@vivoplt Using opencode go/zen. Want to try pi with Venice

Anyone here cancelled their Claude Code subscription and moved to Codex?

@Leo_Glisic @yacineMTB Gnome desktop is basically perfect these days. Everything works for me without any issue.

@yacineMTB I am. On two laptops. Why? Cause it works, and I can have Excel and PowerPoint and Word to their maximum effect. I know how to run Linux. It's too much of a time sink just getting to where I want to be. I'm open to better options. But they need to be efficient.

@jonmyers You can order many things on Amazon direct to Vietnam without a forwarder. They have an arrangement with customs so it goes straight through.

Best Vietnam life upgrade: order from Amazon US, have it in Saigon in two weeks. What I order Supplements - limited selection locally, huge markup, real risk of fakes. I buy 3–4 months at a time. Razor blades - local versions of popular brands are overpriced and poor quality. Bulk order. Shoes - size 12 / 44. Very hard to find large sizes here, so I just import. Also worth it: shades, caps, Anker cables and chargers, replacement heads for trimmers and toothbrushes, kitchen gear. How it works Sign up with a forwarder - they give you a US address. Order to it, they consolidate and ship to Vietnam, Grab to your door. ~300k/kg, about two weeks. Plenty of forwarders around.

I asked GLM-5.1 if Helix (Rust neovim clone) correctly handles unicode rendering / editing. It said this: Short answer: partially — grapheme-aware editing works, but rendering has known issues. The core problem is issue #6012 (github.com/helix-editor/h…) — unicode_width returns column widths that don't match what terminal emulators actually use, causing misaligned rendering near emoji and special characters. unicode_width is even pinned to v0.1.12 in Cargo.toml with a comment that its newer versions "break our logic and disagree with common width definitions in terminals." A fix using the widecharwidth crate (same one used by fish shell & wezterm) is in progress via PR #15599 (github.com/helix-editor/h…) but hasn't landed yet. RTL/BiDi support would require implementing UAX #9, which is a much larger undertaking with no current plans.

Used emacs since ~2016 (vim before that) but broken unicode width rendering (which I've mostly just avoided by never using unicode) is finally driving me to ... neovim? Which appears to be the only major terminal editor that can correctly handle unicode rendering / editing?

If any publicity is good publicity, then the reported Hyperbridge exploit (a third-party bridge) has done more for Polkadot awareness than the marketing bounty ever managed at a better price point.

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@migtissera I'm sure they get the full fat version.

Imagine being at Anthropic and needing to use Claude Code with Opus as the daily driver..

@0xSpuddy try Zen

20 year friendship with Firefox has ended. Long live brave.

Dioxus fullstack is a great solution for building webapps with Rust! github.com/DioxusLabs/dio…

Technology Preview: How to take back the Web youtu.be/V5QZNv3niKo