Cameron Builds

v excited to launch a poetry project I’ve been working on for a LONG time

I’m fascinated with the idea of websites as projects unto themselves and I will continue to add to the 150+ poems shared here until it feels better to put them somewhere else

enjoy 🫡

littlefeelings.com

New emotional support blog post out now 

https://www.wysr.xyz/p/have-you-put-in-your-hours

pickles

Monkey’s Paw wish veterans be like 😮😮

Farcaster

Optimizing for Farcaster is less “barnacles on a sailboat” and more “aim your parachute at the grass instead of trees”

if you’re in information
pivot to misinformation

Memes

“Please, you wretch, you BEAST of tenuous support, I am begging you from the bottom of my stirring soul do NOT do this to me you are vexing the heart of a vengeful god”

— my cat when i don’t feed her again after feeding her

dead app theory except it’s just someone killing me 

(on Sundays)

sunset walks hit different

https://littlefeelings.com/poems/the-heat-of-the-ending

okbanger

The reaction to this cast is Context Collapse in action

@christin and i talk about it on /okbanger, but the short form internet is amplifying people’s natural tendency to avoid conceptual nuance

People interpret every post as containing all of the info they need which means ideas bigger than one picture are dying

building reframescience.org neuroscience phd, chaplain, healthtech strategy consultant. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin.

I’m getting much better at actually clicking unsubscribe on emails. I used to get annoyed when it was too many steps and just throw them in my spam folder. Now I do both and my inbox has become 10% more manageable. 

At this point, I really want a tool that automatically does this for me. I want to start over. I have 20 years of bad decisions haunting my Gmail account.

Throwback to 2 years ago when the only way to write a thread 🧵 on farcaster was to build your own tool 

Good one @cameron 💟

warpcats

Fitness

Biohackers and supplement nerds,

What should I be taking to be more focused, have more energy, sleep better, and lift like a demon?

A quick history of the Farcaster feed. 

Back in 2021, the first version of the feed just showed you every post, starting with the newest. There wasn't a way to unfollow! This was ok because we were just a 100 or so weird internet people who liked hanging out together. 

We added follows soon after, when someone started annoying someone else. This hurt new users quite a bit because they started with an empty feed and had to do a lot of work to make it good. So we picked the most active users each week and suggested they follow them when signing up. 

It was built in an incredibly simple way. Every time you loaded your app, we'd run a sql query to fetch the latest casts, hydrate the links and images and serve you a feed. At some point, we moved this into a background job so it would run every 30 seconds, and slow down if you stopped checking the app.

Perhaps the best cast I’ve read in the last few months (for product nerds like myself)

weird internet kid. word rotator. yapping on /okbanger. playing with @wannanaplabs. curating in /cameron | dev + vet + HBS. 
Cameronarmstrong.org 🫡