Reading Victorian England novels is interesting as they were busily inventing huge chunks of the modern world. Which in many ways was quite stable until the last 20-30 years or so where we've been busily inventing TBD (we can't seem to stabilize on anything)

Books

Building /bright-moments - minting onchain art IRL | /purple #15 | FID 129 #magikarp

Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

Tech entrepreneur. Founder @electricsql. Founder @gatsbyjs (acquired by Netlify). @kylemathews on Twitter

it's quite similar as well to doing OSS support — people come in with problems and you ask them to try stuff to debug/fix the issue.

Coding with AI is exactly like being a manager — figuring out the right precision of requests to minimize my effort while still ensuring a good outcome. Also learning the qualities of the human/ai I'm managing so I fine-tune the instructions.

put together a little excalidraw explaining how we make product decisions at farcaster

Salt Lake City this week is like being in the bay area with kubecon in town. Tons of events and friends pinging me to hangout.

Frontend

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

on development speed — 🤷‍♂️ TBD — I'd expect dev speed to be comparable

With PGlite + @ElectricSQL sync you can build an issue tracker handling 100k issues + 500k comments, synced from Postgres to PGlite in the browser!
Super fast UI updates with all writes going though the local database, and Postgres FTS in PGlite for search 🔥 https://t.co/FgZVOSs5Vb

Sam Willis

on traffic, etc. for pglite https://x.com/samwillis/status/1846551244300595246

Repeating my answer from Discord haha

The difference boils down to fetching vs syncing.

https://x.com/kylemathews/status/1825531359949173019

Also https://x.com/kylemathews/status/1768004454534840774

And this thread from Sam https://x.com/samwillis/status/1824385175486337137

Syncing &gt; Querying.

Anywhere you query for data you should consider syncing data instead.

CDN-backed Postgres syncing means your data loads faster you get real-time updates for free.

It's like having mini PG read replicas scattered across your system.

What is fundamentally interesting about the shift from query to sync?

Both answer the question: "how do I copy data from the database?"

But sync gives you two huge advantages:

1. built-in caching so cheap distribution of data via CDNs
2. real-time updates so no stale data

Kyle Mathews

Episode #5 is out.

@kylemathews on his experience building personal local-first apps with ElectricSQL and how using a data syncing engine makes manual data fetching obsolete. https://t.co/AjgPueFFx5

I had a great discussion with Johannes on his podcast about local-first/sync engines. 

Sync engines eliminate an entire class of problems around manual data fetching. Similar to how jQuery -&gt; React freed us from manual view rendering.

Also on the blog: https://t.co/xEbLcWYn7y

It feels like we're just speed running through "The End of History and the Last Man" by Francis Fukuyama

Biggest surprise of the night so far is Russia calling in bomb threats in liberal areas:

1. They're not hiding it — using russian emails, etc.
2. Making it very clear they need/want Trump

Memes

It's funny how little talk there is about Kamala being the first women & asian-american US President. Way more with Obama & Hillary.

The spectre of Trump v2 seems to overshadow it.

🔭🔎 scouting near and far :: thought follower

"Have you tried LLMing it?" is the new "Have you tried Googling it?"

Fitness

Chocolate rainmaker. Singer. Thinker. Voice

Perhaps you're lifting too much? Drop volume until you recover quickly and then slowly increase over the next 3-6 months?

wtf did i just executed a postgres query with a psql cli against postgres running in webassembly via js