hottakes

The fucking state of democracy in 2025. I’m not an American but this should be a meme. Please tell me this is a meme.

Gaming

the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 looks awesome.

I hope they learned their lesson and will launch with a much more future proof GPU than last time!

the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 looks awesome.

I hope they learned their lesson and will launch with a much more future proof GPU than last time!

https://youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ

Wake up, smell the coffee and ponder.

https://frame.weponder.io/api/predict/28782

Shower Thoughts

we might be onto a new, safer way to hop around cities, but I wonder what other, more reliable indicators, than the cost of insurance we can use to measure safety of robotaxis

we might be onto a new, safer way to hop around cities, but I wonder what other, more reliable indicators, than the cost of insurance we can use to measure safety of robotaxis

https://open.substack.com/pub/humanprogressnewsletter/p/waymo-drivers-are-way-safer-10x-than

Parenting

build those memories with them ❄️ ☃️

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Do you associate wildfires with climate change?

It might be an insensitive question, it just feels like they are getting worse every year and we are completely moloch’d from solving it.

Don’t wanna sound insensitive or cynical, however I wonder how much CO2 has been released by these wildfires and what the anthropogenic climate change proponents think of it, now that we know these were at least partially preventable by doing controllable burnings they so eagerly lobbied against.

you can't call yourself a web engineer/developer without understanding the most fundamental part of the internet technology, the HTTP

don't worry, i got your back: https://hpbn.co

looool, triggered all the bots in replies. http is a nice honeypot I guess 😂

you can't call yourself a web engineer/developer without understanding the most fundamental part of the internet technology, the HTTP

don't worry, i got your back:

social

Meta’s Policy Chief went on Fox this morning (with a video from Zuck) to announce it’s new policies:

leaning into free speech, replacing fact-checkers with community notes, and removing the shadowban on civic topics.

changes will affect Facebook, Instagram + Threads.

https://fb.watch/wYSkr0eYg6/?mibextid=v7YzmG

recently i went back to "monk mode", where i persistently shut off every potential distraction for a while

recipe: kill notifications, leave phone in another room, turn on dnd, lock the door, put on headphones with ANC, and play ambient bg tunes

after a few sessions, healthy doses of productivity have been restored

User Experience

if one more web3 fuck stuffs a tertiary action into a frame
and hides the primary action 3 clicks away 

i'm gonna fucking find them and stuff the primary action back into their useless brain 

go do your brain rot UX on lens or some other bullshit 
jesus fucking christ dude

would make a great design lead in a startup solely for design crit sessions. 100% recommend

Music

my little audio corner is finally complete

• RPi4 + DietPi + Plexamp
• HIFIBerry Digi2 Pro
• JDS Labs EL DAC
• JDS Labs EL AMP II+
• beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro

I didn’t realize Whitesnake sounded so fucking good 🤘

✨🛠️ launching a new project for quickly grabbing OG tag metadata from any URL with a simple fetch

metadata.vision

it's been powering some of my apps behind the scenes for the past 9 months. enjoy!

another solid mini project done by no other than @pugson

how is this guy able to ship so much good stuff all the time?

ensdata.net ✦ pugson.net/rfe ✦ metadata.vision ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈 ✦ 𝙽𝙾𝚆: 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙾𝙽 ???

no i don't want to fucking 'collect the episode' 
i want to click play

oh let's make a fucking frame
so people have to do a fucking transaction
to mint an NFT
that is absolutely pointless
INSTEAD OF FUCKING HITTING PLAY ON A PIECE OF MEDIA

jesus fucking christ
web3 is retarded

i'm sure there's a fc channel for "crypto-ux-failures" filled with these nuggets

Founders

✅ first yearly subscriber to my new saas 

2025 is off to a good start

Farcaster Devs

to the twitterbot and basement dweller trying to scrape/scan our Ponder predictions:

thanks for the attention! 🙃 we've enabled challenge mode, so you'll have to find another USDC honeypot to pester

service is (almost) back to normal folks!

Full stack web3 development. Start building: https://thirdweb.com

Join the conversation https://warpcast.com/~/channel/thirdweb

i just wanna acknowledge that @thirdweb has been killing it lately with v5 SDK, and now shipping some really cool things to support Farcaster ecosystem

the jsdoc examples built into the SDK saved me from searching through online docs; keep'em coming!

while pineapple pizza is a general sacrilege, bbq chicken pizza is an absolute vile abomination

testchannel

Some testing in public https://frame.weponder.io/api/predict/28227

✳︎ design engineer → @ponder 
✳︎ explorer of humanism • petrolhead/gearhead
✳︎ React/SwiftUI
✳︎ bento.me/matthew

matt 💭

@matthewmorek