phil

Cursor is winning my heart already.
This horizontal layout of the primary side-bar-view tabs shows discerning taste over the core VSCode teams vertical space-waster.

(and I haven't even got on to the main value proposition: <LLM> stuff)

The forking of an OSS UI project this large (both technically, and in terms of serious install base globally) is spectacular, and fascinating to witness.

stack: <computation>
 ↑ 🙇🏻‍♀️
 ↑ applications
 ↑ operating systems
 ↑ logic-gates
 ↑ chips

stack: <biology>
↑ 🙇🏻‍♀️
↑ organelles
↑ cells
↑ metabolic pathways
↑ proteins & genes 

timestamp:

stack: <computation>
 ↑ 🙇🏻‍♀️
 ↑ applications
 ↑ operating systems
 ↑ logic-gates
 ↑ chips

stack: <biology>
↑ 🙇🏻‍♀️
↑ organelles
↑ cells
↑ metabolic pathways
↑ proteins & genes 

timestamp:
https://youtu.be/TZx9LGNeexg?t=1535&si=3_sInpkxvsiZyeja

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.

In a situation like this, what you really want is one place where you can rotate your keys which implicitly revokes all outstanding connections, but allows you to resume signing in as before. Happy to be building a contract account that makes that possible, and then I hope to normalize that around the web. gator.metamask.io

design ref: 
"the quickest path to your user's <first> aha moment in web3"

That's a beautifully perceptual piece of framing around a new heavy-lift technical "paving" manoeuvre (tool) by @danfinlay

design ref: 
"the quickest path to your user's <first> aha moment in web3"

That's a beautifully perceptual piece of framing around a new heavy-lift technical "paving" manoeuvre (tool) by @danfinlay 

https://metamask.io/developer/delegation-toolkit/

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil →  phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  
ƒ(🌳) →  🧫 /sys  ←  @cell <T>

intersend.io | via sequence. pimlico. poap. polygon. metamask. paxful. flipside crypto. dash. bridgewater. darpa. secdef. navy. dia. linktr.ee/alexanderchopan

ref: "it's always dns"
https://warpcast.com/cassie/0x2e101e94

yeoro.eth → db.team → /slc → SuperBenefitDAO, All in For Sport → "purpose aligned networks of small autonomous teams”

"hopium + electrons" — goodluck @ro 🌧️⚡️

DNS is a good decentralized system, but it isn't "strong form decentralized" in the same way that Ethereum is. 

One of the reasons we built identity on Ethereum instead of the web.

Summer of Protocols

So… TIL, the printing press actually served Catholic Church corruption before it served the Protestant reformation. Apparently in the 67 years between the Gutenberg press printing the Bible (1450s) and Martin Luther’s 95 theses (1517) triggering the pamphlet wars, a significant use of the printing press was mass producing standardized indulgence certificates, with fill-in-the-blank details. It allowed the church to efficiently tokenize forgiveness for sins. One of the few surviving copies of printed indulgences is at Princeton.

The indulgence is basically a subprime-soul mortgage/memecoin. The theological galaxy brain theory is that Jesus and other saints with their good works created a “treasury of merits” against which the sins of lesser souls could be offset. For a price.


https://library.princeton.edu/about/library-news/2019/inside-milberg-gallery-indulgences

ref: “subprime-soul mortgage/memecoin”

(printing press, 1450)

brutalist

I so wanna drop this in /brutalist, but too organic.

Looks like they’re finally paying attention.

I still remember when I posted this. It wasn’t a direct response, but I shared it because someone mentioned Chinese models and how far behind they were after referencing a LinkedIn post.

Zero engagement—people were too busy copying and pasting everything they saw on X or elsewhere to look like they were in the know, rather than learning from those actually in the trenches.

Here was me naively thinking I wanted to express myself to the world in words.

Turns out, I only ever wanted to say "yo".
And I didn't even want to say that...I just wanted to tap "yo".

(Social transactional low-effort life complete! 
The things we learn along the way.)

thomas

In times when the zeitgeist pendulum is swinging the other way, and the Overton window has shifted so much (albeit imperceptibly, one outrageous behavior at a time) that we start to normalize behaviors from our leaders that were previously unthinkable, there is only one thing that matters.

And that is: stick to your principles, whatever they may be. Those principles haven’t changed because of whatever take is fashionable, whatever public tolerance exists for one extreme or the other. If some core principles were sacrosanct to you ten or fifteen years ago, odds are they are still non-negotiable to this day.

Don’t be swayed by whatever apologeticism is used to normalize the state of affairs, past, present, or future

know your principles
stick to your principles

Phil Cockfield

@pjc