William Saar

@saarw.eth

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Standing desks turned out to be BS https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/16/standing-desks-may-be-bad-for-your-health-study-suggests

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ITAP of turtles annoying a bird in a park in Taipei earlier this week

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Been writing cloud policies in rego recently (an Open Policy Agent language) It's like coding smart contracts for some immature overly-clever L2 chain The chains that leverage pre-existing languages and tooling made the right choice

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Discord: Spams you with nonsense notifications from every silly crypto project server you join Also Discord: Occasionally decides to notify you when people you've had long communications with in PMs send you a message

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What's the long-term thinking around growing decentralized social while dealing with speech/moderation laws that make it difficult to host hubs in much of the world? Is it OK to operate only in the US with DMCA section 230 protections? Can content be e2e encrypted so hubs lose ability to moderate? Any writing on this?

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After using Claude I can definitely see how AI could be productive enough to replace teams with single developers However, the biggest hurdle to this seems to be management and Agile™️ processes that are all about taking on projects with teams Any of the dev-replacement startups solving the management-layer problem?

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Added the Farcaster Hub repo to my app that uses AI to generate a newspaper-style page from commit messages. With vector search for related activity https://gitbulletin.com/repo/farcasterxyz/hub-monorepo

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Tried Claude Sonnet 3.5 to write a Rust program that would otherwise have required me to read up on 3 unfamiliar APIs Required minor fixed as Claude's training wasn't up to date with changes to some immature Rust libraries, but got the program running and overall impressed with the productivity boost Claude provided!

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Any LLM provider that lets you (or apps) pay for usage with crypto?

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3 strategies for maintainable software: a) Use a statically typed language. b) Use a dynamically typed language, but insist on 100% test coverage so you maintain "it compiles"-quality. c) Sell your company to a rich buyer that can pay for rewrite/tests.

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Updated web3gains.com to turn off querying paywalled Solscan APIs and instead supporting importing CSV file exports from the Solscan UI Also added rate history for SOL, ETH when outside Coingecko's free 365 day history It kindo gets closer to a decent result, but one really needs the paid APIs, especially for Solana

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Noticed that the problem applies to chain-specific tokens as well. Does Coinbase have an internal list of which symbols you support for a specific chain? Or can you receive two completely different tokens with the same symbol on different chains and not be able to tell them apart in the statement?

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The Coinbase statement reports just say "Received 1 USDC from an external account". Is there a way to look up what chain the USDC was sent over so one can match it to ERC721, Base, or Solana transactions?

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Can anyone recommend a free API for historical crypto exchange rates? Turns out Coingecko only allows querying 365 days back on their free plan

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Started porting web3gains.com away from Solscan to SolanaFM as the former paywalled their APIs ...but SolanaFM's transfer listing only allows listing 100 transfers for 1 wallet per minute Might be better off adding support for dumping transfers from the Solscan UI and manually importing CSV files

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Great product for chess learners!

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Didn't realize Etherscan had acquired Solscan The block explorer space has really become a very centralized part of the blockchain space (good luck launching an Eth L2 without buying support from Etherscan etc)

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How much does Bitcoin's price volatility have to drop until it becomes useful as a stablecoin? Even if using it on faster/cheaper chains requires a bridge, that seems easier to decentralize than current coins pegged to national currencies

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Is there a block explorer for Solana that lets you export transactions for free through an API? Seems Solscan has put that functionality behind a $199/month paywall so can't be used in a free tool like web3gains.com

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The Ethereum L2 UX has some way to go to compete with Solana Claimed some tokens on Base: - Metamask Android didn't work at all - Switching network happens quickly, but Coinbase Wallet asking for fees in eth when it really wants base-bridged eth will confuse mainstream eth holders - Bridge fees ...

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