A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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

I’m very bad at promoting myself and my projects! 

« Without sync » — under the hood, Hubble uses libp2p which is (simplified) a DHT with protobufs over TCP. You can code the handshake process and intercept message on the network and do stuff with them.

The actual sync happens through a gRPC endpoint which I haven’t implemented because it’s not relevant. 

The project works pretty well but as a solo dev, it’s very hard to support especially without any interest from the community. Farcaster is moving fast and there’s like 15 different messages to implement.

But if people are interested in this, I can always work on it again. The codebase is beautiful and I didn’t write spaghetti code.

The only problem is that I should make an explainer for contributors to understand how Farcaster work under the hood (decentralization wise).

Explaining well is the key to contributor engagement.

Wanna emphasise that open-source is powerful when there’s contributors because you’re not the single point of failure of your project. 

The community can help you find mistakes and evolve the project into the right direction.

Maybe writing the project in Go didn’t help for engagement though. Farcaster loves Typescript lol.

And also: Farcaster inner-workings are complicated so I should make an explainer scheme so people don’t have to reverse-engineer like I had to…

Would y’all be interested in that (cc @shoni.eth @kmacb.eth)?

hello, i'm alex paden. not cool

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Ethereum builder & people connector. Juicebox, Revnet, Defifa & d33m.com

Experimenting with Hubs & Go — Trying to find the time to organize the next TTRPG session.

Have a kiwi 🥝 btw!

Not a good use for me since I have a historical db - but im happy to help/share feedback