The Recipe Kitchen

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

going to invite @dwr.eth over for dinner to our place soon. 

anyone here got a good dishwasher steak recipe that works well?

Gross but practical question: how do you keep your external keyboard / mouse clean? 

I've tried isopropyl wipes and it doesn't seem that effective.

I have the same keyboard at work and at home but the one at home feels 100x nicer since I use it so much less.

Is it a lost cause?

Keyboards are like leather shoes they need to be worn in. 

Over time the hair, skin flakes and food crumbs give your keys a nice soft response curve. 

Cleaning just destroys all the natural oils, and I don’t recommend it.

Do I know anyone at QuickNode who can help escalate a support issue?

Here are all the markets that hit circuit breakers today so far:

China
Taiwan
Japan
Russell Futures
Australia
Singapore

$VIX is up 14.62%.

interfaces

mf doom, aesop rock, moderat, nicholas jaar, daft punk, max cooper, radiohead, mars volta, thelonious monk, the doors, sts9, pink floyd, tool, nine inch nails, kalmah, agalloch, amon amarth, kyuss, metallica

I just donated to help earthquake victims in Myanmar

Farcaster Devs

We've improved cache management for Mini App embeds.

1. Support cache control headers
2. Refresh cache from cast composer
3. Refresh a cast embeds

more details on image

Better cache controls for miniapp embeds!

Talked to a few people in India who manufacture and export clothing to US brands. 

The most likely outcome if tarriffs stick for a year is that manufacturing still stays offshore, but the average American gets lower quality stuff for the same price.

Flexport's team was able to reverse engineer the formula the Administration used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs." 

It's quite simple, they took the trade deficit the US has with each country and divided it by our imports from that country. 

The chart below shows the https://t.co/01bUpfKgk8

This is nuking every single supply chain that passes through the US in any way, under the illusion that 45 years of deindustrialization can be fixed in one day of 45% tariffs.

Countless low-margin businesses, including US exporters, will be pushed into unprofitability.

Balaji

Talked to a few people in India who manufacture and export clothing to US brands. 

The most likely outcome if tarriffs stick for a year is that manufacturing still stays offshore, but the average American gets lower quality stuff for the same price. 

https://x.com/balajis/status/1907645443221463105

That $47M held in stablecoins is looking pretty good right now...

longevity

Found this interesting when researching mitochondrial function in South Asians. 

A 2008 study in Diabetes reported that Asian Indians exhibit higher skeletal muscle mitochondrial capacity despite severe insulin resistance, suggesting mitochondrial dysfunction may not be the primary cause of insulin resistance in this population. However, subsequent research indicates that mitochondrial function’s role in insulin resistance among South Asians is complex, with factors like reduced fatty acid oxidation and ectopic fat deposition also contributing.

The economy is tanking but my wife is scheduled to be induced this evening and give birth to our daughter, our first child. 

So I busted out this 26-year-old pu’erh I’ve been saving for a special occasion. L’chaim. /tea

@kaufman elevating the farcaster tea game

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If you use Claude Code, can you share your CLAUDE.md files from your projects?

BREAKING: The US has announced tariffs on countries:

Brazil 10%
Pakistan 30%
Sri Lanka 44%
Switzerland 31%
Cambodia 50%
South Africa 30$
United Kingdom 10%
China: 34%
India: 26%
European Union: 20%
Israel: 17%

Minimum tariff on all imports: 10%

Does anyone know how the tariffs are being levied?

fc-updates

Developer Rewards Changes! 

- Pool increased to $3000 weekly (prev $2000) 
- Recipients increased to 50 (prev 25) 
- Tweaks to algo to support apps doing onchain actions (more below) 

Congrats to all the winners this week. It's been very exciting seeing all the cool miniapps shipping

Poll: Do you have funds in a Zerion wallet that you'd like to use in Farcaster Miniapps?

If yes, please reply!

not sure why everyone is having such a hard time. 

it's yellow, folks. yellow.

I asked Claude to code up a miniapp with a youtube embed and told it to hardcode a youtube video in, and then opened it up to see if worked right.

Yep, that's right, I just got rick rolled by an LLM on Apr 1st.

If you are running a Farcaster Hub in production (i.e. would be really mad if it stopped working), could you please reply? 

We want to make sure we reach out and help you through the Snapchain migration.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Varun Srinivasan

@v