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hanging with the late night crew was a fun time!
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I'm souring on reading papers. For example, "Keeping CALM" is a really well written paper that introduces a new concept (monotonicity). But what can you actually do with this in terms of designing or evaluating a system like Farcaster or Ethereum? Not much - it's just a well articulated restatement of some core distributed systems consistency principles that we've known for a while. Most CS papers don't really seem to do "Science" anymore - there are a few important ones, but the vast majority are publications for the sake of publications. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01930
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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
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This is a very good list
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Kind of crazy that average time British dads spent with kids in the 60s is close to zero
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Origin story of block feature
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Video Player Improvements on Warpcast! - Choose your playback speed (0.5x to 2x supported) - Annoying bug with shutting off audio in other apps fixed - Scrolling through videos is much smoother h/t @deodad
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she has a point
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A big thanks to everyone who reports bad actors 🫡
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Farcaster Dev Call is in 1.5 hours! - FIP: Introducing Ordering - SWIFT Improvements - Rewards & Boost - Blocking Details: https://warpcast.notion.site/Aug-29-2024-0e69900902af449a93c2461894d8e9a3?pvs=74
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that was fast
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Block will be available to everyone on Warpcast in a few hours. Please let us know if you run into any bugs or issues!
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We’re considering adding "Block" to Warpcast. Trolly behavior has increased as the network has grown. Some users constantly pile onto people they dislike with quotes and replies. Mute was enough when FC was smaller, but users need better tools. If you're an FC dev, would you want to add block to your app?
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First-time contributors to Farcaster often try to propose new features. We appreciate the energy, but this never ends up working. First-time contributors usually lack the context to identify design flaws and the clout to get people to adopt it. If you're serious about contributing, start with simple things like fixing bugs, writing docs, upgrading packages or improving the dev ex. This will help you build the context you need to start writing features.
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FIP: Introducing Ordering @cassie @dynemyte @sanjay and I have been kicking around ideas for a new sync model for Farcaster. We're looking for feedback and people to collaborate with: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193
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Warpcast Experiment: Boosts! A boost gives your account more distribution for 24 hours. Each day, we'll give out 10 boosts to accounts that: - Have < 10k followers - Have casted recently - Have not received a boost recently - Post bangers (manual judgement)
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all feedback is good feedback
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Here are the top 25 users who earned Warpcast Rewards - score is the total engagement received as points - normalized score is adjusted for the number of active followers you have Tagging the top 5 here: @afrochicks @chicbangs.eth @alinaferry @thecurioushermit and @ted
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Warpcast is giving out $5 each day to the top 100 casters. Rewards are given based on the amount of engagement your casts get divided by the number of active followers you have. We'll run this experiment through the end of the year to see if it drives people to create more interesting content for Farcaster.
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