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I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

AMA with @horsefacts.eth starts now!

What questions do you have for him?

Working on Terminally Onchain /toc. Join The Terminal here: toc.fun

The older I get, the more the fundamentals really matter: getting good sleep, drinking water, regular exercise. (I hate it, but it's true!)

A good testing workflow always helps me. Some early programming mentors of mine practiced rigorous TDD, and I find the red-green-refactor cycle a great way to focus.

How do you get into a flow state when you have a couple hours of coding ahead?

Not exactly an answer to your question (there are lots of intentionally esoteric languages), but three langs out of the mainstream I have enjoyed and learned something from are Clojure, Erlang, and Forth.

If you weren’t working in crypto, what would you be doing?

Investor, Writer & Photographer. Partner emeritus @ True Ventures. Past life: Started GigaOm. I have written about tech for 3+ decades. Visit: Om.co

I’m especially interested in smart contract security and testing, group coordination, weird programming languages, and creative projects that push the boundaries of what we can do onchain, but AMA!

Hi everyone! Thanks to @yb for organizing and @ommalik for suggesting these. For those who don’t know me, I lead the /evm channel here and work on Warpcast and Farcaster.

maxxing on /morpho 🦋 | pursuing a higher self w /higher-athletics | consistently curious | ex Sismo.io

Joke projects have always been a kind of creative expression for me. (And a way to explore something new).

I was learning about Linux and wrote a joke device file called /dev/horsefacts (like /dev/random) that returned a stream of facts about horses. 

(This was the horse_ebooks era, they were in the zeitgeist...)

@horsefacts.eth
 
what's the story behind your ens?

I wrote a thread on this in /evm a while back. I got my start working on an indexer called VulcanizeDB, which turned out to be a great full stack intro to the EVM. Maker used it for a while, so I was very lucky to get to work with them and read a lot of their code.

I wrote a thread on this in /evm a while back. I got my start working on an indexer called VulcanizeDB, which turned out to be a great full stack intro to the EVM. Maker used it for a while, so I was very lucky to get to work with them and read a lot of their code.

https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth/0xc8939527

How did you get into onchain programming?

I'm a huge fan of Maker/Dapphub and wrote them a love letter in the form of CounterDAO/DSS.

MCD was simple, immutable, elegant, and ahead of its time. I'm a total convert to "Daiwanese" naming as well (guy, ray, wad, etc.)

building [redacted] + /brianjckim /latenightcrew

I'm a huge fan of Maker/Dapphub and wrote them a love letter in the form of CounterDAO/DSS.

MCD was simple, immutable, elegant, and ahead of its time. I'm a total convert to "Daiwanese" naming as well (guy, ray, wad, etc.)

https://github.com/counterdao

which well-known smart contract were you the most wowow’ed by?

Crimean building @payflow

/payflow /ideas /crimea 🛡🌎🇺🇦 

I'm not Turkish, but I spent a couple years there at university and doing academic research afterwards. It was great to come back for Devconnect this year.

Istanbul is one of the world's great megacities and everyone should visit. In terms of less traveled cities, I think Van is one of my favorites.

Thanks for the warps gift 🎁 🙏
Are you Turkish? If so, what’s your favorite city in Turkey?)

I'm afraid to ask but what or who is a Hoon?

Hoon is the somewhat esoteric programming language used on Urbit: it's a purely functional, statically typed systems language with unique syntax (called "runes") and naming conventions. 

I've been exploring it lately and am in the latest "Hoon School" cohort.

🪐 Building @neynar, join us in /neynar & /nfs | ex-Coinbase | manan19.twitter

Hoon is the somewhat esoteric programming language used on Urbit: it's a purely functional, statically typed systems language with unique syntax (called "runes") and naming conventions. 

I've been exploring it lately and am in the latest "Hoon School" cohort.

https://docs.urbit.org/language/hoon

I'm afraid to ask but what or who is a Hoon?

https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth/0x76c538a4

October 11, when we pushed the "permissionless" button.

October 11, when we pushed the "permissionless" button.

https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth/0xa2fb6d6d

What has been your favorite day working on Farcaster/warpcast?

working on /music, analyzing /data, flying /fpv

1) Use Foundry. (Also, read the Foundry book).
2) Read all the Solidity docs end to end, they're very good!
3) Watch @patrickalphac's Solidity and Foundry videos. 

From there, build something low stakes that you'll use yourself.

If you were advising a beginner, which three resources would you suggest for diving into EVM and smart contract programming?

I think it's been appropriately prioritized, but I'm looking forward to finally getting our L1 ENS resolver deployed so that all usernames are fully functional ENS names.

If you could do anything to warpcast what would be the feature you would introduce which might be overlooked or not prioritized by the team?)

Gamer, educator, dev translator | Writings, memes, thoughts, and mints in /nerdery | lead /tabletop /gaming /sobriety

Horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal.

Revealed preference according to Steam is Civ 5 and EUIV. I'm a big fan of Paradox games but also one of those people who has to keep them at arm's length or be totally consumed.

Recent repos:

Production: Working on a generative testing engine for Seaport. Huge honor to work with that team, and we did a lot of wild stuff in pure Solidity.

Personal: Writing a puzzle for Curta. https://github.com/horsefacts/philosophers-stone

Joke: This Uniswap hook. https://github.com/horsefacts/trading-days

Head of Product (and inst. asset issuer onboarding) @plumenetwork. Building https://transferagentprotocol.xyz on it. Hosting /rwa and /plume

Curious to hear about any of these

- what do you think about most of the time?

- what music have you been into lately?

- which of your repos did you have most fun with recently?

co-conspirator @ /moshicam /gallery /djs • prev coinbase • my casts are endorsements, financial advice, and reflect my employer's opinions

both of them regularly like the memes I post about them in public online

what's the weirdest thing about your boss?

1) Solidity looks like Javascript but is a lot weirder, as is the surrounding paradigm (public, permissionless, immutable, costly, deterministic, adversarial). Go down the rabbit hole to learn why things work the way they do rather than trying to ignore it or abstract over it.

What is the most common mistake/thing people overlook when learning smart contract development for the first time?

dev / collector / chef / ex-Twitter

B.S in Chemical Engineering

BUIDLGUIDL 🛡️⚔️🛠️ 

speedrunethereum.com

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https://youtube.com/@Ongaloid?si=w25tJeY-XgXt0i

Horses can sleep standing up, but they only get REM sleep lying down.

Probably this one, I'm a big Philip Larkin fan:

A teller / of stories, that is me. / Curious to learn new ways to see. / Proud dad of two. Now, what / about you? | Builds https://paragraph.xyz/@trpplffct

Probably this one, I'm a big Philip Larkin fan: https://allpoetry.com/At-Grass

What's your favorite poem about horses?

No, just kidding, I actually simply want to know what you think of poetry.