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Cultivating curiosity for software developers

for a brief moment it felt like CRDTs are having a renaissance with FC this time.

people tried to lean into CRDTs in early 2010s with the rise of couch db, riak etc but most of them pivoted to simply using postgres for everything
What does the world look like when AI is funnier than a human?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tH55syq0o
integrating anything other than stripe is a pain in the ass. no wonder they are winning
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That's nice, but please don't do something stupid again like Spectre and meltdown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) .

I hope that the alliance hears Linus. Also, ARM is doing something good that Intel and AMD have to join forces to fight back.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/october-2024-intel-news.html
printf("\a") and count the beeps
The Tanstack merch has absolutely no right to be this cool
https://cottonbureau.com/people/tanstack
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Details on a new open source fund! From 10-100k per supported project. Maybe a lucky dev here could get some funding.

https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/
We just shipped Instamint - a chat bot at the intersection of crypto and AI.

Generate a beautiful image from a text prompt and instantly mint it as an NFT onchain.

Powered by the Coinbase Developer Platform APIs.

Try it here: https://instamint.xyz

Open source repo: https://github.com/coinbase/cdp-sdk-sample-apps/tree/master/app/instamint
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Customize your @onchainkit components to match your brand.

Style them with four built-in themes — or create your own!
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Nvidia silently just dropped a 70B open model that beats gpt-4o and sonnet 3.5 lol. Looks like the actual Arena-Hard score is 70.9, which is wild considering llama-3.1-70b-instruct is 51.6
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99% of what’s in your IDE is there so you can larp programming instead of programming.

Same deal for “best practices”
was talking to a non-technical work colleague and we were talking about how using an LLM to write code is liable to bugs/crashing, because it requires precision.

As she said: "it's all 1s and 0s", before adding "and they're bring out a 2 soon aren't they"

which really cracked me up because it's such an unusual but accurate way to refer to quantum
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Just submitted 🔥🔥🔥 releases for the ZED editor theme, Ariake -- inspired by Japanese traditional colors and ancient poetry.

The name "Ariake" (有明) refers to dawn or daybreak in Japanese, evoking a sense of subtle beauty and transition.

download link: https://github.com/artivilla/zed-ariake-theme

Stay tuned—these stunning themes will soon be officially available in the ZED theming library!
Doing this experiment again tomorrow (17th of October). Will be available for the whole day CET timezone (9am - ~6pm CET) if anyone needs any help, rubber duck a problem or code reivew. Specifically with wevm (viem, wagmi), typescript, react/next, trpc, indexing (using sqd sdk), privy, rainbowkit, etc. Shoot me a message
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I’m intrigued by https://onestack.dev/

Anyone tried it?
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damn took me a good 9-10 hours just to switch ReelFarm's video encoding process from cpu to nvidia gpu

there's a first for everything, glad that's done
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wake up babe, remote code execution in firefox
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Chrome is disabling uBlock Origin because manifest v2 extensions are getting purged. You have a couple options, switch to uBlock Origin Lite, or the better option, is take the time to finally update to Brave!

https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-chrome-browser-starts-disabling-ublock-origin
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What you're looking for is https://1.rpc.thirdweb.com

And it works on

every

single

EVM

chain
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I sat down until 1am yesterday to really learn about proxy contracts. Today, integrating a UI, I don't need to track addresses upon contract redeployment. It's a dream.

If you are working closely with solidity and haven't yet checked proxies out then I highly recommend

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1967
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Linux compatible kernel completely written in Rust.

Worth watching for sure. I wonder what Linus has to say about this.

https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas
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Anyone with experienceon the Google Play Store know how to give access to users that join a Google Group?

Should have it setup but not working quite right.
https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/stoke-fire-early-access
y'all, surely you must have your own system for keeping track of queries, but i just got reacquainted with postman for the project i shipped sunday.

you can save commonly used queries and docs side by side holyyyyyyyyyy
@askgina.eth tldr on free threaded python 3.13t?