happy international chess day everybody
a nice thing about posting writing on a website as opposed to substack/social media is that you have much less of an idea of who is reading your writing. even if i don’t have much of a following on any platform, i still feel slightly influenced in the back of my mind by who i kinda know might be reading this. it’s freeing to not have that
open-source seems to be growing all over. more businesses are open-sourcing things (e.g. AI models), open-source projects are becoming popular in more areas (e.g. Godot), projects are compensating people for open-source work (e.g. bounties, github sponsors), companies are using open-source as a hiring pipeline (e.g. tinygrad), and i’m just generally seeing more projects being more welcoming to contributors. so cool
there is something uniquely satisfying about a tool working exactly how it was supposed to. i recently bought a new can opener after using a semi-broken one for a while. it was magical
lots of interesting sections here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game
Huh, so that’s what Rust enums were all along!
its interesting tho because the number of relays that show up in settings are less than the total count, at least for me. P sure I added the total number of relays, but some of them were incorrect urls so they stopped showing after restarting the app
prob one of the things I’m most curious/excited to see from nostr are the tools ppl build to enable ppl to more easily solve the discovery problem themselves
That it lets you own your data without running a server!