Thanks folks for all the comments. Eventually I’ll have to figure out the best approach for where to house my content. For now it’s on blog.thumbsup.me
I used to write articles and post them to Mirror with collect enabled (usually capped supply of 420 on Optimism or Base).
I’d make between $5 and $15 (usually 0.0042 ETH, which back then was in that range).
Usually, between 1 and 5 people would collect the NFT of the article as a form of patronage and to be one of the few owners of the digital collectible. Sometimes, 10 or more people would.
So I’d make between $5 and $150 per article, and I had a group of supporters holding illiquid collectibles, a sign they truly supported me.
Now, I have a worthless fucking shitcoin that no one wants, which exists only to earn Zora trading fees, and I haven’t earned $5 in a year.
I hate this timeline.
Wow this is actually a lot of good progress on Asahi. USB-C DisplayPort support is a key missing feature that sounds to be fixed or almost fixed, and the work being done to integrate Asahi’s partitioning system into installers for other distros could accelerate adoption.
M Series MacBooks are super lightweight, beautiful powerful, cost-to-performance effective, have great screens, keyboards, and trackpads, and exist plentifully in the market. Whatever you think of Apple or of ARM laptops in general, there’s value to this project.
https://asahilinux.org/2025/12/progress-report-6-18/
Most of crypto VC’s thesis that every potential user is an easy to manipulate, sycophantic, hyper-capitalist incel is probably wrong and probably going to backfire.
For the sake of humanity I hope it’s wrong and it backfires.
While part of me believes that betting is human nature and that it’s unavoidable, the more rational part believes it is one of the most sinister and easily corruptible behaviours imaginable.
In case this isn’t clear to everyone, the bettification of all things is bad. Let’s say Israel bets anonymously that they will annex Syria, then they do so and their winning bet covers any sanctions cost. Betting is always corruptible. Always toxic. There is no good version of “prediction markets” and believing there is is naive and, sadly, dangerous.
Gonna experiment with Recaster. It’s a little basic but maybe that’s good. Eager for Uno to release publicly; I don’t beta test stuff anymore as it seems like things just never launch publicly when I do. Maybe I’m bad luck 🤔
Eager for an update that fixes this heinous, unusable UX. It’s such a sloppy faux Liquid Glass. Like either stick with what was there before or follow the guidelines. This is the worst of all worlds. I understand that folks worked on this but there wasn’t nearly enough review before release. It was nowhere near ready to ship.
Finally trying to do more of my code experiments with an agent (Copilot, currently set to Claude Sonnet 4.5) in VS Code and wow it’s going a lot better.
Using ChatGPT either in chat or with VS Code - app control has been a headache because it’s constantly replicating old mistakes or like forgetting CSS classes it created.
So far I’ve liked Claude but I’m happy to hear other suggestions. I have a free student plan on GitHub so I can experiment with different models and approaches. Any advice is welcome.
