Aloha, welcome to Uqbar’s weekly rollup. Every Monday we’ll provide you with exciting updates on everything Uqbar: dev reports, media mentions, and general happenings around the Urbit ecosystem.
You may already know that Uqbar has launched its tesnet and Ziggurat, our development suite, but now you can read about it! And, if that blog article has inspired you to start coding on Uqbar, make sure to check out our dev docs.
Uqbar has gone mainstream with a shoutout in Coindesk. Founder ~timluc-miptev joins some of Urbit’s brightest lights—including Josh Lehman, Galen Wolfe-Pauly, Justin Murphy, and Marisa Rowland—in discussing Urbit’s exciting future with the crypto news mainstay.
Lane Rettig has seen the light in his most recent Three Things substack post, in which he outlines what he learned from Assembly and the burgeoning relationship between Urbit and Web3 (hint: it needs Uqbar).
The Assembly Hackathon results are in! Ten participating teams and 19 individual contributors competed over four demo slots in Miami. Quorum, a Quora/Stack Overflow-style app took top honors:
Best in Show - As judged by the Assembly attendees via a %ballot vote
Hacker’s Choice - As selected other hackathon participants
The Quorum team consisted of ~tamlut-modnys, ~litlep-nibbyt, and ~sidnym-ladrut and the app can be downloaded from ~dister-dister-sidnym-ladrut.
Herd, a project from ~midsum-salrux to add dependency management to Citadel, won the “Most Urbit-y” award.
To learn more about the different hackathon projects, join web+urbitgraph://group/~martyr-sarlev-sarsen/assembly-hackers which will be open to the public through the end of October. If you didn’t get a chance to participate in this hackathon, keep an eye out for the upcoming Encode Club <> Urbit hackathon.
~midden-fabler has created %ahoy, which allows you to track the time since you’ve been able to contact a specific ship, notifies you when ships are contacted, and shows you how many times the ships in your list have breached.
The good people of ~dalten & Quartus are giving out gorae for Assembly 2022. You may still get one for a limited time even if your corporal body was not in attendance. To get the Assembly Gora, first install %gora from
~dister-dozzod-daltenand then request0v4.jh7rm.28t7t.k72qg.5t0t1.n9tdpfrom~mister-dozzod-dalten. Quartus also wishes to remind you that their backup and restoration utilities, Keep and Peat, are both available at~dister-dozzod-dalten.Vienna Hypertext, makers of the very aesthetic “smart-canvas for ideas”, have opened access to owners of Urbit IDs. If you haven’t seen them yet, have a look at this plate in all the honeyed colors of the Vienna Secession. The signup process for Urbiters makes for very smooth onboarding thanks to ~lagrev-nocfep’s efforts on the Sentinel App (which must be downloaded before signup:
web+urbitgraph://~dister-dozzod-lapdeg/sentinel). For now, sign-up only works for planets.
~datder-sonnet has released gonetia, a “simple command-line utility for generating a list of planet names issuable from an Urbit star.” Now is time to start speculating on those sweet doubled names. For a video demonstration of how to use gonetia, click here.
Hoon School Live has just started again. If you want to learn Hoon, the signup is here (or you can join
~hiddev-dannut/new-hooniverseon Urbit). The first session has already happened, but you can still jump in and catch up on your homework, assuming Professor Davis isn’t as mean as they all say.
Another busy week for the Uqbar team—check out some of their accomplishments:
~fabnev-hinmur:
Built a new version of EScape on top of the new Groups frontend
~hodzod-walrus:
Enabled contract read scrying in next release of the execution engine
Worked on aqua, virtualized testing of multiple ships inside one Urbit ship (for use in dev suite)
A few of this week’s best threads from Uqbar founder, @basileSportif
Basile discusses Urbit’s “public goods” needs in the form of core VM and sensible protocols.
He also explains Urbit growth in terms of pandemic outbreak clusters and exponentials.
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