# Uqbar Weekly Rollup (10/3) By [Uqbar Network](https://paragraph.com/@uqbar-network) · 2022-10-03 --- _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._ Media and News ============== * You may already know that Uqbar has launched its tesnet and Ziggurat, our development suite, but now [you can read about it!](https://mirror.xyz/0xE030ad9751Ca3d90D4E69e221E818b41146c2129/pY9hogDXqqDuxu6Y5ck6Pcjzdbnf28gOqv886Fn8L1c) And, if that blog article has inspired you to start coding on Uqbar, make sure to check out [our dev docs](https://uqbar-network.gitbook.io/uqbar/developer-documentation/developer-documentation).  * Uqbar has gone mainstream with a [shoutout in Coindesk](https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/24/urbit-courts-daos-crypto-teams-in-push-to-make-internet-p2p-again/). 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**](https://twitter.com/lrettig) has seen the light in his most recent [Three Things substack post](https://rettig.substack.com/p/three-things-37-october-2-2022), in which he outlines what he learned from Assembly and the burgeoning relationship between Urbit and Web3 (hint: it needs Uqbar). Urbit at Large ============== * 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. ![\~rabsef-bicrym winning the breach contest](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/aa68cfea5dc5deecbf60c3947ba2205de55bb06dfb78e1185fb97bd18b91efb2.png) \\~rabsef-bicrym winning the breach contest * 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-dalten` and then request `0v4.jh7rm.28t7t.k72qg.5t0t1.n9tdp` from `~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](https://vienna.earth/), 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](https://vienna.earth/plate/artvee/Vienna%20Secession). 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. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f4577dd80da28d0364796feab14da7a141596a7065eaabb99020e1b6c2c9a139.png) * **~datder-sonnet** has released [gonetia](https://github.com/tomholford/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](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16504501/190836787-212afe87-b2f9-4352-a552-0cadff6b1338.mp4). * Hoon School Live has just started again. If you want to learn Hoon, the signup is [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR6vRmlpYMFe40n_14ITq2ZkxxQkkULINjeeHB2x9UgN72lw/viewform) (or you can join `~hiddev-dannut/new-hooniverse` on 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. Uqbar Network: Developer and Operations Updates =============================================== 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) Thoughts from Our Glorious Leader ================================= A few of this week’s best threads from Uqbar founder, [@basileSportif](https://twitter.com/basileSportif) * Basile discusses Urbit’s [“public goods” needs in the form of core VM and sensible protocols.](https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1576195078296834048) * He also [explains Urbit growth in terms of pandemic outbreak clusters and exponentials](https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1575448092987609088). \*\* \*\* --- *Originally published on [Uqbar Network](https://paragraph.com/@uqbar-network/uqbar-weekly-rollup-10-3)*