If I wanted to test my app with a hundred fake users signing up, making fake deposits and withdrawals, creating and processing orders, referring other users—a simulation of production activity, say, for a whole hour. Do people do that? Build an actual randomized simulation that includes basically all the tests in the system? Probably a noob question but I’d watch it do it.

I guess creating a rough working version of a certain feature and then spending twice as much time refactoring it is quite normal practice in development. #PlatiDev

I actually tried building with brick and mortar in the past few years. While I liked seeing buildings grow where there was nothing prior, I hated all the other facets of this: constantly rising construction costs, dealing with people, dealing with the government. Eventually, I understood it wasn’t my cup of tea. Building an app with AI gave me a second chance at “construction”, and it’s precisely what fits me the best: I get to turn an idea into something that works, all without interacting with humans much. An introvert’s paradise.

It’s been a month since I started “programming” (writing my app with Replit). I’m totally immersed, I can’t stop, I spend any opportune moment to get to my laptop to do it. I can clearly see that I should have chosen computer science or software engineering as my major 20 years ago. Not linguistics “because that’s where my friends went”. No regrets is my default state. But sometimes you have to wonder what made you choose obviously wrong.

So weird to see Zionist vs anti-Zionist anarchists fight. How’s that even possible?

“You’re fighting the weight of the world And no one can save you this time Close your eyes You can find all you need in your mind” GM

Why I don’t mind spending $100+/mo on AI credits with Replit. (From an email quote from a software company)

People create all kinds of debit cards, bitcoin-fiat fusion bank accounts or in-person cash p2p exchanges, and it’s great. But I want you to go to a grocery store that doesn’t accept bitcoin and pay your bill with bitcoin. Simple as that.

This is the customer home screen. I haven’t really implemented the BTC to SAT unit of account switch, not sure I want to. Instead, I display bitcoin amounts with highlighted sats. It’s like a combination of both: you see the full amount but it’s also easy to read the sat amount.

Free speech is a psyop. It can’t exist but in your head—because nobody hears you. Only tolerated speech exists. And it is the level of tolerance we talk about when we mention “free speech”. Free speech doesn’t exist in the communist dystopia because of centralized speech tolerance guidelines. It doesn’t exist in the ancap private citadel utopia either because of decentralized speech tolerance rules: citadels have various degrees of tolerance, but they do have limits.

No, Apple Watch, I’m not working out. It’s called walking. I’m just walking to my destination.

Just got my centenary edition of The Kybalion. There is no ideal book, but if I had a book that I could call “bible”, this would be it. Concise, precise, more descriptive than prescriptive. That said, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Even the smallest details of your external life reflect your inner state of being. I, for instance, cannot be at the back seat of a car—I get nauseous. But I feel great when I drive myself or at least in the front passenger seat seeing the road ahead. And so in my life: I like to be at the steering wheel.

Eccentric public figures work to gain the attention of the lowest common denominator. GM

What I’d love to have is an AI agent that can create excel spreadsheets based on data I feed it. Simple things like catalogs and price lists, maybe something a bit more complex later.

Eating horse dewormer.

The days when I’m sick and have no desire to do anything are good for some self-reflection. I’ve had a lot of those days in the past 3 months.

Claude broke my websocket implementation because I wanted to optimize it. And now it can’t fix it. The app runs but won’t render on the client side. Websocket is something above my head. I hope I’ll find a solution.

People when a minor thing, like a website glitch, happens.