I just tried to figure out how to best announce updates to my blog and settled on an Atom feed and a Signal group.

Frank Braun

I believe in personal freedom and property rights.

I didn't want to deal with the complexities and privacy issues of an email list or a Substack and keep the website purely static for now. Signal has a group size limit of 1000, but as the famous Kevin Kelly says, 1000 True Fans is all you really need anyways 😉

The Technium

1,000 True Fans

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey...

Pair programming is the new default modus operandi.

Never trust a politician you haven't compromised yourself.

You cannot be both a Bitcoin Maxi and Monero Maxi at the same time. If you join a religion, you have to decide.

Running Zebrad, fully synced 🦓

You cannot be a successful solopreneur without being a successful shitposter. Shitposting is as important as coding.

Is the Bitcoin country going off the rails?

Al Jazeera

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential re-election

The constitutional amendment also extends presidential terms from five years to six and scraps election run-offs.

After over two decades of C and over one of Go it's about time to really learn Rust. I attempted it before and wrote some code in it, but never to the level that it really stuck in my brain. Digesting "the book" right now.

That feeling when you only have two administrative tasks to do and then you can code all day, but you have a hard time getting yourself to do them.

Privacy is a human right. But it's not granted, it has to be taken.

We now have billionaire tech founders themselves code decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operate over bluetooth mesh networks. I'm not sure the censorship bureaucracy knows what they are up against.

Mandatory age verification which requires attested applications attacks the very base layer of freedom technology — secure devices. Think about that for a second.

Everybody is shopping, but not everybody wants to be free.

What if programming is art?

What if programming is art?

What if I can only program well if I maximize fun instead of productivity?

This privacy stuff is getting out of control, I cannot tell if my patrons are famous OGs or random plebs.

Privacy needs to be baked into L1

Privacy needs to be baked into L1

Privacy is the absence of information leakage and that implies it comes from value at rest, not value in motion. And privacy at rest can only be ga...

I find it interesting how my entire mindset shifted around fiat. Normie friends tell me they need fiat in a "savings account" to feel safe. I cannot sleep well if I have a lot of fiat sitting somewhere. How can you sleep if you are sitting on a melting ice cube? I only feel safe if I'm short fiat.

Saving is not only necessary for capital accumulation, it's also a necessity for monetary privacy.

With the rapid improvements of AI technology it's best to assume that any information that can be derived, will be derived.

I just installed a tool which I wrote in Go almost 10 years ago. No sudden compiler errors. No standard library incompatibilites. And no fricking incompatible source-level changes (👋 Python, Ruby, Perl, Swift, PHP, and Scala). It just worked. That way I can focus on the actual problem, not the tooling. There is enough complexity in the problem domains, we don't need more complexity in the programming languages. Boring is good, boring is productive. All hail the Go compatibility guarantee from the 1.0 release:

Go 1 and the Future of Go Programs - The Go Programming Language

And they are still not planning to break it:

Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain se...

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