Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬
Things I like:
- #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff
- #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt)
- #Transit oriented city design
- #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power
- #Space exploration
- #Videogames (especially #GTA)
Things I've Built:
- Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads
https://agorasocial.app
- Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays
https://chronicl.vercel.app/
“Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor”
- Roman poet Theocritus
In light of recent events with Internet Archive, I figured we could really use a decentralized Internet Archive to have a resilient backup.
Having said that, introducing Chronicl - Decentralized Internet Archive distributed across Nostr relays
The crypto world likes to think they’re enlightened centrists/libertarians when in reality they fall into this same naive “no true Scotsman” fallacy claiming that the people they disagree with are leftists, while none of the people they agree with qualify as fascists because reasons.
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Based on what my relatives have been telling me back in Egypt, this is a spot on assessment of what's been going on.
Another example:
A big reason for the insane traffic in Cairo and Alexandria is that their transit systems are nowhere near extensive enough for the population size.
With all the money being spent building new cities from scratch, some of that must be spent to vastly expand metro systems in both.
To put it into context: Cairo metropolitan area and NYC metropolitan area have about the same population size of about 22 million.
NYC metro area has:
- Largest subway system in the world with 472 stations and 36 lines.
- LIRR commuter rail to the Long Island suburbs with 11 lines and 126 stations
- Metro North commuter rail with 5 lines and 124 stations
- NJ Transit commuter rail with 12 lines and 165 stations
Cairo metropolitan area has:
- Cairo Metro with 3 lines and 84 stations
…you can see where the traffic comes from
Was refreshing my memory on the "SOLID" programming principles for interviews, when I realized that the Robert C Martin who developed these principles is none other than @unclebobmartin !