2024-04-11: Mind Melds, Moods, Macs
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Three Things I Did At Work
1. Failed To Hydrate
Another long day! I’m now running comms for Foundation updates about STFIL🄽, and it’s meant being glued to the laptop, leaping around windows and tabs, and pacing a lot, talking to myself. We’re also having our drains done at my house, so we had no water for a chunk of this. Downside: I should definitely hydrate more. Upside: at least I didn’t have to pee either.
2. Mind melded with the Ecosystem
I have to say, though, I have been getting into that flow phase where I’m literally in so many public channels and docs that, without being too hippy, I began to get a real feel for huge chunks of our community’s work. It’s so hard to keep up usually and balance everything in one’s head (hence this newsletter). There was a state I would get into when writing NTK I called “having reached the end of the Internet”, when I just felt I’d read so much that I grokked the whole thing. Our community is far too big to get that feeling very often (gosh, maybe it is the size of the Nineties Internet?), but if you devote yourself to it 24/7, and maybe stop eating or drinking or sleeping, you can get there. I guess this is what Juan Benet🄽 must do these days.
3. Abandoned all my other responsibilities
No, actually I did okay, though I cruelly admit having the flu devastate several of my coworkers certainly freed up my calendar FOR MORE MIND MELDING.
TIL
- EVERYTHING! ACROSS ALL SPACE AND ALL TIME
- One of the research simulations for gossipsub, part of the libp2p protocol, was written in a Scheme🄽! I keep finding all these Lisp🄽 bits scattered across the Filecoiniverse! That’s a sign of good taste, right?
Links Du Jour
- In case you want to keep up with the STFIL🄽 case, I post regular daily updates on the public Filecoin Slack here. Yes, more valuable danny content! You can join the Slack here.
- Automattic buys Beeper. A bit of me is sad that they’ say they’re not longer spoiling for a fight with Apple, but Matt Mullenweg🄽 has good instincts.
- Filecoin events calendar! Everything we’re doing (and probably where I will be) for the foreseeable future. You can view it here or add it to your calendar through this link. Next up: Lab Week Berkeley!