2024-04-26: Failures, Slapstick, Hot Loading
(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
1. Screwed up
I mean, not badly, but I was tired last night, and I was confused, and rather than resolve my confusion, I carefully navigated around it, and ended up saying something muddled online, which spread the confusion further. I should have, as the Rationalists say, “noticed my confusion”. Also, some plates that should not have been dropped, were dropped. A good sign I should re-group a little. Thank god it’s the weekend.
2. Saw a nurse
Not unrelated — I finally got my shoulder looked at. Nothing foul or fell, as far as the nurse practioner could tell, but I’m being carted off to physical therapy, and came away with a bag or two of pills. Also encouraged to use my shoulder more, rather than less — which makes me feel a lot better swatting it around, knowing it isn’t likely to fall off.
3. Spoke to a lawyer
Our chinese lawyers, for STFIL🄽. The folks who still have FIL caught up in this are — entirely understandably — itching for news, good or bad. But on that front, it’s still looking like months before any step toward resolution will take place. Just preparing a lot of time to sit and listen, as well as help.
TIL
- TIktok (in its dying moments?) served me up Zach Zucker / Jack Tucker. Really not surprised this was the hit of the Edinburgh Fringe, and reading a (typically not-quite-getting-it) review in the New York Times, realised that my massive “oh this is a creation of a lot of people, working together until it gels” was confirmed. Even more excited that one of those people is Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan. I want to see this show and any show connected to it so badly. Bad news bear.
Links Du Jour
- How to use AI to transcribe MP3s locally on your Mac. Simon Willison is such a great clear guide to doing anything and everything with LLMs. I wish we had such clear explorations in the Filecoin Extended Cinematic Universe.
- This video, demonstrating hot reloading and advanced debugging in the gamedev world, is how I think an average person might imagine programming to be like — and how it should look like. I got it from this post-mortem on Rust in game development, which I think spells out the limits of the last (much-needed) revolution in low-level programming. This is what the Spritely Institute🄽 directionally points towards, and might achieve!