46: Getting to usable
My goal for this next week is to make this prototype usable. It's almost there honestly, but there a couple elements missing that will make me feel properly...
45: Documents and Programs
Following one with the theme of last week, my work on this little note-taking tool prototype hasn't been the most practical, but it has been fun. Moving...
44: Having some fun
I’m having a hard time writing this newsletter because I’ve just been having so much fun hacking on this little prototype. Since one of my goals for this...
43: Designing like Games
Okay, so I did make that prototype I promised I would last week, but it’s still a little raw, so I don’t think I’ll be exposing it to the (few) eyes here...
42: Stuck in the MUD
Over the last week I’ve been puzzling over the ideas around MUDs I was talking about in https://awarm.space/newsletter/40-roguelikes a couple weeks ago. As a...
41: Looking back on Fathom
I started working at ConsenSys four years ago this week. Fathom actually started a little bit earlier than that but that's when it became something real and...
40: Internet homes made of MUD
This weekend was the Rougelike Celebration. It’s a conference around roguelikes, a video game genre with a long winded history/defintion that happens to be...
39: Internet Learning Homesteading
We’re two and a half weeks into Internet Homesteading. It’s one of the first courses we’re running hyperlink.academy, but it’s special to me for a couple...
37: Diverse Distributed Databases
Following my gut from last week, I experimented a little this week with Cloudflare workers, making a tiny app Feel free to play around with it, it's not much...
37: Colliding Spatial Ideas
Last week I talked about how I've shifted from expressing my values through the technology I use to expressing it in communion with the people I work with....
36: Retreating to values
This is going to be a bit of a short one as we (the hyperlink team) just got back from our first retreat, and I am pooped. One of the things you talk about...
35: A self verifying todo list
This week I wrote myself a self-verifying todo list. Inspired by the loops of last week, I wanted to create a system that would keep me in the loop of...
34: Looping
This edition of A Warm Newsletter revolves around loops. Specifically, three different loops: a video game loop, a learning loop, and a software development...
33: Terminals aren't terminal
I returned this week to a previous take on fancynote: a command-line application. 1 I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to get to it honestly, I’ve always...
32: Taking Stock
So we launched hyperlink.academy on Tuesday! It’s a whole mix of feelings to realize that this is the first anything in the fathom lineage that’s actually...
31: Making a course
Hello! I regret to say that I have not quite gotten what I wanted to done for fancynote. Instead the end of this week has been a bit of a rush to get things...
30: Walking before you runtime
This week I actually used Fancynote, in both ways it's meant to be used, for writing and programming. Both experiences were just successful enough to keep me...
29: Lifelogging on the log
My goal for this week was to get fancynote "good enough" to write my daily journal with it. I've had the journal on and off since 2018, but really clicked in...
28: Interfaces and Running out of Yaks
If you’re new to this newsletter, it’s currently chronicling my attempt at building my own thinking infrastructure, which happens to be a perfect way to yak-...
27: Cut one feature down, another rises in it's place
This week I finished implementing the append-only-log architecture I laid out two weeks ago. That turnaround isn’t bad, especially considering I only work on...