Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm juggling a dozen world changing cypherpunk products in my mind. We need moar devs to build them. If you're bored and need ideas to build, let me know.
I'm the newbiest beginner who has done the first half of soooo many beginner courses and at this point I think I need to just stumble through making the ugliest SOMETHING. everything feels so cool here. maybe this is the time I actually code
Nothing beats making something when it comes to learning. Even better is to make something with someone more experienced. It gives you a leg up.
And nostr is a perfect sandbox for crazy ideas and mvps.
That what I'm thinking. I know I can learn anything but I've gotta dive in, and I struggle to hold myself accountable on my own projects. I've done a lot though like jailbreaking consoles or getting into Linux and I think I could probably be useful somewhere
If you're familiar with consoles you could try building a simple console app with C or C++ on Linux. If you like making graphical UIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript gets you all the web development basics.
Thank you for the advice! As far as c or c++, I recently learned about #demoscene and bytebeat and it seems super rad and over my head.
The PHO will fund them. nostr:nprofile1qqsxcttghgqkc2g5zl7336nuq6mn0mq58a74d4u0m4z2tvjgs3jjtmqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshssqu69u
Just post them online & see who takes off with it
How about doing an online event in which you can share these ideas? I want to organize an online event focused on bitcoin privacy. Since it will be online there is no cost for flights, hotel etc. We could do presentations, workshops, discussions etc. and even anons can participate. No custodial stuff though.
Sure
Would anyone be interested to run an online hackathon? A theme would be posted before the weekend and demo videos would be played on a zap.stream on Monday.
Hackathon could be a part of it but not the whole event.
yo, dev here. my bills are low, but not zero. (I need to bring in cash to cover my bills) my portfolio is all corporate stuff, no opensource. (JavaScript/TypeScript/Ruby/Rails) any thoughts/advice about 'breaking into the space'?
Contribute to the FOSS projects that you use personally, here you know best why it's important, how it works, and what can be improved. Start by reviewing the pull requests of other contributors to be useful instantly and learn your way around the code base. Then find an open issues that's in your interest and skill range, propose a solution, incorporate feedback, and deliver a pull request. Do that for a while, and if you're actually useful, then someone is likely to toss you some sats.
Indeed! It has given me great pleasure to have contributed in to libsodium, unbound, dnscrypt-wrapper, the Linux kernel, netflilter, and now: datum_gateway. I see this software used in my products that my employer buys off the shelf sometimes. No sats for that yet, but pleasure alone is why I tinker with things I get to use. I remember on LKML a guy once wrote that he cleaned up ... a Makefile in Linux. He then said he's proud he can tell his kids that some CGI animated kids movies was made by artists using Linux (I don't know, Blender?) and that he had a tiny part in the making things used to create that movie. See, I remember that guy :-)
In light of recent arrests, how important is it for developers to remain anonymous? FOSSA
It's all about layers of defense, and cost-benefit analysis. It also depends on what type of work is your calling. Starting a fresh nym is at least a fun experiment, so why not try.
Also: test, publish reviews, guides, manuals, design navigation flows, visuals, backup copies, suggest improvement, update documentation, advertise and so on (beside coding).
Read https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq96n3hp2vfmf6z2y8uvvxl97xk86kkalnqghx4p25lzl79c76a7yqyfhwumn8ghj7am0wsh82arcduhx7mn99uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsq9fng30kw3fkwes4gw2td4fnwvn294fhvdntkwacqk Check #bounty hashtag See https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Agood-first-issue
excellent link, thx
Let’s build the idea pool/marketplace
Yeah, much needed. Nostrocket.org might be it...