yes yes she is here we are we
pear
pear oh my goodness i'm so sorry that was very disrespectful pear where's pearl coming from just oh my god
i mean it's very similarly spelled to the fruit name pear so i i would assume that's not really where it's coming from
happy friday adrienne
thanks for being here today erica as nounish prof is off on her road trip and college tours with her son
so cute i remember my road trip and college tour with my parents
oh no it was like fifteen years ago
fun friday on gm farcaster
and that's because as i was pulling the links my computer crashed and we will see and people are calling me now we will see if if if if they if they come up so gm everyone i just let people know we're live and we got a lot to talk about some some preview news coinbase state of crypto the internet being down and and more so
let's go
i can be
welcome to gm farcaster bringing you everything from breaking news to spicy memes to the deep lore shaping this vibrant digital community more than just a show gm farcaster is your digital third space where the community connects the stories unfold and the culture thrives whether you're a daily caster or just dropping by we've got the latest buzz to keep you plugged in so grab your coffee and let's dive in with your hosts nounish prof and adrienne for another episode of gm forecaster
gm forecaster today is friday june 13 holy cow it's friday the thirteenth now everything makes sense oh and you are here with me adrienne and special guest host erica friend of the show who's guest hosted many many times because nounish prof is away and we're gonna do twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day and hopefully stick to that because i've got a little road trip i'm doing today and my family is out in the other room waiting for me they're load up the car is loaded and and we'll see
oh i'm great it's friday the thirteenth i was born on the thirteenth i wish i was born on friday the thirteenth so this is definitely my day
uno's doing great to start us off on one topic which is the internet being down it's uno was not down
alright we're gonna we we actually should start there we should start with the internet being down
that's a pretty big one i think yeah
because it it by the way i went on the inner everyone was talking about the internet being down i didn't even did you i didn't notice the internet was down
the only way i noticed it is that claude stopped talking back to me and i was like oh no i'm i'm all alone now coding by myself and so i quickly realized the whole internet was down
your computer farcaster
you got it christopher
hold on hold on hold on people okay nope that's not the one nope come on nounish prof is in her hotel room right now i i know she whatever wherever she is she is laughing at us because i don't really our producer took the day off and i don't know how this work anyway our friend christopher let us know yesterday that gcp is having major disruption disruptions affecting claude which i had no clue was built on we built all our infra ourselves and managed with our when at the within our own kubernetes clusters so we're totally unaffected wild what such a small team can manage all of this with a little bit of elbow grease yeah fun fact did not know is that right also the unaffected
until today or yesterday that cloud was like run with gcp servers yeah and i know that for the year and change we've been building this a lot of what chris and i talk about is zero third party dependencies you know controllers of your own fate try and be up as much as possible and this was a great accidental proof of concept of what we've been building for our users to make sure that it's up as often as possible
that's incredible but like how do you actually when you say you built your in for yourselves like are you hosting your own servers like in
your chris does data center in his like apartment in new york we do use cloud infrastructure for our data servers but because of how we deploy our environment once it's deployed it's not dependent upon those cloud servers to be up and running and accessing our database so that's how we've shored us up against these outages on your classic cloudflare aws gcp you know the behemoths that actually scaffold most of the internet amazing
i saw this from btayengco purple app ain't down by the way the only way we knew the internet down was people were on the internet talking about it i was like yep was like where where what is being down tayyab farcaster runs on alibaba cloud i don't actually think it does i think
it was it was pretty funny i think on that one
if
to your point oh yeah so also from tie up a aws and gcp goes down time to see which chain goes down i mean the when we talk about chains is being
resilient and decentralized and not reliant on any centralized server right and that's the ex expectation of blockchain is they're up all the time so we'll see which chains are built on what cloud servers i just had time to test those assumptions and to your point like we all build our we we build all of our infrastructure you don't really get to really test it sometimes you need those chaos monkeys in the wild
yeah exactly like we had when i worked at hopper we had a channel on slack which was just called war room and like every time there was an aws outage or something like that the entire dev team which at that time was like 60 or 80 engineers would just go into the war room and you had to be online the whole time and it was the perfect test for seeing like how our systems ran during internet wide outage yeah yeah
yes yes the crypto this is the it show this morning it's friday it's like it corner because these are the things i find interesting let's see
and you have a newly minted dev as your cohost today so why not it time
are you two newly minted devs or minted dev yeah well back from the back back from the dead
okay so so you're a reminted zombie dev that sounds kinda cool actually
exactly yeah so you okay and also it was iced toed gm iced toed but also but also we're doing a a demo big over today also can you see my screen guess what look what we're not able to read today the internet
mm-mm no conversation for us here
have you tried turning it on and off again
we're we're we're gonna try that should we oh i bet i could just read i could just read you the internet on my phone that might be working
yeah let's do that i just got an article this morning about how cringey zoomers think millennials are so this is perfect if we just read off of our phones
well any older generation than gens
i don't think gen what is it i don't think the zoomers have any problem with the gen xers because we're too old
we probably
yeah you're just too much cool for them to handle it's like
oh no what gen x or even more cringe oh alright i don't know what gen you're from so i can't like if but alright gen x represent
anyway can we do a quick congratulations to privy this from henry which from high farcaster fam today we're proud to announce that stripe is acquiring privy we couldn't be more excited privy continues as an independent product but now we'll move faster ship more and serve you even better so you can stay focused on your users
two we started privy three years ago to make it easy for anyone to build better products on crypto rails that starts with better wallets at the time wallets were powerful but inaccessible built for power users and disconnected from real product ux privy abstracts that complexity away making crypto feel like the rest of the internet simple intuitive instant today we power 75,000,000 accounts across 1,000 teams enabling billions in transactions across wallets apps and users four great infra is built working with great teams none like the merkel crew farcaster there's no better place to be hyper liquid x reimagining trading blackbird x y z rewarding loyal diners use toku playing paying a global workforce we're more focused than ever on serving our customers
five we're just getting started from our earliest conversations with stripe they impressed us with their craft ambition and willingness to imagine new worlds like us they believe in bringing crypto and fiat together to change how values value moves through the internet and then six joining forces accelerates our mission we'll keep building for developers building on crypto rails now with more resources flexibility and firepower thank you for trusting us we're honored to build alongside you onward learn more link to the blog post i wonder how many of us like we've all we were there years ago with pre privy we know crypto pre privy days yeah i you know
oh no oh no they will never understand the difficulty of the web to mobile to wallet connect mm-mm
and yeah and and henry was on our show little like maybe fifteen months ago so we can definitely replay that nice nice evergreen interview with him he's been on other he's like a genius of all geniuses
i'm crossing my fingers that it loads for you adrienne
fine we can talk about how lovely the privy team is because they're just so nice
that was actually the whole point of this entire the this segment was okay like that's the news but really it's about it's about the privy team yeah that are so integrated into farcaster and we love them
what i loved is the number of people celebrating privy as if we work for privy as if we all got acquired by stripe yesterday i'm so our win
i thought that was the cutest part honestly it's like i know that eventually you know the space will get big enough to where it starts to become much more pvp but we're still in this nascent
like realm of camaraderie where it's just really freaking exciting to p see people succeed and like see that proof of concept actually be validated by you know a large acquisition like this
i won't pretend to even know what privy does or how how it works but i love it because i used to have a lot of issues with wallets and apps and getting them connected and sun suddenly many of my apps just worked like magic and when i asked why the developer said oh we moved to privy privy just makes stuff work like magic i'm here for it congrats team hope you all get rich and bert also congrats i don't know a privy and stripe bar
i mean he's a dog what do you expect right
seniors talk i did at farcon two years ago so seniors being the term for collective genius that erupts through a scene but one of my favorite characteristics of seniors is like when one person wins we all feel like it's a win for the entire scene mhmm and we all kind of claim it it's like a net they call it the network effects of success and we just saw that play out on the feed of everybody celebrating as if like you know as if we're all privy so congrats to an incredible team
shout out to them they did a great job and also congratulations to debbie their newest hire
who's back in right for the acquisition news great timing
is an accurate description
this one's
yeah i commented on it if you scroll down
where is right there
absolutely ripped
she worked out twice yesterday morning she was so excited so this is a picture this is the privy office of the entire team watching henry on tbpn while henry is in a booth on tbpn it's amazing so good alrighty
well i was gonna remember that the title of your farcon talk proposal i think was is farcaster still a seniors and would how would you answer that question now
okay great so so when i first proposed farcaster as a cenius it was 2023 and it was tiny like you know tiniest tiniest network and then a year ago in '24 for a part two at farcon two i came back to say like is it still athenius because farcaster had taken off and and there were so many do you remember the vibes have changed meme
oh yes
every time something would change in forecaster early people would be like the vibes have changed and forecaster's not the same and it's it's dead it's over you know early days it's we're done panic panic so a year ago so a year ago was like yeah still still a seniors it still is it's not like this tiny tiny little tiny corner where everybody knows everybody i think anymore mhmm but is it a place where i'd like it's just kind of like how fast do new ideas flow through a network how much is it where there's kind of people competing with each other but it's friendly competition like competition makes everybody better mhmm and in a in a kind of like positive some way so i'd say yes
cool i agree too i think there is still a collective genius inside of shortcaster that has yet to fully break out and like dilute itself across the entire network i guess that would be the switch from like no longer a seniors right it's like it feels more diluted
yeah i don't know or maybe you end up getting seniorces i mean i guess the idea of a senior is like there's gotta be a scene happening so like innovation and creativity coming out of a loosely like distributed network
yeah so then as we start to break off into smaller and smaller like populations then the scenes become more desperate
okay i see what you mean
and it came the term came from brian eno and it was describing like the seventies rock scene in in britain yeah so it was like it came from artists like it really came from the idea of like artists create scenes and that's where different innovations and creativity explodes from and people kind of share ideas and then and then we've then seen it through like different tech scenes and stuff but it's
so it's kind of gotta be coming from individual even if they're com like could be companies but like individual create creators
totally totally and just a quick aside since you mentioned seventies rock is shout out to brian wilson moment of silence
our beach boys man
oh yeah that was like what i was raised on like my parents were obsessed with seventies eighties rock i was raised in southern california on the beach surfing listening to the beach boys like the most quintessential location for being raised by the beach boys soundtracks can probably sing the songs of like or the lyrics of like every one of their major songs just like that for how many times it was just played as a kid growing up
really
okay but didn't like play it to
that's so interesting
so i would like hear his music being played like he playing but it was so there was music in the house but it wasn't like any sort of anything popular i got no culture
you had to
by the way this from mike by the way coming like farcaster will get so big it'll feel like living in nyc cities can be scenes i think
mhmm oh yeah
montreal is definitely a seniors i think for specific genres of music and definitely tattooing and street art like there's a lot of like really popular modern artists that have come from the french culture of of montreal
we could try to get to a next story if we think the computers if we think the computer's gonna work yeah yay montreal is very culturally rich yeah i'm coming to canada in august erica
where and when
i might be going to nova scotia in august yes
yes i have been coordinating with offline about meeting up with her in nova scotia so that's perfect
you gonna bring the family
so cute
alright let's do a quick let's quickly cover yesterday's state of crypto report oh a lot of so oh by the way i don't know if this was on your radar or something but i saw it on farcaster thank you to dylan who casted it i'm getting more and more of my breaking news on farcaster still had to go to twitter to watch it but yep dylsteck g m really excited about the state of crypto summit which just started livestream below did you tune in to any of it
i did i tuned in for about thirty minutes or so towards the end mostly for the tyb section oh mhmm what's tyb try your best yes by ty haney former founder of outdoor voices the online like athletic apparel company it's a crypto ecosystem that doesn't feel like crypto at all and she's onboarded so many women that are getting rewards for engaging with small businesses and and larger businesses too like they've done a partnership with sephora and selena i think right or something like that mhmm then their big announcement which was i was really excited about even though i don't own any is they're partnering with crocs which is pretty wild like imagine if you're like giblets or whatever they're called like all of those were like nfc chipped you got like rewarded as you wore them and like traded them with friends like that's just it's just such a winning combination for like the collectibles market pairing up with like a consumer oriented blockchain company magic
i learned that yesterday when she liked one of my comments about her
yay she posted a photo of her with brian armstrong and toby from shopify ceo and nobody liked her photo because no one knows she's here i was like bye i'm like help people we have okay wait i have hold on i have to switch stories to something very important oh breaking breaking news gabe gabe is here
okay so gabe i'm horn new to farcaster am i the only one on this platform with $0 in crypto evan z solomon recasted to say gabe has no idea he's about to earn crypto just by engaging which he did to which i replied gabe einhorn has no idea he's gonna get a shout out on gm farcaster tomorrow either so and guess what i think gabe's i think gabe's watching gabe welcome to farcaster if you have questions ask on the feed people will answer you gm farcaster is a great resource for getting your footing and understanding farcaster but not today's show
talk about your bot adrienne
okay and we also have forecaster one zero one which is a great onboarding curriculum that was recorded five months ago six months ago and probably a little bit stale because we talked about frames and things that no longer exist but yes anyway the reason today is not a good show is because we don't have nounish prof here who is the professor who is our showrunner and she is very much enjoying her vacay and road trip and i'm really struggling because my computer crashed and there's too many buttons so we're we're we're doing the best we can but there is a bot it is called gmfc one zero one i'm going to put it up on the screen you can tag it and ask it questions
mhmm
was one of the first bots i gave my friend who i onboarded to farcaster who is not in tech and is not in crypto at all and is a video journalist and she loves it and has used it a few times yes have you used it i have
i like it it i think it's funny because it spells degen like d g e n all caps
yeah but it's getting mixed up so it's funny to like see that it's like extremely accurate with so many things but then there's just this like degen that like stares at you because it's in all caps yes but it's very informative and i think it's a honestly a great tool for new new users because like my friend instead of d c ing me and like waiting for me to respond when i see it she can just tag the bot and get a much deeper wealth of info by just asking questions than i would be able to get off the top of my head
love it well that was my first project back to coding so speaking of you and i on our developer arc
i'm new
yes well and
being a founder sorry i said being a founder just being a founder and being and being forced to develop now
yeah i started learning to code when i was like 12 on neopets and like myspace like i would do custom profiles and like ask people for neopoints you know and stuff like that but i started really getting into like programmatic languages and not just markup make websites and stuff look pretty kinda thing twelve months ago actually around twelve or thirteen months ago like to this day yeah
thank
you and i was a developer back in the day like early early two thousands mhmm and stayed in tech but wasn't hands on coding for a really long time and and yeah my bot was my first project to really get back into it and it's so fun
did you have a great time doing it like it was actually a fun time getting back in
the best i mean it's hard like wanna pull my hair out it was really difficult but that's what makes it fun it was the best
yeah i i feel like i puzzle people i feel like it's perfect for puzzle people because you're just trying to figure out all of the pieces that you need to put together to make it work
totally and i'm co i'm and i'm front end vibe coding our gm farcaster website right now so if everyone's going to gmfarcaster.com this will be the last week you see our very embarrassing splash page that we put up it's a card template are you going to it right now erica
yes i am i have to obviously
alright well it's a cardcard.co it's just a it's one of those like template websites but what's interesting is one of the reasons we haven't invested in the website is because we use our channel as our homepage
right and that makes a lot more sense you're an fc native like podcast and media company like it makes far more sense to invest where your users are right like how many people do you have discovering you through your website right now
one yeah so put your two people right with a couple of the interns
yeah the interns were there for three weeks and they i love them but they did they did nothing okay but we do have a mini app now so i've ipodded a mini app which is great so it's super know yeah okay i gave up on the news my i if if you are watching the show right now if nounish prof is still in the comments as maybe she could just tell us the news in the comments and i'll just talk to you erica because i give up we're gonna i i i think we covered there actually hasn't been so much forecaster news these days these days in the last day erica can we do a quick what are you what's up with unofficial and uno
yes of course other than our little brief part at the beginning where we did not go down when the whole internet went down we have been working on a couple
oh sorry i keep forgetting that we context unofficial is the company that i cofounded with christopher at christopher on farcaster it's a discovery engine for open social content but our first product that we are releasing and already have released the beta test flight of is uno our farcaster client that is more media focused compared to the existing ones today less financially focused than the existing ones today and instead we're really really honing in on discovery and personalization so how can you find new content and communities and people that are relevant to you and your interests and how can we introduce you to new content that you might not know you're interested in in the first place so that's a little thirty second forty five second spiel about us but the last couple of weeks we've been heads down working on a mini app so that we can introduce a couple of new features to the unofficial ecosystem and farcaster ecosystem and we're very excited for this because our mini app will make it so that non iphone users can start to enter the uno world because we're building natively on all of our platforms and we are a team of two full time developers so we can't build on web ios and android all at the same time but with the mini app
is this the first this is so cool alright so is this the first farcaster client that will be also a farcaster mini app
i think so actually because coinbase wallet does not have a mini app zapper doesn't have a mini app as far as i know i mean
most clients are like mimic like like mimicking kind of farcaster which is like overall will host mini apps mhmm
so we will have mini apps in uno we do have them now they're just not fully functional yet as we were waiting for all addresses to come in onto the the protocol but since that got added last week i believe end of last week we've been working on getting those up and functional great oh yes borrow dutch does have merv merv is actually going to be a client that's fully in a mini app and won't have oh any any other way to access it like no moa app no moa app yeah so that'll be really
yes it is beta our alpha was the react native version of the app that we released fall of last year okay we tore that down built it in swift and that's our beta we have about a 150 active beta testers right now
i don't know but once we have the mini app ready and a couple of things built up on the mobile application we will be releasing it much wider but the mini app will be a way that anyone can experience a little bit more of the vibe of unofficial and uno without needing to be on the test flight build so for instance like the biggest thing that we're waiting on to get people into the mobile app is notifications which we haven't built out yet
nice well i got to have a little preview of it yeah and paid for and it is so good and it's funny because it feels like farcaster but feels so not like farcaster so it's like same same but so different and you guys are killing it and i'm excited for you too
thank you and we are developing our first smart feed algorithm simultaneously with the mini app so we'll start to introduce some of our initial discovery models over the coming weeks too which is very exciting
yeah as a that designer
i've always been cautious of other product teams and other product designers who are very very attached to their user personas because if you don't keep those fresh and updated on a very frequent basis you may miss out on trends of how your user population is changing and other edge cases and then you know fringe populations that you can address with power features and stuff like that so i very much so am a person who tries to see both the trees and the forest when approaching product mhmm
okay alright what else anything else before the weekend what are you looking forward to
there's a really fun outdoor dance party tomorrow for pride at a park that's like in the middle of downtown in montreal so i'm very excited to take a break away from my computer and go boogie for a couple of hours in the sun with all of daytime yes
i know that's so exciting i feel so old but i'm like daytime dancing yes please
there was a company that was doing morning parties like morning dance parties like it was like on the way to work they would like do them in places in new york city and then i think it it might have been during the pandemic it was like we're gonna get people outside dancing that's cool yeah oh did you lift or what
i'm assuming that's a question for me
i lifted on wednesday and i destroyed my legs and i woke out of i i like got up from bed this morning and my calves just immediately seized and i almost fell down because i went so hard on them so yes i did live two days ago and today will be arms because i can't i can't walk alright
yeah should we daytime rave in nova scotia adrienne
i think we could do that alright i'm so excited to talk to you about this hello i i want these i want these stars to align alright i think again i by the way this a lot of familiar faces on this chat totally agree hi great to see everyone chatting hopefully you enjoyed this like chill friday vibe show not very newsy if you came for news come back on monday no don't come back monday we're off on monday okay let's do the announcements oh my god prop is gonna kill me she's like i know alright it's really not it shouldn't be this hard it's really hard she's got mad skills okay monday we are off because it's professor's birthday and she's gonna have a little celebration tuesday we're back at i think 11:30 pacific time we're on wednesday and friday and next week is professor's and my birthday week so it's gonna be a fun one
you guys share a
birthday week we yes we we share a birthday week trivia's back on wednesday oh we also and i don't know if anyone played trivia was great this wednesday there were some technical difficulties i think you everyone's getting refunded their entry fee so thank you for bearing with us as we work through different kinks for new things but i think that's what people expect in farcaster like everything's on the always on the edge it's an experiment yes oh okay prof enjoy your spa day
oh i'm so jealous that sounds amazing
for nova scotia yeah my friend lives about an hour outside of halifax
oh it's so pretty i haven't been but i have a friend who has a cottage out there
let's chat
yes yes
i'm checking out chats to see if we missed anything alright happy friday everyone have a wonderful day
prof i forget if there's other things i'm supposed to do at the end of the show except say bye bye
is there an outro music
no we got some outro music erica thank you so much for being friend of the show you make this super fun for me thank you
i had a great time this morning
bye bye