I handed in my resignation today to the Urbit Foundation. I will no longer be working in the Urbit ecosystem, and I'm saddened that it had to come to this
Network Spirituality <- u r here
Blood memories
Relinquishment of psychic trauma
Urbit powered exocortexes
Bicameral reversion
Completion of the karmic cycle
Apotheosis
Thank you
@1d34h4z4rd
for onboarding me and
@hastuc_dibtux
for my planet. My urbit is up and running, still have little exposure but I’ll spend the weekend deep diving. Feeling genuinely excited =]
At the heart of urbits cult technology is the utter ecstasy of writing hoon. Pure excess, being spilt into the computer, becoming bricks for window-throwing and civilisation-building. Changing the fate of the world has no right to be this fun
The bull case for urbit is all about a zoomer led breakout from the current Millenial Occupied Government (MOG). You have to grow up alongside urbit as a platform to really understand its promise. We will have our kwisatz haderach soon
If this keeps up I’m gonna have to quit working on urbit, I’m fucking overdosing on whitepills and hope for the future, my doctor says it’s not good for me
We welcome direct dialogue with any community member who wishes to discuss our plans or share their thoughts. Together, we have the opportunity to build something truly revolutionary.
The way forward is simple: it's time to kill the browser. This is the only thing that will buy us a permanent 10x improvement in the quality of apps being shipped on urbit.
The way forward is simple: it's time to kill the browser. This is the only thing that will buy us a permanent 10x improvement in the quality of apps being shipped on urbit.
we've read the room and have now successfully removed "nock" from urbit. Your programs are now executed in almost real time by an employee in a low labor cost country
me explaining i don't use obfuscated variable names in a normie uglifyJS kind of way, but in a wittgensteinian-futurist Arthur Whitney cyber-borgesian network spirituality kind of way
Choose JavaScript. choose 1000 npm dependencies. Choose es6, lerna, webpack, babel. Choose responsive CSS for a billion screen sizes. Choose wasting away on another CRUD app. Choose an Adderall addiction just to cope with it all.
But why would I want to do that
This is the only rational choice, the future where urbit does not succeed is not a future worth living in. Put everything on the line to avoid total civilisational failure
Me opening my editor: yeah im a totally urbitpilled hooncel. I’m basically going nock mode and giving martiancore vibes
My 32 year old pair programmer: I think god should kill you
Number of Javascript devs in the world: 17,000,000
Number of Hoon developers in the world: 400?
TomeDB on Realm will let 17 million normal developers build p2p, crypto-native applications.
Everyone missing the real alpha, which is to find a proficient hoon dev, begin cohabiting, and you simply absorb the hoon at all times. This is because hoon is fundamentally psychic warfare
urbit is the funpill!
you need to laughing maniacally as you burn web2.0 to the ground
you need to be hooning in the uber to the rave as you come up hard on a candyflip
your friends should be concerned about you, because nobody should ever have this much fun
urbit will be deflationary long term for software costs, both dev and maintenance. and as software continues to eat the the world, this will be meaningful.
more importantly though, urbit as a unified, hyperefficient dev environment makes building software fun again.
You shouldn't need a """product team""" to build something that's nice to use on urbit. The fact that this is even being considered is an indictment of the whole "oh let's just use JS to build frontends" approach, which was a mistake
I would like to set the record straight:
No, I don't know what shrub is.
Yes, it is driving me psychotic.
Yes, I am comfortable with that.
I am enlightened
this is directionally correct, but misses the larger issue:
writing apps with good UX is too hard (entire state replication layer is totally fucked in JS), so people invariably cut corners
Household currently descending into its 3rd day of anarchy as arguments continue to flare over who smashed the $500 vial of Chinese neuropeptides; catboy has locked himself in room, refusing to comment
Each day I get up and weep gently over a cigarette; mourning all those urbit apps I don’t have the time to write. I console myself with the idea that these will be written someday, by some lucky hooner, more food for the urbit egregore-infovore