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Any chance you can submit your custom wezterm icon to wez? The current icon hurts my eyes.
I did! Wez doesn't want to make it customizable, fair enough. So the easiest solution is to use my repo.
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What technology's have you used to create 10er?
Ruby on Rails, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, vim, macOS
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Hi Mikkel!
Have you ever considered writing blog posts about your work on 10er? I find the platform exceptionally interesting and would love to know more about the entire process behind developing, improving and running it.
Thanks!
I really should write some more. I do tweet about it quite often, so my best suggestion would be to be sure to follow me there.
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How are you?
No matter how I'm really feeling, I'll always answer this with "I'm good, thanks". Such a weird question, really. Are you my therapist now?
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I just really like Moves. Its one of the first apps I install on my Mac. Oh. Questions. Right.
What fonts do you like?
Thanks! Me too. For coding: Iosevka. For UI: system-ui or Inter. For writing iA Quattro.
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Just listened to Kaboom connoiseur - it’s great! Can you give an overview of your discography? It’s kind of hard to track down!
Thank you! I agree, it's not easily available. There's this old release page that has links to all of the EPs.
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As I understand you primary develop in Ruby and Typescript.
But do you have experience with others coding languages like C#, PHP, Python or something else. And how do you view those?
Yes, I've dabbled in a few: PHP a long time ago, Objective-C when that was a thing, Swift, Clojure, Elixir, Elm, what else..? Every time I've tried a new language I've come back to the ones I knew with new insight and perspective. There comes a point in your programming career where learning a new language is the most effective way to grow. Eventually you learn how to digest whatever the language calls itself; functional, strongly typed, dynamic, compiled, lisp. You have to try them to learn how their features change the the way you use them. And then eventually learning another one gets easier and easier.
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What monitor are you using?
LG UltraGear 27GN950-B. It's good. Read about it all on my /uses page.
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Do you know if there’s any app or tool for safely communicating with a stalking ex by phone/video/text without the stalker being able to save it/record it and use it as a tool in a legal child case? In this case authorities force me to communicate because of our child
First, I don't feel like I am the right person to give you advice for something like this. But I'll try to answer from a technical perspective. Restricions on recording or screenshotting are hard, more or less impossible. Because, generally, if they can see or hear your message then they can also record it, somehow. So, if you want to make sure you're completely off record, you'll need a safe room, no phones, verbal communication. Borderline secret agent stuff but that is how it is. Second, and I say this without knowing the details of your situation, the best way to not have your words used against you is to only say things that can't be used against you.
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Hi Mikkel. Just finished watching The great crypto scam with James Jani. I have previously (Kortsluttet) heard you talk positively about the possibilities of block chain technology. Are you still optimistic about the potential now or do you share some of his concerns, that it is mostly utilized as a pyramid scheme to make early adopters rich.
Decided to answer this in a proper post.
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Do you play any games?
Like, computer games? Yes, I play an unhealthy amount of Call of Duty: Warzone. Since discovering Battle Royals, I can't seem to play anything else.
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Hi Mikker! Big fan of your work and Invisible Friends!
How difficult is it to build a token-gated chat platform where holders get to add a bio to their token with social links? Almost like a holder directory for Invisible Friends.
Shouldn't be too hard. You need to have users "Sign in with Ethereum". There are quite a few libraries and tutorials if you search for how to do that. After they're signed in (connected + signed), check whether invisibleFriendsContract.balanceOf(0xYOUR_WALLET) is > 0.
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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow?
What? I don't know that? skreeee
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wen solana? 👀🖼️
Not really a fan. Nothing wrong with it, I just keep it to Ethereum and Tezos right now.
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What is the name of that online tool, where you can easily create apps?
No idea, sorry. I never use any of those services.
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Can you recommend any tool/app for managing invoices and customers for a freelance developer?
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Do you have any tips / resources on the tech stack to support a smooth minting process? Beyond the smart contract, maybe resilience for the website and backend? Would love to learn from your experience.
I use Next.js on Vercel and that makes it so you almost don't have to worry about scaling.
You can still shoot yourself in the foot but how not to do that is a bit hard to boil down to an answer here. Experience, I guess.
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How do you find time for all your ‘side projects’ with three kids?!
Just, little by little. Start, then keep going, then – eventually, but critically important – ship.
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Hi, got more curious about NFTs after listening to the episode with you on 'Sidelæns', especially the technical side - being a Software Engineer myself. I'm surprised about the 'buy-in'/mint prices. Do I really have to dive straight in with a few thousand DKK or am I missing something? > 0.07 ETH mint prices seems like a barrier when still exploring. Cheers.
There is definitely a high cost to participate on Ethereum right now. It's sad and sadly not going to get much better for the foreseeable future. Eventually, hopefully, but not soon.
I do enjoy however to collect on the Tezos blockchain too where there's a sprawling art community, way lower fees and prices in general. Tezos is Proof of Stake-based already so its energy use is also way lower.
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Will Invisible Friends implement Azuki contract?
Didn’t go with ERC721A, as they call it. As almost everyone only got to mint one, there was little benefit to switch away from tried and tested OpenZeppelin.
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How did you get introduced to the RCC as a dev? Curious how you got your start in the web 3 industry.
I made my own project, cranes.supply. James of SlimHoods saw it and asked if I could help him release his collection.
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Hi Mikkel, Are you thinking about bringing some sort of a utility to Cranes project? or you're just going to leave it as is.
I do enjoy sci-fi! I keep a list of the books I've read. If it's on the list it means it was good enough to keep me entertained all the way through. If it has five stars, it was so good that I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Dying to know: Where is the round lamp you have in the corner of your pic on /uses from?
Pondering my orb. i got it at a builders market called Bauhaus for almost nothing. I’ve put a Philips Hue bulb in there and my kids love to change it to colored light. Only recently did I realize that the name Bauhaus literally translates to “build house” in German.
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Hi Mikkel, are you a fan of Sci-Fi? what is your favourite movie/book?
I do enjoy sci-fi! I keep a list of the books I've read. If it's on the list it means it was good enough to keep me entertained all the way through. If it has five stars, it was so good that I'd recommend it to anyone.
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I’m a developer and I would love to learn how to build something like SlimHoods. Can you recommend some good resources to get started and what does your tech-stack look like?
James did all the actual artwork for SlimHoods so I can only speak for all the things that happens after you have a folder full of cute animated character loops. On Ethereum contracts are written in a programming language called Solidity. Being on the blockchain there’s a whole bunch of things that are more stressful and serious than, say, working on the web. The contract follows a standard called ERC721. The SlimHoods website is built with a bunch of tools. Most notably Next.js, Hardhat, Ethers.js and TailwindCSS. All of these are broadly used tools so there are a million tutorials and other resources for each of them available. I suggest you look up a tutorial or 20 and learn through doing them. It’ll all be very confusing at first but that’s only because you don’t know it yet. Stick with it and you’ll be able to do everything I can do (and more!)
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Hey Mikkel, Thank you for all the wonderful content you share with all of us. I just re-heard Fup i Farvandet, and I'm of course following kortsluttet. Do you have any plans for a new show next year 2022?
Thank you too! No concrete plans yet but I don’t think I can go too long without any form of longer form outlet.
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Hi there. First off, your SlimHoods collab with James Curran looks amazing! I was wondering how you managed to randomly generate the different layers on the jogger (hat,hoodie ect.). Was it all done in after effects?
Thank you! The art is all James and you're right, they're very cute! I think you have it right. You draw each version of each part in a layer, then have the random machine pick a random version for each part. I know nothing about After Effects but that's how I imagine it's done.
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Hi, I am a 3D artist looking to launch a collection of NFTs, i'm a bit hazy on the tech side. Are you open to collaborating on another collection?
Maybe. I've got a few collaborations on the timeline already. But send me an e-mail or a Twitter DM and we'll see.
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Do you have any future plans for Cranes?
Nope. The future is set in stone. Every year 1,000 new Cranes will be made available and if they all sell, special editions will be made available for free to all holders and hodlers.
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How has your experience been building on Ethereum/Web3, any hard likes or dislikes? What excites you the most and what is next?
It has first and foremost been very fun and exciting – and very lucrative so far. I like new things and Ethereum was all new to me. It's definitely more stressful than your typical ol' Web2.0 web/app project as there's mostly no undo and the sums of internet money are potentially gigantic. I still haven't decided whether I'm sure Eth/crypto/blockchain will be the future, but it could be a future and it's fun to be exploring the forefront of that potential future. I don't like Proof of Work and its energy use. Eth's move to Proof of Stake can't come soon enough. I don't like the huge transaction fees of now. I don't like the pump'n'dump culture, I don't enjoy hanging in Discords all day. I'm working with a few artists to release their collections and I'm working on an entirely new NFT experiment that I'll probably release this month or the next.
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Have you created your own cryptocurrency?
Yes! Or, sort of. I've created my own ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain which can act like any other token ("currency") on that network. For now I'm just giving them away to friends.
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I noticed that you have a really good design eye, besides being a Software Engineer. What is your background regarding the front-end part?
I got started programming by building my own website when I was 12. Having nothing else to share but "Welcome to my homepage!" I just kept redoing it. A few of my friends did the same and trying to impress each other we learnt more and more things, eventually upgrading from static HTML to PHP and then adding CSS and on and on. So, my background is being curious. You might already have great taste but if not you need to develop it. When you go about on the internet, take note of things and styles that you like. Notice trends in visual design. Sometimes everything looks skeumorphic like real world surfaces, sometimes they can't be flat enough and the slightest drop shadow is forbidden. Don't spend too much energy on whether you like these trends or not, just notice them come and go and try to discern what they're about and consider what goes into designing like that. The key isn't to know what's hot but at the forefront but to train yourself into noticing what's becoming popular, what you like and don't like and have a feeling of what goes into actually making things look in a certain way. Then all that's left is to practice. You can study without doing but to learn, you need to do. So mimic and copy and try and fail and try again. Could be building your personal website. Doesn't really matter what it is. But you need to practice -- of course!
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Why did you start Cranes?
I followed Ethereum for years, never got bitten. Hustling shitcoins or playing bank just didn't interest me enough. NFTs convinced me. Started collecting a bit and participating on Twitter. But to really learn and understand I need to get my hands dirty. So I jumped in.
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We want fup i farvandet on tv, were each episode is another guest than announced and audio is bad just like we grew to love the concept. Has this ever been considered?
Ha! There were some talks back in the day but it never got anywhere.
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I am relistening the episodes from Fup i farvandet and wondered if the jingles are availalble for download?
Yes, they are! Download here (49,5 MB).
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Can your show "Ny mappe (1)" be found anywhere?
Sadly not, no. The code for the "apps" I built for it is on GitHub at Ny Mappe (1)
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Don't you do comedy anymore?
Not really, no. I post some jokes on Twitter and every once in a while Instagram. Maybe I will come back to it at som point but for now I'm enjoying actually giving myself permission to say that no, I don't do comedy anymore.