_Marak_
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Nobody was ever able to coalesce a coherent UX/UI around ssb, the core contributors at the time weren't interested in scaling the network without outside funding.
I was working on implementing lighting fast discovery for ssb using a distributed BitTorrent-like tracker. Getting onto the ssb network took way too long. Still, there were not many users on the network, and nobody seemed interested in growing.
ssb/ssbc is a fun and cool project built on solid code by smart people.
Keep up the excellent work, creating value with your ReTool company. I am confident you will find continued success with your sustainable approach.
We were emailing back in 2021 about one of the many products you and your team have built for developers. Exciting conversation, for sure!
If anyone is interested in reading about my experience with ReTool's approach to developer tools, I have a link: https://marak.com/blog/2021-04-25-monetizing-open-source-is-...
What game project are you working on?
Yantra is ready. I've been onboarding developers slowly. Ready to accelerate.
Sutra.js part of Yantra / Mantra / Sutra, there is a dev blog here: https://marak.com/blog/2024-01-11-yantra-mantra-sutra
I've spent approximately 13 months with WebGPU + WASM + CSS + JavaScript, building high-performance gaming solutions that run in browser. It's possible to run graphics at Nintendo64 level quality on a potato. JavaScript as an orchestration layer for WASM is exceptionally performant.
I've spoken with armini about Thanks.dev numerous times—a great person to talk with and knowledgeable about open-source economics.
The brass tax here is that the peak of open-source software written by humans has already passed us. The following steps we'll be seeing are things like LLMs, which are trained on the entire NPM registry and can solve any known domain problem through curated APIs.
The next few years of open-source will be unglorified janitorial positions with minimal pay. Most of the intelligent maintainers have already offloaded their projects to others.
Anecdotally, I have found that open-source projects with overly abundant funding have perverse incentives for their user base and ultimately harm society.
11 years ago I wrote some examples of how password cracking would look like using such setup. https://marak.com/blog/2013-05-13-time-loop-software
I say through "through use of quantum entanglement" as glossy term for reader. Crystalline quantum circuits are not really existing yet so is all scifi.
I won't be able to repsond to further posts in this thread. Cheers.
I've written about this before. Instantaneous data transfer with zero lag is theoretically possible through use of quantum entanglement. You can use this same technique to build a doomsday clock similar to the film "Tomorrowland".
https://yantra.gg
https://github.com/yantra-core
https://buddypond.com