it took some time, but here it is at last: six thousand words on the saga of the @crypto_coven smart contract on learning solidity for the first time, on designing an erc-721 contract, on encountering a fatal bug and having to start anew https://t.co/JfxphZEbGt

i think ultimately the downfall of this project was that it was TOO complicated to understand at a glance but also it was extremely fun

Drive your trading strategy forward with CME Group.

also for fun i fixed all these views (remarkable how much will break even in a year or two with zero intervention, modern web development is a house of cards)

if you'd like to poke around the hut yourself, it is no longer shuttered at the whim of swc minification woes:

psa the narrator's hut is back in retrospect one of my favorite projects i've ever done—we did all the art, code, sound, writing, etc., in house, and the end outcome was just so good

just opened the coven repo for the first time in a long time and got jumpscared by the hardhat subdirectory

it’s been three and a half years and witch pfp is still one of the highest signals

i love fashion week

downside of making developing on ethereum more sane… the art of thinking creatively in code to satisfy arbitrarily complex constraints is greatly diminished no one is doing mad genius shit anymore

this winter solstice, read FIG THE NOVEL by a crackling fire and a cup of tea of your choice warm wishes, witches ❄️ https://t.co/7rbE4cGrfW

i miss solidity’s artisanal era

the existence of ethereum is a miracle

so much of crypto is still rampant cynicism—short-term thinking, misaligned incentives, trickery the wares peddled are instrumental, means to profit rather than ends in themselves a lot of the @crypto_coven project is about offering a positive vision of a future we want to see

here's a lovely writeup by @dirthippy on @figthenovel, our experiment in publishing a novel onchain fig is what it looks like to be radically optimistic about crypto—not focused on short-term hype for maximal value extraction, Just Good Writing https://t.co/qv557B6dJc

a few snapshots of our lovingly crafted web experience ❤️‍🔥 come poke around our world https://t.co/VK3jkrDPia

at the same time we don't shy from what we are, which is an independent onchain publishing project built on decentralized technologies that directly benefit the creators meet people where they are and then work to bring them closer to where you are

we wanted @figthenovel to be crypto-native but also welcoming to people who'd love the novel but only had negative perceptions of nfts how to solve for that? keep the experience approachable with usd pricing and credit card options for users we know haven't interacted with eth

it's pretty magical how different the crypto ecosystem is in 2024 compared to 2021 this kind of ux—seamlessly meeting users where they are—should be the baseline

we’re bringing you the smoothest possible onchain experience with @figthenovel ✨ if you have a wallet with enough base eth, mint with your wallet if not, mint with credit card via @crossmint to either your own wallet or a @privy_io embedded wallet—never see an eth price

https://t.co/QdvQTCOxJ2 Fig is the story of a WITCH by will if not by birth, thrust on a journey through the wilds to arbitrate a path of forgiveness or revenge words by @keridwen_eth, art by @nyx_eth, code by @xuannu_eth

☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ we are LIVE ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾