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#07 - Zig Multiplatform

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“The age of the idea guys has begun.”

Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig.

Articles mentioned:

  • LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
  • Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
  • How our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger

    • Talks mentioned:

    • The Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric by Bitstein

      • Books mentioned:

      • Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
      • Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal

        • In this dialogue:

        • nak 
        • Files
        • SyncThing (and how it BitTorrent Sync became Resilio Sync) 
        • Convention over configuration 
        • Changes & speciation 
        • File systems as sources of truth 
        • Vibe-coding shower thoughts 
        • Inspiration and The Muse 
        • Justin's LLM setup 
        • Tony's setup (o1-pro as the architect) 
        • Being okay with paying for LLMs 
        • Anthropomorphising LLMs
        • Dialog, rubber-duck debugging, and the process of thinking 
        • Being nice and mean to LLMs
        • Battlebots & Gladiators
        • Hedging your bets by being nice to Skynet
        • Pascal's Wager for AI
        • Thinking models vs non-thinking faster models
        • Sandwich-style LLM prompting, again (waterfall stuff, HLDD / LLDD) 
        • Cursor rules & Paul's Prompt Buddy 
        • Giving lots of context vs giving specific context 
        • The benefit of LLMs figuring out obscure bugs in minutes (instead of days) 
        • The phase change of fast iteration and vibe coding 
        • Idea level vs coding level 
        • High-level vs low-level languages 
        • Gigi's "vibeline" 
        • Peterson's Logos vs Vervaeke's Dia-Logos 
        • Entering into a conversation with technology 
        • Introducing MCPs into your workflow
        • How does Claude think? 
        • How does it create a rhyme?
        • How does thinking work? 
        • And how does it relate to dialogue?
        • Gzuuus' DVMCP & using nostr as an AI substrate
        • Language Server Protocols (LSPs)
        • VAAS: Vibe-coding as a service
        • Open models vs proprietary models
        • What Cursor got right
        • What ChatGPT got right 
        • What Google got right
        • Tight integration of tools & remaining in a flow state
        • LLMs as conversational partners
        • The cost of context switching 
        • Conversational flow & how to stay in it 
        • Prompts VS diary entries 
        • Solving technical vs philosophical models 
        • Buying GPUs & training your own models 
        • Training LLMs to understand Zig 
        • Preventing entryism by writing no documentation 
        • Thin layers & alignment layers 
        • Working in public & thinking in public 
        • Building a therapist / diary / notes / idea / task system
        • "The age of the idea guys has begun."
        • Daemons and spirits 
        • Monological VS dialogical thinking 
        • Yes-men and disagreeable LLMs 
        • Energy cost vs human cost 
        • Paying by the meter vs paying a subscription 
        • The equivalence of storage and compute 
        • Thinking needs memory, and memory is about the future 
        • Nostr+ecash as the perfect AI+human substrate 
        • Real cost, real consequence, and Human Action 
        • The cost of words & speaking 
        • Costly signals and free markets 
        • From shitcoin tokens to LLM tokens to ecash tokens 
        • Being too close to the metal & not seeing the forest for the trees 
        • Power users vs engineers 
        • Participatory knowing and actually using the tools 
        • Nostr as the germination ground for ecash 
        • What is Sovereign Engineering? 
        • LLVM and the other side of the bell-curve 
        • How nostr gives you users, discovery, mircopayments, a backend, and many other things for free 
        • Echo chambers & virality 
        • Authenticity & Realness 
        • Growing on the edges, catering to the fringe 
        • You don't own your iPhone 
        • GrapheneOS 
        • WebRTC and other monolithic "open" standards 
        • Optimizing for the wrong thing 
        • Building a nostr phone & Gigi's dream flow 
        • Using nostr to sync dotfile setups and other things 
        • "There are no solutions, only trade-offs" 
        • Cross-platform development 
        • Native vs non-native implementations
        • Vitor's point on what we mean by native 
        • Does your custom UI framework work for blind people? 
        • Ladybird browser & how to build a browser from scratch 
        • TempleOS 
        • Form follows function & 90's interfaces 
        • Lamentations on the state of modern browsers 
        • Complexity & the downfall of the Legacy Web 
        • Nostr as the "new internet" 
        • Talks by Ladybird developer Andreas Kling
        • Will's attempt of building it from scratch with Notedeck & nostr-db
        • Justin's attempt with rust-multiplatform 
        • "If it doesn't have a rust implementation, you shouldn't use it."
        • Native in terms of speed vs native in terms of UI/UX 
        • Engineer the logic, vibe-code the UI 
        • From Excalidraw to app in minutes 
        • What can you one-shot? 
        • What do you need to care about? 
        • Pablo's NDK snippets 
        • 7GUIs and GUI benchmarks for LLMs
        • "Now we're purpose-building tools to make it easier for LLMs" 
        • "Certain tools really make your problems go away."
        • Macros and meta-programming 
        • Zig's comptime 
        • UNIX tools and pipes 
        • Simple tools & composability
        • Nostr tools for iOS & sharing developer signing keys 
        • Building 10 apps as one guy 
        • Simplicity in a community context 
        • Most people are on phones 
        • Most people don't install PWAs 
        • Zapstore & building our own distribution channels
        • Web-of-trust and pushing builds quickly 
        • Improving homebrew by 10x 
        • (Micro)payments for package managers 
        • Guix and bitcoin-core 
        • Nix vs Guix 
        • Reproducible builds & web-of-trust 
        • Keet vs "calling an npub" 
        • Getting into someone's notifications 
        • Removing the character limit was a mistake

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