The Stack Podcast

This week we speak with Ted Blackman, Engineering Manager at Tlon.

We discuss Robot Opera, Inertial Navigation Systems, Y Combinator, the failure of Gesture Based Computer Interfaces, and the looming release of the remote scry protocol, which promises, upon release, to complete the system of German Idealism.

This week we speak with Josh Lehman, Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation. 

We discuss Foundation initiatives for education and future projects, the art of pouring tea, and the role and constitution of the Urbit Foundation Board.

his week, another war story, this time with Josh's dad, who tells about 30+ years of military service and the war in Afghanistan.

Josh's grandfather recounts his experience of WWII, including the Bataan Death March and meeting the Japanese.

This week we speak with Noah Kumin (~librex-dozryc) about the Mars Review of Books, an attempt to bring the forces of NYC and Urbit together to make a product inspired by the early NYRB.

This week, we speak with Neal Davis, otherwise known as ~lagrev-nocfep.

Our topics this week are:

The advantages of Urbit over traditional development paradigms.

Hoon school and how to get some. What species of lunatic writes Hoon. And pedagogy and the performance of teaching.

This week we speak with Anthony Arroyo, better known on the network as poldec-tonteg.

Anthony is now HMFIC at the Combine, an Urbit Foundation initiative to invest in teams who want to build businesses on Urbit. In the following episode, Andy and I will offer a masterclass in pitching a podcast. And as usual, the Stack is pitch perfect, baby.

This week, we speak with Logan Allen, better known to Urbit as ~tacryt-socryp.

We talk ~tirrel, Uqbar, decaying cities, how Urbit fixes everything, what makes sound money, and running your own company.

This week we speak with Joe Bryan, engineering manager at Tlon and known to the network as ~master-morzod.

Today we discuss the following.

Smoking is cool and healthy

What is Urbit?

Kelvin versioning

Where is event log trimming?

Why can’t I issue certificates and why do I have to use Caddy as my webserver?

Little Grandma Clinton

German Shepards

The Bay Area

And cactuses. Or cacti. No, Cactapodes!

This week we speak with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon and a man with a name fit for the Urbit Monasteries of the future. We talk about L2 and the projects that come after, how much traffic is too much traffic from Hacker News, how one goes about pruning events and whether ‘til nobler to increase the size of the loom or to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous javascript hacks in the pursuit of a faster ship.