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A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

#crypto #cryptocurrency #VentureCapital #AndreessenHorowitz

On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit.

We've seen and done quite a lot since then, and none of it would've been possible without the enthusiastic and unwavering support of our customers. Thank you all for that. ❤️

As part of the celebration, we've got some goodies. For the next 30 hours, you can use the coupon code "BBEDIT30" to purchase a new individual BBEdit license for US$30.

Start here: https://www.barebones.com/store/

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

The wonderful David Attenborough is 97 today! Happy birthday Sir David, you have done so much to raise awareness about the dangers to our planet, you are an inspiration to the world.

I posted about how the iOS development space is very white, male, and straight. A lot of white, male, straight people seemed to think this was me telling them they’re doing something wrong.

I said that I don’t see a lot of people like me in my field. If your first reaction to that is defensive in any way, you’re the problem. You need to examine why that makes you react defensively. That’s my advice on how to improve diversity. Interrogate your own bias.

The feature I want from a search engine is shared block lists that remove annoying sites from results. Put all the LLM content farms on that block list. Add all the recipe sites that don't have recipes. Include all the sites that sell me things instead of teaching me things.

Lower page rank for sites that have shopping carts or ads or trackers.

I will pay good money for a subscription to a search engine that helps me find pages I want to see instead of delivering me to sites as a consumer.

All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.

I stand with the WGA. #WGA #WGAstrike

A lot of people don't know the difference between capitalism and ... having markets and shopping and little coops and companies in non-super-essential economic sectors that operate independently.

Markets existed before capitalism and will exist after.