Interesting to say the least. Shows there are still opportunities for a social media app to be successful by being original and creative.

The app is a Twitter clone (The name is literally a pun on Twitter) and this type of writing has been an ongoing meme for a few years.

I’d say it’s more of an example of jumping on a trend at a good time.

Seems like the developer just made it as a lark. It has some of the old "do dumb stuff for fun" spirit of the old Internet.

Good read. For anyone interested in how to actually pay attention, Buddha taught mindfulness (Satipatthana in Pali) by focusing on four areas: Body, Sensations, Mind and Mental objects.

https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Satipatthana

Which makes what Stardew Valley developer, ConcernedApe, accomplished so much more impressive. https://www.gq.com/story/stardew-valley-eric-barone-profile

I very much admire the dedication to stick with coding and designing SV, but I also understand at some level how it works. But creating the art and music may as well be wizardry. Eric being able to do that also is awe-inspiring.

Toby Fox (Undertale) and Dōkutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) are a few other notable solo devs

Doukutsu Monogatari is just Japanese for Cave Story. The dev is called Daisuke Amaya (Wikipedia informs me).

If POS is really as bad as claimed, then why is Ethereum 2.0 going to be using POS?

It's not bad. This piece is written by a bitcoin maxi.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

The naive assumption is that the people making that choice stand to become much richer from the change

Well, how many times has it been delayed? Clearly it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

What’s delayed? Beacon chain has been running on mainnet since last December-ish. http://beaconcha.in

The merge was going to happen by the end of this year, but miners complained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441399 and then it was delayed again. https://www.coinhighlight.com/2021/10/ethereum-eth-devs-look...

> but miners complained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441399 and then it was delayed again

To be clear, it wasn't delayed because miners complained, it was delayed because it wasn't ready yet.

The merge was expedited over miner concerns, prioritizing it over sharding as originally planned, so it’s actually the opposite of what you are saying.

Sorry, I didn't mean to draw such a straight line between the two things. My point is just that it didn't happen last year, and even after being expedited, it won't happen this year either.

But-but-but! frustrated by facts

They’ve been saying Etherium will switch to proof of stake “soon” since like 2017!

I love my jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOreader on it. Supports epubs without any issues.

I just learned about the existence of KOReader. Have you encountered any downsides compared to stock Amazon firmware?

The jubango was between Gu Li and Lee Sedol. Not Gu Li and Ke Jie.