Jason

Senior YAML engineer. If it sounds like a joke, it probably is.

[Jason @JasP_19]

Co-presenting a talk with @Kanzifucius at the annual @bbdsoftware esc@pe conference was an amazing experience. Thanks to the @bbdatc team for organising an incredible event.

https://t.co/9PJtbVVOpX

[Jason @JasP_19]

@GergelyOrosz With AI making platform knowledge (trivia) even more easily available, certs lose even more importance compared to good engineering/architectural principles and systems thinking.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@GergelyOrosz The place where certs matter is for partner agreements (e.g. with big cloud providers) and occassionally to get people onto a client who is determined to have certified people (usually we can convince them it's not needed).

[Jason @JasP_19]

It's been fun using Claude Code to build a game I've been thinking of for a while.

Chromaflow is a (free, procedurally generated, PWA) color path puzzle game with a daily mode. Arrange tiles on a grid so every colored path connects its matching endpoints: https://t.co/scnhVAWEUL

[Jason @JasP_19]

@MissLadyJay_ZA Journey to the Savage Planet and Battleblock Theatre are both awesome. There's also Portal 2 which is a must play if you haven't already.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@CatFishZA_ @RealmRoyale @storm_menges Always 😂

[Jason @JasP_19]

@NLucky_Nkosi @Kanzifucius I feel attacked 😂

[Jason @JasP_19]

@storm_menges @RLEsports Wild 😂

[Jason @JasP_19]

@storm_menges @RocketLeague Pretty average but I'll take it haha.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@NLucky_Nkosi @yuricodesbot Everyone already uses it as my nickname anyway 😂

[Jason @JasP_19]

@joanfihu @kasnolice @Web3Magnetic @SwiftOnSecurity @deletebot @primalanomaly @moxie As far as I understand, interacting with a Blockchain is a complex and compute-heavy process. At this point, we don't really have any good, widely-used, lightweight capability for client devices to interact directly with the Blockchain.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@kasnolice @joanfihu @Web3Magnetic @SwiftOnSecurity @deletebot @primalanomaly @moxie I get where you're coming from but it goes against the decentralised principles of web3. You have many centralised competitors and hopefully you pick the transparent one. If client devices could interact with the chain directly, there would be no need to rely on these entities.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@jamesepember @ianbetteridge @FungeRumples @resistredaction The mitigation to this is storing all data on chain but this is expensive and comes with its own problems which may or may not be easy to solve.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@jamesepember @ianbetteridge @FungeRumples @resistredaction Unfortunately this is not true in a lot of cases because data is often stored off chain. So your NFT on chain is just a URL pointing to an image on a server (let's say an OpenSea server). If they remove the image at that URL, no competitor can display your NFT.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@kasnolice @joanfihu @Web3Magnetic @SwiftOnSecurity @deletebot @primalanomaly @moxie It's not implementation details though. The point he's making is that we have a central entity which reports whether or not you own an NFT, no matter what's on the chain. This can be mitigated by providing capability for client devices to directly interact with the Blockchain.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@kasnolice @joanfihu @Web3Magnetic @SwiftOnSecurity @deletebot @primalanomaly @moxie The NFT is still owned by him as per Blockchain records but, we have a central entity used by most people which says that he doesn't own it. Most devices can't interact directly with the Blockchain so they rely on OpenSea and perceive that he doesn't own it too.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@kasnolice @joanfihu @Web3Magnetic @SwiftOnSecurity @deletebot @primalanomaly @moxie If you read his post, the issue here is that his wallet interacts with the Blockchain through an API provided by OpenSea. That means, if they remove it on their side, their API no longer returns it when the wallet makes a request, despite it still being on the Blockchain.

[Jason @JasP_19]

@djwitaphd Haha, I definitely understand your pain. Unfortunately I can't give you any answers here. There are still certain AWS services which are not available in SA and I have no idea if Fortnite requires them. I also don't know what Epic's rollout plan is. All I can say is keep hoping.

[Jason @JasP_19]

Unfortunately for all the people jumping on the #FortniteAfricanServers bandwagon, I still don't think it's currently possible. The SA AWS region doesn't yet have EKS and it seems they run containerised Kubernetes applications as per: https://t.co/fekEXDKudz

[Jason @JasP_19]

Love to see initiatives that focus on nature. Let's keep it going #TeamSeas

https://t.co/crH6h5DpdG