Cato Auestad

CTO @firiapp - All-around nerd - @rustlang - @openbsd. Expect #Bitcoin.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I have been thinking about this a lot.

I think for a great many of engineers, the ones who did it because they loved it only to discover that money was in fact at the end of the rainbow found both the journey and the destination satisfying. In fact, I think I can argue with authority that the destination was only satisfying as the journey was difficult. The hard-fought evenings spent toiling away on an idea and codebase that slowly gives way to your vision was an incredible experience.

The group of people that fell into this category of hard-fought journey and destination we will call them tinkerers. One thing tinkerers have always hated is the already known problems. The journey is clear as day. The obstacles minor inconveniences. Its purely a matter of typing the solution into the terminal. This is also why I think so many of this group goes out and does open source, or starts companies. Work largely falls into this category with few exceptions.

From this reason is why I largely find UI work soul sucking. I know the solution, its a matter of just looking up the details and putting it into my editor. yawn. CSS, flex box this, grid that, put the tailwind classes in the bag.

To me, the LLM software world is with little to no journey and discovery. Its more of simply taking my high level idea and just formulating it into testable, atomic chunks that can be verified. I have traded my favorite part, discovery and raw creation, with itemized list of TODOs and patience and "No Mistakes."

To this, every morning from 6 to 9 I simply just hand code every thin. even UI things. It is because I want journey and discovery and raw creation. Maybe one day comes and its just so futile that I stop this. But for now, I still see such great value in this. I see such better thought through products. Because slowing down and truly thinking through everything. The architecture, the design, everything is an expression of discovery and creation. And I love it.

I am sure there will come a day, maybe even in the next 6 months where I change my mind. For now, I pursue the love of the game intentionally.

I do also believe that there exists people who get the same joy I got from building with tears and sweat by prompting LLMs. I am positive of it. I just don't understand how. But people love UI work. I also don't understand that.

[Fireblocks @FireblocksHQ]

What does it take to serve retail users at crypto speed? ⚡️

Nikola Plecas of @telegram, Dennis Blatt of @BinanceUS, and Cato Auestad (@ninjacato) of @firiapp joined Richard Astle, VP Fireblocks Network for an insightful discussion.

Breaking it down 👇

#SPARK25

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices.

Encoding matrices as graphs is a cheat code, making complex behavior simple to study.

Let me show you how!

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@torkelrogstad @barebitcoin @Bjornolav3 @SteinslettRonny kan nok relatere hardt til denne 😂

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@Atlegulbrandsen Bottas

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@barsken71 @YasinUnal90 For hva det er verdt, jeg var med å utviklet skattekalkulatoren i Firi. Men for å svare på spørsmålet ditt, Skatteetaten bør du alltid bruke som kilde for dette: https://t.co/34pZwFC1Un

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@barsken71 @YasinUnal90 Øyeblikket du selger noe på Firi, eller på andre kryptobørser, så er det skattbart. Uavhengig av om du tar ut pengene fra børsen. Det fungerer ikke likt som med aksjesparekonto.

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

When you dont know how to exit Vim

[BWT Alpine Formula One Team @AlpineF1Team]

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[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@firiapp GM 🚀

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

@mschancheolsen Gratulerer! 🙏

[Firi @firiapp]

1/ Klar for noen spennende nyheter? 🤩

[Cato Auestad @ninjacato]

Dette er et fint eksempel på ett av flere scenarioer som "aldri skal skje" som vi har tatt høyde for og sikra oss mot hos @firiapp

[Scott Piper @0xdabbad00]

Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
https://t.co/v5WFxqUtaB

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

The End of the Gold vs Bitcoin Debate

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

shoutout to @firiapp + @firi_dk for absolutely crushing it as the #1 crypto exchange in the Nordics

basically started as @thuchoang's side project - grew from underdog to become the dominant exchange

[HaxRob @haxrob]

Plans to literally "hack the planet" foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated.

The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory.

https://t.co/WNExkhVbTx

[Erik Johnson @erjdev]

@ThePrimeagen Functions should ALWAYS be 4-6 lines long.

Hell no.

[Kryptopris.no @Kryptoprisno]

Tirsdagens volum på de norske kryptobørsene @firiapp @JuJukrypto @nbxcom @barebitcoin

[DHH @dhh]

The @Neovim adventure continues. I'm really digging the lazyvim distro. Integrated git management? Check. Great fuzzy-searcher for files? Check. Multi-file search? Check. Tabs? Check. Sidebar? Check. And that whole THIS IS UNIX, I KNOW THIS aesthetic is ace.

[allen farrington @allenf32]

🟧🟦🟪 DLCVM 🟪🟦🟧

Generalized, Unboundedly Scalable Computation on Bitcoin

https://t.co/EJIODz4nPz