This week we speak with ~winter-dozren, a fourth member of Urbit Asia and buyer and seller of crypto since its early days.  We talk to him about the Wild West of Bitcoin, life in Singapore, what to drink in India, and how to do degen right.

A Bitcoiner's Dozren

This week's offering is on literature of the Plague.  We speak in particular about Camus' La Peste, with consideration also for Katherine Anne Porter, Boccaccio, and others throughout the canon.  Of particular interest: how was disease in literature a vehicle to talk about other facets of the human condition?  Finally, we go in the opposite direction, and ask how the collective unconscious developed in the last 20 years to produce zombie flicks in their particular form and how they, in turn, primed reactions to Covid-19.

Plague Lit

This week we speak with Tlon COO Erik Newton about:

1.  divorce lawyering which lead to a desire to be a better man which lead to
2.  podcasting about being better at relationships, though then he discovered that:
3.  tools of communication are actually somewhat broken, leading him to look for a project that fixed that on a grand scale and therefore to

Urbit, QED

Martian Ops with Erik Newton

This week we speak with Justin Murphy, who has brought his OtherLife community and work increasingly to Urbit.  We discuss Assembly, arranging marriages, leaving academia, the future of the Life of the Mind, and, yes, about making that money.

Toward Assembly with Justin Murphy

This week we speak with ~rabsef-bicrym, who has made the move, recently, from employed to self-employed: doing feasibility study in freelance Hoon development.

Rabsef is the creator of %gora, a POAP on Urbit that allows Martians to send tokens to one another as 'proof of attendance'. We discuss how Urbit's first POAP might further develop in the future.

We also talk about: Urbit's strongest hands, GameShark, being formerly fat, and how to buy a loosie.

%gora with ~rabsef-bicrym

We speak this week with Rob, known around Urbit as ~mocrux-nomdep, who is CTO of dcSpark, developer of blockchain, the Flint wallet, and Urbit Visor.

dcSpark with Rob K

This week we speak with ~mallus-fabres, who is both an actual Young Person and a Real Live Woman on Urbit.  We allow her nearly two full hours of cleverness and sass to make the case for the distaff sex.  You can be the judge of whether we, as a society, will allow them to keep it up or if this mad experiment has gone on quite long enough, thank you.

With ~mallus aforethought

This week we speak with ~finnem, finance maven from a secret haven in the land of guns, chocolate, and sausage respecting.  The lady talks to us about the possible use cases of Urbit for making bank.  No, for making a bank.  A Swiss bank, which everyone knows is the best sort.

Banking on Urbit with ~finnem

This week we speak with Tlon cofounder and CEO Galen Wolfe-Pauly.  We discuss his design theory, how his Urbit vision has changed over the years, and running a company in the Age of Covid.  Per community request, we stage an intervention over his frankly alarming level of tofu fanaticism.

Tofu Maximalism with Galen Wolfe-Pauly

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.

Episode 029: The Onliest Monk

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!

Dog People with ~master-morzod

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.

"Winning Faster" with Logan Allen

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.

The Combine with ~poldec-tonteg

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 Man's a-Nockin'

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.

Ep 034: Mars Review with ~librex-dozryc

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

Robert A: Recounting WWII, Bataan, and the Japanese

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.

Ep 037 In Lehman's Terms with ~wolref-podlex

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.

Ep 038:  Robot Opera with ~rovnys-ricfer

This week we speak with Edward Amsden, engineer at Tlon and better known to the network as ~ritpub-sibsyl.  We cover Cincinnati Chili, the warm dumpster runoff of Javascript, the origins of React, UrchatFM, and New Mars.

Ep039: Cincinnati Chili with ~ritpub-sibsyl

Market bedshite, Urbit & Uqbar, China nonsense

Market Bedshite

This week we speak to ~fabnev-hinmur about Escape, devex with Uqbar, and being Marines in Okinawa.

The Stack Ep041 Fabnev Hinmur

This week we speak with ~midsum-salrux about average women, Urbit bots, and Ruby on Rails.

Ep042: Middling with ~midsum-salrux

Welcome back to The Stack!

This week we speak to ribben-donnyl, Urbit’s foremost authority on hindquarters.

We talk about how ribben got into Urbit (hint: not through the front entrance), the Portugal, the note-taking app Funes, and ribben’s hardline pro-state stance.

Ep043 Probing Questions wth ~ribben-donnyl

This week we talk about beating up poor, helpless blind people and earning Urbit grants.  These are two unrelated thoughts (so far).

Ep044 The Blind Beating Up the Blind with ~sarlev-sarsen

This week we speak with ~pilwyc-fastec who outlines his ideas about running a smart home on Urbit.  Topics include personal & data privacy as well as physical device applications.

The Sovereign Smart Home with ~pilwyc-fastec

This week we speak with ~rabsef-bicrym and ~sogrum-savluc of Quartus, makers of %peat, %gora, and other artisanal Urbit apps.

Cephalopodcast with Quartus

A "remastered" version of the previous conversation with ~sogrum-savluc and ~rabsef-bicrym.

- added intro/outro
-fixed audio inconsistency

Cephalopodcast {Remastered} with Quartus

Held in Taliban Custody for 8 Months - Lord Miles - The Sovereign Stack Episode 14

This week we talk with ~rabsef-bicrym about learning Urbit's native programming language, Hoon.  We discuss Hoon's structure and the particular challenges inherent in understanding how to work with a purely functional language.  Hear ~rabsef talk about setting up Hooniversity, the Urbit community's education initiative; then find out how to sign up for the next run of the school so you can make an Urbit native app of your own.

Episode 11: Across the Hooniverse

This week we talk with Anthony Arroyo, Project Manager at Tlon, about the Futurist movement, what technology *is*, the design ethics of Urbit, how governance works in Urbit, and more.

Martian Futurism with Anthony Arroyo

Martian Futurism with ~poldec-tonteg

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