The Stack Podcast

A "remastered" version of the previous conversation with ~sogrum-savluc and ~rabsef-bicrym. - added intro/outro -fixed audio inconsistency

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.

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

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.

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

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

Market bedshite, Urbit & Uqbar, China nonsense

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.

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.

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.

his week, another war story, this time with Josh's dad, who tells about 30+ years of military service and the war in Afghanistan.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

This is but a cozy new year chat between your best friends Josh and Andy. We talk beards, sartorialism, weird Chinese social stuff, and Anglo-Saxonry. And as ever: manly predictions for the New Year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This week we speak with Reid, known more commonly around Urbit as ~sitful-hatred, who runs a blog at subject.network dedicated to making communal knowledge more accessible. Whether you want to set up minio for sharing files, figure out your routing problems, or configure your bitcoin wallet, subject.network has you covered. We discuss how ~sitful-hatred got started with Urbit, the blog's genesis, what he thinks Urbit will look like in the future, and more (a discussion of the recent Gurgle episode with some consideration for community norms, for instance). LISTEN!

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.

Our discussion this week precedes Andy's leaving for Asia, perhaps for good and all, and why it should be so that the people we know in tech and finance are increasingly participating in elite abandonment of the...what is it called, now? Global American Empire?

This week we're joined by Dr. Jonathan Paprocki, who explains the current state of quantum computing as well as why it is important for Urbit to consider the 'quantum apocalypse' and be prepared for it. We also discuss with him his views on how Urbit might evolve to encompass previously unconsidered forms of anarchic or communistic governance via Urbit's unique and still-developing network.

This week we speak with Jennifer Dodgson, CEO of Lexikat, a company working to bring low-code natural language processing to businesses. Jennifer is also an expert in the politics of ancient China and is renowned for her translations of The Strategems of the Warring States.

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.

This week we talk with ~mirtyl-wacdec about Asian languages, developing for Urbit, and setting up Urbit Asia and Urbit Asia University. We discuss evangelizing in Asia and the mission to teach Asian languages and history to Martians.

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.

This week, Andy and Josh take on the Great Gamestop Short Squeeze, talk about bastard bankers, horrible hedge funds, and the theft of indigenous lands from young male gamers who then turn to FINANCIAL PIRACY. Look at me. I'm the Tendieman Now.

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.

This week, Josh and Andy talk Sichuan, land of spicy food, pandas, and...yes, yes, there is more to it than that. There are rockets and crypto mines, grand waterworks, towering mountains, Tibetan shepherds, seas of grass and bamboo, and more than one Very Large Buddha.

This week Andy and Josh discuss the tech landscapes of both China and the US--including where China lags or has surpassed the US--censorship in both political arenas, and where not to run when Twitter decides you’re persona non grata

This week we talk to ~sicdev-pilnup and ~rabsef-bicrym. ~sicdev and ~rabsef met through Urbit and, with other friends, formed Dalten Collective, an organization dedicated to the ideals of Fellowship, Sustainability, and Sovereignty. Listen as they explain how to use Urbit as a platform for bringing people together to enrich themselves through fraternal feeling and collective entrepreneurship.

Josh and Andy talk books read in 2020, Turkish riots, and goals and manly prognostications for 2021.

This week we speak with Jonathan Pritchard, professional mentalist, about how he uses his unique talent to approach every aspect of life, including: lifelong learning, business, art, technology, surviving in the Age of Covid, and of course, Urbit.

In this episode, we speak with Christian Langalis, "Bitcoin Sign Guy", about his introduction to Bitcoin. We discuss that fateful day in 2017 at the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony where he held up the "Buy Bitcoin" sign, and we talk about how he got from there to deciding to combine Urbit and Bitcoin to create a 'Sound Computer for Sound Money'.

In this episode, Urbit's ~timluc-miptev joins us from Ukraine via Skype to discuss Bitcoin integration. ~timluc-miptev discusses his journey to Urbit, the agony and ecstasy of learning and programming in Hoon, and the future functionality BTC will bring to the Urbit platform.

In episode three, we discuss the works of Angelo Codevilla, emeritus professor of international relations at Boston University. In particular, we discuss his book "The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It". In it, Codevilla distinguishes the American Ruling Class from the Country Class and enumerates the origins and peculiarities of both before going on to describe the failures of the former. In the end, he describes a prescription for restoring America with a revitalized Country Class brought back to relevance with a renewed sense of their place in American political life and local authority. Naturally, we also talk about Urbit and its implications for such a project. Have a listen: Codevilla seems more prescient than ever.

Andy and Josh discuss their experience living in China when the coronavirus outbreak happened & the effect it would have on American society and the 2020 election.

This week we talk with John Pathfinder Lester about how autonomy & community via small, personal computing devices running Urbit-with-cryptocurrency just might be the first step toward a 'Turing Complete' civilization.

This week we review our election predictions, discuss 'allegations', and talk about how one might improve election integrity using blockchain technology and distributed ID from Chainlink. As usual, we talk a little Urbit.

Josh and Andy kick the tires on The Stack. This episode is a prequel, the purpose of which is to get the audio working for 2 people a world apart. We talk about our journey with Urbit, "a clean slate OS and network for the 21st century".