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Developer Joy Digest

DappaDan

Measuring Hackathon - Part 1

Maybe you just started a new DevRel role and want to make a hackathon plan to impress your founder. Maybe you are in charge of marketing and you are trying to win developer's hearts and you heard devs love hackathons. Maybe you are in a telegram group of DevRels and it's gone too quiet so you ask the age-old question: HOW DO YOU MEASURE HACKATHON ROI? (Return on Investment for the non biz folks) As a hackathon anthropologist, dev, and spreader of developer joy, I am here to answer that for yo...

#hackathons#devrel#crypto#marketing
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TFW Talks Cancer

Tutti Frutti Women

Anal Cancer

Let's break the ice and have a candid conversation about a topic that often gets overlooked: anal cancer. While it might not be the easiest subject to broach, it's essential to understand and discuss it openly.

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functional.art

Agoston Nagy

Quantum Symmetries

To produce randomness, most computer systems — including modern cryptographic protocols and generative art — make use of pseudo-random number generators. These are designed to generate sequences of numbers that appear random over large periods, but in reality they are driven by deterministic and predictable arithmetic. In contrast, quantum randomness arises from the inherent uncertainty in quantum mechanics, particularly from phenomena like superposition and measurement collapse.

#quantum#generative#randomness#philosophy#art#iching#divination#entanglement
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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

I Let My AI Alter Ego Interview Me. Here’s What Happened.

Turning the classic founder podcast interview on its head—with an update on MuseKat, as told to my own AI

#ai#technology#startups#building#learning#founders
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Solar is one of the fastest growing energy sources

Solar energy's share of total US electricity generation was only about 3.9% as of 2023. So it's not powering all that much today. However, the cost of PV modules continue to come down and installed capacity is growing very quickly. Here's an excerpt from a recent post by Brian Potter about solar energy:By some metrics, solar PV has been deployed faster than any other energy source in history, going from 100 terawatt-hours of generation to 1,000 terawatt-hours in just 8 years, compared to 12 y...

#solar#energy#solar-power#solar-energy#pv-panels#photovoltaics#pv-cells#sustainability#environment
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Web3 with TPan

TPan

#362: Breaking Down the 7 Components of the Abstract Portal

Over the past two months I’ve spent some time on Abstract, a blockchain built by Igloo Inc. (also the team behind Pudgy Penguins). Although there are something like 1399489529 blockchains in existence at this point, I’ve leaned into Abstract ever since Luca Netz shared his vision around Abstract’s ‘consumer-specific blockchain’ approach in contrast to the ‘generalist’ blockchain approach.And if Abstract is actually dialed in to being a consumer-focused blockchain, chances are they’re going to...

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Vamient.xyz

Vamient.xyz

Market Making on Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) and What sets us apart

TDLR:Partner with us for the DEXes token launches if you wish to:leverage our unparalleled speedy MEV-Grade insfrastructurework with ethical, no-nonsense teamUnsure why your project should employ a Market Maker, read on As the cryptocurrency ecosystem evolves, decentralized exchanges (DEXes) have become an integral part of the trading landscape. While our market making services have traditionally focused on centralized exchanges (CEXes), we're excited to announce that we now offer market maki...

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Anthony Avedissian

Anthony Avedissian

5 Things I'm Excited About in Crypto

5 things I’m excited about in crypto: 1/ DePIN, 2/ Token Capital Markets, 3/ Stablecoins, 4/ zkTLS, 5/ Sovereign Agents.

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thoughts onchain

Chris Carella

Excited about Ethereum

I sit here on March 20, 2025 excited about Ethereum, a civilizational infrastructure which is immutable, credibly neutral, unstoppable and censorship resistant. These will matter in a world where cooperation becomes more difficult by the day. I wanted to note specific things I'm excited about in this moment. First, are the near-term features in development that will give Ethereum a first class user experience. Account Abstraction is a big UX upgrade and we're starting to see smart wallets mat...

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Galazio

Galazio

Avgolemono Soup

Happy first day of Spring! 🌷 This is the perfect recipe to celebrate this new season. This soup is the best blend of creamy and comforting but also bright and fresh! Quick Greek lesson: Avgo = egg 🥚 Lemoni = lemon 🍋Ingredients4 tbsp olive oil 1 lb chicken breasts 1 tbsp za’atar (for seasoning chicken) 1/4 cup diced carrots 1/4 cup diced onion 1/4 cup diced celery 6 cups chicken stock 1 and 1/2 tsp dried oregano 1 tsp minced garlic 2 bay leaves 1/2 cup barley 1/4 cup + 1 tsp lemon juice sal...

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Consume Crypto

BlockchainBrett

The Collector Funnel

Collecting content online is a new behavior emerging in the crypto space that users are increasingly adopting. Over the next 5+ years, this will likely become a mainstream behavior. Users will prefer engaging with creators that they can create tangible connections with and have potential upside in. And creators will choose better relationships with their audience and improved economic models. The relationships that are forming onchain are already more substantive than anything we have in toda...

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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

From Classroom to Career: How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Redefining Work-Based Learning

How the High School of Art and Design is bridging education, industry, and AI to prepare students for the future of work

#education#learning#work#ai#school#industry#startups#creativity#entrepreneurship
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Mosaic of thoughts

Nao

The mall

A warm wall of hot air hits me in the face as I step through the door I just held up for a seemingly never-ending stream of people. "What are these people doing here? Don't they have jobs?" my inner monologue goes on before concluding that the same is true of me. Yet here I am on a sunny Monday at 3 p.m., about to step into an institution said to be long dead: the mall. As a teenager, malls were a meeting place I never entirely understood. In that regard, my evolution as a person is thoroughl...

#connection#mall
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Paragraph Picks

Reid DeRamus

Paragraph Picks (Vol. 34)

We're back with the 34th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

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Trust Me Bro Show

Trust Me Bro Show

Can Blockchain Fix the Broken Music Industry?

Alright mates, the music industry is fucking broken—artists are left with crumbs while labels and streaming platforms take the lion’s share. Today, we’re exploring how blockchain could shake things up, offering artists a fairer deal and fans a real stake. This is

#farcaster#lensprotocol#web3#blockchain#ai#data#unlockingthefuture#trustmebroshow#tech#sustainability#artificialintelligence#techinnovation#futureofmusic#web3music
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Paris has a hell of a lot of vacation rentals and second homes

Last week, we spoke about affordable housing in Paris. Today, let's talk about tourist rentals in the city. The city of Paris and Greater Paris (i.e. la Ville de Paris and la Métropole du Grand Paris) recently commissioned Apur (which is a non-profit that I regularly follow) to do two studies on this topic. The first was for Paris proper and the second was for Greater Paris. What they found is super interesting:In August 2024, Greater Paris had 149,936 tourist rentals, of which 124,988 were a...

#paris#grand-paris#greater-paris#short-term-rentals#vacation-rentals#tourist-rentals#airbnb#vacant-homes#unoccupied-homes#new-york#apur
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Coinbase Ethereum Validator Report

Coinbase stakes 3.84 million ETH across 120,000 validators, representing 11.42% of the total staked ETH supply.

#news#2025#march2025
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Earn $SUP rewards by supporting ETH Daily on Giveth!

Earn SUP rewards and a chance to win GIV when you stream donations to ETH Daily!

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Ex Machina

Rahul Matthan

The Cost of Cold

All we need to do to address our food insecurity is learn to better preserve food after it has been harvested. However, the technology we rely on to do that comes at a great cost. We need to find an alternative approach - one that prevents spoilage without harming the environment.

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Colin Armstrong

Colin Armstrong

Testing this out

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