Appreciated the human element paragraph at the end!

Yep, it's awesome how Michael keeps crediting collaborators, given how much of the work is his. Good job!

Sounds like it's used for accepting payment from Starlink customers in numerous counties:

> The company [SpaceX] partnered with Bridge, a stablecoin payments platform, to accept payments in various currencies and instantly convert them into stablecoins for its global treasury.

Why can’t bridge just convert the money into USD? What’s the point of the stable coins step?

Once you buy the stablecoins, moving the money anywhere is an API call and a sub-1¢ transaction fee, rather than a cross-border wire transfer and a multi-day settlement process.

I still don’t know why there is the settlement process. If it was just a row in the database that this person has N dollars, why isn’t that enough?

Love reading these. Keep these blog posts coming!

I like nil == err for this case

The first squirrel video might be the best youtube video ever. Surprising, entertaining, informative, accessible. I'd start there!

Very well-articulated article on a shared feeling!

I find this also works when you go to coffeeshops that have a lot of people working

I am the exact opposite. I used to hear about people going to coffee shops and doing work and I would go there and I’d just be completely distracted by everything around me. I was forced to work in an open office for a while and I would have to leave early and risk getting in trouble so that I could get work done at home.

That's interesting, though I feel the same about open offices.

The difference for me is strangers vs. colleagues.

There's a lot more interruptions when you know the people around you.

This seems true to get the most out of an LLM, but you could also say Google has this problem too.

Seems like not a huge stretch to apply how you use Google to LLMs and get good milage.

I've been using passport.js in the past, but I'm very curious about what's best for Next.js apps.