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Beautiful, sunny day today. Too bad I’m in a dark mood.
This fact is only limited to my close circle of friends but in my previous life, I used to be a landscape photographer, specifically focusing on capturing the beauty of the Himalayas on lens (pun intended). The Himalayas are home to me since my lineage hails from these mountains + I have a few older friends who were landscape photographers, so their influence and creative eye definitely rubbed off on me when I was in high school. I started developing my own niche, one that showcased landscapes in a moody/dreamy light. I guess the seeds of those influences were sown via my exposure to various Scandinavian photographers (like Konsta Punkka, Jaako Kahalaniemi, et al) that captured the marvellous Scandinavian terrain, each of them dipped in their own special sauce. That, plus having lived in Finland and being exposed to the works of some of these photographers first-hand was a big stimulus for how I developed my own sauce. Over time, I started experimenting with various other terrain formats beyond just the Himalayas, right from plateaus to urban design. It was a beautiful escape for me to discover new places and reimagine and publish them in my own peculiar way. It kinda saddens me now that photography is no longer a crucial part of my life, but it was wonderful while it lasted! I have a whole catalog lying around and I am keen to share it with the Lens photography community!
Gr8 day for Alcest fans! https://open.spotify.com/track/6aPEzAyxqNJcRUNLFFmpe8?si=og7s1lysTleVj3GXuNJiuA
Don’t slam the door pls
If I were a Utd fan at OT rn I’d leave at half time, go back home, paint the walls of one of my rooms and attempt to watch it dry rather than staying back to watch the second half.
This is gonna be an enjoyable Saturday afternoon!
No gluten allergy lfggggggg great Friday
Ah, the sweet smell of seeing this portfolio memecoin hit 40x and then getting rugged first thing in the morning. *chef's kiss*
We're climbing towards the ATH on Lens.
gm @lens/lens
There is so much love for Lens right now 💕
Five hours into my 14-hour NYC - Delhi flight and this kid next to me has been playing on his iPad for nearly 4 hours now. Not sure if I’m more astonished by his concentration levels or by the fact that he’s being overly exposed to gadgets so early in life.
Fav shoegaze record from February! https://open.spotify.com/album/6xzIfl7LQpyE76xzLME132?si=kNrrCBw8QvOLZx0JDfb0SQ
EthDenver was rad. Denver post-punk is radder.
Received a My Bloody Valentine record on Valentine’s Day. Now isn’t that just lovely…
Great gifts this Valentine’s Day from my valentine (me, I’m my own valentine)
Wow Orb v2!
Happiest when biking.
LA’s bouldering scene is absolutely lit. Gyms there are much more technical + community is strong. NYC has a decent mix of both technical + strength-based. Prefer LA personally (also explains why I fatigue faster in NYC than LA).
PSA: Crossposting across Lens, Farcaster and Twitter! Yup yup. 🌿🟣🐦
Damn Steph went off against the Kings. Guy won't let the Warriors lose. I'm not even a Warriors fan but jeez, this performance (and the preceding speech) was stuff of legends
✨ **Introducing Glass Protocol ✨** gm lens fam ☀️ For those of you that don’t know us, we’re building a protocol for decentralized video on Ethereum. We’re passionate about video. We believe in having true ownership over the videos you make, how they’re seen, and how they’re monetized. That’s why we’re building an open, permissionless protocol for owning, distributing, and building communities around video. And that’s why we’re constantly experimenting and building with new Web3 communities to help us further our mission… which brings us to Lens. We’re excited to build more ways for the video creators in the Lens community to create amazing videos with Glass. Oh—and one more thing. We just announced The Glass Pass, an NFT that represents your creator identity, and your key to owning and creating videos on Glass. You can read more about it here: https://blog.glass.xyz And to show our love to the Lens community... 🏆 **Anyone who collects this post will be recorded on The Glass Pass claim allowlist** 🏆 And if you vibe with our mission, check out our Manifesto: https://glass.xyz/manifesto People who **sign it and** **share it to Lens** will also get early access to claim The Glass Pass. We’re excited to be here and can’t wait to share what we have in store! We're just getting started✌️ #genesispost
GM and GN 🪴Follow 🪴Mirror 🪴Like 🪴Collect 0.25 WMATIC
Kicks check.
really cool to see creators taking full advantage of web3 tools in real time @mynameisheno.lens sharing his drop on Zora here on Lens and providing utility for those who engage. i am seeing more and more creators understand the power of Lens and their preferred minting platform for drops the relationship between storytelling on lens for your bigger, "monetizable moments" outside of lens will continue to grow integrations like follow on lens, share to lens, and sign in with lens will help faciliatate a phenomenon that is already taking place https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x018536-0x1c
Love winters but kinda like spring too.
XMTP + Next.js + Lens - Real-time encrypted messaging across all of your apps XMTP real-time encrypted messaging is 🔥🔥 A shared inbox across all of your apps. I open sourced a real-time app with Next.js and @xmtplabs to get you started. The app uses the @LensProtocol namespace so you can inherit the 100K+ users of Lens off the bat 👇 https://github.com/dabit3/xmtp-chat-app-nextjs The app is pretty basic in terms of styling, but in the video it shows how powerful it is - immediate integration with every app across the entire protocol(s) and ecosystem(s) of both Lens and XMTP.
Stop hunting down signers for every multisig transaction Den now lets you create batched transactions, so your signers can approve more transactions in less time Send tokens, interact with contracts, and connect to dapps — all in one transaction
Content discovery on Lens is about to get much more interesting. We're working on features that leverage vector embedding to make recommendations much more aware of the *meaning* of posts. We're also planning on releasing the vectors over the Lens API so that devs can use them in creative ways. This is going to be really cool.
Found an old ser here. A now-unfunctional home to so many melodic death metal and pop punk discographies.
Brushed up pastels.
A lot has happened over the past few months in the @LensProtocol ecosystem. In this thread I want to highlight some of the projects, updates, and products we or the community has shipped over the past year and also shed some light on what's coming next. 🌿❤️‍🔥⚡️ For anyone unfamiliar with @LensProtocol - Lens is a protocol, API, and suite of tools that enables developers to easily and quickly build social media applications, or integrate social features like follows, likes, publications, profiles, and encrypted chat. Since the official launch on Polygon on May 18: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097 ... there have been around 100 apps that I would consider serious that are being built or that have launched on Lens. https://www.lens.xyz/apps There are also many apps integrating Lens social features into existing apps. This use case will be a popular and growing one this year as it is a low lift and requires minimal work, but with a lot of upside. Want to parse social posts in your wallet? Lens Want to add a comments section to your blog? Lens Already have posts/comments but want to add Collects, linked re-posts, and linked likes to your posts? Lens Want to add a discussion forum to your site that's token-gated for your DAO? Lens Want to leverage a user base of x hundreds of thousands (or in the future, x millions) of users without having to bootstrap a network from scratch? Lens! Like managed services and cloud computing has abstracted away the need to build abd maintain complex back end infrastructure from scratch, Lens abstracts away to the need for developers to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to implement social features themselves. Whether or not Lens is built on traditional or decentralized technologies should not matter to the average user or developer. At the end of the day, many of the features provided by Lens are only made possibly by blockchains and decentralized protocols like Arweave and IPFS, but they should not be at the forefront of the discussion. Instead, the applications should speak for themselves: the UX and value proposition should be compelling enough on their own for the average internet user or developer to want to use or build on Lens, regardless of the underlying tech stack. Part of providing a compelling UX is abstracting away the need to know about or understand blockchains and wallets at all. As of now, this is not part of the average Lens front-end, but is something we'll be considering this year as we move toward scaling Lens to >50,000 TPS and enabling permissionless access to the protocol (both of which are on our somewhat near-term roadmap). For developers, we plan to double down on providing the best possible DX we can offer for developers. Last year we made consistent updates and improvements to our docs and API and launched two new SDKS: Lens React SDK https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1606383208089718794 and React Native Lens UI Kit https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1600188853297377280 We have a lot of plans for these two libraries, and will also be considering shipping additional products to facilitate and improve the ease of development for devs building on or integrating Lens. The engineering team led by @wagmi continues to ship new updates to the Lens API at a rapid pace. You can keep up with the updates by following LensAPI on Lens: @lensapi A small handful of highlights I will call out that were shipped last year: - gated publications powered by @LitProtocol - dispatcher enabling signless transactions - optimistic UI updates - feed highlights - degrees of separation - profile interests + many many others In November, Lens adopted @xmtplabs to provide secure, private, and encrypted profile-to-profile DMs for the entire Lens ecosystem. This was huge as it was one of the most requested features from Lens users and the reception has been incredible. https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1588200030820704257 The Lens grants program has deployed funds to over 50 teams building on Lens. We plan to continue working closely with, and providing support for, certain developers and teams who are building interesting or valuable applications on Lens through our grants program and / or providing engineering support through private channels. We will be attending, mentoring, participating, and sponsoring strategic events in 2023, including branching out into more traditional "web2" events. We plan to attend all major @ETHGlobal events, DevCon, & a few other web3 / blockchain events. We also plan to create small to medium-sized meetup-type events this year in cities around the world starting with Sao Paulo in a couple of weeks. Here, people can meet others in their community who are using or building on Lens, and also get allow-listed for a profile until permissionless access is enabled for everyone. There is a lot of hype around web3 social right now: https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1610688970173878272 I agree that 2023 will be a huge year for web3 social and for Lens. We are focused, motivated, and excited to continue building off of the momentum created last year to make 2023 a breakout year for Lens. There is a lot more happening outside of DevRel, with dedicated teams working with creators (@christina & @bradorbradley) and also other areas of focus like integrations and partnerships. I have not done a good job highlighting everything else happening in the ecosystem and with the other teams. If you do want to keep up, follow Lens team members on Lens and on Twitter, starting with: @christina @bradorbradley @fabri @yoginth @stani @paris @donosonaumczuk @wagmi @davidev @sasicodes @pealco That wraps up this overview. I'm beyond excited and motivated about what we will be working on this year and invite you enjoy the ride with us! If you've made it this far congratulations, you can earn 1 WMATIC by simply mirroring this post (up to 200 WMATIC) 🌿
🌿 Today, we celebrate 10 million gasless transactions (still in closed beta) 🤍 We are so grateful for our innovative community of developers and creators 🤝 We're excited to keep building with you
Lensta app available for everyone! iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lensta/id6443818902 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bartaxyz.lensta
A Himalayan winter day.
I'm trying out @wav3s - a tool that lets you pay users who share your content on Lens! 🌿 You can earn 1 Matic by simply mirroring this post (up to 100 Matic)! 🌟 I really love that we can monetize and pay directly through the platform. This is the power of web3 social ⚡️ (gm) Good luck!
Vareso - Sólo una Noche (Official Music Video) STREAM : https://millionrecords.fanlink.to/SoloUnaNoche Happy weekend 🔈 #Lenstube
2022 was a great year for "post-" music, the kind of music I enjoy the most. Over the last 13 years, I have been a big proponent of grassroots post-rock, post-metal and shoegaze music and every Friday, I still maintain the habit of pencilling down every new release that I plan to listen to over the weekend. I love consuming albums as against individual tracks since that provides a better understanding of a band's compositional and sound structure; not to mention enjoying the story that the album unfolds before me. Hundreds of albums were heard this year but there were ten that stood out for me. Sharing details on each of these below, along with their respective Bandcamps: 1. Blurred City Lights - Micropolis [*Dreampop/Industrial/Doom*] - https://blurred-city-lights.bandcamp.com/album/micropolis 2. Gone - Fever Dream [*Shoegaze*] - https://craftingroomrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fever-dream 3. Carved Into The Sun - The Earth Fell Away [*Post-Metal*] - https://carvedintothesun.bandcamp.com/album/the-earth-fell-away 4. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed [*Post-Rock/Post-Metal*] - https://holyfawn.bandcamp.com/album/dimensional-bleed 5. Louis Cole - Quality Over Opinion [*Electropop*] - https://louiscole.bandcamp.com/album/quality-over-opinion 6. Celeste - Assassine(s) [*Black Metal/Post-Hardcore*] - https://celesteband.bandcamp.com/album/assassine-s 7. City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters [*Post-Hardcore*] - https://cityofcaterpillar.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-sisters 8. Vaija - Shivering [*Dreampop/Shoegaze*] - https://open.spotify.com/album/14LX5vSGrqXMILcDqA0hUJ?si=cbaeda25761246e3 9. Russian Circles - Gnosis [*Post-Metal*] - https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/gnosis 10. Big Scary - Me and You [*Alternative*] - https://bigscary.bandcamp.com/album/me-and-you-lp-2022 Additionally, I have also curated a few of my favorite fifteen tracks into a playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Mzx1Yx9dgw5njWzrguXhw?si=84c62ce8793b4f6a Would love for "post-" music to make headway into web3. There are so many players like Sargent House, Dunk! Records, Post. Recordings to work with. One day!
ICYMI: @lensport.lens has integrated gated-posts. Meaning you can now create a post from lensport and decide who can view it in like 2 clicks: https://twitter.com/lensport_io/status/1604189865200955392?s=46&t=EjhsZv7Bm0Pch0XrE1YD1A Remember: your posts will still be dstributed on lenster/orb/phaver/etc if you post them from lensport!!!
Still reeling from the magic that was #EthIndia! India is a big developer powerhouse and it was wonderful to see the web3 energy in full swing.
Hosting my space I'm realizing how much value Mint Songs brought to the Latam Music Community! The golden collaborations that have come out of the people we met there, the doors it opened, the family we built. That is the silver lining, we found each other!
DeFi apps like to flex TVL. NFTs like to flex collection volume. Meanwhile @lensprotcol is largest contract system on Polygon. Web3 Social is here, you just haven't been paying attention anon.
Yes, I absolutely do have a @lensprotocol tattoo 🤷‍♂️
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