YeseniaStanleyE0M

health

What was your favorite book of 2023?

AlanMilesEJ5

Do self discovery. Find out who you are. Be authentic to yourself

news

### sndev

After our recent hiring trial (which I plan to write something about soon), a few years of having folks struggle getting setup contributing to [SN's open source project](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news), and asking what stackers' [preferred local dev setups](https://stacker.news/items/452063) are, we developed `sndev` which allows you to run a fully featured SN developer environment locally in a single command.

Special thanks to @elvismercury for his expert, careful, repeated nudges of "I'm really curious how easy getting started on something like SN can be." Of course, never ending thanks to all of SN's open source contributors too.

The single command:

`./sndev start`

The sndev environment provides all the services we run in production but locally for development, spinning up an auto-mining auto-channel-forming lightning regtest network (you don't need polar anymore), database, search engine, image proxy, and mock s3, and populates the database and search engine with a big production-shaped 45-day seed. 

`sndev` allows SN open source contributors to do things like login to local accounts with a single command:

 `./sndev login <some nym>`

Fund their account paying a bolt11 regtest invoice:

`./sndev fund <bolt11>`

And much more as seen by issuing `./sndev help`

```
                            888
                            888
                            888
      .d8888b  88888b.  .d88888  .d88b.  888  888
     88K      888 '88b d88' 888 d8P  Y8b 888  888
     'Y8888b. 888  888 888  888 88888888 Y88  88P
          X88 888  888 Y88b 888 Y8b.      Y8bd8P
      88888P' 888  888  'Y88888  'Y8888    Y88P

manages a docker based stacker news development environment

USAGE
  $ sndev [COMMAND]
  $ sndev help [COMMAND]

COMMANDS
  help            show help

  env:
    start         start env
    stop          stop env
    restart       restart env
    status        status of env
    delete        delete env

  sn:
    login         login as a nym

  lnd:
    fund          pay a bolt11 for funding
    withdraw      create a bolt11 for withdrawal

  db:
    psql          open psql on db
    prisma        run prisma commands

  dev:
    pr            fetch and checkout a pr
    lint          run linters

  other:
    compose       docker compose passthrough
    sn_lncli      lncli passthrough on sn_lnd
    stacker_lncli lncli passthrough on stacker_lnd
```

We'll be regularly refining and adding things to `sndev`. It's good enough I'll be using it exclusively for development myself now and @ek said he probably will too.

### contribution awards

Contribution awards are live. I published the [draft](https://stacker.news/items/449767) of these earlier this week, which haven't been changed, and they are now found in [SN's Github README](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/master/README.md). The reward structure is definitely experimental still, and will require a lot of adjustment, but it's ready to begin running I think.

We also rewrote our [README](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/master/README.md) so that it mostly appears as a single page and elaborates on things more.

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We're hoping these help stackers continue to make SN more of what they want it to be, begin FOSSing, and stack sats.

SN release: sndev command and open source contribution awards

mostly_harmless

Meetup report & help make it stick

DominiqueReeseV3T

Lmao I can only applaud you for this I feel like you really had to put in a lot of effort to pull this off as well as you did!

AGORA

Stacker News Growth Deck

ChristieBrandtHZE

Day 390 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

__@_'-'

Music

The Early Days of Linux

CristinaColeman7MH

As soon as we see LSPSpec adoption, I strongly expect the wallet app / liquidity provider roles to separate.
We at Synonym do not offer liquidity services to US users due to legal constraints. It is our intended purpose to work towards a world where a wallet and LSP can be a separate entity so a third party LSP can provide liquidity to Bitkits US users.

meta

I'm about to head out for a week or so to a place where it would be difficult, though not impossible, to access SN.  More important than the technical difficulty, I find myself in need of a mental reset from my usual ways of being and allocating attention.

No big deal, right?  Pretty natural.

And yet I've noticed that I _actually care_ about my cowboy streak.  It is a non-zero factor in my mind.  The idea that I have given some smallish number of clock cycles to thinking of what to do about this -- whether to trivially maintain the hat with a few minutes of daily activity, or to let it lapse, and what it would mean if it lapsed -- is remarkable.  I've never made such a consideration about my participation in an online thing before.

This seems really good and really bad.  The really good part is that my existence in SN means this much to me.  The really bad part is that this manifestation of what it means is not joyous or liberating.  It's tapping into a different vibe.

To be clear, I don't think SN is doing anything wrong.  It's just interesting to notice how these incentives and cultural elements are coming together here, now.  Figured I'd share in case it promotes anything in anyone.