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Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of the Weekly Thing. Blogger. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Maybe a podcast? CTO of SPS Commerce, Board Member of MnTech, Former Board Member Minnestar. Minneapolis is home.

Crypto

Forays into blockchain, NFTs and POAPs live here. I write about minting POAP tokens at family events, celebrating Ethereum’s 10‑year anniversary by creating an NFT and even using monitoring services to keep my POAP feeds up and running.

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    Bitcoin price for last month. Bananas. 🍌🤷‍♂️

    Bitcoin price chart showing 53.39% gain this month from 3662.48 to 5780.68 with a peak of 6143.40
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    Bought a trivial amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum. If previous patterns repeat, the price should drop precipitously now. 😊

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    Minnebar 12

    T-shirt graphic showing Paul Bunyan in plaid shirt and VR headset swinging an axe, with Babe the blue ox holding a laptop, a drone-equipped wolf in a pine tree, and a beaver with a tablet by a felled

    Session 0

    Man in glasses and blue shirt speaking at a podium, pointing toward a projected slide reading Surf the Internet with a cartoon wave illustration
    • Punk Rock/Computing
      • Break the rules
      • Simple, fast
    • Point of view is worth 50 IQ points - Alan Kaye

    Minnebar 12 on Minnebar

    Bearded presenter in a blue shirt speaks at a podium while attendees sit at tables facing a projected slide reading better understand event demand
    • Random
    • History
    • Ideas on future opportunity

    Zen and the Art of Agility

    Woman speaking at a podium holding a microphone before an audience, with a slide showing Pac-Man labeled Culture chasing a ghost labeled Strategy
    • Nice Sps plug
    • Why agile?
    • Culture > Strategy
    • Why not time tracking?
      • Software is not deterministic
    • Where is agile right? Predictive v Adaptive v Reactive. Also, very much cost of refactoring

    Blockchains are coming!

    Audience seated in a darkened conference room watching a presenter at a podium beside a slide reading Blockchains are Coming Forewarned is Forearmed
    • Quick overview of bitcoin but focusing more on applications of blockchain

    Introduction to Functional Reactive Programming

    A presenter in a plaid shirt stands before a large projection screen addressing an audience of about 20 people seated in a darkened conference room.
    • Reactive overview
    • Functional overview
    • Good summaries and examples of approach

    So you don’t hire Jr. Devs? Tell me more

    Large group of people seated in a circle of chairs in a conference room, engaged in a group discussion session.
    • Weird discussion.
    • Totally missing the mark on negative unemployment.
    • Commitment dialogue. Yikes.

    Privacy for Everyone

    Presenter holding a microphone at a podium beside a projected slide reading Privacy for Everyone Workshop by @EugeneBelinski, with attendees seated facing the screen in a darkened auditorium.
    • Fine session. Pretty basic advice.

    Communicating When Stuff Is Going Wrong

    Presenter stands at a podium in a tiered auditorium facing an audience of about 30 people, with a slide listing 4 communication topics on the screen behind her
    • How to communicate bad stuff.
    • This will be final update on this incident.
    • Do not communicate time to repair. Don’t agree with that for production items.

    See also Minnebar collection.

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    Introducing the Shift Card ← Shift Card is example of what we need to make Bitcoin actually usable.

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    Don’t see anything Square Cash can do that I can’t do already with Bitcoin. What am I missing?

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    Bummed that I cannot find a single coffee shop or restaurant in Minneapolis that accepts Bitcoin. 🙁

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    I bought $40 of Bitcoin and now I have less money! I thought this was supposed to go the other way!

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    I finally joined 2013 and got a Bitcoin address.

    1JNbi6bHfQPMgmizA7NVprz4nj3DBJqAuM

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    Technotarian

    I was reading this very interesting article on Bitcoin by Jasan Calacanis and used the term “technotarian” and then defined it in a footnote as:

    We made this term up to describe the “good people” of the internet who believe in the fundamental rights of individuals to be free, have free speech, fight hypocrisy and stand behind logic, technology and science over religion, political structure and tradition. These are the people who build and support things like Wikileaks, Anonymous, Linux and Wikipedia. They think that people can, and should, govern themselves. They are against external forms of control such as DRM, laws that are bought and sold by lobbyists, and religions like Scientology. They include splinter groups that enforce these ideals in the form of hacktivism, such as the takedown of the Sony Playstation Network after Sony tried to prosecute a hacker for unlocking its console.

    Great term. A quick search also brought this 1995 definition of Technological Libertarianism.

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