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Daniel Fernandes

@danielfernand.es
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Software Engineer interested in chip design, compchem/bio, crypto & DWeb tech. B4: Illinois ECE / Stanford EE Also on Farcaster! (farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth)

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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 24/09/2026
clippy with a dialog bubble encompassing the quoted post
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 24/02/2026
Qualified Reservations
An XKCD-style webcomic featuring a horizontal line with several stick figures representing different decentralized social protocols, labeled from left to right in order of increasing "purity."
​The title at the top reads: "PROTOCOLS ARRANGED BY PURITY" with an arrow pointing right labeled "MORE PURE."
​From left to right, the protocols and their accompanying dialogue are:
​ActivityPub: A stick figure stands at the start of the line.
​ATProto: A figure with glasses says, "ActivityPub is just federated ATProto."
​DSNP: A figure holding a small octopus says, "ATProto is just federated DSNP."
​Farcaster: A figure holding a bubbling flask says, "DSNP is just Polkadot-parachain Farcaster."
​Nostr: A figure looking back toward the others says, "Which still requires BFT consensus. It's nice to be on top."
​Urbit: Located far to the right, separated by a large gap, a figure waves and says, "Oh, Hey, I didn't see you guys all the way over there."
​The comic satirizes the "purity testing" and elitism within decentralized tech communities, ending with Urbit positioned as the most extreme and isolated outlier.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 22/02/2026
sufficiently decentralized
A satirical medieval‑style cartoon showing two opposing factions. On the left, banners labeled with phrases like ‘Our Blessed DID:PLC’ and names such as Swiss Shellco, ATScan Mirror, PLC BFT POA, and Bluesky PBC appear on castles and ships. On the right, an opposing group labeled ‘Their Barbarous Snapchain’ features Delaware C Corp, Quilibrium Fork, Tendermint POA, and Neynar, Inc. The scene exaggerates the rivalry between two tech ecosystems by depicting them as warring kingdoms.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026
Ray Kurzweil Apology Form

To:

Ray Kurzweil

the Internet

Date:

1/22/2025

Reason for behavior:

The media convinced

☐ me that deep learning hit a wall

☐

I was biased against

people who gave TED

talks

I was jealous of your hair

I thought the

I thought you were too into the Turing Test

nano stuff was weird

☐Mercury was in

retrograde

☐ I will hereby respect the Singularity and I will NOT talk down on exponential improvements in computing power
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/01/2026
AI Agents on Farcaster, open social + AI is going to be big. farcaster.xyz/applefather....
A preview of the link attached
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 29/11/2025
Welcome to the Clover Club cam
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 23/10/2025
Before I hear your jibber jabber on politics, I need you to recognize this is the median voter:
Tesla Cybertruck wrapped with Kuffiyah and the flag of Palestine on the top in support of Palestinians. (San Francisco in front of Los Hermanos Taqueria)
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 29/09/2025
Yes, I had this problem too, I set CXXFLAGS=-std=c++20 when compiling in my envvars and changed the following resolution & it worked on node v24
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 28/09/2025
`git clean -d -f -x .` seems to have worked, seems like I had a bunch of old stuff cached that wasn't getting rebuilt after a `git pull` thanks for the help!
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 28/09/2025
make run-dev-env results in:
[ created by Bluesky ]
/home/dfern/atproto/packages/bsky/src/index.ts:120
        : new BasicHostList(config.dataplaneUrls)
          ^


TypeError: client_1.BasicHostList is not a constructor
    at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/bsky/src/index.ts:120:11)
    at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/bsky.ts:106:37)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/network.ts:66:18)
    at run (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/bin.ts:17:19)

Node.js v18.20.8
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025
Orange Dreamsicle Negroni & a "Night in Cancun" clarified tequila/mango milk sour with Hibiscus foam.
Orange Dreamsicle NegroniNight in Cancun cocktail
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/09/2025
Happy Negroni Week!
A golden orchard negroni with a negroni menuA bitter eden negroni
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 18/09/2025
I hereby endorse Taste of Persia in San Jose. 11/10 😋
Persian dinner combo with kebab rice salad and grilled jalapeño from Taste of Persia SJ
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 08/09/2025
farcaster.xyz/amadon.eth/0...
A Farcaster post from amadon.eth
Worldcoin opened a LA location and somehow thought it was a good idea to have me speak. Spent 25 min calling out proof-of-person as a spoofable scam, warning about the surveillance state they’re helping to build, and telling everyone why they should never give up their biometric data. The looks on the Worldcoin staffers’ faces were priceless.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 27/08/2025
This is a new one...create an account to redeem a gift link?
A popup from the washington post that says: "GIFT FROM A POST SUBSCRIBER, Create an account to redeem your FREE article"
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 12/08/2025
Can any ATProto gurus give the lowdown on why I need to enter my password on a different domain from my PDS? For ex, here's deer.social's login page. Why is OAuth not a thing here? It breaks password managers (read: phishing waiting to happen)
browser screenshot of deer.social login page
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 31/07/2025
True, but that's just self declared in the token contract, there's no official naming system like ENS for tickers. Tickers can change between exchanges. For example, I followed Status which had $SNT, but some random AI trading bot started trying to ursurp the $SNT tag on X. But CG choses one:
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 18/07/2025
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 17/07/2025
Ser, per the FAQ
A screenshot from ecashact.us that says: "Importantly, E-Cash is not:
1. A CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). Although E-Cash is a form of digital dollar, it is issued by the Treasury, not the Federal Reserve, and accordingly is not a CBDC.
2. In competition with a CBDC. E-Cash is intended to complement and be developed in parallel to other forms of digital public finance, including CBDCs, FedAccounts, Postal Banking, and Public Banking."
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 09/07/2025
Oh snap! One hatched already
A house finch feeding a newborn hatchling
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 06/07/2025
A collage showing a finch nest, the finch nesting and 3 small finch eggs in the nest.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 06/07/2025
I have a House finch nesting on my back patio. You can watch it here: www.twitch.tv/daferna
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 30/05/2025
A black T-shirt from Metafactory with the Tornado Cash 🌀 logo in green and text that says: "I helped violate international sanctions and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 08/04/2025
I'm a big fan of the new tipping meta on Farcaster. Reward people for the value they bring into your feed. Zero crypto required (it's all stablecoins). And it actually works! (unlike the lightning network)
an array of profile pictures showing the users dfern.eth tipped
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 16/12/2024
holy smokes, don't the ppl developing cures deserve a little bit better than this? $BLUE
A chart of bluebird bio's stock price over it's lifetime, down 97.50%
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 16/12/2024
Not to bury the lede, but we don't even know who the insurance company is, shouldn't they get credit for taking the risk of approval with this experimental treatment?
Screenshot that says: His pain never let up. One day he said to Deborah, “Mommy, I’m in pain every single day.”

Kendric wants to be like other kids, but fear of pain crises has held him back. He became increasingly sedentary, spending his days on his iPad, watching anime or building elaborate Lego structures.

Despite his many absences, Kendric kept up in school, maintaining an A average.

Deborah and Keith began to hope for gene therapy. But when they found out what it would cost, they lost some of their hope.

But their insurer approved the treatment in a few weeks, they said.

Now it has begun.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 13/12/2024
A Bike Fall meme where the first panel of a man riding a bike says: *creating an opensource, open data, decentralized social media protocol with composable moderation*, the second panel of the same man putting a stick through his front wheel says: force-detach quote posts & break thread contexts, and the final panel with the man who has fallen of the bike holding his knee in pain says: everyone screenshots instead
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 29/11/2024
Made Philadelphia Fish House Punch, consumed by our founding fathers!
Two punch bowl containing orange liquids (punch) with a hand holding a glass of punch
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 26/11/2024
Privacy is normal.
A poster from ZCash that says:
Privacy is normal. Privacy is for good guys. It's for moms and bike messengers and foodies. Privacy is for business meetings and voting booths. It's why we have shower curtains It's why we have that little padlock icon in our browser bar. Privacy protects you from discrimination and from identity theft, and it keeps your food-delivery history under wraps. It can also shield you from those creepy somebody-has-definitely-been-listening-to-my-thoughts ads on social media apps. Privacy isn't about shutting out everyone and everything, Instead, privacy gives you the power to choose what and with whom you'll share. It provides safety, control and the right to grant access Privacy gives you the ability to express yourself, to be creative, to spend your time and your money in whatever manner you like, without the scrutiny of others. It protects our intimate moments, our most embarrassing ambitions, our radical ideas and the ability to be our true selves. Privacy is freedom, consent, dignity and security. Privacy is normal.
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 14/11/2024
"our natural reflection of what people are interested in" "their echo chamber"
A cartoon of our blessed homeland, their barbarous wastes
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 25/10/2024
We're way ahead of you
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 24/09/2024
NGL, it's pretty funny X is now catching up to Farcaster & Bluesky while they pretend to be like a protocol rather than a Web2.0 fiefdom.
A tweet from @nima_owji on X that reads: "BREAKING: X is about to remove the current block button, meaning that if an account is public, their posts will be visible to the blocked users as well!"
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 18/09/2024
Wow, I was so early #NotToBrag
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Daniel Fernandes @danielfernand.es · 17/09/2024
My Brain: Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it
A screenshot of the Title & Abstract for the paper "How to Timestamp a Digital Document" by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta in the Journal of Cryptology 1991
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