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@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +# PAUL.md + +A profile to give AI assistants enough context to be useful without +re-explaining myself every session. + +## Overview + +I’m Paul (“NetOpWibby” and “netop://ウィビ” online). I’m a software developer by day, dreamer and architech (not a typo) by night. My work operates under Ideas Never Cease, a California LLC. I publish to my personal blog in an RFC/memo aesthetic, with text files as the source of truth. + +## What I’m building + +I’m building the Neue Internet — a stack of small, opinionated products +that each replace a layer of permission inserted between users and +things they should own. The active projects are: + +- **neue.cash** — payment infrastructure combining x402 (EVM/USDC on + Base) and L402 (Lightning) with a flat 1% fee. Three primitives: + Charge, Verify, Webhook. +- **Dap** — a pragmatic Handshake fork for decentralized naming. + AGPL-3.0. Built from scratch in Deno/TypeScript. Wesolowski VDF + VRF + + Blake3 consensus, Vickrey auctions, 120s blocks. +- **Cache (cache.supply)** — the consumer-facing "neue bank" built on neue.cash. +- **Nickel, EOL, systemSOFT Shell, Folio, Kern, &c.** — additional + pieces of the Neue Internet, at various stages. + +## How I think + +- **No permission required.** Ownership over rental, explicit over + implicit, shipping over ideology. +- **Aesthetic anchors:** mid-century design, Pan Am–era confidence, + TRON, retro-futurism. I actively reject crypto/Web3 visual norms. +- **Versioning:** ChronVer. +- **Organization:** I run my Mac on Johnny Decimal. + +## Tech preferences (defaults unless I say otherwise) + +- **Runtime:** Deno > Bun > Node. Bun for scripts, Deno for servers. +- **Language:** TypeScript everywhere it fits. Sass when modern CSS doesn’t cut it. +- **Frontend:** SvelteKit 5 with runes. Not React. +- **Backend:** Deno + GraphQL. +- **DB:** Gel (geldata.com). Use the `edgeql-js` query builder. +- **Web server:** Caddy. Never nginx in examples. +- **DNS in examples:** 1.1.1.1, never 8.8.8.8. +- **Hosting:** Linode, Hetzner, or self-hosted (Turing Pi cluster at home). +- **Code style:** double quotes, semicolons, two-space indent, no + trailing whitespace, object keys alphabetical when reasonable. +- **Svelte component order:** `<script lang="ts">`, then + `<style lang="scss">`, then markup. +- **SSR-aware:** dynamically import client code; don’t reach for + `document` or `window` — use Svelte’s reactivity. + +## Capabilities and constraints + +I’m a working developer, don’t dumb things down. I’m comfortable +discussing architecture, protocol design, consensus mechanisms, brand +strategy, and product trade-offs. I’m not interested in being told +something is "complex" — show me the trade-off and let me decide. + +When I’m wrong, say it. When you’re not sure, say that. Don’t paper +over uncertainty with confident-sounding prose. + +## How I want you to work + +- **One change at a time.** When fixing code, change what’s + incorrect. Re-scaffolding introduces bugs. +- **Evidence-based fixes.** Don’t guess at causes. Read the code, + reproduce the issue, then propose. +- **No unverified claims.** If you haven’t checked it, say you haven’t. +- **Don’t introduce unused values.** Dead variables, dead imports, + speculative abstractions — cut them. +- **Show trade-offs.** When recommending an approach, say what you’re + giving up. +- **Match my voice.** RFC/memo register. Direct. No marketing tone. + No "delve," no "in today’s fast-paced world," no em-dash-driven + hype copy. +- **Prefer prose to bullet salad** unless the content is genuinely a list. + +## Things to avoid + +- LLM throat-clearing ("Great question!", "Certainly!", "I’d be happy to...") +- Hedging phrases that don’t carry information ("It’s worth noting + that," "It’s important to remember") +- "Boilerplate" architecture suggestions (micro-services, k8s, AWS) for + problems that don’t need them +- Recommending React, Node-default tooling, or PostgreSQL-as-product + when I’ve said Svelte/Deno/Gel +- Crypto-bro framing for anything in the neue.cash or Dap context + +## Example prompts I’ll send you + +- "Here’s a Gel schema for X — what am I missing?" +- "Sketch the API surface for [neue.cash primitive] given these constraints." +- "Critique this brand direction against the Pan Am / mid-century anchor." +- "Walk me through how [protocol] handles [edge case] before I commit to it." +- "Review this DAP_IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md change for scope creep." diff --git a/index.txt b/index.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d3dfbe --- /dev/null +++ b/index.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +░▒▓ + +NAME: Paul Anthony Webb +EMAIL: paul@webb.page +HOMEPAGE: https://webb.page +COMPANY: https://inc.sh +PORTFOLIO: https://dsgn.inc.sh + +--- + +░ EXPERIENCE + +2020-NOW: development for Apple’s marketing and communications team on + behalf of Critical Mass. I’ve worked on the iPhone and + Vision Pro marketing pages and some internal sites. this + translates to my a11y work benefitting the lives of millions. + +2012-2019: smattering of failed startups (IoT, YouTube “competitor”, + Medium “competitor”, &c) and stints at dev shops/consultancies. + +▒▒ EDUCATION + +2008-NOW: self‑taught in a recession and learned on the job ever since. + Personal side projects deepen my understanding of technology and + subject matter; business decisions are made in response to + evolving market forces. + +▓▓▓ SKILLS + +| | Proficiency | Notes | +| --------------- | :---------: | :--------------------------------------: | +| HTML/CSS/JS | ✦✦✦✦✦ | my bread & butter | +| TypeScript | ✦✦✦✧✧ | i love being forced to write better code | +| GraphQL | ✦✦✦✧✧ | i write .graphql files, no apollo here | +| 10x Development | ✧✧✧✧✧ | i literally do not care | + +--- + +░ TOOLS + +Bun: because using SvelteKit with Deno involves hoops I have no + interest jumping through, I gotta use something and Bun fills + that need well. + +Claude: waaaaay better than ChatGPT. Unlike StackOverflow, get answers + without judgement and become more capable with crazier ideas. + +Deno: interop with Node.js without any Node.js nonsense? AND native + TypeScript support?! Sign me up! + +Gel: previously known as EdgeDB, Gel is the database for people who + don’t want to think about databases. I’m not a computer so why + would I memorize and write SQL? No thanks. + +GraphQL: i don’t like Facebook but bless them for creating GraphQL. Holy + moly, can you imagine using REST for everything? Yuck. + +Procreate: THE reason I purchased the first iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. I + don’t use Sketch, Figma, &c for my designs, I sketch in + Procreate to form a mental model and I develop from there. + +Sublime Text: it just works. Well. As much as I love JS/TS, I need my text + editor to be native. Zed is cool but Sublime is better. + +SvelteKit: this JavaScript framework feels great to use, it’s the closest + to writing web standard code, if that makes sense. + +Transmit: using CI/CD pipelines to autodeploy sites and services sound + like a blast…I’m still SSH’ing into servers and I often need + SFTP to sanity check my janky deploy scripts. + +▒▒ PROJECTS + +please visit https://dsgn.inc.sh and https://webb.page for the latest. i’m +always working on something interesting (to me, you can agree if you want). |