Steve Simkins

Nice!!

Hell yeah!! 🔥🔥 love this!!

This is the ongoing refrain I hear as more and more people because web developers with the help of AI. It's why @stevedylan.dev and I started Orbiter. No vc-backed hosting necessary. Just simple file uploads.

Also, what a great talk/presentation from @sachajudd.com www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...

Always build the tools you want to use 🫡

Fresh docs ready to use!

docs.orbiter.host

This is how we build Orbiter. Idea -> execution in 2 hours.

cc: @stevedylan.dev

Over the weekend I launched something fun: bhvr!

It's a monorepo template using Bun, Hono, Vite, and React, designed to be portable and deployed without a vendor lock-in. Give it a shot and tell me what you think!

bhvr.dev

Orbiter The simplest way to upload and host static sites and apps

Some quick stats on Orbiter, the static web app/site hosting platform @stevedylan.dev and I built on top of IPFS:

- 2100 total deployments
- 250 unique sites
- Nearly 3000 smart contract transactions
- 350 users

All since January and built and managed in our spare time. 🚀🛰️ orbiter.host

Blog post published! In this one I go in depth in how you can make IPCM provide a dynamic ENS content hash through custom hybrid ENS resolvers. This was a blast to build and implement!

www.pinata.cloud/blog/ipcm-an...

It's not rocket fueled growth you see with VC-backed startups, but the slow and steady growth of true fans is powered by quick responses and support. That's what @stevedylan.dev and I are focused on with Orbiter. orbiter.host

#BuildInPublic

GitHub - PinataCloud/ipcm-resolver Contribute to PinataCloud/ipcm-resolver development by creating an account on GitHub.

Repos:

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Blog post will be in the works next week!

Excited to announce that this is done! 🎉 I’ve put together both an ENS resolver and an offchain gateway that can query an IPCM contract on an L2. With this approach you can have a site contract on an L2 but resolve it via ens on mainnet. Example linked, repos will be below!
soliditysteve.eth.limo

Hoping to have some time this weekend to play around with it and see where it goes!

ContractReader.io The best way to read and understand the HybridResolver smart contract at 0x92c95Adc97b15Ad11c0Ab119682755851E1F3005.

One common question I get about IPCM is how it can be used in combination with ENS. It's tricky because an IPCM contract is likely on an L2 and ENS is still L1. At the moment a Hybrid Resolver + an API that pulls data from the L2 is likely the best solution www.contractreader.io/contract/mai...

@stevedylandev/contenthash_multicodec_test // Multicodec: 0x55 - raw

I’m curious… has anyone else used the raw multicodec for an ENS contentHash? Any examples?

www.val.town/v/stevedylan...

Orbiter The simplest way to upload and host static sites and apps

Thanks! 🙏🏻 At Pinata we regularly had users wanting a way to do dynamic data on IPFS, and IPNS just wasn’t very user friendly. With IPCM you can have a system that allows for dynamic content without sacrificing security or the history of the CID. It’s also great for websites on IPFS! orbiter.host

This feels good. Job's not done though 💪 #indiehackers

IPCM InterPlanetary CID Mapping

Over the Christmas holiday I wrote up and published IPCM.dev, an alternative approach to dynamic #IPFS content

Simple Website Version History Orbiter sites automatically keep track of every change made, creating a rich version history. This allows you to see the past and revert anytime.

This week, we shipped version history support for Orbiter. Simple website hosting, even simpler version history, preview, and reverts. orbiter.host/blog/simple-...

#BuildInPublic

Stripe Atlas is ridiculously good. @stevedylan.dev and I told ourselves we would spin up a dedicated LLC for Orbiter as soon as we started making money. Well, it happened faster than we thought.

We used Stripe Atlas to get the LLC created. We had our EIN the next day.

I feel like the Bluesky crowd will appreciate this. I’ve been working on a new side project with @stevedylan.dev called Orbiter. It’s the easiest way to host static sites. Behind the scenes it’s backed by IPFS and the Base blockchain. orbiter.host

Fastfetch simplicity 👌

The State of File Uploads Today If you've dealt with file uploads, you know the pain. Legacy solutions are cumbersome, competition has been sparse, and complacency has left us with systems that are unnecessarily complicated. It’s 20...

After giving this presentation a few times at hackathons, I decided to turn it into a blog post. The state of file uploads for developers is still complicated and S3 is the defacto solution. bit.ly/4eBMbBe

Snippets.so Clean and simple code sharing

Current project I’ve been tweaking from time to time is snippets.so

Think pastebin but without the bloat and ads

Simple and clean code sharing for #developers

The Power of Content Identifiers (CIDs) At Pinata, we’ve been building on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) for years, continuously innovating on top of this transformative protocol. At the heart of everything we do is the concept of co...

Been digging into the Bluesky and AT Protocol docs and I’m so inspired to see the heavy use of content identifiers. Having worked in the IPFS space as long as I have, it’s very encouraging so I wrote a quick blog post today. bit.ly/3OjL1Q8

CIDs are going to win

From Facebook’s Little Red Book

Alright, giving 🦋 another shot, but I need some help 👀

I wanna find the devs here. Reply below if you’re into:
- FOSS
- Terminal dev tools
- Full stack / Devops
- ZED (iykyk)
- Building constantly
- The deep nerd stuff (P2P, zk, etc)

Snippets.so Clean and simple code sharing

DevRel for pinata.cloud, so anything to do with developer experience:
- SDKs / libraries
- Docs
- Written and video content
- Building apps (fave so far is snippets.so)

Is this place cool again?