Today I sit down with Hab and W1nt3r. This dev and designer pair won a Prop House round and shipped an alternative frontend to the Nouns auction site that they dubbed the Nouns Terminal. We chat about what it’s like working in crypto vs. big tech, their love for generative art, why the details matter, and what we can expect from them in the future.
Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.
Chapters:
00:01:29 W1nt3r and Hab’s background
00:02:44 How W1nt3r got into crypto
00:03:58 How Hab got into crypto and working together with W1nt3r
00:04:57 How Hab became a founding designer at Discord
00:06:31 Hab’s relationship to gaming
00:07:25 Working together on Code Makes Art
00:09:37 Quasars and how Code Makes Art evolved
00:12:36 Building Hot Chain SVG for Watchfaces.World and use cases
00:16:02 Hab transitioning from dev to design work
00:19:30 W1nt3r’s ABI tool for unverified contracts
00:22:08 The story behind W1nt3r and Hab’s pseudonyms
00:24:18 Hab’s relationship to generative art
00:24:35 Breaking down how generative art is made
00:26:26 Hab discovering FX Hash and how people can get involved with generative art
00:28:02 Hab and W1nt3r’s next generative art collection and QQL
00:34:39 Hab’s “taste the rainbow” styling in the RainbowKit docs and the value of adding small details
00:40:20 The transition from big tech to web3
00:44:19 Hab and W1nt3r finding Nouns, Prop House, and building Nouns.sh
00:53:49 Working with Prop House rounds vs. the structure of working in big tech
01:00:16 W1nt3r’s experience joining Solidity Guild and future plans
Topics discussed:
Discord
Meta
Code Makes Art
watchfaces.world
Hot Chain SVG
W1nt3r’s ABI tool
Rainbow wallet
RainbowKit
Developer DAO
The Coding Train
QQL
Nouns Terminal
Prop House
Solidity Guild
Relevant links:
Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth
Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com
To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf
Credits:
Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)
Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth
Cover art by Messhup
Music by Oh Jeremiah
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