idk for sure but maybe we could take this meme to heart more

i drive a 2002 toyota echo with manual locks and windows

looking at nice recent used toyotas - no commute but hoping to move and have a social life in la

likes building things • https://alexgrover.me

as-is i probably drive, generously, 10 mi/week

but looking to move to la so probably will have to drive to many more things (events, friends, etc)

Decentralized open source consciousness | Values-aligned communities | citizen of Black Rock City

hoping to move to la so need something that makes driving to things more-than-tolerable 🥴

chatgpt o3 is soooo good. it's very thorough with compiling sources. like a much-faster "deep research"

don't think o4-mini is nearly as thorough, so doesn't seem as useful for tasks that "touch grass"

eg i'm talking to it about finding used cars and different apartment + moving company options

friends with cars

should i get a nice (non-luxury) car or another crappy car if i don’t like driving but need a new car

maybe i wouldn’t mind driving more with a nicer car?

i have driven the same car for literally half of my life

wdym “walk and talk”

someone might hear or otherwise perceive you?

Ethereum

We are all underestimating how mind-bending account abstraction is, even for crypto veterans.

I've had several conversations with people who simply could not let go of the concept of seed phrases, no matter what.

2009: Private keys
2013: Seed phrases
2025: Abstract signers (passkeys, ZK proofs, oracles, anything!)

what’s the latest in recovery for passkey wallets? social/api recovery? 

i use a password manager which can store passkeys but most people don’t

productivity hack: go for a run in the middle of the work day

(vs brain fog all day)

Screens

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something about it feels very “old school hollywood”

screaming crying throwing up at the thought of having to understand this ruby backend

Kind of related, but it would have been interesting to see Loot in a world with mini apps. Imagining it could have resulted in more experiences taking advantage of the shared primitive. Not sure you can replicate the hype around it again though 😔

still wild to me that all the effort went into putting loot fully on chain with no way to query the metadata

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

you should tell them they’re doing a good job and that you’re proud of them

new Airbnb product just proves that we are just constantly unbundling and bundling Craigslist again and again.

Crypto really is low status and trashy. It has afforded me a lot of opportunity but it’s also embarrassing and not something I am excited to tell people about

this is why i now (truthfully) say i work in fintech

can i use the L2ToL2CrossDomainMessenger on op-mainnet/base-mainnet today? or only testnets?

smith rock state park, oregon! like 30 minutes from bend

it’s really great for climbing - the park really focuses on it since it’s where sport climbing started in the usa. most walls are directly off of main paths and a lot are terraced for belaying and putting down gear

it’s not a matter of climb it’s just a matter of climbing

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