there is an inherent tension for decentralized social media:
- its value prop is that you can't be censored
- but it also wants to give you an engaging feed free of objectionable stuff, so it requires soft censorship of others

what gives?

November snapshot: little progress, dealing with soreness and deloading

some new PRs in December, reached 225lbs squats

October snapshot: we're up to 200 lbs squats

new snapshot, we're up to 200 lbs deadlifts

Ethereum

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

Check out our demo, which shows Helios syncing on Ethereum, Optimism, and Base, all from within the browser:
helios.a16zcrypto.com/demo

For the full blog post, head to:
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/scaling-ethereum-rollups-with-helios/

the man casually dropped an L2 light client that verifies multiple chains *in your browser*

Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum.

Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become.

🧵👇

Fitness

I started lifting and made a minimalist strength standards progress tracker in google sheets

PUSH1..PUSH32 are called the “PUSHn” instructions. Memorize them. You don’t want to be the guy at the party who’s never heard of PUSH27

why are you casting when you could be improving benchmarks?

Running

this guy is something else

https://x.com/harveylewisruns/status/1818472157741195708?s=46&t=nmEEpAGKsJFWD9yyl0ScGg

"Left" and "right" seem especially tired in the context of crypto, which enables new kinds of self-sovereignty *and* collective action. Working in a low status industry full of high agency weirdos has meant bumping into many people with heterodox politics. I think this is good.

https://frames.weponder.io/api/polls/4551/frame 

context: halmos is our OSS EVM bytecode verifier (github.com/a16z/halmos)

karmacoma

@karma