multiplication tables are lookup tables for the mind

Saw a machine make an americano by pouring the water first and then the espresso shot. 

Felt unnerving and unnatural. Unheard of and unacceptable!

No Channel Channel.

me: I’d like to think of myself as chaotic good, but if I’m going to be honest I’m probably lawful neutral actually 

interviewer, taking notes: …BIG dork…

someone pls tell my cat that privacy is a hooman right

Fitness

January stats: finally reached 1.0x bodyweight bench press

some incremental progress in Feb, hit 5x300 lbs deadlift then deloaded

what if the CAPTCHAs get so hard we end up needing AIs to solve them

some new PRs in December, reached 225lbs squats

nobody ever stops to ponder whether the devil needs an advocate

💯 - folks have asked me why I wrote my Safe transaction script (https://github.com/pcaversaccio/safe-tx-hashes-util) as pure Bash script and not eg via Python. Minimal dependency. You have to only trust Linux (and Foundry) in this case. The current world is dominated by dependency bloat. This is bad and insecure engineering. Period.

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

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.

🧵👇

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

karmacoma

@karma