shazow

@shazow.eth

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urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month. very demure and mindful number, very cutesy

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Hot take: Onchain slashing make social slashing more viable. Social slashing alone is not enough because there are no induced damages. Consider the scenario where ~19 entities who control 50.1% of the total amount staked decide to do an urgent secret bug fix upgrade, what happens? The network splits, both forks continue to create blocks but each other half starts losing stake from inactivity leaks (or worse, gets slashed for double-signing by participating in both). Without onchain slashing, a majority can upgrade the network without creating direct damages (like Solana did last month). With onchain slashing, it's a hostile coup. A group of doxxed organizations colluding in secret (excluding public access to participate) directly creates massive damages ripe for lawsuits (a form of social slashing?). It's not a "no harm, no foul" situation, even if the upgrade was well-intentioned (urgent bug fix). If I were a major Ethereum validator, I would think twice before participating in secret upgrades.

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Quick primer on how Solana's fee markets are different from Ethereum, to all the people experiencing "defacto liveness failures" while trying to Warplet Solana things rn.

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"intuitive" is the "decentralization" of ux, a word burdened with vibes-based arguments much ux is cargo culting the byproduct of conditioning from being trapped inside a walled garden do people want what they're familiar with? sure, but at what cost? people are great at learning when they're motivated

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I got to share my urllib3 origin story on the OSI website (OSI maintains the Open Source definition): https://opensource.org/maintainers/shazow

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qc w an album that gets 0 skips

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the real pmf of narrow fee markets is being able to claim "lower median fees" and gaslight users with "works for me" while they try to interact with congested contracts at the limit, load balancing hot spot contracts runs into similar interop challenges as based rollups, without any of the other benefits of rollups

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Solana has a per-contract (account) fee market. Ethereum has a global fee market. To make Ethereum fees go up, the entire chain has to be congested. To make Solana fees go up, only the contract you're using needs to be congested. With this goal post, Solana is always experiencing defacto liveness failures.

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@maurelian.eth same

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Performance art at Consensus conf: empty ENRON booth

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I just donated $5 to Second Harvest Canada / Deuxieme Recolte Canada through @endaoment! Very nice miniapp, very slick, can't wait for the extra approval txn to disappear from the warplet. 😌

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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!)

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is the architecture overview still current now that we've started using snapchain? https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/architecture/overview i reference it in my blog post and don't wanna mislead people. (cc @horsefacts.eth?)

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kinda love that the official ukraine government eth donation address continues to get a trickle of donations https://etherscan.io/address/0x165cd37b4c644c2921454429e7f9358d18a45e14

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Warplet Donate i have a bunch of tokens i don't care about, would love to "Clean up" my warplet but donating all of them to some onchain charity or whatever gofundme-type miniapp is currently raising money, this could become its own mini-marketplace. bonus points if it can be done in-kind tax-wise

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if you enjoyed this post and want to follow along the reception of it on bluesky, here it is: https://bsky.app/profile/shazow.net/post/3lp7sscoycc23

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my experience in the past year: "what do you do?" i build open source infrastructure "oh what kind??" a bunch of stuff over the years, mainly smart contract stuff lately "what are smart contracts?" they're programs that are guaranteed to execute with some amount of economic security, imagine a platform where countries can make agreements that they can't violate without defined repercussions... have you heard of ethereum?

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no cheating. post a picture of yourself.

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Things I actually want from an AI code assistant: 1. Watch what I do and make me a script/macro 2. I just wrote a weird line, does it actually do what I'm trying to do? 3. I started to refactor some of my code, make the rest of my code consistent (using a new API, new style, whatever).

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Apple made emdash cool, GPT made it uncool.

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