Lanterns lighting up a random street in Taipei during the Lantern Festival 🎇🏮

marketing strategist & storyteller / story photographer

Fun OSS encounter story: 15 years ago, the WebSocket spec just came out and preliminary implementations were live. I wanted to prototype a little in-browser MMO, but the one implementation out there was node.websocket.js by an Argentinian fella named Guillermo Rauch.

Guillermo's library was only half-working for what I needed, so I ended up forking it and rewriting it entirely (https://github.com/shazow/node.websocket.js). I suggested some of the changes upstream, we discussed over email. I built my demo using my fork, while Guillermo also did a rewrite that became socket.io which was fantastic! So good that I didn't feel the need to keep working on my fork.

It's funny to think that there's an alternate universe where I went on to build the urllib3 of nodejs websockets.

It wasn't until yesterday that I realized: That Guillermo is the same @rauchg who went on to create /nextjs and founded @vercel. I didn't stand a chance! 🙇

Open source doesn’t happen in a vacuum and it’s the result of sharing and learning from the work of others. Great memories of the beginning of socket.io and @shazow.eth’s part in the story.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

bestplaces

one day/ one mood/ one kind of spring in the air

Byte Brain

Theo dõi và kiếm tiền cùng ByteBrain

Base

stablecoin supply on @base breaks all-time high of $3.8 billion 📈

we saw supply averaging around $3.5 billion for the last few months

but it's steadily grown 10% over the past month

super based

warpcast team really slept on amps for so long we had to build it ourselves

Parenting

some personal news: we're having our first baby

we expect him (!!) to come in early march and i'll be more offline than not for the month after, then reducing travel this year. excited to bring another builder into the world.

the @base core team is full steam ahead.

What does USDS have two conflicting savings rates on their homepage?

guitar

It seems like "The Bitter Lesson" from AI is just a general lesson for the design of any system with emergence. It's very fun to tinker with a system's details but a simple design with emergence always works better

It seems like "The Bitter Lesson" from AI is just a general lesson for the design of any system with emergence. It's very fun to tinker with a system's details but a simple design with emergence always works better 

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

> "transactions confirmed instantly" meaning Poisson(10 minutes), could easily be an hour

> security budget does the grains-of-rice-on-chess-board in reverse, toward zero

> all ways to fix this are Absolutely Haram

tough day to be a bitcoiner

It is pretty clear that Bitcoin as a blockchain is a colossal waste of energy. As BTC custody continues centralizing to a few ETFs, CEXs, institutions, in the long term >50% of BTC will be held by a handful of organisations

Might as well just cancel PoW and move to PoA at that point. It would actually be *more decentralized* as PoW will inevitably centralize over to a handful of industrial players and pools due to crippling economies of scale. Plus, it'll solve the security budget problem. As before, the full nodes will be there as the last line of defence irrespective

The only thing matters for BTC is it remains a speculative store-of-value, doesn't matter the mechanism to achieve that

It is pretty clear that Bitcoin as a blockchain is a colossal waste of energy. As BTC custody continues centralizing to a few ETFs, CEXs, institutions, in the long term >50% of BTC will be held by a handful of organisations

Might as well just cancel PoW and move to PoA at that point. It would actually be *more decentralized* as PoW will inevitably centralize over to a handful of industrial players and pools due to crippling economies of scale. Plus, it'll solve the security budget problem. As before, the full nodes will be there as the last line of defence irrespective

The only thing matters for BTC is it remains a speculative store-of-value, doesn't matter the mechanism to achieve that

https://x.com/i/trending/1885868663116296256

DeFi

Uniswap v4's most interesting development isn't it's features, it's how it's turning Uniswap's competitors into its customers.

Breaking down defi's next major platform play 👇

Philosophy

Farcade

what are you building this saturday? 

for me, been working on upgrading our smart contract wallet support to Zapper and displaying account abstraction transactions in a much more readable way

Collect The Tales of Web3 S3 with Alex (Episode 024) from The Tales of Web3 on Pods!

Visual Identity Design
Crypto and Blockchain Enthusiast

Aliu Oluwasegun

@shegs081