✨If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you defy the dragon it will overpower you. But if you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its strength and power.✨ smaug.pool.pm/

The parameter committee has spent months/years debating on how to accurately gauge SPO sentiment about raising stakePoolTargetNum from 500->1000. As part of this, myself and another member of the parameter committee meticulously drafted all the arguments for and arguments against and linked them in separate documents so that voters could have a balanced view of both arguments. We linked these inside of a neutral-language Info Action body for SPOs to consider. Because Info Actions have no ratification threshold and stakePoolTargetNum isn't a parameter that SPOs vote on through governance, the parameter committee collectively agreed to use a specific threshold of explicit YES > explicit NO for this Info Action. This is already above and beyond what the protocol and the Constitution require and we went out of our way to give SPOs a voice on this. Unfortunately, a community member who is opposed to the parameter change hijacked our draft and the years of effort that went into it, changed the threshold to suit his desired outcome, and submitted it without consulting anybody. Even if the we can reasonably disagree about what the threshold should be for this vote (remember it is not required at all), taking other people's work, twisting it, and submitting in a manner to suit your own narrative is extremely disappointing to see. I'm very disheartened by this after having spent years of my own, uncompensated effort building to this point only to see a community member undermine it like this. If you want to see the real draft that the parameter committee put together, you can read it here. Also the case for and case against are linked as well, so you can see both sides of the discussion fairly. I can't speak on behalf of the others, but I will be interpreting the outcome of the vote based on the criteria that the parameter committee collectively agreed on, regardless of what this Info Action says. docs.google.com/document/d/1…

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Cardano node: 11.1.2 Release: github.com/IntersectMBO/card… ▷ SPOs are asked to prioritize this release and complete the upgrade at the earliest practical opportunity.

In my “Blockchain & Society” class, I love using real examples to help students understand how decentralized ledgers works. This semester, I was able to take things up a notch by using Claude Code to build a custom Cardano Blockchain Explorer as part of our class activity. My course is generally taken by students who have little to no experience with blockchains or crypto. Many are preparing for careers in technology and information consulting, where they will analyze different systems, assess their organizational value and limitations, and communicate recommendations to clients and decision-makers. In past years, I have done an exercise where I put a blockchain explorer up on the screen and walk students through how transactions move through the chain. But this time, I wanted them to learn about blockchain transactions by sending real assets over the Cardano network themselves. For that I had planned out a worksheet and a workflow where each student would receive some ADA, send transactions to each other, and then send some to a common address that I could use as a tracking point for the whole class. My intention was to use the Claimpaign platform to distribute the ADA, but I didn’t get it set up in time for students to use it in class. As I was getting ready to teach, I realized I would need a different way to get ADA into their wallets. Luckily, I knew that the VESPR wallet lets me use Face ID on my iPhone in place of the signing password, which means I can send a transaction about as fast as I can look at my phone. So when class began, I explained the activity, passed out the worksheet, and had students install either VESPR or Eternl on their phone or computer. Then I went down each row and manually sent every student 4 ADA to seed their wallet. Thanks to the Face ID option, this did not take me very long to accomplish. As students got set up with their ADA, they started working with a partner on the worksheet, and once everybody had traded with each other, they sent their ADA on to the classroom wallet. I had originally intended to look at all of this in an ordinary Cardano blockchain explorer, but I was having fun designing the activity, so I asked Claude to build me a custom explorer that would show the transactions and let me reveal the transaction flows my students had engaged in, step by step. (Hat tip to @SmaugPool for the UX inspiration from @pool_pm.) The whole class worked out fantastically. After students had traded with each other and sent ADA to the classroom wallet, I used the custom explorer to collect the on-chain data via Koios and display it in a way that showed the transactions lined up one next to another. We had a discussion on how the transactions worked and how their structure showed the inputs and outputs we had been discussing in class, not just for Cardano but for Bitcoin as well. We also talked about how their wallet software was their way of controlling their private keys for the blockchain network, just like the activity from the first week of class where I had them set up PGP key pairs so they could send secure email and get a feel for key-pair cryptography. We discussed the security implications of a mobile software wallet like VESPR compared with cold-storage methods, as well as situations where convenience might be prioritized over stronger safeguards. Overall, I am extremely happy with how the activity went, and I am thoroughly impressed with the way Claude was able to extend my ability to teach this lesson. While I didn’t strictly need a custom blockchain explorer to show my students the activity they had engaged in on chain, it let me show what was happening exactly the way I wanted so that I could reinforce the lessons I had been teaching in class. There is a lot of discussion right now about how AI tools are being used by instructors and students. While there are certainly real downsides to becoming over-reliant on AI to build new products and do analysis, there are also ways it makes things better. It is undeniable that most of my students will be graduating into jobs where they will be using AI systems every day. I am actively working to shift my teaching to help them learn how to manage their interactions with these systems. Rather than requiring as many written assignments that could simply be produced by AI, I am doing a lot more hands-on in-class activities like this and asking students to give oral presentations. I have found that the preparation required to explain a concept to your peers is what makes you understand it fully. I have put the activity in a GitHub repository so that anyone who teaches a blockchain course can use these materials and modify them for their own needs. I hope you find it useful! github.com/adamrusch/is390bk…

Good Morning Cardano (with Masumi) has now been merged as a working implementation into the official x402 repository. Previously only the specification was in there but now Cardano is also available via the official x402 packages in various programming languages. github.com/x402-foundation/x…

Have an issue with Daedalus? Use our new ariadne support portal, either via the Support Request option in the Help menu or opening a ticket at: daedalus.support.se7enlabs.c…

Cardano Leios is warming up🔥 Musashi testnet: kleioscan.com/#/musashi/leio…

If you are a Cardano stake pool operator and don't want to participate in governance, please follow the below guide to switch your pools to auto-abstain. Without this, your non-vote will automatically count as an implicit NO. developers.cardano.org/docs/…

2 SPO votes are closing in about 5 hours: ▷ Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2) ▷ Update Constitutional Committee 2026 Unless you're delegated to ALWAYS ABSTAIN DRep, no vote means NO. So if you wanted to vote YES, it's your last chance.

I think the real problem is that X's password reset email code is only 6 digits. If a hacker has been making 10 password reset request per account and trying the same code each time, that gives a 1 in 100000 chances of successfully resetting a password, or 1 every 100k X account.

Regardez comme les gens autour de lui sont stupéfaits, même pas par ses propos, mais par la liberté qu’il s’octroie.

I wrote a new Task Manager that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can get it now at tmog.org ... but why? Well, it started as an argument over whether you could vibe code Microsoft Word today. I didn't think so. But I figured... maybe something simpler like Task Manager. But you can't just tell Claude, "Hey, write a task manager!" Well, you can, but it'll be hot garbage. Then my kid blew out his appendix and needed surgery, so I had a couple of days in waiting rooms to tinker with the idea. I broke out my new M5 MacBook Air, and I put together a 107-page spec, like I was some caffeine-addled PM from the 90s. Everything you could ever want to know about a task manager, how it works, what it should do, and what it should look like. By the time he was out of the hospital, I had a rough app working. But then he started bleeding internally, needed emergency surgery and a blood transfusion. Happy to say he's all better now - but suffice to say I had the rest of the week to tinker as he healed. But why write a Task Manager? Because when I wrote the original in '95, it was on a P90 or something equally weak. Updating, scrolling, and painting without using more than a percent or two of the CPU was the modest goal. Now that we have 5 GHz CPUs and GPUs to help, why not push the limits? Animate everything at 60Hz, instead of once a second. History mouse tracking, a summary page, and all the features I would have added then if the hardware had allowed it. My autism leads me to embrace neon and high contrast in a way that's not to everyone's taste, so there's a saturation slider to control the color. But this one goes to 11. You can also select from a bunch of DEC VT220-inspired themes like Green Phosphor, Amber, or White. And I added Blue to match my VSCode theme! The code is fully native: Direct2D/DirectComposition on Windows, UIKit on Mac, and Qt on Linux. The UI communicates with a shared CPP core, which branches out to platform-specific helpers. There's NO electron, HTML, JSON, etc. Thanks to David and Rutger for their help along the way, I couldn't have done it this quickly on three platforms without them! If you've got some cycles to spare, give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues! tmog.org

⚛️​ Un électron, c’est pas une petite bille qui tourne autour du noyau comme une boule de billard. C’est une onde et cette onde n’est jamais à un endroit précis. L’électron est sur son orbite partout en même temps. Le plus dingue c’est que l’onde peut se redonner toute seule l'apparence d'une bille. On appelle cette chose une renaissance quantique, un revival. Résultat des courses, la quantique fait et défait l’électron-bille sous vos yeux ébahis et ralenti quarante-six mille milliards de fois. 🧮 La simulation résout exactement l’équation de Schrödinger pour l’atome d'hydrogène, une superposition d'états circulaires (n = 8 à 16 autour de l'orbite n° 12), isosurfaces de |Ψ|² colorées par la phase, aucune approximation au-delà du choix des coefficients. Simulation maison, calculs et code refaits de zéro, concept visuel inspiré de @mathelirium. Salukes #science #physique #profbucella #lasciencepeuttout

On a collectivement pourri le web avec les bandeaux de cookies. J'en vois partout sur tous les sites lambda, les sass qui viennent de démarrer, projets perso ... Et le pire, c'est que 90 % des devs et créateurs s'infligent ça par pur réflexe, sans réfléchir. Franchement, tu lances un petit SaaS, un portfolio ou une landing page propre, et le premier truc que tu balances à la gueule de ton visiteur, c'est une pop-up dégueulasse pour lui demander l'autorisation de respirer. C'est absurde. Faut rappeler un truc simple sur les cookies : Les cookies techniques pour garder un mec connecté, son panier ou sa session : c'est nécessaire au fonctionnement et ça ne demande pas de consentement Les préférences d'interface comme le dark mode ou la langue : pareil Les traceurs publicitaires, Meta Pixel, retargeting et compagnie : là, tu rentres généralement dans le monde merveilleux du consentement et des bandeaux Et le contresens absolu sur un petit projet ou un SaaS qui démarre, c'est que tu n'as souvent AUCUN besoin de traquer les gens partout sur le web. Tu veux juste savoir combien de personnes sont venues aujourd'hui, d'où elles débarquent et quelles pages elles regardent. Point. En foutant GA4 par défaut, tu te retrouves à massacrer ton UX dès la première seconde avec une pop-up. En plus, une partie de tes stats disparaît parce que les gens refusent le consentement ou bloquent les scripts. Et tu charges un outil énorme avec des dizaines de fonctionnalités dont tu n'utiliseras probablement jamais 95 %. Alors qu'on a des solutions beaucoup plus simples depuis des années : l'analytics sans cookies. Umami, Plausible, Fathom, Pirsch... Pas de cookies analytics Pas de consentement nécessaire si ta configuration respecte les conditions d'exemption Tu ne perds plus les visiteurs simplement parce qu'ils ont refusé les cookies Des scripts légers Une interface où tu vois l'essentiel en 3 secondes Bref, si tu ne fais pas de pub ciblée et que tu veux juste comprendre le trafic de ton site, demande-toi sérieusement pourquoi tu installes GA4 par réflexe. Prends une alternative respectueuse de la vie privée, configure-la correctement et vire ce foutu bandeau quand il n'a aucune raison d'être. Le web s'en portera mieux (et moi quand je viendrais sur ton site)

Dear SPOs, You absolutely shredded the voting participation party, and by far outnumbered the DReps, on the last ParamChange in February, but this time... its looking a bit dire. I know for most of you its summer and all, but with less than 2 weeks left to go, PLEASE do not sleep on voting on these two GovActions: 1. Parameter Change (cexplorer.io/gov/action/ab47…) 2. CC update (adastat.net/governances/729d…) _________________ If you do not want to vote on all these GovActions (you never signed up for that job after all..), then you can auto-abstain on everything except hardforks: nitter.net/alxaex/status/20291693… btw... Should you then actively want to vote on smth you care about, you can still over-write your auto-abstain with a dedicated vote, np. :)

Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of @elmlang to SQLite and PostgreSQL: - Friendly error messages - Custom types for precise column data - Simple module system for easy reuse Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/reth…