The cryptographic world computer: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

It's a bummer when you open up a social media app, see a cool post or interesting take, and then the feed refreshes and the post is gone

Kinda interesting that OG pokemon cards are still selling at outrageous prices (30 years!). We shit talk the beanie baby craze a lot, but clearly some collectibles can maintain their relevance

UI design is the thing I find AI to be worst at. If this is even halfway decent, I'll be very happy 🤞 open-design.ai/

Big same. I’ve often felt that we rushed this tech into people’s hands without figuring out proper UX. Good tech, bad implementation. hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-lik…

It’d be cool if my most productive hours weren’t 8pm to 2am

Still patiently waiting for JS to add the pipe operator and do expressions. I fear I may be waiting forever

Biggest quality of life improvement for local AI use right now would be a standard way to define MCPs, AGENTS.md (smh Claude), skills, etc Wild that if you're building a plugin you have to give different installation instructions for each tool

This better work or I'm unsubscribing

Now that the socks project is done, time to go ham on this permissionless perps/prediction market idea I've been chipping away at

Gonna break my streak of silence here to show y'all the project my friend I just launched. Do you like @basepaint_xyz? Do you wear socks? Get a real pair of socks for any BasePaint day you want! $5 per sale goes to the artists <3 basepaint.blocksocks.xyz/

Verifying that my ENS, X, Farcaster, Github, and Discord accounts are linked app.ens.domains/typeof.eth