The EFF is the one charity I've donated the most to over the course of my life.
I stopped donating after their actions were no longer defensible under their own founding principles. (Yes, I am of course referring to the Roman Storm case here.)
Sad to see this trend continue further.
Now, for my two wei/cents:
Multiple things can be true at the same time. Of course, I want decentralized social to win. This was true before Elon took over Twitter. None of my arguments have changed: social media is too important for one person to be running the digital town square. Your username is never yours, and ac
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A thread showing off Pretext ("Pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement & layout").
x.com/_chenglou/st...
github.com/chenglou/pre...
cc @darrylyeo
Cheng Lou
@_chenglou
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My dear front-end developers (and anyone whoโs interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at https://t.co/BKnwCDIp75
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Had my first scammer-claiming-to-be-journalist attempt experience.
The person pretended to be writing an article on Walletbeat. Tried to prove their identity by sending an email from the news organization's domain, but of course the DKIM signature was invalid
Stay vigilant and watch your email headers out there ๐ซก
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@0xmattmatt and I out here getting SVGs to fit within mainnet gas limits.
Fun challenge involving converting fonts to paths, scaling coordinates to the optimal power of 10 to reduce bytes wasted just to the "." character in floating-point values, buncha SVGO optimizations, and LibZip.flzCompress+onchain decompression.
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That's a wrap! ๐ธ
This 1TS Security Benchmark discussion generated many new criteria around wallet security.
Grateful to all who contributed, including experts like @pcaversaccio and Hester Bruikman.
Now it's time to ship them in Walletbeat ๐ซก
More on how we will do that below.
Last call for discussion on the wallet security benchmark: https://github.com/walletbeat/walletbeat/discussions/407
Planning to start incorporating these into Walletbeat's methodology at the end of this week.
Walletbeat's security methodology will never be set in stone, but does get harder to change over time, so spe
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Also worth pointing out in the EF mandate: this little blurb from the accompanying blog post.
Just reading the tea leaves here, perhaps it hints at addressing crypto's reputational problem, something that I've long wished for the EF to do.
Crypto can do so much good for the Internet and for world, but its reputationa...
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Walletbeat now has 1,999 commits.
Only 49 left to reach the next round number.
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The artwork in this EF mandate PDF is really something.
It captures the Ethereum "infinite garden" vibes while also blending it with a computer-y/cypherpunk tones.
Absolutely immaculate vibes.
Great job @shiro57102 :)
This is the new EF Mandate.
For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless worth making.
Ethereum is a unique object and has a unique role in the world. Its role is to be a san
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๐ค The robots are coming for your crypto ๐ค
โฆ So they better understand how to safely handle it.
That means understanding the values that make Ethereum wallets secure, private, and sovereign.
To that end, /walletbeat's wallet data is now available in machine-friendly formats.
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The "Verifiability" part of this is now implemented as of PR #577.
This means verifiability is now decoupled from the rating, but still critical for the wallet to make progress on stages.
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Still disappointed at the state of local coding agents.
Paid a pretty penny for sufficient hardware to run qwen3.5:122b @ q4, qwen3.5:35b @ q8, and qwen3-coder:30b @ q8. Neither of them can successfully do what should be a completely mechanical TypeScript refactor.
Rant below.
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Spent the day refactoring Rabby's network traffic data to use the new wallet network traffic analysis tool. Tedious work, but important.
Since my last post on the subject, the structure of their RPCs has changed, but let's just say the data being sent to DeBank has not, and now it also sends all data to Hyperliquid.
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I would not have been able to get Walletbeat off the ground without Farcaster. For that, I will be eternally grateful.
Closing thoughts for today.
1. I don't think I have all the answers. Spent 5 years building Farcaster and it didn't work out. I failed. That's life.
2. Proud of my team's work. Hubs and Snapchain were / are an impressive technical achievement and it was really cool to see a non-blockchain distributed system get a dec
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One of the reasons why the wallet data collection CLI tool (helping to classify wallets' HTTP requests and their privacy implications) is a CLI.
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