shazow
@shazow.eth
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.
shazow.net
Currently: WhatsABI
Everyone has a take on Mythos, here's mine:
I briefly moonlit as a bug bounty hunter and the most important lesson I learned is that the best path to success is being smart about picking which projects to focus on.
Find the low hanging fruit that isn't saturated. There's lots.
... But that doesn't mean everything ha...
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Vibecoding is not the future, it is a commoditization of the past.
The future of software engineering is building robust bug-free software, in a world where the cost of each bug is dramatically higher than before.
The "lean Ethereum" megaproject is an example of what this looks like.
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"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
we just needed to figure out how to scale eyeballs
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Joined my first Ethereum ACD(E) in a few years (Execution branch, to hear debates about Frame txn), as a participation dare with @accountless.eth. 122 Zoom participants + 20ish watching on Youtube, very technical and complex debate about tradeoffs and advocating for use cases.
I was curious if Solana had something equ...
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IMO the EF mandate should include: "build what it would take to make the EF comfortable to do all of its finances onchain."
There is already overlap with the current mandate, but this is a clear and measurable forcing function.
Need OTC-style swaps to avoid impacting the market on big sells? Need private stablecoins ...
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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🛜 wifitui v0.11.0 is released!
Do you dream of managing your wifi in a terminal? Now is your time. Made for Linux, but has experimental macOS support! Please open an issue if it can be improved. :)
It even has a non-interactive mode for your beloved scripts/molts.
github.com/shazow/wifit...
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Another year later, Nano Banana 2 handles it perfectly.
> Make me an image of a bar phone with 16 buttons labelled in hexadecimal from 0 to F
Plus some tweaks after.
1.5 years ago I tried every generative image model to draw me a phone with 16 buttons, unsuccessfully.
Is there anything that can do it today? Few attempts so far have failed.
Prompt: A bar phone with 16 buttons
Closest thing I got last time for my callthis logo, bonus if it has the Ethereum logo in it:
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has anyone written a piece arguing that "everyone uses infura therefore ethereum is centralized" is not a thing?
i really don't want to write it but it seems to underpin a lot of misguided positions.
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"LLMs can't do _"
Think of agent harnesses as guided brute forcing tools.
If we can define a problem with good boundaries and an evaluation function, shove it in an inference in a loop, then we might get better-than-fuzzing traversal to novel results.
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Blurring Programs and AI:
Today's AI models are a bunch of matrices of numbers interpreted through an inference process. This is one side.
On the other side, we have machine code generated by compilers that is evaluated by hardware.
In between, we have interpreted programs (like Python or JavaScript) which is some c...
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When I was writing "How can open social protocols fail us in 2025", I did not account for the centralizing force Snapchain would add onto the Farcaster protocol.
Before Snapchain, the properties of the protocol were quite similar to ATProto: Anyone could participate, as long as your messages were well-formed and crypt...
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The ability to fork is critical for decentralization.
If you care about Farcaster being meaningfully decentralized, this is what it looks like.
Was Farcaster designed for this? Not really. But maybe it will be eventually.
Farcaster is forking!
As a user, what does this mean?
- Your account will continue to stay valid. Our side of the fork is going to make that indefinite. No more annual storage subscriptions, no casts lost to the ether, no limits on follows.
- Long casts, more embeds by default, and lowest fee possible swaps in wallet.
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Y'all keep using the term "sufficiently decentralized social network"—it does not mean what you think it means.
Two users being able to communicate is not a social network, it's a 1:1 messaging app. It's not even enough for group chat!
It's not a good term as it is. Redefine it or find a better one.
What does "sufficiently decentralized social network" actually mean?
There seems to be some confusion, where people assume it means more than it actually does.
@v wrote this essay in 2022, arguing that a core tenet should be oriented around censorship resistance.
"A social network achieves sufficient decentralizatio
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