Demystifying SNARK Jargon — For the last few months I’ve been studying zk-SNARK material and I recall what it felt like to hear many of the terms used by the zk-SNARK researchers before I learned what they meant. Well, you see, first you need to FRI the PLONK system such that it is an…

My journey growing a business in the midst of a pandemic — This week, cash from selling the business I started during the pandemic finally hit my bank account. So, I figured it would be a good time to reflect on what I learned while starting and operating the business. …

My Journey Growing a Business in the Midst of A Pandemic — This week cash from the sale of the business I started during the pandemic hit my bank account. I figured it would be a good time to reflect on the things I learned while starting and operating the business. …

My Journey Growing a Business in the Midst of A Pandemic — This week cash from the sale of the business I started during the pandemic hit my bank account. I figured it would be a good time to reflect on the things I learned while starting and operating the business. …

5 Mental Models for Smart Contract Exploit Detection — Recently I’ve been studying to become a Solidity auditor. …

Or, Why Medium Changed Their Front-End — This week I closed down one of my small SaaS businesses. I knew this day would come from the time I started working on the project but decided to continue the project anyway, as a learning exercise, and because initially, I wanted the extension for my own use. This was…

How I Use Runtime Configuration Files as a Substitute for Notes — How many developers have a notepad chock full of technical notes that they know they’ll need later? And how quickly does it fill up? And how often do you review it and clean out the old information? Mine used to be full of things like IP addresses, command snippets, command…

What does it mean to be roundabout and in what contexts can this strategy apply? — Lately, three materials have been filling my free time. These three materials have one theme tying them together, although ironically, for some of the materials, in a roundabout way. This theme is the idea of the roundabout as Mark Spitznagel calls it in The Dao of Capital. The gospel of…

Dfinity released their first of what they claim to be many white papers last week. This particular white paper was centred around the consensus protocol. If Dfinity is in fact planning to release many white papers it makes sense that they would release the consensus white paper first, as the…