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Matt Schoch

@md5 #9183

Building Narval | a16z CSX '23
246 Follower 131 Following
Incredible release from 2020, one of only 896 bottles 🥃
Remote work is either a super power, or a liability. Need to be honest about which it is for your company.
How do you know your team is cracked?
When you find an obscure int overflow big in the C code of a major OSS project, then you wake up & your team already fixed it & got the PR merged.
Good devs debug all the way to the wasm compiler.
Sold my house today 🥃
Devs want to write lots of code to solve a problem.

But often the solution is to think long enough to identify where to put the tiny solution.
100% tracks with my experience. The A/B tests showed no immediate drop in customers when value was reduced.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/business/consumer-spending-travel-value-nightcap/index.html
Found these chrome finger sweatbands, I think I got them when chrome first launched
In 2017 I did a private barrel pick. Literally Eddie Russell pulling straight from barrels, no fancy tasting “experience”. Finishing a bottle of it tonight 🥃
Getting ready to move, gotta ship the bourbon 🥃
Whoa.
“As long as one fork exists, any commit to that repository network (ie: commits on the “upstream” repo or “downstream” forks) will exist forever”

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github
📢 After months of building in private, we've open-sourced our entire Web3 Access Management stack for wallets, keys, and web3 apps.
From now on, we're building it in public 🧑‍💻

https://github.com/narval-xyz/armory
Let’s gooo

Speaking @3:50 hankar stage.
Interested in security, access management, and wallets?

I'll be sharing about our new open-source web3 authorization stack.
📆 Monday @ 3:50
📍 Hankar Stage

Then, join us for drinks on Tuesday
https://lu.ma/ymdyafxh
There are only like 10k ETH nodes, so this means farcaster is more decentralized than ethereum
Does anyone enjoy the “flashback” episode every show seems to do in season 2?
This would be a killer feature if there’s a permissionless bypass — please DO pause my transfers if a flag is raised. But let me turn it off with another auth factor on my own.
Tbh quite cool I can put my US atm card in an atm at a random bank in Europe and get cash instantly, including the forex.
Less cool is the 10% markup they add.
The art of the graceful “no”
So good.
"Prospects often asked us “Are you a replacement for X”? We always said no. We were unique. We were creating a category."

https://www.growthunhinged.com/p/category-creation
Smoked a meat today
Did you know that OAuth 1.0 required signed requests to get and use access tokens. A stolen token was useless w/out the user's PK they sign with.

OAuth 2.0 "upgraded" to bearer tokens, removing the extra security. The token holder can use it, no questions asked.
This is gonna age so well. Like when fb overpaid for ig at $1b.

https://x.com/liron/status/1793687842948022714
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

We're in the winning stage.

Just this week
🇺🇸 FIT21 passes 279 - 136
🏦 CBDC ban passes 216 - 192
💎 SEC approves ETH spot ETFs
Been using https://insomnia.rest for awhile and literally just got the name…insomnia, REST…sleep references 🤦🏻‍♂️