Clark Anderson

NEO doing big things 🫡 It's basically Three.js + networking stack built in. All with client prediction, plugin-based architecture for modularity, and first-in-class vibe coding support.

A tiny piece of code called axios runs inside almost every app on your phone and every website you visit. Developers download it 100 million times a week. A few hours ago, someone poisoned it with malware that hands an attacker full control of your computer. If you’ve never heard of axios, that’s normal. It does one boring but important job: it lets apps talk to the internet. When a website pulls up your feed or an online checkout processes your card, axios is probably doing the work underneath. Over 173,000 other code packages plug into it. It’s everywhere. The attacker stole a lead developer’s login for npm (think of it as an app store, but for code that programmers use to build software). Once inside, they swapped the developer’s email to an anonymous ProtonMail account and uploaded the poisoned version by hand. That jumped past every security check the project normally runs before new code goes live. And this was not some rushed job. The attacker staged the malware at least 18 hours before pulling the trigger. They built separate versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. They poisoned both the current version and an older one within 39 minutes of each other, casting the widest net possible. Once the malware ran on a machine, it deleted itself to cover its tracks. The trick was smart. They never touched a single line of code inside axios itself. Instead, they tucked in a fake add-on called plain-crypto-js, built to pass as a well-known, trusted library. It copied the real library’s description and author info, so nothing looked off at a glance. When a developer installed axios, this fake package quietly ran the malware on its own. When a smaller package called ua-parser-js got hijacked back in 2021 with about 8 million weekly downloads, the security world treated it like a four-alarm fire. Axios has 100 million. Over 12x the exposure, with 173,000+ packages depending on it. Socket, the security firm that flagged this, caught it in about 6 minutes. That’s fast. But 6 minutes is still plenty of time for automated systems at companies everywhere to pull and install the bad version before anyone can react. If you or your team runs axios: lock your version to 1.14.0 (or 0.30.3 for the older branch). Change every password, API key, and access token on any machine that installed the compromised update. And check your network logs for connections to sfrclak dot com or the IP address 142.11.206.73.

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🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC IS GIVING AWAY THE SAME CERTIFICATION THAT DELOITTE IS MASS-TRAINING 15,000 EMPLOYEES TO GET. It costs $0. You need a laptop. That's it. It's called the "Claude Certified Architect." Think of it like the AWS cert but for AI. If you were around when AWS certs started, you know what happened. They went from "cool to have" to "you're not getting hired without one." That took about 5 years. This is going to happen way faster. Look at who's already moving: Accenture - training 30,000 people on Claude Cognizant - rolled it out to 350,000 employees Deloitte - opened Claude access to 470,000 people Infosys - anchor partner These aren't startups experimenting. These are billion dollar consulting firms restructuring their entire workforce around Claude. And the certification they need? You can take it right now from your bedroom. Let me be real though. This is not one of those "watch 2 videos and get a badge" type certs that nobody respects. This thing is hard. 60 questions. 2 hours. Proctored. Webcam on. No breaks. No googling. They drop you into real scenarios like designing a customer support agent that handles refunds or setting up Claude in a CI/CD pipeline. The wrong answers look right on purpose. They're the exact mistakes real engineers make in production. 720 out of 1000 to pass. People who took it are saying the agentic architecture and multi-agent orchestration sections are brutal. Most of the exam is about building AI systems that actually work in the real world. Not prompting. Not chatting with Claude. Architecting production systems. All the prep? Free. Anthropic put out 13 courses on their Academy. No paywall. The cert itself is free for the first 5,000 people. After that $99 per attempt. How to get it: 1. Join the Claude Partner Network (free) → partnerportal.anthropic.com 2. Start the free prep courses → anthropic.com/learn 3. Register for the exam → anthropic.skilljar.com 4. Take the official practice exam 5. Book the real one when you're ready It launched 10 days ago. Almost nobody has it yet. That's the whole point. Get it before it becomes the thing everyone has.

Last month, I shared a bit here about how my 17-year-old son has a passion for video game development and has spent hundreds of hours over the last 9 months creating his first game for release. Well, I want to let you know that Nitro Turtles is now out! It's a party racing game (kind of like Mario Kart) and has 9 courses, a speedrun mode with online leaderboards, and split screen/online multiplayer. My husband and I played all 9 courses against each other last night and IT WAS SO FUN! I'm so proud of him for the accomplishment. He has a really demanding junior year schedule of AP/Dual Credit/Honors classes, has straight As, and somehow managed to develop this all on his own out of pure passion. He started teaching himself programming in 3rd grade and just developed his skills from there. Nitro Turtles in the culmination of all the subsequent years of self-driven learning. If you or your kids play computer games, I would love for you to check the game out on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3952070/Ni…

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It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness. I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so. Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented. At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet. So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI. I am happy but also sad and confused. If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.

@GamingOnBase @MaviaGames @hytopia @LegendBaseETH @CatTownBase @EverybNeedsBase @hytopia

What’s your favorite game on Base right now? Here are some of the most active games across the Base ecosystem today: 1️⃣ Heroes of Mavia (@MaviaGames) 2️⃣ Hytopia (@hytopia) 3️⃣ Legend of Base (@LegendBaseETH) 4️⃣ Cat Town (@CatTownBase) 5️⃣ ENB Ecosystem (@EveryBNeedsBase) 6️⃣ KOMPETE (@KOMPETEgame) 7️⃣ Metacade (@Metacade_) 8️⃣ Echoes of Cryptalia (@PlayCryptalia) 9️⃣ Anichess (@AnichessGames) 🔟 Uptopia (@Uptopia_xyz) Reply with the number 👇Or drop a game we missed and let’s expand the list 🎯🎮

I love my job. I get to design a gaming platform that hopefully one day gets played by millions of gamers. Quick concept for daily streaks.

Final interview. They ask: "What's your biggest weakness?" Your mind races. You say "I'm a perfectionist." They cringe. No callback. Here's the answer that lands offers:

First impressions on an older iPhone 📱👀 Simple, comfy touch controls: 👈 Touch left to move 👉 Touch right to look 🔘 One button to push ✨ Dynamic button for power-ups Runs smooth and feels great — exactly how mobile should play 🔥 KING OF THE PEAK will arrive soon on @hytopia

@iceyyy_gaming @wabdoteth Consider talking with @iamarkdev about @hytopia

@wabdoteth Would love to chat with you more about this on stream if you’re down!

• Crypto metaverses targeted the next marginal buyer (adults) rather than the next generation (kids) • Roblox took 20 years to get to where it is and won because of laziness from Minecraft (arbitraged F2P vs paywall & vertically integrated mods/tooling/servers) • The last generation of crypto builders were millenials who have nearly zero cultural understanding of what made Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite/VRChat resonate • Great 'metaverses' spawn from great games first, which there are very few in crypto (Roblox only was able to go platform-first because they were 20 years ahead) • Financialization intrinsically alienates 90% of players, financialization is a self-emerging property of a great product [black markets form by themselves when there is demand] • Economy-first attempts usually result in players abusing the systems before the game is able to bootstrap a sustainable player base and form those asset economies organically • Player psychology related to the above point, players do not like to "waste time" on games that feel like they are dead or are going to die soon which makes player counts death spiral • There has never been a single pre-crypto game economy that had an investible in-game currency, and most crypto games are designed around achieving that as a primary principle • NFT interoperability is only valuable to a developer if it drives UA, but this has generally been weak and removes a monetization pathway (holders don't spend, they hold) • The profit margins expected from "open economies" in crypto are significantly lower which makes it financially impossible to compete with platforms like Roblox which have a huge rake that funds growth • The last generation of metaverses were grifts disguised as builders and spent more of their time becoming token treasury slush funds (see: $SAND) rather than building an actual product • A huge demographic of metaverses are trans/furry/libs/autists/vtubers who usually politically oppose any crypto product even if the integration is subtle • If you try to market a crypto gaming/metaverse product you are instantly met with cancellation videos/threads/articles and headwinds that massively dampen your K-factor • Crypto product teams when it comes to IP & marketing are culturally out of touch with the current zeitgeist of what type of IP excites people [tendency to make pixel art games vs chasing genre blends or aesthetics like genshin impact / zenless zone zero] • The products mostly sucked and didn't try anything novel • Not enough anime girls

@blknoiz06 @dnapway @hytopia is the exception. You actually will enjoy playing this web3 Roblox competitor. The sad truth is most big web3 accounts refuse to mention it because they don’t care about web3 gaming, they just want to be paid to support web3 projects.

@dnapway why does it suck tho

crypto metaverse just sucks compared to Roblox

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@farokh What’s interesting is when we talk about web3 and someone offers a legit answer, we ignore it completely . Why not acknowledge that @hytopia is actually a web3 company built on many of the same principles as Roblox. Its definitely worth looking into this team and project.

Was thinking about that this morning, it's quite painful. We wanted a "web3 Metaverse" but Roblox is arguably and by far the winner. We wanted digital gold narrative, now GOLD is making highs day after day. We wanted altcoins, but we're tokenizing the entire stock exchange. It definitely sucks as someone who is all in crypto from a professional standpoint, but I remain positive about hte future of our industry... everything is being built here and we will be right at the end.

@iamarkdev @jbondwagon @OthersideMeta @hytopia HYTOPIA.com pretty cool

@jbondwagon @OthersideMeta Hytopia (@hytopia) is already farther ahead on MAU/dev/traction side but no one in web3 is paying attention, which is fine since we're 99% onboarding web2 naturally atm 🤷‍♂️

This is the steep slope @OthersideMeta is up against If they will look to kill Roblox, it should either: > attract devs from Roblox > make new devs who can compete with Roblox devs In either case, game economy should be lucrative enough for devs to stay

@dre_btc @CryptoGarga @notthreadguy @hytopia is already live doing exactly this

@CryptoGarga "who's building this?" bro it's already been built @notthreadguy

this is a good idea it's an idea we've been building towards for years but it's still a good idea otherside.xyz

@notthreadguy So you have your answer… @hytopia seems to be doing exactly this. What now?

> browser based metaverse > non custodial wallet > assets are nfts but nobody knows > ai code powered game designer > anyone can launch a game > novel token standard > designed for in game economies > compete with roblox on extreme token volatility and ease to deploy > remove 80% fees > add system for devs to crowdfund capital (ico) > let big players throw money behind talent > make more people rich than roblox every onchain narrative is dead tired and reached price discovery years ago. why is nobody running back metaverse/gamefi with the ai tools we have now who is working on this

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