Greg Nagy

Not sure how others are working across multiple forks efficiently while contributing upstream. So I made this github.com/valargroup/shi…

Today we have opened our new Zcash shielded voting implementation PRs to upstream @zodl_app repos! (ZIPs and discussions are still in flight) @greg-nagy/voting-integration-architecture-changes-proposal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hackmd.io/@greg-nagy/vot… This will be huge when lands! And I'm damn proud of what / how we built w/ @zkDragon @akhtariev and @czarcas7ic

@wesbos Woow. Amazing. Note to self and all: Let's put this link into our notes.md, and let's get back to shipping.

Vite just announced the Laravel/Rails for JavaScript DB, auth, KV, queues, storage, ai ++ React/Vue/Svelte/Solid and Integrates with existing metaframeworks as it's just a Vite plugin The more interesting part is they are launching their own framework with it which feels a lot like tanstack start. Has routing/loaders/actions/islands/ISR and is inspired by Inertia.js By default it's tightly bound to Cloudflare workers — which is where all the bindings come from — and will include deploying without a cloudflare account Uses better auth and drizzle under the hood

@mitchellh agreed! but at the same time m.xkcd.com/303/ :)

This is how you get dumber btw, true even before AI. Turn on DnD, put your phone in a drawer. The best option if you can is to separate work + personal devices so your work device can't even see personal stuff. This is also partially why Pomodoro was all the rage a decade+ ago.

I have had this intuition for a while now. Good to see it measured. Interestingly we have known this for a long time, but somehow hype made us forget. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

new collab from @paradigm and @OpenAI: evmbench is a benchmark and agent harness for exploiting smart contract bugs a few months ago, the best models found <20% of critical, fund-draining @Code4rena bugs in our benchmark. today they find > 70%

Image paste over ssh in ghostty is coming! github.com/ghostty-org/gh…

Hand-rolled NEON SIMD to squeeze more out of ARM64. Checked the assembly. Compiler already generated identical code. Lesson: always check the asm first. LLVM is smarter than you think.

@aarondfrancis @steve_tenuto why do you have a peeled potato on you mouse? :D

Working with @steve_tenuto for a year or two leveled up my video skills by like 10x, conservatively. One of the biggest hacks for that quality feel: filming the monitor is better than screen recording (also, buy a camera slider)

This will make building so much easier github.com/brave/brave-co… — also nice reference

@colludingnode @mert I was aiming to put together a stack where I can play with ideas and started from the z3 repo but ran into issues So I have started github.com/greg0x/zforge — wanted to share this. Still rough but might be useful

@greg0x @mert zebra doesn't have wallet functionality. The devtool is good for development use, but not suitable for production or as a daily driver Zallet isn't prod ready yet but that's the goal iiuc

might mess around and ship an open-source desktop/terminal wallet for zcash can't be deplatformed from app/chrome stores, internet-safe mode that requires hardware key for signing etc

@colludingnode @mert I had issues using it with the current state of zebra — orchard / halo2 upgrade so I went with the zcash-devtools. Did I miss something and it should work well?

@mert github.com/zcash/wallet

@mert github.com/greg0x/zcash-d… I have started working on this fork — first goal is a dev tool which makes it easy to write integration tests but could be easily turned into a "real" wallet later. Already handles nu7 for experiments.

>be me >staff+ engineer, code-first >accidentally fall down zcash rabbit hole >think “just a small privacy demo” >end up reading orchard, halo2, sapling, groth16 papers at 3am >realize wallets still leak metadata like a sieve >“trial decrypt is fine” >no it’s not >periodic, bursty, wallet-shaped traffic >correlation city >start asking annoying questions >“how big is the nullifier set really” >“what if recovery didn’t require scanning the universe” >“why does mobile UX still suck in 2026” >build PIR pipelines “just to see” >measure request sizes >measure response sizes >measure latency from halfway across the planet >don’t pretend it’s magic >fork things >patch things >break things >run local testnets >realize there is no “solana-test-validator but for zcash” >cope >write Rust >integrate with mobile >no token >no hype >no “AI + ZK + DeFi” deck >just: >“can a wallet recover from a mnemonic >without telling the world who you are” >publish code >write docs >explain tradeoffs >no promises >no roadmap fluff >not here to replace zcash >not here to fork it for vibes >here to stress-test assumptions >if it works: cool >if it doesn’t: I’ll say why >anon or not >doesn’t matter >code speaks

but I will need more time to grasp this :D

ok, snarkpack is genuinely cool iacr.org/cryptodb/data/… research.protocol.ai/blog/2021/snar… O(log N) proof size and verification for groth16

@rahulghangas - if you want to go lowlevel and full control kickstart is the best way I have found - youtube.com/watch?v=m8C0Cq… - github.com/nvim-lua/kicks… - if you are ok with heavier but IDE like lazyvim is amazing lazyvim.org - ai coding: avante.nvim and claudecode.nvim

I was thinking of finally switching to neovim and made the mistake of going on reddit to check out a thread. Man some of these people are vile. Glorified biological clankers

I need sleep! Guess it ain’t gonna happen … 😅