alec.base.eth
@0xAlec
engineering @base
i for one welcome the slopification
over the next few years a majority of the population will outsource their taste, their opinions, their thoughts, their work, and ultimately their lives to language models. the great cultural norming is coming, you will be unbelievably powerful if you resist model capture
The US dollar now lives on Ethereum. Not on a bank website. Not on Bitcoin. On Ethereum.
Celebrate 10 years of Ethereum, in your city. The ecosystem is hosting 100+ events across the globe to welcome a new decade of Ethereum. Find an event in your region -> ethereum.org/10years/
At the top signs of froth are indistinguishable from signs of adoption At the bottom signs of cope are indistinguishable from signs of hope
How to spark curiousity: – ask “why?” a lot – say “I don’t know” – explore the weird stuff How to kill it: – act like you know everything – punish questions – reward conformity
how are you leading? command-and-control or directed opportunism command-and-control is top-down. product decisions are made by leaders and pushed down to teams, who have limited input or autonomy. they are there to ship features, not do original thinking or own business…
Everyone wants to get rich quick Nobody wants to understand Ethereum
We go hard for ETH because the industry doesn't continue pushing forward without it. The values of credible neutrality and open source, permissionless innovation must spread. Popular trends like VC chains and corporate treasuries have nothing to do with these values. That…
The correct take: - “stochastic parrot” is a top notch turn of phrase that does accurately convey something about what LLMs do - stochastic parrots can be smarter than most of the people who like that phrase think - but not as smart as the people who don’t like that phrase think
great read on oltp design tradeoffs personally am a big fan of the recent shift towards object storage architectures like @turbopuffer
There are different reasons/benefits with every OLTP DB architecture. I would classify them into largely three types and I have run and managed all three versions in my lifetime. Pick your option based on what your company needs 1. Full local storage. This is kind of how we ran…
speaking about Base Appchains @EthCC at 2:35 PM local time on Taylor Stage (Floor 4) with @_chunter & @0xNubes application developers — come learn how to build blazing fast apps with realtime UX using isolated blockspace + tight integrations with Coinbase products and Base
Learn how to unlock 200ms effective block times on Base Appchains with Flashblocks ⏰ 2:35pm 📍 EthCC Main Event, Taylor Stage lu.ma/r17ldd5m
Robinhood (L2) - Robinhood World Chain (L2) - Sam Altman (OpenAI) Jovay (L2) - Ant Digital (Alibaba) Soneium (L2) - Sony Memento (L2) - Deutsche Bank Base (L2) - Coinbase Ink (L2) - Kraken ethereum is the internet of value
i don’t think you understand you switch to bun install your dependencies install faster you switch to bun build your app builds faster you switch to bun test your tests run faster you switch to bun run your package.json scripts start faster you switch to bun’s runtime…
i dont think you understand you vibe code a saas you get to $50k/month you vibe code another saas you get to $100k/month you vibe code another saas you get to $200k/month you vibe code another saas you get to $400k/month you vibe code another saas you get to $800k/month…