Andrew Fitzgerald

I sat down with @alessandrod, the man making the fastest blockchain in existence even faster From his GStreamer roots to working with XDP, he explains how four engineers are out-shipping entire organizations on the @heliuslabs blog: helius.dev/blog/solana-pe…

I feel much more productive when I don't sleep well. lowered inhibition and willing to just push stuff out? maybe ballmer was onto something

starting to work on change to allow for scheduler-bindings: github.com/anza-xyz/agave… with this you can now change block-production-method (and transaction-structure!) at runtime 🥳

yeah yeah, i know how to "optimize storage" mr mac

Something is coming that will change Solana forever. Block building and value creation reimagined. More transparent, efficient, and aligned. Users win. Solana evolves. The future arrives 🔜

kxan.com/news/local/aus… There's good wind today, but they've closed the lake. I thought Texas still had freedom. I was on the lake yesterday and it was fine if you're not a motorboat weekend ruined

Did my first brisket overnight for today. Was worried I ruined it because I slept in, but it actually turned out decently 🇺🇸

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wasted an hour because I forgot rust defaults to i32 which I was using as a byte counter. Overflowing on me - "why is the perf so shit?!"

finally got a sleep tracking watch yestreday. slept like shit, oh cool I can see how much sleep. "No sleep recorded last night" ... sounds about right 🫠

me today for no reason

does anybody actually use the validator non-vote forwarding (opted into via stakeweight overrides flag) these days?

I dropped my board when putting in car, hit my trunk latch at a weird angle and poked a hole in the board 🫠 guess I’m learning to patch carbon fiber tomorrow

Have been wingfoiling 4 of last 5 days. Getting so sore😅Probably going again for a bit tonight…then it looks like there may be little wind for the next several days 😭

coded up a quick txv1 tonight. Initial benches showing around 5x faster for initial parsing than current format. Few small changes from current SIMD296, which I’ve commented on that proposal 🚀

same for this Fitzgerald

I got my first job by literally just walking up to the manager and asking if I could work there…my god I’m like a walking boomer meme.

"In short, some in Solana’s validator community are finding, to paraphrase Taylor Swift, that the client they’ve been dreaming of has been here the whole time — in Agave."

I'm too millenial... ``` Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yea ```