🤔 <— this guy. You want to convey: “I’m thinking about what you just said”. But see how he’s slightly frowning? That slight frown changes things. You end up conveying: “I am sceptical about what you just said”. Relationships ruined.

Alien theme. Astounded we didn’t go with “Noirtians” instead. The conference will surely be incredible. But for this missed opportunity, I’m switching to circom.

Common criticism of zk passport apps: The holder might not be the owner. So prove facial recognition. But an attacker can hold up a photo of the face. So ask the face to look in a random sequence of directions. But AI can create a real time video of the person doing that. 🫥

Rekt

If you don’t name your field sizes q and r, you are ruining lives.

This is such a huge unlock. Expanding Noir macros so you can see the full, unrolled thing and debug more-easily. Makes it easier to embrace the powerful metaprogramming features. And useful for if you ever want to delve into the weeds; especially for Aztec smart contracts!

Why is the blob point evaluation precompile SO CHEAP vs the new BLS precompiles? For 50k gas, it effectively does a G1 mul, G1 add, G2 mul, G2 add, 2 pairings… vs 138k gas to do the same with the new BLS precompiles?

Run a validator, you coward.

Is a rollup only stage 2 if it inherits its censorship resistance from Ethereum? Can a stage 2 rollup inherit censorship resistance from a decentralised & permissionless L2 staking set that requires a broken honesty assumption to censor? L2BEAT 💗 antooni.eth | 💗 L2BEAT vitalik.eth

So if Claude wrote my PR, and I already reviewed Claude’s work… does my PR really need another reviewer?

No joke my brother actually sent me a message like this, 5 years into my career of designing private smart contracts…

We should probably find some people to write the code too…

Yeahhh… don’t trust those people without a badge…

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Bring back serifs

You can see the exact moment when it all became too much.