A common question at the start of every web3 project seems to be: What decentralized storage will we use: ipfs, arweave, ...? So far, I haven't seen a pragmatic guide that clarifies which to use for a given project.

My favorite podcast discovery of 2023: "Founders" by David Senra

Awesome AI tool for devs: Phind.com It's an AI search engine (maybe just OpenAI's API) + it pulls the latest dev documentation from the web (after ChatGPTs cutoff date of Sep 2021) + it lists its sources.

Health experiment: I didn't drink alcohol in the past 5 weeks The first 3 weeks: didn't notice much The last 2 weeks: better focus and an increasing default cheerfulness. I'll keep going for a few more weeks.

Some best practices for smart contract design 1) Don't treat the blockchain like a database: avoid a central admin role and don't try to store everything on-chain 2) Think about incentives: Who is going to trigger this function? Why? 3) Minimise the use of storage variables

A quirk of Ethereum: you can hide ETH in a smart contract that doesn't exist yet (not recommended): swende.se/blog/Ethereum_…

I've been gathering some resources to learn more about web3 security after Ethernaut. These are promising: - The corpus of code4rena findings: theauditorbook.com - lab.guardianaudits.com - web3securitydao.xyz - ghostsofepochspast.xyz

web3 job sites: - web3.career - myweb3jobs.com - web3work.co - beincrypto.com/jobs/ - cryptojobslist.com - degencryptojobs.com - developerdao.pallet.com/jobs - a16zcrypto.com/jobs/companies/

The news is out - EthCC will take place in Brussels in 2024! 🖤💛❤️ Time for a pilgrimage to the in-between town of Eth? 😉

web3 freelance platforms: - Braintrust: usebraintrust.com - Thirdwork: thirdwork.xyz - GitCoin Grants: bounties.gitcoin.co/explorer - Solidate: solidate.net - Squad: squadtalent.xyz - Gun: gun.io - Upwork: upwork.com

I took some time this weekend to continue Ethernaut. 🚀🚀 Two more challenges to go!

🥳🥳 Finished Ethernaut by OpenZeppelin ! * happy dance *

Tornado Cash is a privacy tool. Privacy is good. Privacy is normal. We need to rally behind Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ and give him all the support we can. I have donated, will you help defend web3 and crypto? donate.peppersec.com

My Dad's latest creation: A wooden model of the tower of the "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwebasiliek" in Tongeren, Belgium 🇧🇪 (my hometown)

Great read!

A fren is looking for a front-end Ninja (react) on a contract basis, to implement a DeFi dApp 🏦 Full HQ spec in figma and contracts are final. 4-6w engagement Can vouch for the team. DM me something I can forward easily 📥😉

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"I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote." - Sam Altman in blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-succ…

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” —Charlie Munger Poor Charlie’s Almanack is out today. You can read and listen to the new edition online, for free, at stripe.press/poor-charlies-…

The history of computing is repeating in an echo, except replace computers that do precise arithmetic on bytes with computers that do statistical arithmetic on tokens.