I read an article recently about how AI can break the patents-related laws(I will not give the URL but you can probably find it by searching the mentioned keywords) and I was as expected disappointed. The article was a strong push that countries should regulate and create laws to cover this void and to grant patents for AI-generated stuff too because otherwise, no one will invest in the AI sector. First of all, I think these kinds of articles that praise patents are just paid boost of certain...

I read an article recently about how AI can break the patents-related laws(I will not give the URL but you can probably find it by searching the mentioned keywords) and I was as expected disappointed. The article was a strong push that countries should regulate and create laws to cover this void and to grant patents for AI-generated stuff too because otherwise, no one will invest in the AI sector. First of all, I think these kinds of articles that praise patents are just paid boost of certain...

In the probable case that the title is not making much sense, this text will be about the current web3 social platforms ambitions. From a user perspective, the question that always comes to mind first in the initial phase of using the product is: why should I use this product? Many self-labeled web3 social platforms come with countless promises, like a different ownership model, new royalties concept, more privacy, and probably, most important, data portability. Now the reality is that most p...

In the probable case that the title is not making much sense, this text will be about the current web3 social platforms ambitions. From a user perspective, the question that always comes to mind first in the initial phase of using the product is: why should I use this product? Many self-labeled web3 social platforms come with countless promises, like a different ownership model, new royalties concept, more privacy, and probably, most important, data portability. Now the reality is that most p...

To start, I'll say what party town is, in a nutshell: it's a tool to get some of your execution out of the main thread and into a worker. It's doing that by communicating between the worker and the main thread, which will primarily execute DOM updates. More in-depth, this concept works by you marking the scripts as `not javascript` then those scripts are forwarded to the worker. If those scripts are external, they must be passed through a proxy that will get around CORS. Now mo...

To start, I'll say what party town is, in a nutshell: it's a tool to get some of your execution out of the main thread and into a worker. It's doing that by communicating between the worker and the main thread, which will primarily execute DOM updates. More in-depth, this concept works by you marking the scripts as `not javascript` then those scripts are forwarded to the worker. If those scripts are external, they must be passed through a proxy that will get around CORS. Now mo...

I wrote a few days ago a browser extension that lets you log in to warpcast.com without using a mobile device. You can find the repo at this link: https://github.com/andrei0x309/warp-easy-login-browser-extension. Also Webstore download link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/warp-easy-login/bbjcdcdpmhmenjadgdkkkabhajfeefak It generates the auth token by prompting you to sign a message with your Ethereum wallet, and then it puts it in the Indexdb storage, where Warpcast expects to find ...

I wrote a few days ago a browser extension that lets you log in to warpcast.com without using a mobile device. You can find the repo at this link: https://github.com/andrei0x309/warp-easy-login-browser-extension. Also Webstore download link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/warp-easy-login/bbjcdcdpmhmenjadgdkkkabhajfeefak It generates the auth token by prompting you to sign a message with your Ethereum wallet, and then it puts it in the Indexdb storage, where Warpcast expects to find ...

I made this wallet in the course of two weeks based on Ethers, Ionic and Vue. Right now, it is built solely as a chrome extension wallet, but I used Ionic in case I will make later from the same code base a mobile/desktop variant. It implements Metamask API and should work with most websites. I used my main address to do a few transactions on Polygon, Optimism, and Gnosis. It has a nice set of refreshing features, like wiping all data, controlling all security settings, and importing or expor...

I made this wallet in the course of two weeks based on Ethers, Ionic and Vue. Right now, it is built solely as a chrome extension wallet, but I used Ionic in case I will make later from the same code base a mobile/desktop variant. It implements Metamask API and should work with most websites. I used my main address to do a few transactions on Polygon, Optimism, and Gnosis. It has a nice set of refreshing features, like wiping all data, controlling all security settings, and importing or expor...

I was planning to write this a month before as such parts of this article here will be a bit outdated, but still, if you have time and read it entirely, I'll piece together some newer aspects too. If you have any contact with the web3-space you have likely heard about Lens. It is yet another attempt at creating decentralized social media. For me, it has managed to strike some intriguing achievements. I made an article about web3 social platform ambitions a while back that was more genera...

I was planning to write this a month before as such parts of this article here will be a bit outdated, but still, if you have time and read it entirely, I'll piece together some newer aspects too. If you have any contact with the web3-space you have likely heard about Lens. It is yet another attempt at creating decentralized social media. For me, it has managed to strike some intriguing achievements. I made an article about web3 social platform ambitions a while back that was more genera...

After countless articles about the social media platform Threads, it finally appears that things have cooled off. Now most latest articles already concluded that this social platform was a fad. It's erroneous as momentarily only wishful thinking is what can sustain the prediction that Threads will surely fade rapidly. For the most part, Zuckerberg managed to get most things right when he released this new social platform. Let's look at what he achieved where others have failed: 1 He...

After countless articles about the social media platform Threads, it finally appears that things have cooled off. Now most latest articles already concluded that this social platform was a fad. It's erroneous as momentarily only wishful thinking is what can sustain the prediction that Threads will surely fade rapidly. For the most part, Zuckerberg managed to get most things right when he released this new social platform. Let's look at what he achieved where others have failed: 1 He...

The Phaver app is no longer available, the product was discontinued in January, but it still functioned even in late February. A product named SoicalAI DAO will be the new product reborn from Phaver's ashes, but as it stands out, it won't have much to do with the old app, which was a social network pegged mostly on Lens and a bit on Farcaster. To be fair the social network project can only find success if it survives for a very long time, I think even at this moment Phaver was one o...

The Phaver app is no longer available, the product was discontinued in January, but it still functioned even in late February. A product named SoicalAI DAO will be the new product reborn from Phaver's ashes, but as it stands out, it won't have much to do with the old app, which was a social network pegged mostly on Lens and a bit on Farcaster. To be fair the social network project can only find success if it survives for a very long time, I think even at this moment Phaver was one o...

I first wrote Clear Wallet in 2022. Somewhere around August 2022, it was in the Chrome Store. I wrote it because back then, I loathed what Meta Mask offered. It was sluggish, especially when using many accounts, and it lacked the features I wanted, so I set out to write the wallet I needed. At first, I wanted an easy way to import/export accounts, manage many accounts, encrypt and decrypt private keys by prompting the user on every sign, and expose only the address of the selected account. Ma...

I first wrote Clear Wallet in 2022. Somewhere around August 2022, it was in the Chrome Store. I wrote it because back then, I loathed what Meta Mask offered. It was sluggish, especially when using many accounts, and it lacked the features I wanted, so I set out to write the wallet I needed. At first, I wanted an easy way to import/export accounts, manage many accounts, encrypt and decrypt private keys by prompting the user on every sign, and expose only the address of the selected account. Ma...

I wrote a SvelteKit starter for farcaster frames V2, now mainly people involved with developing Farcaster/Warpcast tech mainly use Next/React, in fact, many of the official libraries don’t have docs for other stacks. Now we should talk a bit about version 2 for Frames(rebranded recently as Mini Apps), IMO frames V1 was a bit of a flop, because it used a very inefficient way to communicate, which was through images, at the time I was firmly against that spec, and I suggested using Iframe inste...

I wrote a SvelteKit starter for farcaster frames V2, now mainly people involved with developing Farcaster/Warpcast tech mainly use Next/React, in fact, many of the official libraries don’t have docs for other stacks. Now we should talk a bit about version 2 for Frames(rebranded recently as Mini Apps), IMO frames V1 was a bit of a flop, because it used a very inefficient way to communicate, which was through images, at the time I was firmly against that spec, and I suggested using Iframe inste...

Just converted and deployed this blog on Netlify. So I've been exploring svelte, and svelteKit, and I was looking to refresh my old blog that is in a neglected state. When I started this blog was 2007, and then it was of course, a WordPress blog, but I deleted most of the old articles partly because a lot of them were in my native language and also because I didn't feel like they should still be accessible like I said I can admit content was always low frequency and low effort. So t...

Just converted and deployed this blog on Netlify. So I've been exploring svelte, and svelteKit, and I was looking to refresh my old blog that is in a neglected state. When I started this blog was 2007, and then it was of course, a WordPress blog, but I deleted most of the old articles partly because a lot of them were in my native language and also because I didn't feel like they should still be accessible like I said I can admit content was always low frequency and low effort. So t...

After V. Buterin gave some funds to the Railway project, I was curious to try it. I am a sucker for all anything that boosts privacy. That is why I wrote clear-wallet. I also used a lot of privacy tech long before web3. Since Tornado Cash was battered, it's still used a lot, but people tend to stay away from it, as when dealing with third-party entities, you might encounter all kinds of regulatory issues. To be honest I think the Tornado Saga was a disaster not only for the crypto space ...

After V. Buterin gave some funds to the Railway project, I was curious to try it. I am a sucker for all anything that boosts privacy. That is why I wrote clear-wallet. I also used a lot of privacy tech long before web3. Since Tornado Cash was battered, it's still used a lot, but people tend to stay away from it, as when dealing with third-party entities, you might encounter all kinds of regulatory issues. To be honest I think the Tornado Saga was a disaster not only for the crypto space ...