Daniel Fernandes

Shoutout to epineph in the @rocketpool discord who tagged me b/c my node was down for a week (Beaconcha.in didn't tell me)! If you're running @ethnimbus, make sure your node is up! I just restarted my beacon node and there's a fix out now: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v26.2.0

Happy Valentine's Day! May your situationship survive 26 days until the back-to-back Friday the 13th we're getting next month in March.

Happy Friday the 13th! May your situationship endure for 24 hours until Valentine's Day.

lol; lmao https://nypost.com/2026/02/11/lifestyle/singles-ditch-dating-apps-to-flirt-with-knights-at-medieval-times/

Listen to how the French narrator pronounces it in this Air Canada safety briefing. Also, this is one of my favorite safety briefing videos of all time (next to Virgin America, RIP). https://youtu.be/E_7HwX-C6ws?si=qJo4mOobesQPh0YX

I wrote about this nearly a year ago. If I had to change anything about it, it's that—even for Ethereans— (1) shaming will work for people who are contentious (probably me) and (2) there's a limit to how much shoddy UX ppl will put up with in order to use decentralized apps (thinking mostly of Status here). But Farcaster has had better-than-X UX for years now...it's literally just status-quo / network effects bias: "I'm on X because everyone else is on X." Well, I have bad news for your ETH bags if that's your attitude. Even Bitcoiners larp about Nostr! So at least pretend to care or plz take the .eth out of your name 🙏 https://paragraph.com/@dfern.eth/the-communication-paradox

Tonic coffee from Phin Cafe

I was today years old when I learned "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side." can be interpreted as a pun rather than an anti-joke.

San Pedro St/Square is packed!

So emo 😔 @ Ancora Vino, Los Altos

omg. I went to one of my other favorite restaurants (The Bywater) and they were closed because they were also filming with Guy Fieri. I stood at the pearly white gates of flavortown and was denied entry.

Guy Fieri is in /sanjose. Welcome, Guy, to flavortown. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUZuIVQAERt/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Checked out Uncle Cha Fusion Cafe in Milpitas. Everything they make is super photogenic including this Omurice w/ Tonkatsu curry, tho the rice itself is a bit dry. Still will be back.

I turned 32 yesterday, this is a significant milestone in the simulation we call 'life' since I will henceforth need 5 (!!!) whole bits to encode my age. In the future, I hope to mitigate the disaster of needing a 6th bit by using the only scientifically guaranteed way to mitigate the effects of aging: moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light in the Earth's inertial reference frame.

People ask me all the time why I don't work in crypto. It's because I know myself: 1. I know I would burn out from the volatility, I can't divorce myself from my work 2. I only really care about Ethereum ecosystem, and don't have the energy to debate others as to why everything else is simply NGMI 3. I also prefer continuity & leveraging my background, namely electrical & computer engineering w/ applications to BCI/neuro/bio/imaging/drug discovery I can imagine other fields where I would also burn out from volatility, like pharma, for example. Even academia (ideally; or at least used to be) a bimodal job where the steady income of teaching would moderate the volatility of research. Might be cope/ex post rationalization, but I think more people would be able to contribute more to volatile areas like crypto if they didn't have to go 'full crypto'. I'm thinking: something like Google's 20% time. OTOH, if you know you've got lightning-in-a-bottle (thinking of Polymarket & Hyperliquid), then maybe you should go fulltime with it.

I can't tell if this is hilarious performance art or for real, but either way, I stand with billionaires. Why? Soon we will all be billionaires. Study Zimbabwe. Trillions. https://marchforbillionaires.org/

Negroni, and yes, this will never get old. Cash Only, /sanjose

Hot take, but we don't need Rust thanks to AI. C++ plus Claude is all the borrow checking you need.