YubiKey EVM Signer
An Airgapped Hardware Wallet using your YubiKey natively in EVM chains.
Jose Storopoli, PhD
Latest posts
The Future of Bitcoin Finance and L2s
How DeFi will come to Bitcoin, enabling you to do more with your Bitcoin, yet with very good trust assumptions.
A letter to my son
A letter to my son, filled with timeless wisdom and philosophical insights.
My current development workflow and tools
How supply chain devastating attacks made me change my mind recently.
The beauty of math's incompleteness or how self-references can beautifully screw things up
How I've fell in love with Math.
Randomness in computation: sprinkle a little bit of randomness, and voilà!
How to make your own non-deterministic, but highly reliable, linear
BitVM: how to bridge using 1-of-N trust assumptions
Intuition behind what's going on under the hood of BitVM.
Merkle trees and the Taproot protocol
Merkle trees and the Taproot protocol
The road less travelled
Advice for those who want to marshall themselves and reach higher grounds.
Zig comptime is such a powerful built-in feature
A deep dive into the `comptime` feature of the Zig programming language.
Von Neumann: the sharpest mind of the 20th century
How Von Neumann single-handedly revolutionized mathematics, quantum mechanics, and computing.
Some intuitions on zero-knowledge proofs
An introduction to zero-knowledge proofs and their applications.
Shamir's secret sharing
How to share secrets and do threshold cryptography.
Sherlock Holmes final letter: a simple dead man's switch in Rust
A simple no-bullshit dead man's switch in Rust.
Seed phrases and entropy
How to understand the math behind good passwords.
Basics of cryptographic signatures
Don't roll your crypto but KNOW your crypto instead.
Fullstack and progressive web apps in Rust: a tale of a sudoku spyware
How to build once and for all web apps using Rust and Dioxus instead of bloated and brittle JavaScript.
htmx: an oasis in a desert of soy
Don't blindly throw JavaScript at every problem.
Zero-cost abstractions
Exploring the concept of zero-cost abstractions in programming languages.
Lindley's paradox, or the consistency of Bayesian thinking
Inside every non-Bayesian there is a Bayesian struggling to get out.
Word embeddings
How to do machine learning with cosines.
What is soydev? And why do I hate it
Too much bloat in development and a philosophical take on the development process.