Dan Finlay
@danfinlay.com
A guy who likes burritos, cooperation, and a digitally enhanced civilization. Building a user custodial web at MetaMask.
“source?” is actually a compliment, because it implies the asker trusts the claimer over their own ability to do research.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“source?” is actually a compliment, because it implies the asker trusts the claimer over their own ability to do research.
Bsky please steal this old tweetdeck feature:
On post drafting view, tap your own avatar to select another.
If you can’t have privacy, pseudonymity is one of your greatest weapons, so let it be fluid.
On post drafting view, tap your own avatar to select another.
If you can’t have privacy, pseudonymity is one of your greatest weapons, so let it be fluid.
September 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Bsky please steal this old tweetdeck feature:
On post drafting view, tap your own avatar to select another.
If you can’t have privacy, pseudonymity is one of your greatest weapons, so let it be fluid.
On post drafting view, tap your own avatar to select another.
If you can’t have privacy, pseudonymity is one of your greatest weapons, so let it be fluid.
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It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media
An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
August 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media
An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
I hear they changed the name of Home Box Office Max?
July 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I hear they changed the name of Home Box Office Max?
Getting new followers when I haven't written anything is a weird feeling.
I bias to thinking it's a bot.
I loved the obvious attribution that comes from the wave after a good tweet.
Maybe would be fun if the attribution was sticky: View followers by pie chart of what activity got them on board.
I bias to thinking it's a bot.
I loved the obvious attribution that comes from the wave after a good tweet.
Maybe would be fun if the attribution was sticky: View followers by pie chart of what activity got them on board.
July 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Getting new followers when I haven't written anything is a weird feeling.
I bias to thinking it's a bot.
I loved the obvious attribution that comes from the wave after a good tweet.
Maybe would be fun if the attribution was sticky: View followers by pie chart of what activity got them on board.
I bias to thinking it's a bot.
I loved the obvious attribution that comes from the wave after a good tweet.
Maybe would be fun if the attribution was sticky: View followers by pie chart of what activity got them on board.
@kentonvarda.com On your LAN house setup: Were your fold-away desks in the upstairs office off-the-shelf or custom built? Any leads on that? Seems like a great use of space.
July 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@kentonvarda.com On your LAN house setup: Were your fold-away desks in the upstairs office off-the-shelf or custom built? Any leads on that? Seems like a great use of space.
And butchers, while we’re at it.
How about “I really software engineer’d that turkey”
How about “I really software engineer’d that turkey”
Please stop besmirching whores. How about: I'm sweating like a priest who keeps getting transferred from parish to parish in church.
July 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
And butchers, while we’re at it.
How about “I really software engineer’d that turkey”
How about “I really software engineer’d that turkey”
I found a loose bolt at the fair, among the rides. It was fun: I could just walk around and alarm people.
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I found a loose bolt at the fair, among the rides. It was fun: I could just walk around and alarm people.
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Agoric has moved Endo and HardenedJS to the Decentralized Cooperation Foundation so it can better serve the growing ecosystem. Agoric and MetaMask continue to support the project’s development and Mark Miller and I continue to serve both Endo and Agoric.
🚨 Big news in the decentralized tech world! 🚨
Endo and @dcfoundation.bsky.social are officially joining forces to accelerate the future of secure decentralized computing.
Let's explore more 👇
Endo and @dcfoundation.bsky.social are officially joining forces to accelerate the future of secure decentralized computing.
Let's explore more 👇
June 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Agoric has moved Endo and HardenedJS to the Decentralized Cooperation Foundation so it can better serve the growing ecosystem. Agoric and MetaMask continue to support the project’s development and Mark Miller and I continue to serve both Endo and Agoric.
I have dragged a piano skeuomorph out of a closet, fidgeted with adapters of all sorts, and then contorted myself into uncomfortable forms, rather than just use a "piano with your keyboard" software.
June 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I have dragged a piano skeuomorph out of a closet, fidgeted with adapters of all sorts, and then contorted myself into uncomfortable forms, rather than just use a "piano with your keyboard" software.
That "computer engineering for babies" book could get A LOT more ambitious.
Book three needs to introduce memory modules you can pull out of the book, for one thing.
If they play it right, they raise a crop of own-computer-building kids.
Book three needs to introduce memory modules you can pull out of the book, for one thing.
If they play it right, they raise a crop of own-computer-building kids.
June 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
That "computer engineering for babies" book could get A LOT more ambitious.
Book three needs to introduce memory modules you can pull out of the book, for one thing.
If they play it right, they raise a crop of own-computer-building kids.
Book three needs to introduce memory modules you can pull out of the book, for one thing.
If they play it right, they raise a crop of own-computer-building kids.
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help needed:
I'm giving away the last of our trees, and I'm in a tough spot. I've been so busy with life and the project that we are overdue for a serious fundraiser.
please help continue the Nonprofit. We need to raise at least $3000 asap to keep things afloat.
buildsoil.net
I'm giving away the last of our trees, and I'm in a tough spot. I've been so busy with life and the project that we are overdue for a serious fundraiser.
please help continue the Nonprofit. We need to raise at least $3000 asap to keep things afloat.
buildsoil.net
Build Soil
buildsoil.net
June 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
help needed:
I'm giving away the last of our trees, and I'm in a tough spot. I've been so busy with life and the project that we are overdue for a serious fundraiser.
please help continue the Nonprofit. We need to raise at least $3000 asap to keep things afloat.
buildsoil.net
I'm giving away the last of our trees, and I'm in a tough spot. I've been so busy with life and the project that we are overdue for a serious fundraiser.
please help continue the Nonprofit. We need to raise at least $3000 asap to keep things afloat.
buildsoil.net
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Unless I'm misunderstanding the docs, seems that @yubico.com 's YubiHSM modules fall short at a crucial operation from being a truly auditable root of trust for a system.
Specifically, you cannot prove that you didn't create a hidden copy of a private key. 🧵
Specifically, you cannot prove that you didn't create a hidden copy of a private key. 🧵
June 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Unless I'm misunderstanding the docs, seems that @yubico.com 's YubiHSM modules fall short at a crucial operation from being a truly auditable root of trust for a system.
Specifically, you cannot prove that you didn't create a hidden copy of a private key. 🧵
Specifically, you cannot prove that you didn't create a hidden copy of a private key. 🧵
A “clerical error” resulting in a man being wrongly disappeared on grounds of terrorism, snowballing eventually into revolution was the plot of the film “Brazil”.
Where’s Kilmar?
Where’s Kilmar?
April 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A “clerical error” resulting in a man being wrongly disappeared on grounds of terrorism, snowballing eventually into revolution was the plot of the film “Brazil”.
Where’s Kilmar?
Where’s Kilmar?
Getting offered an unnamed “crypto” to snitch is the most overt “you shall be paid what you have coming” (you’ll be betrayed/rugged as soon as you have delivered) shit imaginable.
Paying citizens to snitch on members of their communities is horrifying. The fact that they'd sell out their neighbors for crypto is pathetic.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
March 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Getting offered an unnamed “crypto” to snitch is the most overt “you shall be paid what you have coming” (you’ll be betrayed/rugged as soon as you have delivered) shit imaginable.
Spoiler alert: I think there are good reasons that stuff is doomed in its current form, thankfully.
Here's @metamask.io co-founder @danfinlay.com talking about all the interesting #web3 & #consent lessons he learned from his crazy memecoin experiment! youtu.be/eOpCKr9M2lg
Insightful Lessons Learned From Dan Finlay's Memecoin Experiment
YouTube video by Mindplex Podcast
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Spoiler alert: I think there are good reasons that stuff is doomed in its current form, thankfully.
Just a guy, a girl, and a focused ion beam microscope, goofing around looking at some diatoms from diatomaceous earth. Y’know, just some prehistoric algae that look like microscopic alien spacecraft and still produce up to half the oxygen on earth. www.youtube.com/live/I3Mf-pn...
Slicing Diatoms in Half with Ions!
YouTube video by nanographs
www.youtube.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Just a guy, a girl, and a focused ion beam microscope, goofing around looking at some diatoms from diatomaceous earth. Y’know, just some prehistoric algae that look like microscopic alien spacecraft and still produce up to half the oxygen on earth. www.youtube.com/live/I3Mf-pn...
There are as many kinds of decentralization as there are gates.
February 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are as many kinds of decentralization as there are gates.
TIL that “Hox genes” convey location data to cells to help them differentiate correctly.
February 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
TIL that “Hox genes” convey location data to cells to help them differentiate correctly.
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As foretold! Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT... Goblins in the browser!!! spritely.institute/news/spritel...
You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!
This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!
You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!
This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!
January 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
As foretold! Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT... Goblins in the browser!!! spritely.institute/news/spritel...
You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!
This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!
You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!
This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!
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A computer could never beat me at chess. I would simply unplug it.
January 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A computer could never beat me at chess. I would simply unplug it.
Doordash, but for the library.
January 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Doordash, but for the library.