I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

or, "Holy shit, it works!" Last May I left my job on the Go team at Google to experiment with more sustainable paths for open-source maintainers. I held on to my various maintainer hats Go cryptography, transparency tooling, age, mkcert, yubikey-agent…, iterated on the model since September, and ...

What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?

How do you make blockchain and other transactions truly private? With mathematical models known as zero-knowledge proofs...

A Typo in Zerocoin's Source Code helped Hackers Steal ZCoins worth $585,000

Are you a programmer? If yes, then you would know the actual pain of... "forgetting a semicolon," the hide and seek champion since 1958. Typos annoy everyone. Remember how a hacker's typo stopped the biggest bank heist in the history, saved $1 billion of Bangladesh bank from getting stolen. But...