Hi, I'm Radek.
We learn so many things every day. It would be a shame for it all to go to waste.
This is my attempt to share as much as possible.
💼 Developer Relations at LayerZero
💼 Conversion optimization consultant
❤️ Books, basketball
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Articles
20 most recent articles
- SummerIce: A Simple solution for information overload
- EIP-3074 - Pass the AUTH, please!
- ERC-1271 - Now smart contracts can sign transactions too!
- ERC-4337 - It's all about Account Abstraction
- What are Ethereum Standards - EIPs, ERCs, RIPs, CAIPs
- How many time zones are there in the world?
- Solidity Smart Contract Template
- Merkle Trees
- Pushing my limits - What I learned from a year of monthly challenges
- December Challenge: Daily post on Instagram
- How to Become a Crypto Billionaire in 15 Minutes. Legally.
- Consistency
- November Challenge: No coffee
- October Challenge: 7-minute daily hanging
- Max values for each uint in Solidity, from uint8 to uint256
- September Challenge: One hour of learning every day
- Don't do stupid shit
- August Challenge: No alcohol
- My 200 days of daily web3 learning and building
- July Challenge: Cold shower in the morning
TIL (Today I Learned)
10 most recent TILs
- TIL: Ponzo illusion
- TIL: Euro banknotes had fictional bridges on them in 2002, when issued. After 10 years, they were not fictional anymore.
- TIL: There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists
- TIL: Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than to the Great Pyramid of Giza
- TIL: Most wines will last up to a week or more in the fridge
- TIL: Regular afternoon naps linked to improved cognitive function (but only if less than 30 minutes)
- TIL: 39% of American women have a tattoo, and 21% of American men
- TIL: Marchetti's constant - the average time spent by a person for commuting each day, which is approximately one hour
- TIL: How a secret experiment tricked psychiatrists into diagnosing sane people as having schizophrenia, and how it rocked psychiatry
- TIL: Individuals who are told by the coin toss to make a change are much more likely to make a change and are happier six months later than those who were told by the coin to maintain the status quo
Books
10 most recently read books
- Survival Quest - Vasily MahanenkoOct 2024
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky ChambersSep 2024
- The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher BuehlmanSep 2024
- Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins ReidSep 2024
- The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. CareyAug 2024
- Developer Relations: How to Build and Grow a Successful Developer Program - Caroline Lewko, James PartonJul 2024
- Anxious People - Fredrik BackmanJun 2024
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeerJun 2024
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Victoria SchwabJun 2024
- Three O'Clock in the Morning - Gianrico CarofiglioApr 2024
Featured works
Some of my videos, articles, talks, and other creative endeavours outside of VelvetShark.com
- The Secret Life of an Ethereum TransactionEpisode 1 of 10 of the in-depths series on a lifetime of an Ethereum transaction.
- How to use SummerIce to summarize any article (free Chrome extension)Demo and explanation of a Chrome extension that summarizes articles that I made for myself and then published for everyone to use.
- EIP.directory - your place for all Ethereum proposals: EIPs, ERCs, CAIPs, RIPsLaunch video, demo, and explanation of the project
- EIP.directoryA directory of important, noteworthy, interesting EIPs, with explanations
- Magic MakerFarcaster Frame to create custom fairy tales
- SummerIce ☀️🧊 - Page SummarizerChrome extension to summarize articles in one click
- ApeFitAward-winning ETHGlobal Istanbul hackathon project (team of 5, 3 awards won)