Steve Simkins
Steve Simkins
Steve Simkins
My name is Steve. I'm a DX Engineer with a passion for developer tooling that advances cypherpunk values. I'm currently doing Developer Relations at OpenZeppelin and I'm also building Orbiter and bhvr in my spare time.
Latest Posts
This weekend I went to a secondhand store that specializes in books, movies, CDs, DVDs, you name it. The mission: find a tape deck and some tapes, and oh boy did I hit the jackpot. What you see in the image above is a tape deck I found...
Updates from the bridge: Just got back from a great vacation in the mountains with my family! Wildlife sighting score: 6x 🐻 12x 🦃 9x 🦌 1x 🦉 Been busting my tail getting Alcove ready for release. If you're interested in a privacy RSS...
A smol sneak peak on the end-to-end encrypted RSS reader I'm working on: Alcove Got a long way to go but really excited about what we got so far! reply via email
Updates from the bridge: Been a fun and eventful weekend! Finally got around to setting up my own git server with soft serve. It's a much simpler take on a git server in that it doesn't have any web ui, just a TUI if you ssh into the...
Updates from the bridge: I'm about a week in of wiping out most of my socials and the level of mental health improvement I've experienced is insane. I feel so much better lol. DJ_Dave had their first headline show and it absolutely...
Just deleted/signed out of almost all of my social accounts that I've used over the past decade. I'm a firm believer that the endless feeds of slop by corporations is doing nothing good for my brain, and today I'm putting my money where...
Updates from the bridge: Got an email regarding my E2EE RSS Reader POC recommending Evolu and I'm obsessed. A end-to-end encrypted DB sync engine? LETS GO Great IRC Overview by Preah that you should definitely check out! One of my...
I mentioned in my last Captains Log that I was curious if a web-based privacy focused RSS reader could be built, and I think I'm onto something 👀 Your browser does not support the video tag. User creates an anonymous account with the...
Updates from the bridge: For once had some time to chill and relax this weekend so I played around with UTM on my Mac and ran Windows XP; talk about nostalgia overload 😭 The sounds, the UI, everything just screams the early 2000s. I need...
One of my friends questioned some design choices in Sipp, mainly the replacement of NanoId for creating short IDs/slugs for snippets. They make some good points and while I don't think a response is necessary, I thought it might be good...
Updates from the bridge: I finally released my blog post on programming minnimalism on my main blog! If you're interested here's a link Been making small tweaks to sipp and one of my favorite additions is a small bash script that works...
One of my favorite videos I watched recently was by Pewdiepie, and while the title is “help, Im going through a midlife crisis…”, you realize about 3/4 of the way through that it was just bait. The real topic of the video is minimalism,...
A few days ago OpenAI released Sora, which was not only the latest version of their video generation model, but also a social app. Humans sign up, but the only content is that generated by users through AI. If you’re like me, the very...
Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they were too young for cell phones and wanted to hold off on that aspect of reality,...
One of the most common problems encountered when building decentralized applications is the disconnect between the smart contract and the client. A normal flow might look something like this: solidity -> byte code & abi -> EVM <- byte...