Notes From the Workbench.
Launch notes, contract notes, and the decisions behind Slonks, Howdy, and Regular Punks.
Building Howdy: Token-Gated Chat for NFT Communities
I've been in the NFT space since 2022 and ran an NFT launchpad called Carve. NFT founders kept telling me Discord was a headache and X group chats were the opposite problem: easy but barely usable. So I built Howdy.
Vibe-Code or Get Left Behind
Vibe-coding is coding with AI. For working software engineers, it's the biggest productivity multiplier I've ever seen. Here's what it actually is, why every year of experience compounds the leverage, and why test coverage is the part nobody talks about.
Regular Punks: CryptoPunks as Robot Dogs, via Beeple
An artist named Sheipi posted pixel-art robot dogs with CryptoPunks heads on X. It went viral, Beeple noticed, and three days later it was live onchain, with every dog assembled at request time from real CryptoPunks data.
Introducing Blockhash
A note on Blockhash as a home for onchain works: Slonks, Howdy, Regular Punks, and the contracts behind them.