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Fazua Ride 50 speed unlock from a Mac, no box
How my agent and I raised the speed limit of a Fazua Ride 50 Evation from 25 to 55 km/h over USB from a MacBook, with firmware 2.04 and an open source tool.
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Badass Box 4 on a Fazua Ride 50, the yellow light
My Badass Box 4 on a Fazua Ride 50 kept blinking yellow. What the light means, where the magnet goes, what the black ring is for, and what Badass said.
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Riverside 500E faster, bike tuning
A complete how-to for the Riverside 500E: the free magnet hack, the Badass Box, and a KT controller swap, with drawings, part links and test steps.
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Sometimes the more things you add the smaller it gets
Twenty-one quotes from a talk about making things, and what each one means when you build a product
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How the FATE VM fixes the basic flaws of the EVM
Erik Stenman built FATE, a typed VM without flat memory or raw jumps. Contracts get about 10 times smaller and run 3 times faster than on the EVM.
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Re-architecting the Blockchain Execution Layer, How the FATE VM Solves EVM’s Fundamental Flaws
How Erik Stenman built FATE, a typed VM that makes contracts about ten times smaller and three times faster than on the EVM.
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The 2020 investment protocol, a crisis management case study
My plan from day 12 of the 2020 lockdown, to buy companies for ten years and not panic in the crash
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History of the ThreeFold Network and Tokens
ThreeFold from Zero-OS in 2016 to the v4 marketplace in 2026, and how the tokens went from TFT to SPORE and the gold backed AUR.
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Spark wallet UX and the Lightning flow, a build log
I wanted the Spark wallet to look exactly like the existing Bitcoin screen, with minimal code and no duplicate or legacy code. I also set…
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The invisible giants, 21 developers who built your internet
We praise the founders of Facebook and Google, but the internet runs on open source code from a small group of volunteers. Here are 21 of them.
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Building a Cross-Chain BTC-EURe Market Maker with NEAR Intents & 1-Click
How we wired up a swap stack between BTC and EURe on NEAR Intents and 1-Click, with our own AMM solver that earns a 0.3% margin.
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Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), the simple and the technical walkthrough
Token launches are messy and bots win. CCA spreads your bid over many blocks and everyone filled in a block pays the same price. Simple first, then the math
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How Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA) work, the technical version
Uniswap's CCA sells a token over many blocks at one fair price per block and then seeds a Uniswap v4 pool. Here is the math and an example
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How Email-to-Blog Publishing Works on emino.app
How an email to post@emino.app turns into a post on my blog, with DNS, TLS, Postfix, Dovecot and the importer that writes the Markdown.
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How to start your own near solver: chart, technical bits (env, keys, services, deployment)
How my Near Intents solver on emino.app works, what every service does, and how you set up your own with env, keys, pm2 and Nginx.
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Complete iOS Developer Onboarding Guide for EAS Build with Expo.dev
Every step to get a new iOS developer building with EAS Build and Expo, from Apple and Expo invites to the first build on the phone. No Mac needed.
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Relativity theory as a state diagram
A Mermaid state diagram of special and general relativity, and how it connects to Newton and quantum gravity. Note to self, make it vertical.
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Calendly invitation not syncing with your Google calendar? Here’s what to do
You booked a meeting with someone's Calendly link and it doesn't show up in your Google Calendar anymore? Here is how to fix it.
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2020 let’s go — investing diary during corona and my first time investing
This document was created out of a short chat with my good friend Frederik Eichelbaum who suggested I write down my thoughts around investments so that…
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NPM fund and continuous token bonding curves for open source funding
A token bonding curve that pays open source maintainers on every buy and sell, and also gives early supporters and token holders something back.
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5 packages are looking for funding, run `npm fund` for details, pionext.org
npm fund already shows which packages need money. NPM Fund turns that into a token market on a bonding curve, so maintainers get paid all the time.
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Investment insights and a checklist for the long term
Insights from 2020 on long term investing, turned into a checklist. Research, spread the risk, watch debt and ratios, and be patient.
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Exploring renewable energy: Our journey to build an air-powered water-driven flywheel
Imagine a system that uses air and water to create movement, a low-cost, renewable way to generate energy. That’s the idea we’re working on, right here…
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How to fully charge your smartphone in 15 minutes
A full charge in about 15 minutes needs three things. A high wattage charger, a cable rated for it and a phone that supports it.
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The complete guide: Building a full-stack blog infrastructure with Lightning, Nostr, and email publishing
This is how we built a full blog platform that does not depend on anyone. It takes Bitcoin Lightning payments, it talks to Nostr, you can publish by…
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Building an AI-Optimized Blog with Hugo, a Complete DevOps Journey
How I went from a broken DNS setup to a self-hosted Hugo blog that AI search can find, with the real prompts, the code and every mistake on the way.
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Building Lightning-Fast Static Sites with Hugo in 2025
Hugo builds sites in milliseconds. How to install it, start a site, deploy it and keep it fast in 2025.
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How to optimize your blog for AI search engines in 2025
AI search is about being easy to find and easy to understand for models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Here is what helps.
