Issue 272 of my weekly just went out. It's the stuff I actually played with that week: tools, open source, and a bit of life outside code. The cover is a drone shot over a lotus pond. Welcome to check out my trendy life and work.

Another issue of Uninvited is up This week we talked about the Airtable acquisition and what it means for every software startup that last priced a round in 2020-2022.

The issue is that Bret wasn't actually asking a question here, despite the existence of a question mark. He was making a claim—"there was a cover up"—disguised as a question. He's assuming as true that which has not been established. He wasn't asking a question, he was begging the question.

The issue of the industry window of opportunity is gradually becoming apparent. Infrastructure ultimately needs vehicles to run on it. 2022 was an early window of opportunity for infrastructure development, lasting until the activation of GPT in early 2023. Now is also a window of opportunity for the connection between AI computing power highways and vehicles. Perez's industry life cycle tells us that seamless integration is impossible.

New issue of Burn Notice #5# 🔥 Two disclosure programs went dark in the last week. Zcash Community Grants closed its vulnerability bounty program, and THORChain is in an open dispute with a researcher over a retired one, both pointing at the volume of AI-generated reports. I know exactly what that volume does to a program, the days lost reading plausible nonsense to find the one real report underneath. The instinct to close the program is something I could understand but is never a valid response. The cost of finding a bug in old, forgotten code is dropping fast, because decompilation is good now and models are cheap, and the paid channel that routes an honest finding back to you is the part getting cut at the same moment. This was the week Aztec Connect lost $2.19M on a contract nobody could pause and Verus fell to a bridge-failure class that Wormhole and Nomad already paid for in 2022. You can read more about what happened in the last week of crypto security in the newest issue of Burn Notice down below.