Lúcás Meier
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Lúcás Meier
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Cryptographer working on Penumbra

Cryptography, FP, Math, and other cool stuff.

Blog too infrequently at cronokirby.com

Lost in Seattle somewhere
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i am so sorry but if you live in the pnw you have no business having palm trees in your yard
June 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
notes.cronokirby.com/Posts/Bridgi...

I wrote a short blog post about how I'd like to see us evolve bridges towards internalizing risk, rather than passing it on to users. Ideally, bridging risk should not be mitigated by having users be aware of each bridging action, gauging it themselves.
Bridging, Risk, and Buck Passing
Bridges enable users to transfer assets between blockchains.
notes.cronokirby.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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pug kayak -> pug sleep
June 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
It's called "urban planning" and it's a science
Lmao how is Fremont omitted
May 21, 2025 at 6:27 AM
"Cryptography makes everything a key management problem" is actually a profoundly optimistic statement.
May 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Typography is one of the world's most pernicious infohazards.
May 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Considering this article (www.slowboring.com/p/what-citie...) from @mattyglesias.bsky.social about how the concentrated ownership model can help neighborhoods (as it does for, e.g. Theme Parks, Japanese Rail), I'm starting to think that cities having constant millage is bad.
May 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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“The authors would like to thank the program committees of ASIACRYPT 2022, EUROCRYPT 2024, CRYPTO 2024 and EUROCRYPT 2025 for their constructive comments.” 👀
May 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Amazing work!
PEGASIS: Practical Effective Class Group Action using 4-Dimensional Isogenies (Pierrick Dartois, Jonathan Komada Eriksen, Tako Boris Fouotsa, Arthur Herlédan Le Merdy, Riccardo Invernizzi, Damien Robert, Ryan Rueger, Frederik Vercauteren, Benjamin Wesolowski) ia.cr/2025/401
April 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Solow model but for the interchangeability of eating out and developing personal cooking skills
February 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
You can get a glimpse at being a human reading weird accounts by aliens of how they think human society works, often laughably inaccurate, by reading philosophy about a field you know well, e.g. software.
February 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
this infamous quote is right, but only because all of the value created by the internet was immediately destroyed by the prevalence of power point as a means of business communication
February 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The fact that the API for the U.S. Presidential election was specified in terms of electors was very smart because it allows many possible election variants to be supported in a backward compatible way.
October 22, 2024 at 4:43 AM
I think you can avoid the significant whitespace in Haskell-like languages just by introducing a keyword to close scopes.

For example, see the first image. Just adding an `end` keyword accomplishes a lot.
October 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
yonkeltron.com/posts/boring...
echoes a sentiment that I share: if you spend all your time using "boring" tech that already exists, there's no possibility for improvement or increased productivity.
The goal of software engineering should be continuous improvement!
yonkeltron.com | Post: Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
Jonathan E. Magen's website!
yonkeltron.com
October 14, 2024 at 5:55 PM
"What are my politics?"
"Don't worry you wouldn't get it anyways"
November 23, 2023 at 6:58 PM
I like discovering new styles I can get the AI black box to spit out at me
November 21, 2023 at 3:54 AM
Bad trigger discipline is definitely a red flag
November 21, 2023 at 3:36 AM
Yeah I'm tapering (not running but in a cool way)
November 20, 2023 at 1:27 AM
my language
November 17, 2023 at 5:21 AM
1:43:38 half marathon: we're so back.
November 12, 2023 at 6:58 PM
The best kind of planned maintenance is the kind you announce as you start doing it
November 11, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Sand, anguish, whispers crashing on the crag,
Bellows, wind brush, waves thrown against the loam,
Salt, tears, an aching, a collapse: alone,
Sunken, ashamed, buried: a sodden rag.
November 8, 2023 at 3:21 AM
"a ban on high-capacity...AGI training runs"
November 7, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Been a while since I ran a half, got my time down a bit
November 5, 2023 at 7:02 PM