First talk I'll ever give about @dark.bio... no pressure... none whatsoever... 🙈

Couple years ago I went to Japan for cherry blossom season. Weather was crap, season delayed a few weeks, totally missed it. 2 years later, Imma make cherry blossom season at home 😋🌸

Can someone recommend me a rigid box manufacturer for Dark Bio? Seems making a square box, with 2.5mm wall thickness, that doesn't fall apart is arcane magic nowadays. The manufacturer I wanted to collab with just flipped the table on me for saying 2.3mm vs 2.5mm is inaccurate.

Hey Claude, can you isolate this 3 liner fix into a new branch? Claude: Sure! `git stash && git checkout && git stash pop && git checkout --` And that is how I lost an hour of work.

I don't know who named the Rust DNA processing library "noodles", but I tip my hat to you 😋

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Mechanical parts done, just unboxed them, feels like xmas 😁 Will leave the measurements for tomorrow, otherwise I’m not gonna sleep if I find an issue 🫠 Cc @dark.bio

Cherry farm in my hometown, anti-freeze measures 😅🍒

Well, that went fast 😋. The @dark.bio iOS app was approved for App Store distribution in 36 hours 🔥

Jarrad Hope is coming to ETHPrague! ☀️ Get ready for an inspiring talk from a man who, in his own words, is on a mission to help build what’s been called a Virtual State, Cyberstate, or Network State. Straight out of Logos. This May at ETHPrague ☀️ 🎟️ Get tickets in bio

Well, fuck Anthropic. I've bought a 3 month Claude Max sub to a friend as a gift. Sent it to them. 10 days later, their gift is GONE from their account. No trace whatsoever. I go to Anthropic to request a refund: - I can't it's not my gift. - They can't, it doesn't exist.

Import 1 pcs of 50g Al into EU: 3 day import process, CO2 declaration (2 weeks), customs, duties, etc. Import 25 pcs of 50g Al into CH: plane lands, shit's loaded onto a car, delivered. Done.

And it's a wrap! Happy Easter all, see you in a few days...

Woot, the Dark Bio Companion App was approved for external testers on the App Store 🍎. Yeah, I know, this is average Tuesday for any mobile dev. I'm still happy 😊 Needs an Ark tho' 😋

Is using AI to generate compliance docs sane? Nope. But is *not* using AI to write compliance docs sane? Also nope. Behold, the text below is Irish (or more accurately, Gaelic). Important stuff to be legal in the European Union!

I'm trying to do EU compliance documentation for @dark.bio, obviously using Claude... at some point Imma have to put Claude on the cap table.

We are putting together an initial batch of these (25 pcs) and they should be ready in about 6-8 weeks depending on suppliers; barring last minute fuckups. We're looking for people who would be interested in playing with them; but who can also afford to support the project. 🧵

2024: Oh, you're building something on the RaspberryPI platform? You're such a cheapskate! 2026: Oh, you're building something on the RaspberryPI platform? Nobody will be able to afford it! Tru story 🫠

Please don't make me post selfies and shorts to prove these images are real 🤣

You've heard of "fractional-reserve banking", but have you heard of "fractional-reserve PCBs"? @jlcpcb.bsky.social contacted me that that the components they sold me a month ago, which I now need for a PCB assembly... don't... actually exist. Order delayed by 1 month.

My life is complete now. It's interactive and functional and plays. 🤯

First!

Fixing the #Parkside effect (surviving hardwired over-voltage from a cheap USB-C cable / power adapter).

New toy for Dark Bio, 600dpi label maker so I can get the boxes done in a print shop and just stick on the serial number later 😋

Oxford Nanopore: Hey, so we're discontinuing our $10K `P2 Solo` sequencing device, because it doesn't have an integrated GPU and is annoying to use. But worry not, we have `P2 Integrated` out, which is exactly the same with with a GPU in the box! It's $100K.

It's so amazingly fulfilling when you've built something for 1.5 years, and the first ever person you share it with immediately starts building on top. 🥰

Open-source vaccines, so the whole world can participate in manufacturing them and in better analyzing and understanding their medical properties. Funded by Balvi. The full-stack d/acc roadmap is shipping. https://firefly.social/post/x/2034007336768200832

Y'all, I've made it 🥳

Ran into the weirdest issue with ordering 3D prints. The pieces are *larger* than my model =) Turns out JLC is compensating for material shrinkage, but they are overdoing it, so now I need to compensate for JLC's compensation algorithms. House of cards... 🤪

Apple: The king of tolerances. Dark Bio: Hold my beer.

Trust, but verify! The Dark Bio firmware and device signing keys are hardware bound to genuine YubiHSM and YubiKey devices. Furthermore, the public audit logs demonstrate (within the limits of the YubiHSM 2 capabilities) that no malicious firmware exists.

Just been hit by Trump's tariffs first time in my life (or rather the Chinese retaliatory tariffs). It's so nice as a European to pay extra taxes because US-CN is having a dick measuring contest.

Asked both ChatGPT 5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to generate me a schematic for something. First is OpenAI, second is Anthropic... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Never gets old…

🌿Cilantro Soapiness: the first ever genetic test ran on a Dark Bio Ark enclave. Against my own genome, no less! A test, vibe coded with AI, without looking at the code, never having to worry about malicious code touching sensitive data, because the Ark guarantees safety. 🤍

Shoutout to the print shop who did the wrappers at 11PM yesterday 🤍 Image is my own photo, as always. I don’t do AI marketing, nor product shoots for now.

In December I was quoted $4000 for a batch of eMMC chips. I didn't want to commit because I wasn't yet sure if they are large enough (128GB; it would be better to have 256GB). Today's quote is $32000. I can't afford that for my project. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How secure is the @dark.bio pipeline? Yes.

When you realise both the boomers and the zoomers got it wrong on what the real store of value is.

Me in December: Hmm, storage chips for the Ark is $50-ish. I should postpone a bit to make sure I get the correct one. Me now: WTF do you mean it's $277 ??? 😭

Ugh, today was insane. I've replaced x509 certificates with CWT attestations throughout Dark Bio. Needed to update 10 repositories in lockstep: - Rust/Go/Flutter/TypeScript crypto - Ark firmware, Ark CLI - Cloud worker, cloud CLI - Web dash, mobile app Thank you Claude

It’s time for something really dark 👀 Péter Szilágyi is gonna have is first talk about Dark Bio! 🖤 This May at ETHPrague ☀️ 🎟️ Get tickets in bio

Seems I'll be doing my first talk about Dark Bio at @ethprague.bsky.social in May this year! 🥳 No pressure... 😅

AI and the illusion of sandboxing: OpenCode: You can't access files outside this folder. Claude: Lol, hold my beer

Monday I started reworking the x509 certificate support in the Dark Bio crypto libraries. By Friday, I'm on a path of deleting the whole thing and replacing it with CWT credentials / attestations. Wild week... 🥲 🧵

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I have received the biggest bribe ever to switch back from Rust to Go 🥰 Courtesy of Vlad Cealicu and BespokeYarnCreation. Thank you!!!

Today I've spent 5 hours with Codex writing an x509 wrapper. 3000 LOC with tests. I'm one hour in with Claude and it's deleting code like there's no tomorrow. > No, you don't need it. It's a textbook unnecessary abstraction. Was told Codex is good, it's a complexity generator.

Installed OpenAI Codex 20 minutes ago. In the *first* thread:

Have a wild Sunday idea to geek out with AI. Multiple people used Claude/Codex to reverse engineer a game (banteg did Crimsonland and ccccjjjjeeee did SimCity). Point proven. Let's up the difficulty. Lets see if AI can split open a proprietary radio protocol! Starting now 😅