Mike (@grabbou) • Hey
Web3 x Uniswap 💻 Passionate about cross-platform 🕹️ When not working, find me on a race track 🏎️
Publications
- Just realized I have over 500 followers here! How’s everyone doing? 👋
- Today Uniswap is launching a mobile wallet! It’s open source and written 100% in React Native! Check the announcement here and have fun! https://twitter.com/uniswap/status/1631691330031169537
- I find myself reading T&C even more often now that I am living in UAE. While I am not a fanatic of the EU, one of the things we definitely got right is customer protection and a bunch of regulations (not just labor-related).
- Traveled on New York (JFK) <-> Dubai (DXB) route recently, and here's some fancy metrics:
Parked to Luggage Claim (post border control)
- JFK: 2.5hrs
- Dubai: 0.5hrs
Parked to House:
- JFK: 3.5hrs
- Dubai: 1hrs
Share yours 👀
- Having recently researched a lot re: visa and tax treaties between Poland and a bunch of countries, one takeaway: read every official document very carefully, don't always rely on the Internet, and eventually... get a tax attorney.
It's really annoying that we live in times (I doubt it was ever different) where this knowledge is not accessible to everyone but to privileged who have either a degree or can afford a consultation with a specialist.
Sure, you may not need this knowledge most of the time, but... being on an employment visa (and being overly positive about the system working in your favor) or trying to leave the country and change tax jurisdiction can be a harsh reality check.
- Interesting leaked Yandex (search engine) source code with a detailed breakdown of their SEO algorithm (similar to Google indeed). An interesting read for everyone, especially if you're researching some content-related algorithms (maybe for Lens explore?)
https://twitter.com/alex_buraks/status/1618988134850785280
- Uniswap offers a better USDC<->EURC exchange rate than TransferWise (generally considered to be the leader of traditional banking)
- Do you know what's exciting? I feel that we spent past years building and investing in a lot of infrastructure projects around web3, and we're now starting to see more and more actual applications ready for mass adoption.
When I got into web3 last year, I felt like I missed out on a lot of early innovations. After digging deeper, I personally feel we're riding a new wave now.
- Love seeing new features on Lenster with every visit! Have to try `switch profiles` (btw, just noticed I can actually `wrap my code in a block like this` which is amazing 😆)
- Building web3 apps today is super easy. Your entire infrastructure is pretty much there. Social? Lens. Messaging? XMTP. Login? Magic Link. It literally never been easier.
- As per my bio, first time on a track day in UAE, Yas Marina F1 circuit looking really good 🔥
- Poor man’s Lens 😂 Twitter working on adding support for purchasing “coins” to support other users on the platform
Thanks @wongmjane.lens for posting this update on Twitter, you should do it here too one day! 🔥
- Soon 👀
- IPFS is 🔥
- gm everyone welcome in 2023 🔥
- What I love about Lens is total lack of bots and DMs trying to airdrop me some coins and make me a billionaire 😏
- Hey @stani.lens where can we get latest data on Lens adoption? 🔥
- I remember when my Lens timeline was empty / only few posts per day! It’s on 🔥🔥 right now and that’s just months later!
- As much as I am really sorry for everything going on with Twitter atm, I think it’s going to have net positive outcome for everyone. People are researching alternatives and becoming aware of shortcomings of relying too much on a single platform
- Idk why but I fell like I can literally post anything here, unlike Twitter
- Breaking: Twitter has removed controversial policy on promoting other social platforms - via Jane Wong on Twitter 🤯
https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210921/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
- About to fly back from NYC to Dubai. Can’t wait. Temperature is the same… except it’s not Fahrenheits 😂
- I would like to get more involved. What are the DAOs that one can join and have positive impact?
- Best city to live in the US? Decision time is coming! Please help 😏
- Never been a huge fan of Elon, but believing anyone in this world would spend more than $40B to buy and run Twitter for common good was extremely shortsighted. He’s no exception. New rules, new beneficiaries.
- Just a reminder that under new Twitter policy it’s still legal to link to your Lens profile! (yet)
- Recent Twitter acquisition and T&C changes are yet another reminder that centralized social media platforms are fundamentally broken
- Typical Starbucks in NYC - takeaway only, why? Looks like others are following the same
- What’s the deal with credit card? Why i can’t just leave the deposit in cash? Got rejected for a car rental because… “credit card” lol
- Note to self: get that damn credit card next time you travel to the US
- So Twitter prohibits some social media platforms now… they don’t know Lens is growing yet ✈️
- People complaining about rats and subway in NYC. Can’t say I felt in love with the city, but had positive experience with transport so far
- It’s funny how I am 266 followers here vs 11k on Twitter still get better engagement and more discussions here!
- Ill be speaking at ETHDubai March 16-16th! So excited, actually my first web3 conference ever! 🤞
- I’ve been less active for the past 30 days getting all the UAE residency papers in place! So glad to have it sorted now! 🤞 Can get back to web3 full time 🔥
- 5G in Dubai be like 😂🔥
- This is what time zone difference does to people 😂 1am workout hitting hard 💪
- Many hyper competitive people are about to learn that its better to be #2 or #3 in a growing industry than being #1 in a shrinking one
- 🎉 I am so happy to announce that **I am joining** **Uniswap** to work on some really exciting web3 projects!
It's my biggest decision since betting on React Native in 2016, and I couldn't be happier to be taking my first steps in this space alongside such a talented team! 🔥
- If you need to convince someone why defi is great, ask them to open a bank account in UAE
- Okay, I know I was supposed to start two weeks ago, but I forgot about my holidays 😆 https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x011196-0xbd
- After flying to Dubai, I started liking cities by night
- I am always surprised by the popularity of WhatsApp everywhere I travel. Appointments, renting a car, buying a car. Some of the practices (sharing debit card or passport) seem super shady, but looks like it's the way things are done in some places. https://zaroonilawyers.com/whatsapp-communication-can-be-used-as-proof/
- Just enabled DMs, this feature is so cool! If anyone wants to chat, well... please DM lol!
- The downside of using USDT (and crypto) is that all my mobile, internet banking and cards were revoked in response to topping up my Binance balance. Just got locked out of all my funds far away from home. This is disgusting (and yet another reason I hate banking)
- You know crypto is more mainstream than ever when you pay for your apartment with USDT lol
- The holidays are over! Time to get back to work! Will be hard, given Dubai's such a crazy city!
- ITS HAPPENING! I am so hyped to be moving to a new country! 🔥🇦🇪
- Love how the dots are connecting! I always wanted to learn Rust, was happy to see it widely spread in blockchain. Now, it's more and more popular in JS ecosystem. No excuses now 👀
- Looks like Rust is taking over JS tooling ecosystem space and it does that by bringing massive build performance! Up to 700x faster builds compared to Webpack! 🔥 https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack