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sep 2026 Yet Another Gringo's Guide to Learning Argentinian Spanish Apps, podcasts, AI prompts, private tutors, language schools, and UBA: what actually worked for learning Rioplatense Spanish in Buenos Aires.
essay sep 2025 PSE Roadmap: 2025 and beyond The roadmap I wrote for PSE's refocus as Privacy Stewards of Ethereum: make privacy a first-class part of Ethereum through private writes, private reads, and private proving.
post jul 2025 Privacy is key to the next phase of Ethereum An op-ed with Zac Williamson for Ethereum's tenth anniversary: the network is on track to settle the world's value, and without strong privacy that makes it an instrument of surveillance.
essay jun 2025 Why PSE matters The one-pager I wrote for Ethereum Foundation leadership in June 2025: what PSE is for, why privacy on Ethereum is urgent, what the team had already delivered, and the questions we needed the EF to answer.
post apr 2025 Ethereum Localism Buenos Aires A rough launch plan for an Ethereum Localism chapter in Buenos Aires: map what exists, form a stewardship group, then pilot an unconference and a quadratic funding round for local organizations.
post apr 2024 MACI Roadmap update: 2024 Q2 Q1 review and Q2 plans: shipping v1.2, supporting clr.fund and ETH Latam rounds, MACI-RPGF, a Coordinator Service, and protocol work toward unconditional privacy.
post jan 2024 New year, new MACI Team intro and 2024 roadmap for MACI, minimal anti-collusion infrastructure for onchain voting: new core team, public roadmap, fresh docs, and community channels.
post nov 2023 MACI 2024 product roadmap The draft roadmap I opened for feedback after taking over MACI: a review of 2023, then 2024 workstreams for developer experience, community, quadratic funding, and the P0tion handoff.
post jul 2022 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q3 2022 Post-Merge prep, a new Geth website, the HEART framework for user insights, learning quizzes, and restructured documentation.
post apr 2022 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q2 2022 Merge prep, revamped wallet pages, consolidating the Ethereum wikis, an open design system, and the TypeScript rollout.
post jan 2022 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q1 2022 Rebranding Eth2, running a node, simpler staking, onboarding onto layer 2, and a redesigned Learn page.
post oct 2021 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q4 2021 A quadratic funding round on layer 2, rebranding Eth2, easier staking, a revamped Learn page, and better site search.
post jul 2021 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q3 2021 Content updates for L2 summer, a clr.fund quadratic funding round for Eth2 projects, the translation program, and community growth.
post apr 2021 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q2 2021 Keeping pace with Eth2, layer 2, and the rest of the ecosystem: updated Eth2 and layer 2 content, growing the team, more translations, and new funding mechanisms for the site.
post jan 2021 ethereum.org product roadmap: Q1 2021 The first public quarterly roadmap for ethereum.org, aimed at the wave of newcomers: a fuller homepage, translating the staking launchpad, consolidating the wikis, developer onboarding, and use case pages.
post feb 2020 Hi, I'm Sam Richards. My old personal site as it stood in February 2020: hand-written HTML, hosted on IPFS, archived here with links freshened.
note aug 2019 Review of Truffle University: Blockchain Engineering Course Truffle University's first six-week blockchain engineering cohort: mentorship from Truffle Suite developers, small-cohort collaboration, and where it fell short.
post jun 2019 Review of the ConsenSys Academy: Blockchain Developer Course An honest review of the 2018–2019 ConsenSys Academy bootcamp: where the curriculum excels, where developer support falls short, and the alternatives.
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