My dev updates for this week (March 8 - 14, 2026)
A week which went mostly on studying about DVT, working and reviewing PRs
My dev updates for this week (March 8 - 14, 2026)
This week was a bit slower and less productive than the rest. Spent some time looking at how thin the junior market is right now, which led me down a rabbit hole of figuring out what I need to do for the next 4 months before I graduate.
On the tech side, had Catalyst meetings where I was asked to work on the proposal builder in Shasta fork for proper recovery when the blob size exceeds the threshold. Been digging into how the blob size calculation works and when recovery should kick in instead of a reorg. Still early on this one since the task has a fair bit of complexity to it.
But most of my time this week went into studying Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) and getting deeper into Pluto. Studied how DV nodes and clusters work, how nodes auto detect each other's IPs using libp2p's identify protocol post relay, the DKG ceremony, and looked into the existing tbls implementation in our repo. Also reviewed 2 PRs that introduce helpers for DKG and implement eth2 API types. Tried finding standalone crates or libraries for some of this instead of manual implementation but came up empty, so looks like it'll be built from scratch.
Apart from these, been reading "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach" by Kurose and Ross to build a stronger foundation around p2p and networking concepts, which ties directly into the libp2p work.
That's it for this week. Goals for next week:
- Look into tasks to work on in Pluto project
- Review and understand a lot of PRs from Lighthouse and Pluto
- Read Rust for Rustaceans book, Networking and maybe Crust of Rust? I need to improve quite a lot in Rust.
But why is the job market the way it is right now :sob: Thank you for reading! Byee
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