Dan Worth

always make it happen

Base Just Broke Up With Optimism at ETHDenver

The Big One: Base Leaves the OP Stack Let’s get right to it. On February 18th — smack in the middle of ETHDenver — the Base team dropped a blog post titled “The Next Chapter for Base” that essentially said: thanks Optimism, it’s been real, but we’re building our own thing now. Base is migrating off the OP Stack and onto a unified, self-managed codebase called base/base. The reasoning? Faster shipping cadence, less “cognitive overload” for developers, and more control over their own infrastructure and roadmap. In practice, this means Base is consolidating the sequencer, client releases, and core components into a single repo they own and operate. ...

February 20, 2026 · 5 min · Dan Worth

Hello Again, World

return nil, errors.New("blog not found") So. It’s been five years. In my first post back in 2021 I said — and I quote — “I, like many in my profession have tried to maintain a website/blog but rarely keep it updated.” Turns out that wasn’t foreshadowing, it was a threat. I wrote exactly one post, mass-deployed it to the void, and promptly ghosted my own domain like it owed me money. ...

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · Dan Worth

My New Hugo Site

Hello World My name is Dan Worth and you can read more about me @ the about page. Let’s see how this goes I, like many in my profession have tried to maintain a website/blog but rarely keep it updated. This is my attempt to have a place where I’ll actually post things I’m working on or thinking about to help me flesh out my ideas and thoughts. I like Golang so naturally I picked Hugo as my static site generator. So far it’s pretty nice and I liked the varienty of themes. I tend to be pretty minimailistic in my approach to things so I’m using the simplest theme I could find. Simpleness 😄 ...

June 12, 2021 · 1 min · Dan Worth