Michael Straka

Hi! I’m Michael Straka, and this is my website. I am a cryptography engineer who’s mostly worked on blockchain, after graduating from Stanford in 2019. Currently I can be found at Aptos Labs working on the Aptos protocol.

I have too many other interests to list. Some of them include economics, quantum biology, qigong, ancient Greek and Taoist philosophy, Catholic theology, ancient history, and playing the harmonica.

Here are some posts about cryptography I’ve written. I haven’t been blogging recently but maybe I’ll get back into it:

I can be found on other places on the internet. Here are some of them:

• Iris is a really great piece of software that gets rid of screen flicker and lets you customize your screen’s+ color temperature.
• Doom Emacs is a really cool distribution for Emacs that has evil mode (vim keybindings) enabled by default. This is perfect if you like vim, but wish it was an operating system written in Lisp.
• Read-the-html is a great theme for exporting Emac’s org-mode to html. I wrote this website in org-mode using this theme.
• Homestar Runner is a great website. It has cartoons.
• Life at the Cell and Below the Cell Level by Gilbert Ling is a revolutionary and underrated piece of biology published in 2001. I highly recommend reading it when you get the chance.