Hello Bassline

We are excited to announce we are starting Bassline, an organization aiming to take on big problems in computing with elegant solutions. If you want to learn more about the details of what we are working on right now, check out any of the pages on bassline.dev or our GitHub repo.

As of the time of this post, we are three: Alexander Gusev (Goose), Ben Pope and myself.

Goose is our ringleader. He’s been working in the software world for the past five years, starting a few months prior to dropping out of Arizona State University, where we met. He’s worked with organizations like The Buidl Guidl, The Graph and various startups. He’s also a mad wizard who studies programming language theory from his mystical castle in Santa Cruz, California. Lucky for us he has a heart of gold.

Ben is Goose’s brother, a self-taught programmer who’s worked at The Graph and a few startups with Goose. We only met a few months ago but he’s a cool dude. He has a sage wisdom that I can only assume comes with being super, super old (30).

My name is Chris. This past May I graduated with a degree in data science from ASU, where I swam for all four years. Goose and I were put in the same lane for some brutal workouts before he dropped out the spring of my freshman year. Goose didn’t show up to many of our calculus classes after the first few weeks, but he made sure to bring me over to his apartment and install Arch Linux on my Thinkpad. I had no idea what he was doing, but I got props from the “top dog” in my stats class a week later, so I figured it was some sort of nerd status signal and decided to keep it around.

About six months ago, Goose recruited me to help him on a project involving “Propagation Networks.” I was intrigued by the idea that computing was as wide open and ready for innovation as the Propagators paper argued. I will admit, I had a pretty rudimentary idea of computing to begin with, but reading a paper like Alexey Radul’s is a great way to start learning.

We worked through the summer on a few implementations of his paper, and some other ideas Goose and I were excited about. Towards the end of the summer, Ben joined us and we got to work on what is now Bassline: A set of protocols to adress deep issues in distributed programming. We are very proud of how this work turned out.

We plan to use this set of protocols to solve various problems in distributed systems programming, the Ethereum Ecosystem, LLM workflows and whatever else comes our way. Thank you for reading!