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Juan Gramajo

Internet archaeologist. Michelada connoisseur. Founder of 0773H.

I'm Juan. I live in the Bay Area with my wife and our two kids.

My family is from Guatemala. We came to the US when I was one — my parents were fleeing the civil war, and my dad had been kidnapped a few times, each one worse than the last. I grew up in Marin County, went through the entire American school system, and spent 25+ years inside the immigration system while I did it. Most of the time I feel American. Then something reminds me I'm not quite, and I remember I'm one of a few hundred thousand people stuck in a weird in-between. That thread shows up in a lot of what I write here.

By day I work at Asana. I'm the technical person embedded in the legal team — I build the tooling that makes legal work less painful. I got there the long way: I've worked in legal for years, taught myself to code on the side, and slowly turned "the guy who can write a script" into an actual job.

I think in bets, and I'm stingy with my time — it's the only thing I'm actually spending. So most of what I do is a wager on where an hour is best put: the kids, the day job, or the pile of things I build at night.

What I'm building

0773H — my little web3 media project: a newsletter, a podcast, and whatever else I feel like shipping. The name is calculator-speak. Type 07734 into a calculator and flip it over — it reads hELLO. I swapped the 4 for an H, because a 4 doesn't really look like an h upside down and a capital H does. It's dumb, it's short, the domain and ENS were free, and it flexes — 0773H Weekly, Daily, Spaces, whatever. I tweeted it out once and people replied in calculator language, so I figured it landed with my kind of people.

Lately most of my building energy goes into the Nouns DAO ecosystem — an onchain builder-reputation system, milestone-based contributor payments, a terminal client for governance, and a Prop Dates tool for Lil Nouns. The full list, with the technical details, lives on the Projects page.

I'm on Farcaster more than anywhere else, mostly because the stuff I write actually reaches people there. I'm interested in onchain publishing, agents that can act on governance without a human babysitting them, and — since Sora and everything after it — the problem of proving a message actually came from you. I keep coming back to the idea that a signature and a keypair get you most of the way there.

Outside of tech

I'm a dad first. Most of my non-work hours go to the kids — playgrounds, bike rides, and the logistics of moving two small humans around.

Beyond that: I grew up on streetwear (I still owe myself a proper deep-dive on The Hundreds or Murakami). I'm a gamer with a backlog I'll never clear — Titanfall 2 pulled me back in after The Last of Us made me put the controller down for a year. I read across the map, from Paul Johnson's Creators to comics like Y: The Last Man. I take photos (more on that here). I got deep enough into birding that I wrote an eBird plugin for Obsidian. And I travel when I can — five weeks around Europe with a baby, San Sebastián, Montreal for the bagels and the coffee. Weekends usually have soccer on somewhere in the background.

Around the web

GitHub
jgramajo4
Farcaster
@gramajo.eth
Substack
0773H Weekly
HuggingFace
gramajo

This blog goes back to 2016, when I was teaching myself Python. The first week I emailed the teacher to quit — told him it wasn't for me and I couldn't do it. He talked me off the ledge, I kept going, and those early posts are the record of it. They're rough and I've left them up on purpose. Learning in public means the beginning stays public too.