17 July 2021

19 links · Saturday

UFOs: Why so weird?

If there’s one topic that’s always sort of lurking in the back of my mind, it’s UFOs. Or as the recent lingo goes, UAPs. But I’m going to stick with the term UFO here, because the whole point of ch…

ongoing by Tim Bray · Algorithm Agility?

What happened was, I was fooling around with zero-knowledge proof ideas and needed to post public keys on the Internet in textual form. I picked ed25519 keys (elliptic-curve, also known as EdDSA) so I asked the Internet “How do you turn ed25519…

Rebasing, work & feature branching » Will Hackett

I'm a member of a few software teams and, very frequently, we commit code to our main branch. Common themes within my teams are not to have a develop branch or even release cycles. Instead, we release regularly. This isn't common practice in big...

Poetry, Essays, and Code That Lets you Get on with Your Day

A lot of people talk compare good code to poetry. Poetry is generally: Elegant and enjoyable to read.Clever.Of variable information density. Sometimes, a line of poetry can contain multiple meaning…

Out of the Box Elixir

Last time I wrote about 4+ years of using Minitest, how about I write about 5+ years of using Elixir now? It is going to be a little bit about that. But first, some background.

Creating zips server side per request

Hello and welcome 😀, Today’s post will focus on a situation I encountered recently, and that is How to create a zip archive on demand to be served via an API endpoint. In a following post, we…

Amazon.com: OVERTURE PLA Matte Filament 1.75mm with 3D Printer Build Surface 200mm X 200mm, Matte PLA Roll 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05 mm, Fit Most FDM Printer (Carbon Fiber Black): Office Products

Amazon.com: OVERTURE PLA Matte Filament 1.75mm with 3D Printer Build Surface 200mm X 200mm, Matte PLA Roll 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05 mm, Fit Most FDM Printer (Carbon Fiber Black): Office Products

Windows Insider Program

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London Mainnet Announcement

After a successful testnet deployement, the London upgrade is now ready to be activated on the Ethereum mainnet. It will go live on block 12 965 000, which is expected between August 3-5, 2021. Client Versions In order to be compatible with the London upgrade,…