<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:19:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@titan-c/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin is art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin is this strange thing I don't fully understand. Going down the rabbit hole, as it is commonly known, I generally feel disappointed. Whenever I meet a bitcoiner, it is always a fanatic insisting]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/bitcoin-is-art</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/bitcoin-is-art</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:28:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/W5LtFUPm6g7293LJ3Vg8LGMxSXJbQHxtovyJAqw2j9RsivpZ42Ycysx5GQSivMvP1qDwnK5mLgzPbvYakTpCTTLugg2SYGgycdiQzjBV1Zkp5A3T8YzDkRAPsXAMKU4o8raHdWiv3ePMTkaECwFx6YdWfKvAS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preventing the collapse of civilization]]></title><description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon this talk by Jonathan Blow on YouTube and I must share it. Civilizations flourish thanks to the technologies they invent. Yet those same technological achievements get lost because the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thoughts/@titan-c/preventing-the-collapse-of-civilization</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thoughts/@titan-c/preventing-the-collapse-of-civilization</guid><category><![CDATA[thoughts]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:51:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/ATHztMY7eTaoAekZ3e4cKzuDMfqXZA8S2czSrh17htWPoZmDg2Qomn5yFC2iJi5hK9qntQWodozy4Tz1q9FqAqpUBuF67sXRTWZfNSVdc767Umn3my9wvdn2KTiHZudBaGXWmUF3n6ebrxL5dPhFWgSW2zRnBsqyoqDPh1MENzLXWnFfJWZUwsSFPCxWpDCX4sALBEzKm3PtVTgnfbiLedmH?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elliptic Curves on Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell]]></title><description><![CDATA[When merging the last two posts, I immediately run into serious difficulties. Haskell's type system just made my work harder(well my ignorance did). Until I could come up with a solution, I could not]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/elliptic-curves-on-finite-fields-bitcoin-and-haskell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/elliptic-curves-on-finite-fields-bitcoin-and-haskell</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgprHMdPnx6oMSvP45T4cWZGdKyFpT6qVYo4xAZ7VLHW4kHZEFrBTDih5NR86QJVWUUd1U8GfRTU2jejE8dEk4YYE8nKzuviCv11YQ4zqKAGh6m9kS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elliptic Curves - Bitcoin & Haskell]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this series of posts I'm solving the exercises of Programming Bitcoin[1] in Haskell, I'm learning Bitcoin and Haskell in one go. To describe a point in the elliptic curve, we need four data points.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/elliptic-curves-bitcoin-and-haskell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/elliptic-curves-bitcoin-and-haskell</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 08:09:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgprHMdPnx6oMSvP45T4cWZGdKyFpT6qVYo4xAZ7VLHW4kHZEFrBTDih5NR86QJVWUUd1U8GfRTU2jejE8dEk4YYE8nKzuviCv11YQ4zqKAGh6m9kS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin's price has gone crazy up, and now I'm really responsible for learning it. I found the book Programming Bitcoin[1] by Jimmy Song, it looks good enough to give it a try. It uses Python to teach,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@titan-c/finite-fields-bitcoin-and-haskell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/programming/@titan-c/finite-fields-bitcoin-and-haskell</guid><category><![CDATA[programming]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:44:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgprHMdPnx6oMSvP45T4cWZGdKyFpT6qVYo4xAZ7VLHW4kHZEFrBTDih5NR86QJVWUUd1U8GfRTU2jejE8dEk4YYE8nKzuviCv11YQ4zqKAGh6m9kS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why swim in a river at 0°C?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of reasons: Get out of your comfort zone, build character, discover your limits. There are plenty of justifications: Simply crazy, settling a bet, religious penitence/purification. All]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/why-swim-in-a-river-at-0-c</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/why-swim-in-a-river-at-0-c</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:59:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/23KQwnti57stuXpnvnU2ByoTTe7rtyo8v5uYk1kPymfyjguJmftL7538B7uX3fak9cfwTp72V2LdW6RYvQ9nEoGy3xfQwup?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing my email with Guile - interfacing to notmuch's C library]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manually creating the bindings for a sizable C program is a lot of work, also it is not very rewarding. I'm lazy and don't want to do that. I looked around for what other options I have and I was surprised]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/managing-my-email-with-guile-interfacing-to-notmuch-s-c-library</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/managing-my-email-with-guile-interfacing-to-notmuch-s-c-library</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:21:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guile's Foreign Function Interface - linking to notmuch]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the previous post I covered how I can call external programs as new processes and interact with their inputs or outputs. Here I will use directly the foreign libraries written in C using Guile's foreign]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/guile-s-foreign-function-interface-linking-to-notmuch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/guile-s-foreign-function-interface-linking-to-notmuch</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:19:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing my email with Guile - A shell script alternative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the pre-processing work of my emails was already solved with a combination of a bash script, which uses the notmuch cli and the python package afew. 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It is simple, it doesn't interfere with my workflow, and I can edit data with my favorite text editor Emacs, because ledger only deals with plain]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/emacs/@titan-c/attachment-files-in-plain-text-accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/emacs/@titan-c/attachment-files-in-plain-text-accounting</guid><category><![CDATA[emacs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 06:16:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Escape Poverty? - Is Your Thinking Keeping You Poor?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon this talk by Douglas Kruger on YouTube. I decided to take notes and write my own summary to deepen the learning experience. It provides me with a reference for later times. Douglas Kruger]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/how-to-escape-poverty-is-your-thinking-keeping-you-poor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ocd/@titan-c/how-to-escape-poverty-is-your-thinking-keeping-you-poor</guid><category><![CDATA[ocd]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:57:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3uGGCvyenqJmh44FbHKAFbu6jsPiDNK2Eq5JnXtxVSUjuzvzrfTr9ENjGT3S3ZMBmrEddei3qe1Q6coZim3D2wWGVbzkCYwT6AkkFTqibc2ayycJqXhqJubBTVJjX3nsbADwqZJubPhrGF2w46Vn8YLRTxCBfDoCezCWkuCaFwmxsGsCphuBnGYL7ZoGczbZg8KfD5HVHutU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posted by APPICS]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/appics/@titan-c/appics-v1-appics-im-112365</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/appics/@titan-c/appics-v1-appics-im-112365</guid><category><![CDATA[appics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:49:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWNnTyuNyi9HXetezAgmM2NN4jTtLVdkfXUvRhjxcv6JUyP8rktHJvdWPHrGguv8jEnsmKJxgy4eyMQibsgZCyBXvKQdhapAbFQWiKDjwxq5?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue winter sunset]]></title><description><![CDATA[I looked out of my window. Few times do I take the time. It was quiet and cold, not too late, but the day was gone. Winter times are just so calm, Everything is up side down. The sky is pale white during]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@titan-c/blue-winter-sunset</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@titan-c/blue-winter-sunset</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:48:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/TZjG7hXReeVoAvXt2X6pMxYAb3q65xMju8wryWxKrsghkPhazQqWtqMeQuUswguAnU73RkFkLXDZRh9wCHMKyC4zPu5txeBpHqkZPRfLqgSCtMw1URxVa5hJMhETwEVG5XHc4puzhydcr2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nerd Humor: English - The torture of the conqueror]]></title><description><![CDATA[On November 16th 2019, I held a short humorous speech at the Wordstock festival in Nuremberg-Germany. 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I talk a lot during]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dtube/@titan-c/nqkls026rxt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dtube/@titan-c/nqkls026rxt</guid><category><![CDATA[dtube]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[titan-c]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:37:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk2bRb9gatmwEsdvNEZvoMkCrpTX4yMcUnXirzMdct9rPK5XK8Uzfgk2skZmx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>