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

Civilization flourishes with technology, neglecting maintenace to technology drives to civilization collapse.

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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. However, I'm learning Guile and I need a real

I have been using ledger to keep track of my expenses. 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

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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

On November 16th 2019, I held a short humorous speech at the Wordstock festival in Nuremberg-Germany. I never imagined getting this far, and now I only see it as the beginning. In humor and comedy, I have

I start with the simple task of figuring out which is the direction you can draw the most straight lines. Then use that motivation to keep making lines for the length of the video. I talk a lot during