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Titan-C

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Titan-C
@titan-c Apr 5, 2023, 9:28 AM UTC

Bitcoin is art

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 insisti…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Sep 28, 2022, 8:51 AM UTC

Preventing the collapse of civilization

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 th…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Jul 13, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

Elliptic Curves on Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell

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…

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Titan-C
@titan-c May 2, 2021, 8:09 AM UTC

Elliptic Curves - Bitcoin & Haskell

In this series of posts I'm solving the exercises of Programming Bitcoin[^fn:1] in Haskell, I'm learning Bitcoin and Haskell in one go. To describe a point in the elliptic curve, we need four data po…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Apr 17, 2021, 12:44 PM UTC

Finite Fields - Bitcoin & Haskell

Bitcoin's price has gone crazy up, and now I'm really responsible for learning it. I found the book Programming Bitcoin[^fn:1] by Jimmy Song, it looks good enough to give it a try. It uses Python to…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Jan 9, 2021, 10:59 AM UTC

Why swim in a river at 0°C?

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. A…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Dec 31, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

Managing my email with Guile - interfacing to notmuch's C library

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 sur…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Dec 28, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

Guile's Foreign Function Interface - linking to notmuch

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 f…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Dec 22, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

Managing my email with Guile - A shell script alternative

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 r…

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Titan-C
@titan-c Dec 19, 2020, 6:16 AM UTC

Attachment files in plain text accounting

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 plai…

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