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Heartbeat – Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Peerchemist (one of the Peercoin developers) made an interesting transaction today: https://twitter.com/peerchemist/status/1001747842451562497. It’s always exciting when something runs “in production” for the first time 🙂

News from The Washington Post:

  • “Roseanne” is cancelled after Roseanne makes a racist tweet.
  • Terrible flood in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Jogged around Kezar Stadium twice. Came back to discover a package from Pi Supply!

And here’s a piece of the painting from Croatia that keeps me company in “the back office”:

Signed up for all the insurances ($$$$!) 🙂

Finished making the automated test suite for pypeerassets pass. There’s some heavy global state in the btcpy library that forced me to “punt” on fixing some tests, marking them as “known to fail”. We’ll have to work on btcpy more.

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Heartbeat – Tuesday, May 29th, 2018

Returned from a nice weekend in Santa Rosa, California. We celebrated a wedding, wandered around the town and drove through beautiful Sonoma County.

Thanks to LastPass I was able to log in to this blog and install some much needed software updates. I also setup Akismet for the first time even though I purchased it a few years back. The amount of spam comments on an obscure, dormant internet blog is surprisingly large!

I started working on a project called PeerAssets a couple of weeks ago. A small team of us is pushing forward to realize the functionality described in the White Paper. In other Peercoin news, I bought a piece of art from Croatia with peercoins. I’ll have to attach an image 🙂 I’ve also placed some orders at https://uk.pi-supply.com/ but am still waiting to see if packages arrive from England.

My work on Primecoin has been slow and murky. Although I still plan on evolving the C++ code base I might start from scratch on a Visual C# Windows implementation and build “from the ground up”.

Mario 2 for the NES came up today. I remember liking the soundtrack 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCjsrmMVMs

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Sunset Funset

A bit belated but here’s an article Robin penned looking at the open business data for the Inner Sunset neighborhood: http://hoodline.com/2014/12/neighborhood-trends-inner-sunset.

inner_sunset_cover

Thanks again to IPython, matplotlib, and pandas (a really fun way to play with data and winner of cutest name for a python package).

We’ve been on the move lately. I’ve set foot in Utah, walked below sea level in Death Valley and watched the sunset over the Grand Canyon. Robin is letting me use her old Nikon SLR so there may be photos forthcoming!

Debian 7 (Wheezy) went from stable to incredibly unstable over the last few weeks :\ So, this post is brought to you in part by Ubuntu (Trusty Tahr)!

My music collection was largely wiped out in the OS migration, but here’s the first song by Childish Gambino that got me hooked (thanks, Rebkin, for introducing me). I really want to listen to his Camp album now.

“Telegraph Ave (“Oakland by Lloyd”)”