Daily Thought Archive

Took my first bike ride since the attempted Alaska trip. My butt is so sore!

Happy Birthday Momma!

Food tour was soo great! Gonna go find our own breakfast tour now :)

Got my first rchain blog published. https://blog.rchain.coop/start_coding_in_rholang/

Saying goodbye to the bear cave felt much more permanent this year. I guess it was. I had a great run at CTY

First flights with the Carbon Cub were successful.

I thought I used to eat like 16 or 18 wings for dinner. Twelve was all I took tonight.

Happy Independence day Bitcoin Cash!

Woah, my inbox just hit empty! Party time! It's been months.

I've officially registered for RCon3. It's happening!

Night is definitely the right time for me to get real work done.

Been spending a lot of time on zoom. Might just find a quiet room to bang out some work.

Congratulations on graduating, Alina!

It's weird that going into work means doing the stuff I would have been doing anyway.

This was my DNR year. I've officially completed the CTY lifecycle.

Since I'm slacking off posting, maybe you'll like Julie's Europe blog

Second Session is really shaping up!

Actually played volleyball today. New session, new Joshy!

Awesome crossover class with Cryptography!

Using a web-based word processor is weird because the server kinda gets to see the way you think as you draft and revise.

Had an awesome weekend with Julie. She got the full CTY experience.

Starting to feel caught up on rchain stuff.

Thought if a great daily thought earlier. It was so good I knew I wouldn't forget it. But I did. Should have known!

Sharpie tattoos aren't as permanent as one might expect.

I wish floss came in clear cases so you could see it before buying.

Getting back in the flow of CTY. Setting good precedent by finding study time tonight.

It used to be many people to one computer device (They were called mainframes). Now it's many devices per person.

It's finally cty week! Can't wait to get there!

I'm actually considering switching web browsers for the first time since 2003.

Hilarious quote from the Code Prettify readme.

"Prettifying obfuscated code is like putting lipstick on a pig — i.e. outside the scope of this tool."

Finished the last programming assignment for Dan Boneh's Crypto 1 class. The end is near!

Movie Recommendation: The Circle

Getting some awesome illustrations for my upcoming rholang tutorial.

OMG, Microsoft is buying github. I don't think I have the energy to extract all my data again. Let's get this infrastructure on rchain fast.

The mustang is starting to look airworthy! Working ailerons will make it actually be airworthy.

Tired of my information security posts? Perhaps Barney Fife is more your style?

Check out the Confused Deputy Problem.

It's actually kind of amazing that phones aren't al reasonably waterproof. People know it rains like 20% of the time right?

A Picturebook of Secure Cooperation on authentication:

Ask not, “who are you?”, but rather, “are you allowed?”. This was always the crucial question anyway; by asking this better question, we get a better answer.

Had an awesome party weekend in Ohio.

Actually ran some rholang code today!

Today I learned that you can style JS console output. (link)

Starting to develop some real Dapps.

School of rock on broadway is awesome!

Coming up with an idea for a blockchain-based education platform.

Made it back to Philly.

Happy Birthday Sarah and Mothers' Day Mom

Rotary talk, What is Cryptocurrency, went well. (video, slides)

Mmmmmmm Cuban pork sandwiches.

Had a great time exploring Philly bars with Julie!

Remember to hear all sides of the story. I had a fun read through r/Bitcoin and r/EthereumClassic (places I rarely visit)

Libraries and coffee shops close at 5:00!? When do people get shit done?

Pi Calculus is cool!

Two video calls today. One a successful collaborative learning group with rchain people. The other a failed interview because their proprietary software didn't support screen sharing on my standards compliant desktop OS.

Living the city life. Where are all the grocery stores?

That was a fun week of travel and conference. Now back to the grind.

Chipping away at the drive back east. (Thanks for the wifi Iowa)

Rchain developers' conference is excellent!

Happy Birthday TyTy!

Officially wrote my first from-scratch ethereum dapp. It gives each user a their own uncensorable counter. #BabySteps

Happy Birthday Julie!

Happy Birthday Dad!

At first I was irritated that Maryland sent me a second letter of rejection. You know, like rubbing salt in it. But I guess that's better than the school's that didn't bother to answer at all.

I can't believe one can restore access to a Google account using only the month and year the account was created🤦

Happy Easter!

Maybe the next step in my vision quest will be the rchain developers retreat?

I want to be fit, and also not be hungry. I wish it didn't have to be one or the other.

Man, spam stinks.

Am I ever gonna be done with Florida?

The bike phone holder isn't really compatible with the shake motion to turn the light on.

I'm averaging one tube per day. I've more than doubled the number of tubes I used on my entire LA - Boston trip.

Reusable Zipties: Best invention ever

Darn conscience. I could've had a free camp site.

Saw an aaawwwweeesome street circus performer on Key West!

Taking a few days of Florida vacation before starting the ride on Monday.

Checked in for my flight to Florida. Looks like this trip is really going down.

Site menu on mobile should be fixed now.

a:-a.

Discovered this new emoji, which is also a prolog program over at code golf. The writer described it as: this looks like a smiley, but I am not sure how to call it. The dot looks like saliva, so maybe "vegetative state", or "Infiurated programmer with curly hair"

Spent half an hour debugging why my CSS wasn't working. The <link> element uses href, not src. wtf?

Collecting real world data is fun. Even if it's only about sump pump fillage.

Brakes rubbing the wheel are sooooo hard to fix.

Been doing 8 minute abs again lately. Hopefully that six pack will be looking good after I burn off all the insulation.

Started the Coursera crypto 1 course. Currently trying to understand unpredictable pseudo random generators.

Hope you enjoyed filing your taxes as much as I did.

Here's a big 🖕 to twitter. A few months after creating an account, my account got locked for robot-like activity and they want a phone number to confirm I'm a real person. I thought twitter was different, but I guess they're in the PII business just like all the rest. #ShouldaKnownBetter

Made my first heart-shaped meatloaf.

Also, made my first meatloaf.

I got invited to the prism closed beta!

Although I was thrilled to be making bank on the rising crypto price, the crash has reminded me of the main objective: widespread adoption

One month until the trip starts.

Remember the good ol' days when you just had to go to a hardware store to get a key copied?

Mis-click led to a 1ETH hand of blackjack (Pretty high stakes for me).
Turned out to be the dream hand (me:11, dealer shows: 6).
Basic strategy says to double down.
I did.

Excellent new appetizer: balls of love

Good work Jarod

Training camp has officially begun. This is like the camp fitch of the bike trip.

I officially no longer live in New Jersey!

Looks like the crypto bubble is bursting. I'm excited (and a little nervous) to see where we land.

Didn't know Monero supported remote nodes until I had synced 95% of the blockchain.

It's Sunday night, and yet I don't have to set an alarm for the foreseeable future.

And now I've also completed all of Advent of Code 2016!! Hooray for unemployment!

Successfully completed all of Advent of Code 2017 :)

In math we talk about the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th items in a list. We also talk about the nth item.

So what comes after the nth item? The n+1th item, or the n+1st item?

"Life is a lot simpler on the road" -Nate, 2010ish