4500 zamazamas still underground in what is essentially a siege. I think this is the one saf experience I never came into contact with in the Western Cape. It is truly hard for me to fathom what led to this situation.

Funds some new touge drip 😁

Scheidemann

Actually running kernel. Going to work on this whenever I feel a bit drained from the rest of it. It is pretty amazing that this actually works.

Why is it still so hard to go from hand drawn diagram to something that can be shown on github and maintained online? Should look nice hand drawn, have a language, be easy to edit.

Reviewing sipa's old muhash fast modular inverse PR. It's way over my head, but it is fun. So far just learned about muhash. I don't think I'll understand why Bernstein's fast gcd algorithm works, but at the least I want some form of intuition for how we are using it.

The last week was a bit rough, hope I find my step again.

"Inflation isn't that bad"

Always meet your heroes

Wrote my thoughts down on the Bitcoin kernel library.

The Bitcoin Core Kernel

It has been nearly two years since I started working on the Bitcoin Core kernel library - a software library encapsulating the Bitcoin Core validat...

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I should probably try and write some more kernel docs and motivations soon.

Had a clear night yesterday and tried to get a better picture of Saturn with my phone. And it actually worked. You can get a picture of Saturn with just a Pixel 8 that lets you see the rings. Note how the stars in the background don't have the horizontal artifact (the ring) , but still smear towards the bottom. Maybe in a few years time we get even better optics and image processing. Weirdly enough the structures of the rings were better visible through the screen and slight movements than in the actual photo. Gonna be interesting to see what Jupiter and Mars look like later in the year.

I don't like the pattern of calling things `Manager` in Bitcoin Core. It is always unclear what design pattern they are actually using underneath and it seems to invite kitchen sink class design.

I was in a tiny dry stone walling museum a couple of days ago. It was interesting that they showed a bunch of techniques that were still highly specific to the region. Most of the walling was done with small slate-style rocks - very different from the Jura chalk I am used to, where we sometimes work with boulders a quarter the size of a car. They also showed a free-standing raised bed supported by dry stone, which I would love to have in my garden some day. We also came across these free-standing dry stone structures on our hikes in the region, something I've never seen around here.

Musig merged in secp 👀

Hopefully Bitcoin Core's RPC will be superceded by something different and better soon - be it a multi-reader DB or an IPC interface. But keeping everything stable while evolving the codebase is not a happy task to be doing and will create more problems in the future.