EPISODE · Jun 3, 2020 · 1H 5M
Better software with William Casarin
from Cyberdeck Users Weekly · host Paul Miller
Today I'm joined by William Casarin who is one of my favorite twitter follows. William is a freelance software developer, he runs a bitcoin consultancy called bitcoin wizard, and he's constantly building wild and weird projects that seem to "own" technology in the sense I'm always chasing after. Explain Yourself (talking about tweets) "thinking about hooking CI build events into my system notifications..." NixOS xmonad z - jump around pickdrop Noise Protocol Framework TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange snow WireGuard Tailscale ZeroTier NEXT TWEET "just scraped 20k chess puzzles from http://wtharvey.com maybe I'll get around to using my C game engine for a 3d+2d fics/lichess client with puzzle support." chess-puzzle-db Vulkan NEXT TWEET "bitcoind + usdt + ebpf + bpftrace ohhh I'm going to have fun with this." secp256k1 NEXT TWEET "So when people ask me why I write mostly C now..." Haskell Jonathan Blow BitlBee NEXT TWEET "I need to figure out a good fediverse crossposting setup..." ActivityPub Mastodon Gopher "I have a gopher client running on my paper tablet lol" Gopher) Project Gemini sacc gopher client Second Life MUD Snow Crash reMarkable nix-bitcoin "I think for my satellite nix-bitcoin node, I would want..." nix-bitcoin Nix: The Purely Functional Manager
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Today I'm joined by William Casarin who is one of my favorite twitter follows. William is a freelance software developer, he runs a bitcoin consultancy called bitcoin wizard, and he's constantly building wild and weird projects that seem to "own" technology in the sense I'm always chasing after. Explain Yourself (talking about tweets) "thinking about hooking CI build events into my system notifications..." NixOS xmonad z - jump around pickdrop Noise Protocol Framework TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange snow WireGuard Tailscale ZeroTier NEXT TWEET "just scraped 20k chess puzzles from http://wtharvey.com maybe I'll get around to using my C game engine for a 3d+2d fics/lichess client with puzzle support." chess-puzzle-db Vulkan NEXT TWEET "bitcoind + usdt + ebpf + bpftrace ohhh I'm going to have fun with this." secp256k1 NEXT TWEET "So when people ask me why I write mostly C now..." Haskell Jonathan Blow BitlBee NEXT TWEET "I need to figure out a good fediverse crossposting setup..." ActivityPub Mastodon Gopher "I have a gopher client running on my paper tablet lol" Gopher) Project Gemini sacc gopher client Second Life MUD Snow Crash reMarkable nix-bitcoin "I think for my satellite nix-bitcoin node, I would want..." nix-bitcoin Nix: The Purely Functional Manager
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