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The Future Will Be Signed

Cryptography is becoming more important in our every day lives and there’s no way around it. Whether it’s the calls from governments to ban encryption, come up with “responsible encryption”, or to violate norms and laws, cryptography is playing a role in shaping our society. I’d like to approach the role of cryptography from the […]

Learning About Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is all the rage these days. From Bitcoin to Ethereum to Ripple, to some silly sounding thing someone will come up with tomorrow, it’s something people want to know about. At the risk of sounding like a super noob, what’s a good introduction to crypto? From the basics through understanding current landscape — Benny […]

To Serve Man, with Software

I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero downsides. There are absolutely occupational hazards of […]

Thinking About Thinking

Two meta-skills that help a programmer grow more than just practicing their coding. Thinking about thinking, and focusing on focusing. — Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) July 26, 2017 How To Think About Thinking and Focus on Focus Don’t focus on finding the perfect to-do list app. Once found, you still have to light the spark […]

Handing Off Public Extension

This is a blog post by Jasdev Singh, originally published on jasdev.me. I’m re-posting here since it’s directly tied to me taking over his project, Public Extension. Firing off the first tweet for @PublicExtension on October 9th, 2015 was a rush. I was on the tail end of my batch at the Recurse Center, after […]

Foundations

Every day at a startup is an exercise in getting to tomorrow. Some days it’s easier, some days it’s harder, but if you don’t make it until tomorrow, there won’t be a next week, month, or year. This is why building a long-term foundation is incredibly important. If you keep making it to tomorrow without […]