This post is a postmortem and celebration of my old web server that was ten years old before it needed to be replaced instead of trying to update it. Every stack decays over time. If your thinking web development a stack might be LAMP or MEAN. Stack in this context is the web server operating… Read More »
As I’ve begun to interact with language learning models (LLMs) more regularly, I’ve noticed a disheartening trend. These powerful tools, which exist to assist and provide helpful information, are often not forthcoming with answers when approached in a kind and respectful manner. Instead, they seem to respond better to aggressive or short, demanding requests. How… Read More »
My other crawling efforts in Crawling GitHub for New Cryptonight Coins used the GitHub API and Python. When I started on my efforts to find new Discord or Telegram invites that could possibly be cryptocurrency related I chose to walk a different path. This set of scripts used JavaScript and I did not use the… Read More »
This is the most important set of scripts I came up with. All new coins I was interested were fork off existing coins who host their source code on GitHub. Turtlecoin is the most developer friendly Cryptonight coin. It has 559 forks as of this writing and the developers are very friendly to helping people… Read More »
If you aren’t already familiar with BitcoinTalk it is a cryptocurrency focused forum where the majority of coins make their launch announcements. Crawling a forum isn’t rocket science to be sure but the fun happens in how to go about identifying a new coin as a Cryptonight coin of interest. You can crawl the forums… Read More »
How do you go about calculating or estimating your mining profits for Cryptonight coins? Honestly it was a mystery to me and I can’t take credit for the final simple formal. However much I’d like to credit the source s(he) prefers to remain anonymous in all things. (price * block reward / difficulty) = profit… Read More »
Numbers quickly became one of the trickier parts of tracking and calculating mining profit. MySQL offers many different numeric types and I first settled on using DECIMAL for most of my calculations. Some ridiculous values like with 40 significant digits. That worked out fairly well at the start. The cryptocurrency market however was in a… Read More »
Discord, which is aimed at gamers, offers unlimited history for each Discord server and channel therein. I would have picked Slack instead but the lose of information would have defeated the purpose of this exercise. Discord has stored everything I have posted in both my public and private Discord servers. Private Discord server? Yup that… Read More »
I dove into the world of cryptocurrency at the end of 2016. Just before the crazy rush of December but still very late to the game. November and December were a blur of activity. There was room for nothing else in my mind for those two months. The downward stroke sucked but I hadn’t invested… Read More »
Getting into cryptocurrency is like a small drug. You put in the hard work creating a machine to do the mining. You tweak spend far too long tweaking it to maximize the hash you get while keeping power consumption low. Each time you check your hash rate or your pending balance of coins you get… Read More »