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What are “Crypto Wednesdays”? Simply put, that on Wednesdays you only make purchases using cryptocurrency. Today, this severely limits where you can spend your money one day of the week. Many of your purchases are not optional and will have to be made on other days rather than Wednesday. But it also focuses purchases toward […]

In PowerShell if you need to determine the process or OS architecture, you should theoretically be able to leverage the .NET APIs to find it out. And...

In PowerShell if you need to determine the process or OS architecture, you should theoretically be able to leverage the .NET APIs to find it out. And in fact this works in PowerShell Core: But Windows PowerShell is inconsistent. The above syntax works on one of my two Windows machines, but the other acts as […]

I’m a big fan of pipelines that fail for warnings as well as errors. Such a policy keeps repos clean, current, less buggy, and even more agile....

I’m a big fan of pipelines that fail for warnings as well as errors. Such a policy keeps repos clean, current, less buggy, and even more agile. This works best when warnings are allowed in local builds for purposes of fast prototyping, but the developer is on the hook to resolve them all by the […]

It is amazing what the .NET SDK can enable you to build with so little code. But very soon you need to add a cloud build pipeline for CI builds and to validate PRs. You’ll want unit tests, and then you’ll want code coverage, and dumps when those tests hang or crash. You’ll need to […]

It is amazing what the .NET SDK can enable you to build with so little code. But very soon you need to add a cloud build pipeline...

In previous posts, I described how I hosted a zcashd node and added a litewalletd service on top of that. In this post, I describe why and...

In previous posts, I described how I hosted a zcashd node and added a litewalletd service on top of that. In this post, I describe why and how I switched the node from zcashd to “Zebra”, or zebrad. Why switch to zebra? Zebra has much better performance than zcashd. Bootstrapping zebra from nothing took about […]

In a prior post I documented how I used a docker-compose.yml file to make it easy to create and maintain a zcashd server. In this post, I...