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mattdemon··on Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log

Waltz seem related to Tango. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/09/paper-summary-tango...

mattdemon··on Nobody wants to read your shit (2009)

Here is a summary/review about it: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/06/nobody-wants-to-re...

Here is a summary/review for his earlier book: War of Art. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-war-of-...

Finally, Draft No.4 was a really good read. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/03/book-review-draft-n...

mattdemon··on IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained

Previous HN discussion on IPFS whitepaper and protocol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430742

Based on the review at https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-...

mattdemon··on Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature

Wow, new parachute designs may be possible then! They will look scary, but can be more effective.

mattdemon··on Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light

I sometimes do this manually:

M-x set-background-color snow2, snow3, or snow4

or wheat2, wheat3, wheat4. or MistyRose1, MistyRose2, MistyRose3.

mattdemon··on Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better than blockchain

Relevant article. Replying to why decentralization matters

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/change-my-mind-abou...