I’m Done with Coding
Comments
Month: March 2025
The early days of Linux (2023)
Comments
Bitcoin isn't a worthy reserve asset, Swiss central bank president says: Report
Swiss National Bank President Martin Schlegel said Bitcoin is too volatile and lacks sufficient liquidity to be a reserve asset, which is currently being proposed in Switzerland.
Samsung reveals Galaxy A56 with more AI and a modest spec bump
The Galaxy A56 comes in a range of colors. Samsung is bringing even more AI to its line of budget-friendly phones. The new Galaxy A56, A36, and A26 now come with what the company calls “awesome intelligence,” enabling an array of new AI-powered image editing features already available with Samsung’s pricier S25 lineup. One of … Read more
A Letter to the American People
Comments
Federal spending is stable over time
Comments
Ethereum Foundation officially announces new leadership
The change to the Ethereum Foundation followed months of complaints from the community that the project was headed in the wrong direction.
Xcode constantly phones home
Comments
Ethereum Foundation Picks New Co-Executive Directors, Following Leadership Reshuffle
The Ethereum Foundation (EF), the non-profit organization that supports the development and research of the Ethereum blockchain, shared in a blog post on Saturday that they have selected Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as their new co-executive directors. The news follows Tuesday’s announcement of Aya Miyaguchi leaving that role to become the EF’s new president. … Read more
Researchers explore how to build shapeshifting, T-1000-style robots
Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone still haunted by nightmares of the T-1000 robotic assassin from “Terminator 2.” A team led by Matthew Devlin of UC Santa Barbara described … Read more
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Calls Roger Ver’s Potential Life Sentence ‘Absurd’
Roger Ver, an early bitcoin (BTC) investor who was once known as “Bitcoin Jesus” for his support of the cryptocurrency, was indicted for alleged tax fraud last year and could be sentenced to life in prison. Now, many industry veterans are coming to his support, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who called the potential sentence … Read more
18F GitHub Repositories
Comments
Ethereum developer Danny Ryan joins Etherealize as co-founder
The Ethereum developer was also recently informally elected as head of the Ethereum Foundation in a non-official, non-binding vote.
Time Data Series: It’s Not About What You Said – It’s More About How You Said It
In my last post on PHP Zmanim, I said the next thing I’d write about was astronomy calculations. I still plan to do that, but something came up recently that caught my attention, so I’m going to talk about that instead. I still plan to get to the astronomy stuff. Sephardi vs Ashkenazi No, not Kitniyot. … Read more
Ikea registered a Matter-over-Thread temperature sensor with the FCC
The Ikea Timmerflotte, as represented in an FCC filing. Ikea has registered its first Thread device, a new Matter-supporting temperature and humidity sensor called the “Timmerflotte,” with the FCC, reports HomeKit News. A diagram from the filing, which was spotted by CybermodStudios, shows a circular device that’s powered by two AAA batteries and features a … Read more