https://www.tumlook.com/kingjamesprogramming I found this Markov chain all the King James Bible and the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs via HN. I found it inexplicably hilarious...

Damn, there was a proposal for BOLT spec changes to enable fixed-size messages, and now I have to implement it to show it's unnecessary...

Rusty Russell’s Quiet Corner of The Internet

“If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot”

This was passed on to me by Ben Elliston, ex-gcc hacker and good guy.  Amusing in context, but the corollary is that working on free software mean...

I wrote this over 15 years ago, and it still rings true: separate the art from the artist. It's a key stabilizing principle for me when navigating Bitcoin developers.

Now I have a shell script `rcargo` which remote compiles rust crates: I work on my laptop but have beefy machines on my home and work LANs. You'd have to reimplement cargo to do it much finer-grained, apparently: sccache used to and gave up? The real trick is ssh's ControlPath config var, which allows shared connection for much-improved speed: ChatGPT taught me this one! The other option is Nix, but I'm not *that* bored!