Exploring the Terra Blockchain with Python

December 28 2021 · tech python terra defi software-engineering

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) has crept into a couple of my go-to podcasts; folks I respect are talking about it so I wanted to learn it for myself. In this post I describe the approach I took to learning the Terra Blockchain. We set aside GUIs and Web Applications and instead interact with it …


Melbourne Street Photography

South Bank

South Bank


An Extract From Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell

December 5 2021 · lawrence-durrell philosophy books

An extract from Monsieur - Or the Prince of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell. Part of The Avignon Quintet.


In those days there were no real suburbs - the desert began almost at the gates of Alexandria and with it of course the damp enervating heat which soaked and bathed one, until one could feel the …


Execute a Shell Process in F#

Update 2022-01: Check out library Fli.

Synchronously execute a process and wait for it to return; capturing the exit code, stdout, and stderr. It’s a snippet that I often reach for but I can never find it on the internet. Dotnet makes it more difficult than it really should be.

let result = …

Papers, Please

November 27 2021 · travel new-zealand australia writing

New Zealand and Australia have had a long-standing arrangement where citizens can just hop on the plane and travel to the other country to holiday, live indefinitely, and work. No need for paperwork or rubber-stamped approvals beforehand. Assuming the individual has no criminal record and is free of …