Melbourne Street Photography - II
Cartier-Bresson
Princes Bridge
…Exploring the Terra Blockchain with Python
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 programatically through the Python API.
DeFi
What is DeFi? I’m not an expert and I’m not a Twitter shill so I can’t …
An Extract From Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell
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 sweat trickling through one’s clothes into one’s very saddle. Our breathing was laboured. There were small villages giving (so many were the mirages) the illusion of being fictions; their …
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 = executeProcess "uptime" "-p"
printfn "Exit code: %d" result.ExitCode
printfn "StdOut: %s" result.StdOut
(*
Exit code: 0
StdOut: up 2 days, 20 hours, 55 minutes
*) …