Today I'm joined by William Casarin who is one of my favorite twitter follows. William is a freelance software developer, he runs a bitcoin consultancy called bitcoin wizard, and he's constantly building wild and weird projects that seem to "own" technology in the sense I'm always chasing after.

Explain Yourself (talking about tweets)

"thinking about hooking CI build events into my system notifications..."

NixOS

xmonad

z - jump around

pickdrop

Noise Protocol Framework

TLS

Diffie-Hellman key exchange

snow

WireGuard

Tailscale

ZeroTier

NEXT TWEET

"just scraped 20k chess puzzles from http://wtharvey.com maybe I'll get around to using my C game engine for a 3d+2d fics/lichess client with puzzle support."

chess-puzzle-db

Vulkan

NEXT TWEET

"bitcoind + usdt + ebpf + bpftrace ohhh I'm going to have fun with this."

secp256k1

NEXT TWEET

"So when people ask me why I write mostly C now..."

Haskell

Jonathan Blow

BitlBee

NEXT TWEET

"I need to figure out a good fediverse crossposting setup..."

ActivityPub

Mastodon

Gopher

"I have a gopher client running on my paper tablet lol"

Gopher)

Project Gemini

sacc gopher client

Second Life

MUD

Snow Crash

reMarkable

nix-bitcoin

"I think for my satellite nix-bitcoin node, I would want..."

nix-bitcoin

Nix: The Purely Functional Manager