My name is Duncan Dean. I like to waste my time looking for meaning in seemingly meaningless endeavours. I also love my dog. She is a good girl. Welcome to my weblog.
If you've played around with the Lightning Network, you've most definitely come across a BOLT 11 invoice. It's usually encoded as a QR code for conveniently scanning with your phone's camera. It includes things like the receiving node's public key, an amount with a unit suffix, a payment hash, a…
In this second post of taking a closer look at some of the new features coming along in the proposals process for WebAssembly, we'll check out threads! The threads proposal, currently in stage 2, but already implemented in Chrome¹, provides a new shared memory type and the atomic memory operators…
Welcome to the first post in a series discussing post-MVP features coming to WebAssembly via the proposals process. There are some exciting things coming up and today we'll be looking at the ECMAScript Module Integration of WebAssembly Modules. The proposal (Phase 2) adds support for importing and loading WebAssembly Modules…
It's been a while since my last post as I've been wrangling silica-laced storms in the Sahara and preparing for spaceflight in Star City. Not buying it? Okay fine! I've just been at home mostly working on Android and Angular things. Sometimes I just seek that type of mental cathartic…
Serverless - we've come to love it (or hate it). Personally, I like the idea of not having pulled my eyelashes out before the end of each week because of excruciating frustration with a self-managed stack. I'd also prefer not to add to my current level of anxiety and sleepless nights.
WebAssembly is described as a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine, which is meant to be a portable target for compilation of high-level languages.
What is Yubikey? The Yubikey 4 is a digital security key by Yubico, packed with authentication and cryptographic features such as OpenPGP, OATH-TOTP, FIDO U2F, and PIV. In this post, we're going to leverage its OpenPGP functionality to store signing, encryption, and authentication subkeys that cannot be tampered with. You'll…
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