Been reading a bunch of really well written questions on stackoverflow lately, where none of them got a decent answer.

John P. O'Neill

Very nice article from hrt on compiler performance. I've been wondering lately if many of the shared behaviours we use in Bitcoin Core should be defined as concepts instead of pure virtual classes.

Hudson River Trading

Optimising Compiler Performance: A Case For Devirtualisation

In the realm of high frequency trading, speed is critical. Programmers working on production systems at firms such as HRT must write code that is h...

My boulder hall progress is glacial, but I can finally do most of the 'six' rated routes, while a year ago I was struggling with the 'five' rated ones.

Libtool is a fool.

My normie friends are buying shib again.

Cmake in Bitcoin Core is actually going to happen. It took so much effort, but it is actually happening now 💪 I'm glad that it will free up much of my review time. Hopefully I can sink that into the kernel and multiprocess.

Was up in Davos

Not gonna lie, boks looking kind of good.

🥈for the relay, finally Simbine has his medal!

Tebogo!

I so hope we get multiprocess on its way for the next release. Ryanofsky has been creating something great over the past 8 years. Together with kernel this is how Bitcoin Core can be reformed. Kernel for low-level operations without any infrastructure requirements, multiprocess for the rest.

Sky was quite clear tonight and moon wasn't up yet. I think you can make out the rings of saturn just a bit here.

Read this about ten years too late, but read it I did. I didn't like these active retrospectives where he explains what beat is and why (in his view at the time of writing) something was beat. That took me out of the immersion a couple of times. It did remind me of some of my past travels and friendships though, but without all the affairs going on. Glad to have had my own Deans and Sals in my life.

The kernel API PR is up, come and review it:

GitHub

kernel: Introduce C header API by sedited · Pull Request #30595 · bitcoin/bitcoin

This is a first attempt at introducing a C header for the libbitcoinkernel library that may be used by external applications for interfacing with B...

Nice morning innawoods.

Cash on the internet

Been having some good success on the braai recently.

Heartbroken for Simbine, even a national record did not help him.

Stuffing whole chickens with ras el hanout was one of my better discoveries this year.