Is it Random? A Deeper Dive into Fairness and Entropy
Hey everyone, After my last post about the mathematical fairness of the Ultimate Dice Roller, I got some excellent feedback. The gist of it was that a normal distribution over a…
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Is the Ultimate Dice Roller _Mathematically_ Fair?
Hey everyone, The other day, @ecoinstant posed an excellent question about the Ultimate Dice Roller: we know it's provably fair, but is it mathematically fair? In other words…
A Learning Experience: From OpenSSL to a Python Certificate Generator
Hey everyone, A recent announcement from Let's Encrypt about issuing their first certificate for an IP address sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. For some reason, I had always…
Brain Drain Friday: A Debugging Marathon and a Well-Earned Break
Hey everyone, It's Brain Drain Friday, and this week truly earned its name. Yesterday, I did a developer "no-no": I spent a good 12-14 hours debugging and fixing a legacy…
Preliminary Investigation: Finally, the Real Culprits
Hey everyone, My investigation into the high CPU usage on the "moon" server has been a process of refining the data to get a clear answer. After first identifying python3…
Investigating High CPU Usage on the "Moon" Server
Hey everyone, I've been keeping an eye on our "moon" server lately, and the CPU usage metrics have been consistently high, suggesting it might be time to invest in a new, more…
A Sunday Hotfix and Some Lazy Day Thoughts
Happy Sunday, everyone. Well, just a day after the last hive-nectar release, I had to push an emergency hotfix. A client was getting a very strange error when trying to post…
How I Build Software Quickly (My Take)
Hey everyone, I've been asked a few times how I manage to get so many different projects and tools built so quickly. It’s a great question, and I was inspired to write about it…
Phishing on the Blockchain: A Fascinatingly Complex Redirect
Hey everyone, I recently came across a phishing email, and while the usual advice is to just delete them and move on, something about the link caught my eye. Instead of a…
The Hidden Iceberg: Why Does Software Take So Long?
Hey everyone, I was asked almost this very question yesterday: "What takes so long in the dev world?" It's a perfectly fair question, especially when a feature seems simple on…
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