miniblog.

Compile times of 30-60 seconds are particularly challenging: they're too short to do something else, but too long to get into a flow state. I find music helps avoid context switching at least.

Playing with my elisp grammar has exposed some interesting corners of the syntax that I haven't seen before. This is a legal character: ?\C-\M-\S-\H-\s-\A-i Actually pressing ctrl-meta-shift-hyper-super-alt-i might be a little challenging though :)

Prediction markets are a fascinating potential application for cryptocurrencies. The details of who and how a claim is verified are challenging though. https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/augur-design-flaws.html (But it looks like the several political outcomes are already available on UK betting exchanges.)