Opinion - Rambling Ideas

Rambling Ideas

Opinion

A collection of 4 posts

Cashu ecash: A Market-Driven Evolution of Digital Money

Cashu ecash: A Market-Driven Evolution of Digital Money

Cashu eCash reintroduces digital bearer money on Bitcoin, enabling private, instant transactions while opening the door to credit and financial innovation. The system offers a new frontier for Bitcoin payments, shaped by market dynamics and user-driven solutions.

The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

Software Engineering

The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

Given that Prometheus and AWS are both industries standards, once would - incorrectly - assume that it would be easy to ingest AWS metrics into Prometheus. Here I explore the main flaws in the current tooling to ingest CloudWatch metrics into Prometheus.

.NET Disposable Pattern Guidelines - How Good Are They?

Software Engineering

.NET Disposable Pattern Guidelines - How Good Are They?

After having to look into the recommended way of implementing the Disposable pattern in .NET/C#, there's a lot about it I find non-optimal. Ranging from the philosophical to actual implementation decisions.

Taking Ownership of your Key Internet Services

Taking Ownership of your Key Internet Services

Decentralizing the internet and taking power away from the giants starts with you owning your key services. This is my approach to do it.