Brenden Matthews brndnmtthws

Reading List for Crypto HODLers

This is my personal compilation of books and other reading material for HODLers. Enjoy.

On Philosophy

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Handbook by Epictetus
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Braxton Irvine
The Stranger by Albert Camus

List of positive and negative crypto influencers

This is my curated list of positive and negative crypto influencers. Positive influencers are those which I believe have a genuine, positive impact on the crypto community and the greater good.

Negative influencers are those who I believe are one (or more) of: dishonest, manipulative, greedy, or any other type of purveyor of bullshit.

Positive influencers

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is quite possibly the most important voice in crypto. I'm bullish on pretty much everything he says. Please follow him and watch his YouTube videos. I want to give him the biggest hug ever.
Naval Ravikant is an investor and entrepreneur. His feel-good tidbits show up in my twitter feed quite often. Naval has been known to shill Ripple and Zcash, so be aware of that. Overall I'm a fan.

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am brndnmtthws on github.
I am brndnmtthws (https://keybase.io/brndnmtthws) on keybase.
I have a public key ASA6jyg6so8IlYadNHfKmy--Sh6FP5-_UZx7Kq--5AcqxAo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>PayloadContent</key>
	<array>
	<dict>
	<key>PayloadDescription</key>
	<string>Configures restrictions</string>
	<key>PayloadDisplayName</key>

	#!/bin/sh
	# run with sudo

	# Change this if your interface is not en0 (check with `ifconfig`)
	if="en0"

	# Will disassociate WiFi
	/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -z
	ifconfig $if ether `openssl rand -hex 6 \| sed 's/\(..\)/:\1/g; s/^.\(.\)[0-3]/\12/; s/^.\(.\)[4-7]/\16/; s/^.\(.\)[89ab]/\1a/; s/^.\(.\)[cdef]/\1e/'`

	#cloud-config

	repo_update: true
	repo_upgrade: all
	package_upgrade: true

	bootcmd:
	- test -z "$(blkid /dev/nvme0n1)" && mkfs -t ext4 -L scratch /dev/nvme0n1
	- mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
	- mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/tmp

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2020 Brenden Matthews <[email protected]> under the MIT license
	# at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	#
	# This script converts existing Route53 records into Terraform HCL. I created
	# this for a one-off job. The script uses the AWS CLI to fetch Route53 info,
	# and prints the corresponding TF code to stdout.
	#
	# Example usage:

	{
	"id": "iot-preload",
	"cpus": 0.1,
	"mem": 32,
	"cmd": "docker pull mesosphere/iot-demo && docker pull mesosphere/presto-server && docker pull mesosphere/presto-cli && echo 'done!'",
	"instances": 999,
	"constraints": [["hostname", "UNIQUE"]],
	"acceptedResourceRoles":["*", "slave_public"]
	}

	{
	"id": "marathon-lb-autoscale",
	"args":[
	"--marathon", "http://leader.mesos:8080",
	"--haproxy", "http://marathon-lb.marathon.mesos:9090",
	"--target-rps", "100",
	"--apps", "nginx_10000",
	"--interval", "3"
	],
	"cpus": 0.1,

	{
	"id": "siege",
	"args":[
	"-d1",
	"-r1000",
	"-c100",
	"http://marathon-lb.marathon.mesos:10000/"
	],
	"cpus": 0.5,
	"mem": 16.0,