Ryan Christensen drawcode

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

Minimal APIs at a glance

This document now exists on the official ASP.NET core docs page.

Application
- WebApplication
- WebApplicationBuilder
Request Handling
- Routing
- Parameter Binding

No, your cryptocurrency cannot work

Whenever the topic of Bitcoin's energy usage comes up, there's always a flood of hastily-constructed comments by people claiming that their favourite cryptocurrency isn't like Bitcoin, that their favourite cryptocurrency is energy-efficient and scalable and whatnot.

They're wrong, and are quite possibly trying to scam you. Let's look at why.

What is a cryptocurrency anyway?

There are plenty of intricate and complex articles trying to convince you that cryptocurrencies are the future. They usually heavily use jargon and vague terms, make vague promises, and generally give you a sense that there must be something there, but you always come away from them more confused than you were before.

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

	/**
	Copyright <2021> <Lexxicon Studios LLC.>
	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
	software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
	without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
	merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
	and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
	following conditions:
	The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies
	or substantial portions of the Software.

	Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

	ActivityTweet
	generic_activity_highlights
	generic_activity_momentsbreaking
	RankedOrganicTweet
	suggest_activity
	suggest_activity_feed
	suggest_activity_highlights
	suggest_activity_tweet

	{
	"zenMode.hideLineNumbers": false,
	"workbench.colorTheme": "Night Owl",
	"editor.quickSuggestions": {
	"other": false,
	"comments": false,
	"strings": false
	},
	"editor.wordBasedSuggestions": false,
	"editor.suggestOnTriggerCharacters": false,

	// Copyright 2019 Google LLC.
	// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

	// Author: Anton Mikhailov

	// The look-up tables contains 256 entries. Each entry is a an sRGB triplet.

	float turbo_srgb_floats[256][3] = {{0.18995,0.07176,0.23217},{0.19483,0.08339,0.26149},{0.19956,0.09498,0.29024},{0.20415,0.10652,0.31844},{0.20860,0.11802,0.34607},{0.21291,0.12947,0.37314},{0.21708,0.14087,0.39964},{0.22111,0.15223,0.42558},{0.22500,0.16354,0.45096},{0.22875,0.17481,0.47578},{0.23236,0.18603,0.50004},{0.23582,0.19720,0.52373},{0.23915,0.20833,0.54686},{0.24234,0.21941,0.56942},{0.24539,0.23044,0.59142},{0.24830,0.24143,0.61286},{0.25107,0.25237,0.63374},{0.25369,0.26327,0.65406},{0.25618,0.27412,0.67381},{0.25853,0.28492,0.69300},{0.26074,0.29568,0.71162},{0.26280,0.30639,0.72968},{0.26473,0.31706,0.74718},{0.26652,0.32768,0.76412},{0.26816,0.33825,0.78050},{0.26967,0.34878,0.79631},{0.27103,0.35926,0.81156},{0.27226,0.36970,0.82624},{0.27334,0.38008,0.84037},{0.27429,0.39043,0.85393},{0.27509,0.40072,0.86692},{0.2757

	# Copyright 2019 Google LLC.
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

	# Author: Anton Mikhailov

	turbo_colormap_data = [[0.18995,0.07176,0.23217],[0.19483,0.08339,0.26149],[0.19956,0.09498,0.29024],[0.20415,0.10652,0.31844],[0.20860,0.11802,0.34607],[0.21291,0.12947,0.37314],[0.21708,0.14087,0.39964],[0.22111,0.15223,0.42558],[0.22500,0.16354,0.45096],[0.22875,0.17481,0.47578],[0.23236,0.18603,0.50004],[0.23582,0.19720,0.52373],[0.23915,0.20833,0.54686],[0.24234,0.21941,0.56942],[0.24539,0.23044,0.59142],[0.24830,0.24143,0.61286],[0.25107,0.25237,0.63374],[0.25369,0.26327,0.65406],[0.25618,0.27412,0.67381],[0.25853,0.28492,0.69300],[0.26074,0.29568,0.71162],[0.26280,0.30639,0.72968],[0.26473,0.31706,0.74718],[0.26652,0.32768,0.76412],[0.26816,0.33825,0.78050],[0.26967,0.34878,0.79631],[0.27103,0.35926,0.81156],[0.27226,0.36970,0.82624],[0.27334,0.38008,0.84037],[0.27429,0.39043,0.85393],[0.27509,0.40072,0.86692],[0.27576,0.41097,0.87936],[0.27628,0.42118,0.89123],[0.27667,0.43134,0.90254],[0.27691,0.44145,0.913