Bitcoin - The Drafting Table

Minds.com

Just a short link suggestion for this week's post. It's no news that privacy concerns on social media (and the internet in general) are becoming more prominent. One crucial mechanism for keeping businesses honest is competition. So in this post, I want to suggest a possible alternative to Facebook. Minds.

Links

Assorted Links (Spring 2018)

I decided to take a break from my programming series this week (and probably next week too). Like back in the fall, I've got some links saved up that are related to things I've written, or that I just found really interesting. Although I've been trying to learn some other

Movies & TV

Documentary Notes

Over the holidays I watched some documentaries on Netflix. I thought I'd share some of the things I found interesting for my first post of 2018. To start with, here are a couple of great clips from some BBC nature documentaries: Human Planet showed a traditional narwhal hunt from kayaks:

environment

Rational Optimism About the Environment

Continuing from last week's retrospective post, I wanted to look at a few more posts that I wrote last year; I left them out of the discussion in the previous post because they have overlapping themes that made it logical to discuss them together. The posts referred to in the

Economics

Economic Dashboard

I was pretty tired this weekend, and away the weekend before that, but now I'm back with a post that I hope was worth the wait. The Alberta provincial government has a very useful online portal called the Alberta Economic Dashboard. (It's been around for at least a couple of

3D Printing

3D Printing as a Service

I've been waiting to receive a parcel so I could write this post, and I just got it today. In a previous post, I mentioned that I wanted to try an online 3D-Printing service. The part that I wanted to print was relatively large, so there was the factor of

New Brunswick

3 Neat Infographics

I recently came across a website called Visual Capitalist that has a lot of interesting infographics on economics and related topics. This post shares three of them, but there are a lot more to check out on their website. Visual Capitalist is based in Vancouver, so their content has a

How-to

Getting Started with Bitcoin (in Canada)

If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you've probably been hearing more and more about Bitcoin. I wrote this post for people who want to gain some first-hand experience and give this cryptographic currency a try. The examples and discussion are focussed on Canadian websites and applications. Try