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NFT stands for “non-fungible token”. The “token” part refers to an NFT being a token whose ownership is recorded on a blockchain. Pretty much all cryptocurrencies, from bitcoin to your favorite shitcoin, could be called tokens in this sense. Each token has exactly one owner, and …

In previous posts in this series I went over the general idea of the ginger programming language, and some of its properties. To recap: Ginger is a programming language whose syntax defines a directed graph, in the same way that a LISP language’s syntax defines nested lis…

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It’s been a bit since updating my progress on what I’ve been lately calling the “cryptic nebula” project. When I last left off I was working on building the mobile nebula using nix. For the moment I gave up on that dream, as flutter and nix just really don’t get along and I don’t…

I've been on a hunt to find a simple and declarative way to define VMs. I wanted something like NixOS Containers, but with a stronger security guarantee. I wanted to be able to use a Nix expression to define what the VM should look like, then reference that on my Server's express…

This post will describe a simple rule for writing error messages that I’ve been using for some time and have found to be worthwhile. Using this rule I can be sure that my errors are propagated upwards with everything needed to debug problems, while not containing tons of extraneo…

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I've made a backup system I can be proud of, and I'd like to share it with you today. It follows a philosophy I've been fleshing out called The Functional Infra. Concretely it aims to: Be pure. An output should only be a function of its inputs. Be declarative and reproducible. A…

After publishing the last post in the series I walked away from my computer feeling that I was very clever and had made a good post. This was incorrect. To summarize the previous post, it’s not obvious which is the best way to structure conditionals in a graphical programming lan…

In the last ginger post I covered a broad overview of how I envisioned ginger would work as a language, but there were two areas where I felt there was some uncertainty: conditionals and loops. In this post I will be focusing on conditionals, and going over a couple of options fo…