#034

Open Source

• I released new patch versions of both, irc-conduit, and irc-client in response to updates to dependencies.

Work

• This week I fixed how Elasticsearch works in our local development environment and continuous integration; wrote up the work needed to move to Elasticsearch 6 (I’m hoping we can do an in-place upgrade, rather than spin up a second cluster again); and read a bunch of fairly dry documentation, because I’ll be the line manager for someone starting on Monday.

Miscellaneous

• I graphed some Call of Cthulhu dice roll probabilities, playing around with matplotlib’s xkcd-style graphs. I think the line charts look pretty good, but I’m not so sure about the heatmaps. The coloured squares are precise for the wiggly axes.

Link Roundup

• This Week in Rust 285
• Some Tricks for List Manipulation
• Issue 158 :: Haskell Weekly
• Color Survey Results
• Threading responsibly
• Some posts on The Morning Paper about Heidi Howard’s recent Ph.D thesis:
  • Distributed consensus revised – Part I
  • Distributed consensus revised – Part II
  • Distributed consensus revised – Part III
• Some posts by Joe Neeman about patch theory, pijul, and ojo:
  • Part 1: Merging and patches
  • Part 2: Merging, patches, and pijul
  • Part 3: Graggles can have cycles
  • Part 4: Line IDs
  • Part 5: Pseudo-edges