joepie91

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.

tfausak

# The GHC team announced the first release candidate for the 9.0.1 release of
# GHC: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/glasgow-haskell-compiler-9-0-1-rc1-now-available/1706
#
# This is an example `stack.yaml` file that you can use to try out the release
# candidate. Save this file in your current directory and run `stack setup`.
# After that you should be able to use Stack as normal, including
# `stack exec ghci` and `stack build`.
#
# If for whatever reason you don't want to use Stack, you can download the
# official release tarballs at: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-rc1/

Gabriella439

These are my rough notes when preparing for a Haskell livestream that I thought would be worth sharing. Some things are general comments on contributing to the open source ecosystem whereas other notes are specific to the stream (e.g. Haskell and the streamly package)

How things look from a maintainer's point of view (for highly active projects):

• Reactive

As projects become more active the maintainer's "inbox" gets pretty large. A

Gabriella439

Awake Security Haskell Livestream

Who

Awake Security will be livestreaming a periodic 1-on-1 teaching session on Twitch. The subject of this session will always be one of our engineers teaching another one of our engineers how to do accomplish a practical task in Haskell while remote attendees watch, comment, and ask questions.