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ThinkOrSwim: Line Tracks Current Price

Posted on December 27, 2022 by swinful

Often I find it helpful to have a continuous current price line in my chart to easily follow the current price of a security within ThinkOrSwim. One of the ways to add this script is to create a custom Study … Continue reading →

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PC Engines – The Best Economical Firewall Hardware: apu4d4 APU.4D4 4GB/120GB

Posted on December 10, 2022 by swinful

Just received from Switzerland (PC Engines) a backup firewall ready to receive PfSense — apu4d4  APU.4D4 4GB/120GB SSD. This unit will provide high availability once coupled with the existing unit. Quick specs: CPU: AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, 1 GHz … Continue reading →

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Python-3.11: Where is pip?

Posted on December 9, 2022 by swinful

Just spent the last five minutes trying to locate pip3 as if it was installed by default — after installing python3.11. Sure, pip3 was there for versions < 3.11, but not pip for 3.11. I continued with no avail trying … Continue reading →

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PKTD: Running Full Node on FreeBSD

Posted on October 24, 2021 by swinful

For kicks, compiled and ran #pktd, the daemon that helps verify transactions within the #PKT network. Fairly straight forward. However, you may run into a build failure, for which a submitted a pull request that was recently merged, during your … Continue reading →

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Cardano: [FBSD] Update FreeBSD Relays to v_6 (alonzo V2 (1.30.1))

Posted on October 2, 2021 by swinful

September 11, 2021 brought the Alonzo hard fork allowing the implementation of smart contracts on Cardano mainnet in order to enable a host of new use cases for decentralized applications (DApps). Stake pools are encouraged to update all nodes to … Continue reading →

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Cardano: Now fully decentralized (D=0)!

Posted on March 31, 2021 by swinful

Today, March 31st 2021 marks the day, the Cardano network is now fully decentralized. As stated by the team at IOHK: Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain platform, founded on peer-reviewed research and delivered through evidence-based software development processes, by a … Continue reading →

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Cryptocurrency: Cardano (ADA) — Setting up a PoS Node

Posted on March 12, 2021 by swinful

Looks like I went down this rabbit hole that is Cardano, so much so that I am in the process of setting up a stake pool. A stake pool for the purpose of helping decentralize the blockchain network. As of … Continue reading →

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[Google Cloud] IAM – Service Accounts

Posted on October 1, 2017 by swinful

Google Cloud Service Accounts: Service accounts are accounts used for the sole purpose of running your application. Some may also refer to this as the application processing identifier. Google uses the term service account. To identify a service account an … Continue reading →

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[Swift] Extra argument ‘completion’ in call

Posted on December 28, 2014 by swinful

In iOS 8 SDK Development, the use of a closure to act on a response from the user when we ask them to use their twitter account produces the following compilation error: The error is misleading because there is no … Continue reading →

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[Swift] How to Pass By Reference via The Use of ‘inout’

Posted on December 20, 2014 by swinful

  When defining a function the keyword ‘inout‘ is used in front of the variable name to denote an in-out parameter, which sets up the function as a kind of “pass-by-reference” function. Note, this is not real pass-by-reference as the variable … Continue reading →

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