Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up. Read any fuzz testing tutorial, and the first task is an hour of building tools from source and chasing down dependencies upon dependencies. I recently found that Nix eliminates a lot of the gruntwork from fuzz testing. I created a Nix configuration that kicks off a fuzz testing workflow with a single command.

Last week, I saw an interesting article on the /r/legaladvice subreddit. An e-commerce business owner was complaining that a customer was suing because the merchant had been sending the customer promotional emails for years that the customer never agreed to. The author deleted the post a few days later, but I found a copy of the text. The merchant was indignant and felt like it was a shakedown, but I was 100% on the customer’s side.

Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing workflow. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Enjoy family time Result: Spent lots of time with my wife and our newborn son and had frequent visits with friends and family.

Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I expected. I’m unsure what to do with my partially-finished Hacker News course. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Finish recording my course Result: Baby arrived early, and I only recorded 20% of the material. Grade: N/A Recording the course took longer than I thought, and the baby arrived a few weeks earlier than we expected, so I didn’t get to all the material.

A year ago, I listened to an interview with Jesse Pollak on an episode of Into the Bytecode. Jesse works for Coinbase, and he noticed that lots of developers building apps on top of Ethereum were solving the same problems over and over again. He started a project at Coinbase to create a layer on top of Etherum called Base. Base would get Ethereum developers up and running faster because they could use shared solutions to these common problems.