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Sunset Gliding
Spent the evening working on two stage towing on the big winch at Yatton just north of Waterloo. Had this flight out with good releases. Then scrubbed some altitude with a few 360s before coming in for a flair landing into a very gentle headwind.
Narrated this as I was speaking with Mark on the ground.
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ETHAtlanta Talk – Delegated Endorsement with Smart Contracts
Just over a week ago I gave a talk at ETHAtlanta with regards to how endorsers could delegate endorsement to verifiers. Plenty of feedback was received and it will be incorporated into the code that will be open sourced. If you are interested you can download the deck and notes below.
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Golang context
The upcoming release of Go 1.7 shall move the golang.org/x/net/context package into the standard library. The move standardizes a simple interface and several simple functions that allow for straightforward concurrent processing as detailed in a 2014 Go blog post. More importantly a Context can be attached *http.Request allowing for cleaner and more concise code.
An example is a recurring pattern used in middleware or http handler processing that looks a little bit like:
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