I have been really intrigued by the Cardano cryptocurrency because the technological foundations for it seem really strong. Another reason why I like Cardano is because of Charles Hoskinson (the founder) who seems really honest and also seems to understand what is he really doing.

However the most important reason I am gung-ho about Cardano is because it’s built using Haskell and seems to have a RUST sdk as well. I have started learning haskell in hopes that I will be able to implement Cardano smart contract applications.

What does Freedom really mean ? The best answer to this question (as per me) was given by Dr. Richard Hipp in his interview for the Corecursive podcast. As per Dr Hipp, Freedom means able to take care of oneself without being dependent on others. I think this is the idea of Freedom that America was built on. Unfortunately today many people interpret Freedom to being able to do what everywhere they want which is just wrong since it removes the element of responsibility from the definition.

• Eggplants (front) seem to be the shortest
• Peppers
• Okra (back) seem grow the tallest

Also need to plant dill and cilantro in shade to prevent the plant getting converted into seeds in summer heat.

https://www.instagram.com/vishpatl/

Made quite a few mistakes in my first year of vegetable planting

• Tomatoes should be planted separately. The tomato plants have completely taken over my vegetable bed at this point. Use Better Boy tomatos.
• Trim tomato plants regularly. This is another reason why tomato plants have completely taken over my vegetable beds.
• Eggplants, Okra, Peppers need to go in one bed, while all of the leafy vegetables need to go in another bed. Okra needs to go behind in a bed since okra plants seem to grow really tall.
• Need to plant purple kale. Seems to grow really well in our weather here.
• Plant some sunflowers and other flowers in the bed pockets, they seem to attract lots of bees.

• LDAP
• Vault integration with LDAP

Going through the above two articles makes it extremely clear on how to use LDAP as an the identity provider for Hashicorp Vault.

I have been using sdkman for managing different versions of JDK on my dev machine. Wasn’t aware that python had something similar and it’s called pyenv.

I had bought a Lenovo Flex 5 a couple of months ago and am running Fedora Linux 33 (and now 34) on it. The factory wifi card (RealTek) on this laptop sucked big time on Linux. The wifi was slow and the connection kept dropping from time to time. I tried a bunch of opensource drivers but without much success. After being frustrated about it for a while I finally ordered an Intel Wifi card from Amazon and replaced the realtek one with it. Wifi is now blazing fast on the laptop without any disconnection issues.

I have add success with sowing the following seeds directly in the ground

• Gourds (after soaking the seeds for 24 hours)
• Okra
• Leafy veggies such as Kale (mid march), Arugula, Collards, Mustard etc
• Cilantro (after crushing the seeds into two)

Most of my seedlings (except peppers and tomatoes) have died out by now due to over exposure to sun. I won’t be growing any seedlings next year. The important learning with seedlings is that seedlings need to be gradually exposed to the sun. They need to be first exposed indirectly to the sunlight for a week and then couple of hours directly for a week or two before moving them out in full direct sun.

It’s much easier and cheaper to just buy seedlings from Raleigh’s farmer’s market. For gourd seeds will buy them from Etsy, have found a good vendor TommorrowSeeds there.