Eisfunke

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Hi! I’m Nicolas , a computer scientist and software engineer from Germany. The topics I’m nerding out about change on a daily basis, but some of my main interests are programming languages, type systems, urbanism and hiking.

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Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense

2022235 points374 comments Crypto & Blockchain details

I’ve been concerned about the excesses of the blockchain industry and their spread into all parts of society for some time now. Here I’ve summarized my thoughts regarding the subject.

SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2021220 points219 comments Web & Frontend details

SVG, short for <em>“scalable vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics. In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems are and suggest what could be done to improve things.