brown-dragon
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Nice project! I really like the small and elegant syntax. Any plans for macro support in Dern?
Comment · 8 years ago
I guess there are somethings you just have to let go off. I'm sorry man - I know it must have been hard. I hope it's getting better everyday.
Comment · 8 years ago
That's an excellent point. The only place the library has access to the private keys are during account creation and message signing. Perhaps I should implement both directly in the wallet so it's visible and clear to everyone.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yep - that's exactly been my experience.
(off-topic) Org mode is really amazing. I've transitioned almost completely from Emacs to Vim over the last few years but I still have Emacs on my dock only because of `org-mode`. I've tried substitutes in vim but nothing really works.
(back on topic) Another advantage of writing comments is coming back to the code becomes so much easier. I can re-read the comments and understand what's going on much faster.
To do this properly I've developed a simple system of 'categories' that allow me to structure the comments properly. I think they works really well. For anyone curious - here's an example in my last weekend project: https://github.com/theproductiveprogrammer/luminate
Check out the comments in the code (`main.js`). I think they make the code much easier to understand and maintain. It's almost an alternative to TDD - Comment Driven Design (CDD!)
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi HN! I've been working with the Stellar blockchain recently and I found it hard to get a simple, open and transparent wallet that would let me keep my accounts on my local machine. So I wrote my own and made it available for everyone.
I've tried to keep the code simple and clean and I would appreciate any feedback. The goal is it should be a simple, powerful wallet that any dev can pick up - be confident how it works and be able to hack in 5 minutes.
Comment · 8 years ago
28 years! It frightens me and boggles my mind how something like this can happen after being married for so long. Looking back do you have any idea why? I'm sorry for your loss and I hope it'll get better for you soon. As others have said it's perfectly normal to feel depressed at such a life altering event and it probably does take a year or two to recover.
Comment · 8 years ago
There could be bugs, of course, but the library is open source and developed by the Stellar network team.
Of course you are right in a sense - the core team also should not be blindly trusted. But, because your account is managed by the wallet and stays local to your machine, there is nothing much the library _can_ do IMHO.
Comment · 8 years ago
One trick I've learned is to write out, (in a structured comment), what I am going to do an how I'm going to do it _before_ actually writing the code.
It seems redundant but it actually forces me to do a quick think-through of what's happening. Plus distractions get a lot easier to handle: I just need to read what I've written down to reload the context.
Paradoxically, I've found that this method of typing out _more stuff_ actually helps me finish much faster.
Comment · 8 years ago
The Stellar network is a new-ish blockchain network managed by https://www.stellar.org/
They provide a REST API for interacting with the network itself and JS/Go/Python/Java standard libraries that can be used. Of these, the JS library is the most developed which is why I picked it.
Using the standard stellar library to connect with stellar is secure and transparent enough. What the wallet does is encrypts and protects your account keys (which are what give you control over your accounts). It does this using `scrypt`(https://www.npmjs.com/package/scrypt) for PKDF and sodium (https://www.npmjs.com/package/tweetnacl) for the actual encryption. Having access to the code should show you that there are no backdoors built in, no information being sent across to any third-parties, and so on. This is what people care about when protecting their accounts.
Your second question is also very insightful. Creating accounts is at the heart of Stellar. You cannot start performing any transactions on the network without first creating an account. And, in order to create the account, it needs to be be funded. This is why the wallet allows you to create (and fund) a new account on the network. You can read more about it here: https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/get-started/create...
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi HN! I've been working with the Stellar blockchain recently and I found it hard to get a simple, open and transparent wallet that would let me keep my accounts on my local machine. So I wrote my own and made it available for everyone.
I've tried to keep the code simple and clean and I would appreciate any feedback. The goal is it should be a simple, powerful wallet that any dev can pick up - be confident how it works and be able to hack in 5 minutes.
I'm looking for feedback on my distributed log db project. It's a part I pulled out of a stochastic time tracking system that we are building. I think it's a neat idea and has a lot of potential and I haven't found anything like it yet.