History: Aeneid

Posted on Sun 04 September 2022 in history • Tagged with history, writing

30 BCE

The Aeneid was an epic poem written by Virgil, 70- 19 BCE. The Aeneid is a Homeric epic which relates the story of Aeneas, the son of Anchises of Troy. The Aeneid provides a historical context for linking Roman civilization and Greece. Aeneas is said to encompass the …


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History: Lucretius

Posted on Sun 28 August 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

94- 55 BCE - Lucretius was a philosopher poet who based his work on traditional Greek styles of philosophical poetry. Lucretius was noted for his work, On the Nature of the Universe, which was said to have contributed to a revival of Epicurial thought in Rome between 60 and 40 BCE …


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Collective Governance

Posted on Mon 22 August 2022 in tech • Tagged with solidity, programming, ethereum, web3

One of the really awesome aspects of developing an Ethereum Smart Contract for NFT Governance is that all the code is open source. For the first time in the history of my career I can share what I am working on.

Currently I am developing a smart contract for community …


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History: Catullus

Posted on Sun 21 August 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

87- 54 BCE - Catullus is known as one of the best "lyric poets" ever produced by Rome, however Catullus was not originally from Rome. Catullus originally came from northern Italy, though he spent much of his life in Rome. Catullus was known for his adaptations and augmentations to Greek poetry …


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History: Teutoburg Forest

Posted on Sun 14 August 2022 in history • Tagged with history, place

Germania or Germany- 9 CE -- Though the reign of Augustus was generally marked by military triumph and successes, Augustus did fail to expand the Roman empire beyond the natural borders established in the North. In particular, at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Augustus was soundly defeated. The Romans lost about …


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Sharing data in smart contracts

Posted on Tue 09 August 2022 in tech • Tagged with solidity, programming, ethereum, web3

Sharing data across smart contracts is not always as easy as it might seem. Here is an example of using getters and setters to share data easily between two contracts.