http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/ John Walker's Fourmilab Change Log en-us Copyright 2021 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:38:54 Z Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:40:30 Z http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fourmilab Blockchain Tools provide a variety of utilities for users, experimenters, and researchers working with blockchain-based cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. These are divided into two main categories. Bitcoin and Ethereum Address Tools These programs assist in generating, analysing,... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2021-10/003181.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2021-10/003181.html Business Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:38:54 Z I have just posted an update, version 1.8, of Flashback, my instant directory tree snapshot utility for Linux and other Unix-like systems. The major change in this release is fixing problems which occurred with file names that contain spaces and... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2021-07/002800.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2021-07/002800.html Computing Sat, 31 Jul 2021 11:45:44 Z Version 3.2 of UNUM is now available for downloading. Version 3.2 incorporates the Unicode 13.0.0 standard, released on March 10th, 2020. The update to Unicode adds support for four scripts for languages, additional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbols,... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-05/001868.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-05/001868.html Computing Sat, 16 May 2020 12:26:07 Z I have just posted version 2.1 of the ISBNiser utility and ISBNquest Web resource. These are utilities which validate, inter-convert, and properly format all varieties of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) specifications. Both utilities have been updated to use the... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-05/001867.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-05/001867.html Computing Sat, 09 May 2020 19:57:36 Z When I began the Fourmilab Reading List in January 2001, it was just that: a list of every book I'd read, updated as I finished books, without any commentary other than, perhaps, availability information and sources for out-of-print works or... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-04/001866.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-04/001866.html Reading List Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:00:11 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-03/001865.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-03/001865.html Reading List Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:48:21 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-02/001864.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-02/001864.html Reading List Sun, 02 Feb 2020 16:00:30 Z Version 3.1 of UNUM is now available for downloading. Version 3.1 incorporates the Unicode 12.1.0 standard, released on May 7th, 2019. Since the Unicode 11.0.0 standard supported by UNUM 3.0, a total of 555 new characters have been added, for... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001863.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001863.html Computing Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:53:26 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001862.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001862.html Reading List Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:34 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001861.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2020-01/001861.html Reading List Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:59:09 Z Here are my picks for the best books of 2019, fiction and nonfiction. These aren't the best books published this year, but rather the best I've read in the last twelve months. The winner in both categories is barely distinguished... https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001859.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001859.html Reading List Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:56:21 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001860.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001860.html Reading List Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:07:03 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001858.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001858.html Reading List Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:02:48 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001857.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001857.html Reading List Sun, 22 Dec 2019 16:20:51 Z https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001856.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2019-12/001856.html Reading List Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:33:40 Z