Group hike this morning through farm fields and woods near Baar: 7.7km, 160m ascent, 1h20m, 2°C. Easy return to hiking after a couple months off.

Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)
Coding, tech, living abroad, travel, hiking, vintage plastic bricks
Group hike this morning through farm fields and woods near Baar: 7.7km, 160m ascent, 1h20m, 2°C. Easy return to hiking after a couple months off.

Amphibians! These road signs appear around Switzerland each Spring. People even help frogs cross roads. I like that the Swiss care for the environment and for little things.

On the way to Lavertezzo we passed the Contra dam, which was featured in the bungee-jumping scene in the opening of Goldeneye.

Ponte dei Salti in Lavertezzo (Ticino region of Switzerland)

Panoramas above and around Locarno (and Lake Maggiore) in Ticino.




On the third and final day of my Ethereum Developer Training course, I implemented my first DApp: TWTL, a decentralized version of Twitter on the blockchain. Funniest part is that you have to pay transaction costs for each post. It’s sure to catch on soon!
Day 2 of Ethereum developer training was fun. Wrote my first smart contracts and my first ERC20 token.
Always nice to have a black eye and a bandage on your face when meeting potential business contacts for the first time. Maybe I should say it’s from a bar fight or a run-in with an ibex.
Around here blockchain is like the underpants gnomes from South Park:
Today I start a 3-day Blockchain (Ethereum) programming course in Zürich.