LGM-30 Minuteman by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ah, the choice of name, both grim and slightly funny, Dr. Strangelove comes to mind quite strongly. Also Fallout (franchise).
Video 1.
The $130B Plan to Replace the U.S.’s Nuclear Missiles by The Wall Street Journal
. Source.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableCloseUp.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableSplicerTwo.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20230321151835im_/https://minutemanmissile.com/images/HICSCableConnectivitySchematic.jpg
Blockchain.info by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
TODO who owns it? Are they reliable?
This helper dumps a transaction JSON to a binary:
bitcoin-tx-out-scripts() (
    # Dump data contained in out scripts. Remove first 3 last 2 bytes of
    # standard transaction boilerplate.
    h="$1"
    echo curl "https://blockchain.info/tx/${h}?format=json" |
    jq '.out[].script' tmp.json |
    sed 's/"76a914//;s/88ac"//' |
    xxd -r -p > "${h}.bin"
)
Their API limit witout key is 1 query per 10 seconds!!!
A (multi-user) blog is the hello world of the web, so creating one of those is the best way to quickly evaluate web technology, i.e. time to Hello World.
Some new frameworks like FeathersJS are making a chat app instead, as that highlights the push notifications a bit better.
Genomics by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Study of the genome, one of the omics.
Protein tag by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
You modify the DNA of a cell and stick a fluorescent protein right before or after another protein. Then when it gets translated, the GFP is stuck to the protein of interest, which hopefully hasn't lost its function as a result, then you can just see the protein of interest.

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