I finally found myself with a perfect combination of free time and a useful idea and managed to put together a small widget for BetterTouchTool which duplicates the menu bar UI for Harvest for Mac. If you use Harvest to keep track of your time, check it out!
Hey there!
I'm Steve Gattuso, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY who loves traveling, photography, rock climbing, and lambda functions.
I'm a big fan of being in control of my own content rather than proxying it through social networks, so you'll find this site to be a repository for whatever nonsensery I've decided to publish publically: anything from blog posts, to photography, to various travelogues.
I'm also available to hire as a software consultant and love talking to new people, so feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat.
Taken inside of the Ben Youssef Madrasa in Marrakech, Morocco.
Recent Posts
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→ Harvest for Touchbar
June 29, 2018
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A short summary of Plasma
I recently was asked to do some research and give a short summary of an Ethereum scaling technology, Plasma. Since I had a blast writing it I figured I'd throw it onto my website just in case anyone else is looking for a brief, high-level summary of what it does and how it works.
March 24, 2018 -
The case for self-publishing content
Our best shot at combatting tech companies' power grab on the internet is to stop giving our content to Facebook, Twitter, Medium, etc. for free. Instead, let's take our content into our own hands by self-publishing on our own personal websites, a medium of communication which is free of censorship, algorithmic ranking, and increasingly intrusive advertising.
March 01, 2018 -
Bitcoin emissions per transaction
January 15, 2018
An interesting statistic I’ve found: according to Digiconomist’s Bitcoin energy consumption page, the average carbon footprint of each transaction made is 162.48kg of CO2.
Based on Carbon Independent’s aviation emissions estimates of 26.6g of CO2 per passenger km, we can come up with a rough estimate of each bitcoin transaction being the equivalent of a 6,108km (3,795mi) flight. This is more or less the distance of a flight from New York City to Copenhagen, Denmark (calculated using DistanceFromTo).
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