====== Week 2018-W50 in reading ======

This week’s list is rather short as I’m still ill.

  * Some materials about Information Mapping(R):
    * [[http://www.danielsklar.com/2010/06/toolkit-information-mapping-for.html|Toolkit: Information Mapping for Business Writing]] – by Daniel Sklar.
    * [[http://www.technicalauthoring.com/wiki/index.php/Information_Mapping|Information Mapping]] on TechWriter Wiki. I’ve only skimmed it upon finding. I’m including it here for completeness and for future reference.
  * Elliptic Curve Cryptography:
    * [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/|A brief introduction by Nick Sullivan]]. It helped me grasp the key concepts and while I’m far from ready to start implementing anything based on that limited knowledge, I have at least got an idea how it works.
    * Another article on [[https://hackernoon.com/what-is-the-math-behind-elliptic-curve-cryptography-f61b25253da3?gi=d533f6b5a0ff|math behind ECC]] is still on my list. It contains some more math so maybe I’ll get to understand it a bit better? Let’s see.
    * It all started when I’ve read about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdDSA#Ed25519|Ed25519]], which I would like to implement one day in Scheme. I’ve already started porting [[https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/python/ed25519.py|DJB’s python version]] to Racket a few days ago but decided I first need to understand it better because just rewriting it in another language won’t be useful even a bit.
  * [[https://medium.com/we-distribute/faces-of-the-federation-christopher-allan-webber-on-mediagoblin-and-activitypub-24bbe212867e|Christopher Lemmer Webber on MediaGoblin and ActivityPub]], a not so short interview with a very interesting person who took part in standardizing the protocol that the Fediverse uses.
  * I’ve been reading [[https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html|The Racket Guide]], which is very nice and whenever it’s not enough, one has the option of reading the full docs (e.g. [[https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/bytestrings.html|Byte Strings]]).

Whenever I had some spare time, I’ve been reading [[https://dustycloud.org/blog/|Christopher Lemmer Webber’s blog]].

In the paper books department, I’ve picked a book I’ve suspended a while ago: “How Not to Be Wrong. The Power of Mathematical Thinking” by Jordan Ellenberg.