Developer Diary, Madame Guillotine Strikes

Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 28 Scrawls Library Updates Next Lacking a more substantial holiday, on this day in 1794, the French Revolutionaries put Maximillen Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just to death in the guillotine. If the names sound familiar, the close friends—despite a strong start as staunch, pro-democracy voices—led the Reign of Terror. Louis also lends his name to the fictional Marguerite St. Just, the actress married to Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, while Robespierre makes an appearance in many adaptations of the novel, not to mention each of them showing up in dozens of fictional works. I’d say “if you want something less grim,” but I only have World Hepatitis Day as a backup… And with that, on to the week’s projects. Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter For those of you interested in such things, I’ll have the July issue of the Entropy Arbitrage newsletter ready to go on Tuesday the fourth. If you’d like it delivered, head to that link,…