Developer Diary, Hindi Day

Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Today, India marks Hindi Day (हिन्दी दिवस), celebrating the adoption of Hindi as written in Devanagari as one of the country’s now-twenty-two official languages in developing their constitution. The multiple-language compromise tried to resolve the factional rivalries stirred up by British colonization, which frequently pit Hindi against Urdu, a closely related language—and the other major Indo-European language in the region—written in an Arabic-derived script used by Muslims…not that it ended the rivalry, as evidenced by the Hindu nationalist movement ’s resurgence over the past couple of decades. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Entropy Arbitrage entropy-arbitrage-code The week started getting the Webmentions back in order. It looks like a couple of bugs have crept into the project—I’ll file issues eventually—so it now needs an explicit “yes, I want to deploy this after setting everything up” configuration setting. And it also either…