Cat Herders Puns

Ethereum network upgrades, process improvement, community building, PEEPanEIP, Catblazer summary ’21, ECH engineering, meetings notes, grants & new initiatives.

https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/review-2021-the-ethereum-cat-herders-9103b0c8d0f9

Updates on Ethereum roadmap, Arrow Glacier upgrade, Kintsugi (Merge testnet), EIP-4488, EIP-4444, EIP Insight, ECH Discord incident and other updates.

https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/ethereum-cat-herders-update-51-c526de9e12f6

To all my fellow masters and mistresses of game, table, story, and dungeon, a Happy Boxing Day to you!

Also, I am taking this time as my annual reminder to all of you that draw your own dungeon maps that literal metric tons of gridded paper just went on clearance.

That's right, wrapping paper! Rolls (upon rolls, upon rolls) of it. With the advances in gross consumerism marketing, many wrapping papers are now printed with cute, Christmas-time or related Winter holiday designs on one side, and the other side is a plain off-white color with one-inch gridlines subtley printed in dashed or faintly-colored lines. A background that is, in no small way, perfect for those of us that play out actions and measure distances one five-foot-square at 1/60th scale at a time.

And it's all on sale. Right now. So, as you emerge from your post Yuletide slumber and regret promises of extra magic items as gifts for those unappreciative moochers known as your players, when you venture forth to acquire drinks and snacks for the table for the next session later tonight/this week/sometime before Valentine's Day, remember to check the clearance-priced rolls of wrapping paper. For those nice multi-packs with printed gridlines on the back, you just might find yourself picking up a year's worth, or decade's worth, of Mapping Paper!

Updates on Amphora (Merge interop) — Pithos, Altair (Oct 27th), ArrowGlacier (Dec 08), Sepolia PoW testnet, EIPs insight, PEEPanEIP-3607, community events, and more in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #50.

Altair mainnet announcement (Oct 27th), ArrowGlacier upgrade in Dec, Merge Interop, EIP insight, EIP-4345:Ice age delay proposal, new Account Abstraction proposal (PR-4337), events-hackathons and other updates in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #49

#ethereum #upgrades #altair #arrowglacier

Ethereum Cat Herders Update #48

Ethereum mainnet attack, Travis CI security issue, Merge — engine API design, Beacon chain upgrade — Altair on mainnet in October, All core dev meeting, Verkle Tree presentation, and more community update.

I'm having trouble completing the cat herder LTW. I currently have 12 cat friends, but the counter when hovering over the lifetime wish only shows 6/15. It used to be higher but hasn't actually matched the true number of cat friendships my sim has had for a while now. It almost always goes up when I gain a friendship with a cat but then it starts to drop off again. Does anyone know of a way to fix this so that the number reflects my sims friendships? I have no cc or mods.

I didn’t know which flair to give this. I’ve got difficulties at my table and in my DMing that I’m trying to navigate, but those specific instances aren’t the point of this post. I just had a realization but don’t feel it’s appropriate to label as advice...

Why does the DM need to be the “cat herder” of the group? I feel like maybe that should really be someone else’s job... the DM is already juggling enough things. Everyone should be partly responsible for pacing and keeping the table focused. You could even have a designated cat herding player if needed. You know, someone to call out distracting behaviors, watch the clock, etc. Even assist in gathering feedback from players for the DM and feedback from the DM for the players. The DM can focus on the world and how it responds to the PC actions. Why does the DM need to be the one to call a player into a private talk to discuss their problem behaviors?

Does anyone have experience to offer for or against this thought? Looking for your viewpoints.

Thanks!

Edit: Wow thank you all for the feedback! This community is great.

London upgrade is expected on Mainnet on August 04, 2021. Merge mainnet readiness, Address Space Extension working group updates, Beacon chain updates, Community & other updates in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #47.

#Ethereum #upgrades #EIPs

The Ethereum Cat Herders mid-year report (Q2-Q3, 2021)

https://preview.redd.it/duyfzau5tbi71.jpg?width=729&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7da4e885174acdd14ef35a3d82a9fcebfc20e237

Follow the amazing works done by the Ethereum Cat Herders in the past 6 months in process improvement, communication & coordination with the community for network upgrades, and more to support the Etherum blockchain.

Report: https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/ethereum-cat-herders-update-47-7955da0ab620

London upgrade’s latest devnet — Calaveras is up, introduction to EIP-3584, London Infrastructure Readiness call, Consensus layer implementers meeting, Altair upgrade special PEEPanEIP, Ethereum blockchain users survey and more clients & community update available in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #45

https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/ethereum-cat-herders-update-45-a70a9a8c8eb2

Stateless Ethereum, Merge implementers meeting, Altair and London upgrade progress, EIP-1559 gas API call, JSON RPC API spec may have a new placeholder, Ethereum users & developers survey, ECH meetings, community updates & more in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #46

Energy-efficient Ethereum, Rayonism-Nocturne devent for the Merge, London upgrade-Baikal devent & testnet timeline, Eth2-Altair multiclient testnet timeline, client updates, Merge meetings, EIP-ERC repo splitting, Core Developer Apprenticeship Program, GitHub bot, Community events and ECH updates in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #44

https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/ethereum-cat-herders-update-44-2a4cc0eae45c

#Ethereum #mainnet #update

Many of you will be familiar with the 'Peep an EIP' video series that the Ethereum Cat Herders put together. This is where we get the EIP authors and editors to talk us through upcoming changes in their own words.

Last week Danny and Vitalik took us through Altair upgrade changes... Next week's Peep an EIP will feature:

• EIP-3541: Reject new contracts starting with the 0xEF byte (this is included in the London upgrade in July, along with 1559)
• EIP-3540: EVM Object Format (EOF) v1 (being considered for the Shanghai upgrade, which will be before or after The Merge TBC)

The EIP authors - Alex Beregszaszi, Paweł Bylica, and Andrei Maiboroda - will be covering these and taking questions.

If you have any questions on EIPs 3540 and 3541, post as a comment here by 18:30 UTC on Wednesday and we'll do our best to put them to the authors on the call.

An updated roadmap for Stateless Ethereum, Verkle tree migration, Epoch based state expiry scheme, Merge Implementers meeting — Consensus Upgrade discussion, Eth1 upgrades -Berlin, London, Shanghai update, Eth2- Altair, Prater, research update, ECH Berlin community call, PEEPanEIP — RPC spec, ENS & Fork identifier proposals, and more in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #41.

Ethereum Berlin upgrade countdown community call announcement. Join Livestream at ECH YouTube.

And a video explanation of every proposal going in this network upgrade is available in the Berlin PEEPanEIP playlist.

Rayonism update, Eth2 mainnet incident retrospective, latest on London & Altair upgrade; Steklo, Aleut & Baikal testnet. ACD, Eth2, Merge, EIPIP meeting. JSON RPC, PEEPanEIP on refund removal proposal, upcoming community event & more in Ethereum Cat Herders Update #43

To all my fellow masters and mistresses of game, table, story, and dungeon, a Happy Boxing Day to you!

Also, I am taking this time as my annual reminder to all of you that draw your own dungeon maps that literal metric tons of gridded paper just went on clearance.

That's right, wrapping paper! Rolls (upon rolls, upon rolls) of it. With the advances in gross consumerism marketing, many wrapping papers are now printed with cute, Christmas-time or related Winter holiday designs on one side, and the other side is a plain off-white color with one-inch gridlines subtley printed in dashed or faintly-colored lines. A background that is, in no small way, perfect for those of us that play out actions and measure distances one five-foot-square at 1/60th scale at a time.

And it's all on sale. Right now. So, as you emerge from your post Yuletide slumber and regret promises of extra magic items as gifts for those unappreciative moochers known as your players, when you venture forth to acquire drinks and snacks for the table for the next session later tonight/this week/sometime before Valentine's Day, remember to check the clearance-priced rolls of wrapping paper. For those nice multi-packs with printed gridlines on the back, you just might find yourself picking up a year's worth, or decade's worth, of Mapping Paper!