To Solidity and Beyond!

For my final post I feel like a collection of thoughts is in order. I am deep it trying to finish our project, too deep to pay close attention to much else. So here goes… I attended Dockercon 2022 last week. It was completely virtual, so attending meant viewing live presentations on various stages for…

Well not really I guess, but I do want to devote this post to some rambling commentary concerning current events in the crypto world. I will try to be nice, but I can’t promise that some of this will not be off-putting to anyone who bothers to read this post. And, I will offer no…

When my group embarked on the journey of building a decentralized application for a stake/play to earn game, we knew that by this point we would have little actual run-able code. I was not even sure if we would have any code by this point. But, I knew in the end we would have something…

Last week I blogged about being surprised by the number of small applications out there that developers use to make some incredible things, and how updating one can break everything so why isn’t there more movement to integrated packages that would mitigate the dangers of breaking changes causing chaos. After some more thought, I don’t…

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the number of available, open source packages out there. What is more surprising to me is there seem to be people who keep track of a large number of them. And, what is most surprising to me is that rigging a handful or more of them…

So this is the third post in this series and I feel like at least some focus should turn toward my final team project. The team has gelled nicely and is focused on the task at hand. We chose to go the route of learning new technologies and languages because we all have a genuine…

Anyone venturing into the fearsome jungle of NFTs and play to earn NFT games has to be aware that there are real dangers out there. Scammers and hackers are continual threats. The community platform of choice is Discord. All projects have presence on the usual social media apps, and they love any attention these can…

So, if you are reading this on or near posting date then chances are you fall into one of two categories: 1. You landed here by extraordinary luck, it was meant to be, and you almost certainly will be leaving before I finish this paragraph; or, 2. You are required to read this in order…