19 Jan, 2021 🏠 2020 Year in Review: Staying Home, Vintage Furniture & DeFi 2020 was a weird year. COVID changed the dynamics of life around the world. Governments enforced lockdowns and business had to close. Stock markets crashed, only to bounce back spectacularly. Remote working became
9 Dec, 2020 /ethereum Unlimited ERC20 allowances considered harmful The latest big thing in Ethereum is Decentralised Finance (DeFi). Central applications of DeFi are lending, staking and trading ERC20 tokens. To use ERC20 tokens in DeFi protocols such as Uniswap, Aave or
17 Apr, 2020 /life 🏖 2019 Year in Review: Graduation, Cryptocurrency & Traveling I wrote my first year review in 2018 because I felt that a lot had happened and I wanted to reflect. And I feel the same about 2019. A lot changed in my
6 Apr, 2020 /gamedev Building love2d games for the web with love.js and Docker A few years back I created a few small video games using the Lua-based game development framework LÖVE (or love2d). Because they are so small, it doesn't make sense to distribute these games
12 Dec, 2019 /crypto Smart contracts on Ethereum, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Ethereum was the first platform to enable Turing-complete smart contracts back in 2015. It is still the most popular platform for smart contracts, even as other smart contract platforms have emerged, like EOS
3 Aug, 2019 /ethereum Creating Truffle plugins One of the final Truffle updates of 2018 included the addition of Truffle plugins - the possibility to extend Truffle's functionality with new Truffle CLI commands. While it has been out for over
31 May, 2019 /ethereum Automatically verify Truffle smart contracts on Etherscan Etherscan is the most popular explorer in the Ethereum space. And one of its big features is verifying the source code of smart contracts. Verification allows users of smart contracts to understand what
8 Jan, 2019 /life 🐼 2018 Year in Review: Blockchain, Open Source & Public Speaking Some time ago, I stumbled upon Ahmad Awais' website after finding his recent VSCode course. Since 2015 Ahmad writes yearly review posts on his blog that outline the important achievements of the year.
13 Oct, 2018 /ethereum Asserting reverts when testing Solidity smart contracts with Truffle Require statements are a great tool to make sure that a Solidity function only gets executed when the right preconditions are met and that the results of functions meet the expectations. By adding
3 May, 2018 /ethereum Checking events when testing Solidity smart contracts with Truffle When testing Solidity smart contracts it is very helpful to check the events generated by those contracts. Especially asserting the arguments of the emitted events is a powerful tool. However, using web3 to
15 Jan, 2018 /dotfiles Set up a Hyper Key with Hammerspoon on macOS 'I will just move my active window to the right, using ⌥⌘→. Wait, why did I move to the next tab in my editor?' This has happened to me on multiple occasions. Every
18 Nov, 2017 /dotfiles Increasing development productivity with repository management In my previous article I discussed the merits of having dotfiles installed on your system. We went through all the steps of getting your own dotfiles up and running, but there were still
29 Oct, 2017 /dotfiles Dotfiles: automating macOS system configuration It was in October of 2015 when I was casually stalking my Lead Developer's GitHub profile. There, I happened to come across a repository named dotfiles. When I asked him about it he