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Jan 21, 2022

How to Mint Climate-Neutral NFT Art for Pennies on NEAR

Demo: near-nft-generative-website.netlify.com What Are We Looking At Here? This is website with a “generative design.” This is accomplished by a seed algorithm that takes a random hash, which is stored on-chain in the metadata of an NFT. I used the NEAR protocol for this experiment, a climate-neutral layer 1 blockchain. Anyone can mint one of these…

Near Protocol

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How to Mint Climate-Neutral NFT Art for Pennies on NEAR
How to Mint Climate-Neutral NFT Art for Pennies on NEAR
Near Protocol

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Oct 30, 2019

How to Effortlessly Model Async (React) with xstate’s Invoke

Just want some code? This repo shows how to integrate xstate with React Context + Hooks. However, there isn’t any invoke code, so it’s worth reading on! hew/xstate-react-global-context-example You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. You signed out in another tab or…github.co Some Context In the previous post to this now non-existent two-part series, I concocted this idea of “guard actions,” and the idea behind that was…

JavaScript

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How to Effortlessly Model Async (React) with xstate’s Invoke
How to Effortlessly Model Async (React) with xstate’s Invoke
JavaScript

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Feb 20, 2019

State Charts: To Guard, or to Guard Action — Part 1

So, you’ve decided to use xstate (or any other similar library). You’re looking to tie your architecture together with a state graph, nice and neat. You finally finish your graph, and you sit back and marvel how you’ve distilled a universe of complexity down into some javascript objects. It’s all…

JavaScript

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State Charts: To Guard, or to Guard Action — Part 1
State Charts: To Guard, or to Guard Action — Part 1
JavaScript

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Mar 3, 2018

Building a Reasonml Component Styling API — Part 1

Disclaimer: I know the basics of OCaml and Reason. I am by no means an expert. This was a learning experience for me. Type-safe styling. Why, right? What’s wrong with good ol’ regular CSS? Well, there’s actually some compelling reasons to look at Reason if you are a designer. Imagine…

JavaScript

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Building a Reasonml Component Styling API — Part 1
Building a Reasonml Component Styling API — Part 1
JavaScript

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Jul 17, 2017

Vim Superstar Part 2 — the .vimrc

The .vimrc is the digital representation of your work flow. It is a file that is crafted with a lot of love, patience, and street-earned respect. This is no write-it-and-forget-it fling with a groupie. This is your manager, agent, and publicist, all rolled into one script. …

Vim

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Vim Superstar Part 2 — the .vimrc
Vim Superstar Part 2 — the .vimrc
Vim

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Jul 17, 2017

Vim Superstar Part 1 — The Path to Zen

So you want to be a Vim superstar? Font large? Big mouse? Five args? Blowing up in ‘hey world.’ Don’t trust nobody. Gotta look over your error logs constantly. Success in the Vim game — it may or may not get your those those sick record deal contracts. But if…

Vim

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Vim Superstar Part 1 — The Path to Zen
Vim Superstar Part 1 — The Path to Zen
Vim

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Jul 17, 2017

Five Tips to Increase Productivity on OSX

In this post, I’ll show you five tips to use OSX more efficiently. They are mostly for developers, but anyone can potentially benefit from these workflow solutions. In the spirit of being efficient, let’s dive right into it. 1. Free Your Ctrl Key Let’s start out by freeing up your control key. You will need: …

Productivity

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Five Tips to Increase Productivity on OSX
Five Tips to Increase Productivity on OSX
Productivity

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Mar 4, 2017

7 Things to Keep in Mind While Watching Ultimate Beastmaster

1. The Beast is like a real life video game Terry and Charissa will shoe-horn and ham-fist this talking point down your throat again and again, and it eventually becomes enjoyable. Kind of like watching a new kind of pornography. …

Netflix

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7 Things to Keep in Mind While Watching Ultimate Beastmaster
7 Things to Keep in Mind While Watching Ultimate Beastmaster
Netflix

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Apr 6, 2016

Asynchronous Neovim in 2016

The main reason why I’m excited by the Neovim project is async. If I am working with a large codebase and need to search something, I would much rather be looking through my code than staring at the ag std output, and I’m sure you would be too. …

JavaScript

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Asynchronous Neovim in 2016
Asynchronous Neovim in 2016
JavaScript

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Apr 15, 2015

The Relatively Unknown Happenings of J-lo in the Summer of 2002

On February 23, 2000, Jennifer Lopez wore a plunging exotic green Versace silk chiffon dress (seen above on the red carpet) to the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards. She was accompanied by her boyfriend, Sean “Puffy” Combs. Her recently movie Selena was a smash hit. Life was good. Love Don’t Cost a Thing By 2001, Jennifer…

J Lo

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The Relatively Unknown Happenings of J-lo in the Summer of 2002
The Relatively Unknown Happenings of J-lo in the Summer of 2002
J Lo

4 min read

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