Over the four days of February 9th to 12th, thirty five hackers gathered in Financial District co-working space Verci, to create projects on Public Goods, and Climate change in web 3. This was not a technical hackathon, meaning it did not require any code to be written. It was the…

Some reflections and notes on visiting this meetup. On a cold Wednesday night, I arrived at the location, it was a brewery and bar rom in Logan Square. I arrived after six PM. Officially it was ending soon, but people would likely hang out until later. I walked in and…

If you need to implement multiple different kinds of NFTs or if you want to use both fungible and non-fungible tokens in your smart contract, then the ERC1155 is a the standard for you. In fact in almost all cases it gives you an edge on the simpler predecessor ERC721…

On May 17th, 2016 I created a GitHub account. From that day I count how long I have been programming. Today is May 26th, 2022. I have been programming for six years. It was a momentous event for me. I will explain what it means to me, to be a…

Functional programming is a style of writing software that stresses using pure functions, avoiding modifying global state and employs declarative statements. Declarative programming style instructs what needs to get done, instead of how. Functional programming treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions. …