I’ve been playing with an Ethereum wargame, Capture the Ether, during Christmas holidays. I really enjoy CTFs and, more generally, finding flaws/unintended behavior in other people’ code. Doing that with Ethereum and Solidity is much more fun, because: it’s a whole new ecosystem on which I did not have prior…

A live demo for this post can be found here. Recently I’ve been playing with Yew, a web framework written in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly. It borrows the Elm model ( model, view, update) and adds a JSX-like syntax on top of it. At first I was leaning to…

After applying in June, I’ve finally been admitted to the beta of Github Codespaces 🚀 At first I thought it was just a remote instance of VSCode, where you could open repos and have a peek at the code on the fly, without filling your hard drive with countless repos…

Phoenix LiveView is an awesome technology that tries to push Elixir usage for web application way further than the basic Phoenix framework does. It was presented on April 2019 at ElixirConf EU, and it was immediately a huge hit. …