A Boson Protocol Launch Day Experience This is my story about buying a dope-azz, physical hoodie in Decentraland. But first, a short, fun video that conveys the basic premise of Boson Protocol and #dCommerce. Note, I’m currently working on the project, which has recently launched version 1 of its…

Tired: Pitches with VCs Wired: VCs ape into your coin “Blockchain funding is a pyramid scheme, change my mind.” I was chatting recently with a friend who runs a web2 project, about the eternal issues of securing project funding, generating revenue, and managing the roadmap. Over the last few years, I’ve transitioned my practice from web2 to web3 development…

Where do fun, useful apps come from? Teams that know their users. — A friend recently asked what to put in a document to begin a discussion about software architecture for an upcoming service offering. It’s a sort of nebulous question really, but you have to start somewhere. Does it need native mobile support? What’s the estimated bandwidth and storage requirement? These are…

Using Etherscan’s Address Tags and Transaction Notes — Let’s say you’re executing a lot of Ethereum transactions, some manually and some scripted. When the dust settles, you need to make certain that everything went perfectly because there’s a lot riding on it. What’s the best way to satisfy yourself that it all went down as planned? A Flurry of Activity I recently…

Figuring out the easiest way to extract substrings of predetermined a length, along with any remainder. No matter how long you code, you’ll always find yourself with some seemingly simple task that you don’t happen to have a handy solution for in your toolbox. If you don’t find a quick…

A fix for that one case where Open Zeppelin’s SafeMath doesn’t help The Common Wisdom If you are an Ethereum developer using Solidity, you most likely know about overflow and underflow. If not, briefly consider the following code: uint8 myVar = 255; myVar++; Since a uint8 can only hold values between 0 and…

Emphasize These Beats to Keep Your Reader Engaged — It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines. Most writers are aware that the first line, paragraph, and page of a story must be perfect. Compared to the rest of the words in the work, these demand an inordinate amount of attention. And with good reason. If the cover of the book caught your potential reader’s eye, and…

Or, Why Hulu is Keeping Me Up at Night I love Hulu, but their “mature audiences” advisory bothers me to no end. Specifically, the position of the word “only.” Every time the announcer reads these words, I mute the audio and look away. Don’t get me wrong; odds are I’ll…

Use this simple rule to keep your reader engaged from start to finish — The Rule Regardless of premise, prose, or point of view, pay out action and character development at equal rates. Continuous Action Start in the middle of some action if possible, so that readers never say, “It took a while to pick up, but when it did, boy was it exciting.” …