How I gamed EOS Defi projects and still got rekt Recently, a lot of EOS "Defi yield farming projects" popped up. I put projects in quotes because the common trait among the ones I'm talking about

Progress Report - September 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects

How to install an old package version with brew Sometimes you need to roll back to a previous version of a brew package. If the brew package maintainers do versioning this is as easy as typing brew install

Fixing C++ compilation bugs for the MacOS Catalina upgrade I recently updated to macOS Catalina and encountered several issues with programs that use a C/C++ compiler. If you see any of these errors this

Progress Report - August 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in

Progress Report - July 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in July

Obfuscating EOSIO smart contracts There are classes of smart contracts where one would rather not reveal how they work internally. It's a common theme with private smart contracts that are not intended

Progress Report - June 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in June

Progress Report - May 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in May

Typing transformations in TypeScript I really enjoy using TypeScript and use it in all of my own projects. There's just something about knowing what types your objects and functions are, and the great

8 EOSIO WASM intrinsics you might not have heard about EOSIO smart contracts are just simple WebAssembly files. The WebAssembly format allows defining imports, functions that are not declared in WASM itself

EOSIO C++ IntelliSense in VSCode If you're a developer nowadays chances are high that you're using VSCode as your IDE of choice. It's my favourite IDE for web development, but I also use it for C++ EOSIO

Testing EOSIO smart contracts with Hydra Testing EOSIO smart contracts was always a big pain point for me and many other developers, especially newcomers. I probably spent more time setting up and managing

Progress Report - March 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in March

Progress Report - February 2020 Two months of 2020 already passed by. I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did

How to check if an EOS account has a smart contract Figuring out if an EOSIO account is a smart contract is an easy task if you are operating off-chain. One simply hits the get_code endpoint of an EOSIO

Launching EOS Token Portfolio Traditional block explorers make it hard to see how your token balances evolve over time - something I always wanted to see for my own dapp accounts, but also for analyzing

How to deploy a create-react-app with github-actions Here's a quick guide on how to deploy a CRA (create-react-app) to GitHub pages using GitHub actions. We'll create a GitHub Action workflow that runs

Progress Report - January 2020 I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last month's report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in

How to rollback to an older EOSIO.CDT version with brew Recently, EOSIO.CDT 1.7 has been released, but it has a [severe bug] where it crashes when trying to compile a contract using an eosio::ecc_public_key