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   by davepeck 4y ago

   I got lucky and built a Micro-SaaS that grew to a healthy ARR. At least, I assume I got lucky. I’ve only done this once. Twice? I have yet to attempt. I remember the early days of painful uncertainty and minuscule MRR before I really unders
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   by davepeck 4y ago

   Straightforward, useful advice. I pretty much do all of these when I start new Django projects. The need for a custom User model makes me a little sad every time because, well, single `name` fields (rather than `first_name`, `last_name`) an
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   by davepeck 4y ago

   AFAIK RedwoodJS seeks to be the Rails/Django of the JS world: https://redwoodjs.com
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   by davepeck 4y ago

   I recently saw SQLite used (and written to) in a Docker container, with the database file on a mounted volume. That made me nervous! I don't know enough about how Docker implements volumes under the hood to know how likely (or not) it
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   by davepeck 4y ago

   (NB: Since your son is 18 this probably doesn't apply, but I'll comment here in case it's useful for others with younger children.) My 7 year old has gotten into programming through her iPad. In particular, she uses: - Ty
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   by davepeck 5y ago

   I love seeing new search engines and this appears to be very well done. The web needs better visibility into its blogs. Bravo! I wonder about the use of MarketRank. For instance, search for "COVID" and your top hit will be from Al
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   by davepeck 5y ago

   (In a different direction, Microsoft's pyright type checker for Python -- IMO the fastest and most correct type checker in the Python ecosystem -- is implemented in TypeScript!)
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   by davepeck 5y ago

   Hi all, I wanted to play with blockchain data at scale and ended up making this "endless waterfall" visualization of recent NFT events. Hopefully it's fun way to poke around at the sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing worl
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   Show HN: ChainDisco – a toy to explore recent NFT activity(nft.chaindisco.xyz)

   4 points by davepeck 5y ago|1 comments
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Hi HN -- these are two projects I've been working on. BeQue ( https://beque.xyz/ ) is an API to work with blockchain data at scale and get real-time updates when new blocks are mined. And ChainDisco ( https://n
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    In deep with blockchain data: two new projects(psl.com)

    1 points by davepeck 5y ago|1 comments
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    I've wanted someone to do this at scale for such a long time. It's funny; it's another great way to highlight the sound and fury signifying nothing that is NFTs. You can call them "fantasy NFTs" and explain that the
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Love this and now I want breadsticks. I happened to notice it earlier today on the "watch the NFT matrix" toy I've been working on: https://nft.chaindisco.xyz/contract/0xfEe84e716845ec7423c863... -- inst
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Thanks. This is good detail. I may go back and revise this corner of the post.
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    I’m not sure that Bitcoin offers any special insight here. We use email; it’s very much a crypto-less federated system that works at scale (of, more or less, every Internet user!) And there are newer examples: while it’s by no means a Twitt
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    It's a good question. I don't know if this is helpful, but: I dipped my toes in with Solidity and Ethereum on day one, and used Hardhat to help set up a local blockchain, dev environment, and test suite. I quickly found myself scr
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    > So why build an upgrade procedure at all, when you don't have to? Flaws, once known, can be remediated. I don’t think macOS has bulletproof security but I’m sure glad Apple keeps updating it. > In the Stacks blockchain (which
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Original author here. Totally. I’m old enough to remember when Web 3 was the semantic web, so I guess I don’t put much stock in the label. And, personally, I’m really interested in crypto-less federated systems like Mastodon and some of the
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Thanks; I’m really glad to hear that!
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    This is great! I remember Raymond’s post from my distant past. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again — it’s very relevant.
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Right. In the case of USDC, whoever has the private key to their proxy contract’s owner account. You’re trusting their engineering team to do the right thing. (EDIT: if I’m reading my etherscan correctly, it’s account 0xfcb19e6a322b27c06842
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    > why should I trust that you will ship flawless code You shouldn’t, because no code of sufficient complexity is flawless. > just deploy a new version of the smart contract On the Ethereum blockchain (for instance) storage and smart
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    (Original author here: I agree completely. I’m… one of those older hackers. That said, I’m also fascinated and, frankly, a bit alarmed by this sudden change in the balance of value capture and creation. I think it’s worth looking at and con
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Yes, 100%. It’s one reason why I mentioned Tezos: it has upgradability and upgrade governance built in from day one, which — if nothing else — I think is an interesting design point.
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    What you’re describing does indeed happen — and in many cases I think it’s a good approach — but it’s not the same as what I’m talking about. You might find these two blog posts useful: 1. OpenZeppelin’s post on the Ethereum proxy pattern:
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Original author here. I strongly disagree. While it’s certainly true that firmware on many devices can’t be or simply isn’t updated, it’s also the case that bugs ship. Because of this, engineers design and ship their more complex devices wi
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Thanks for the report. Definitely annoying. On the list to fix.
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    (I’m not having trouble with that and I certainly don’t intend to block you; what os/browser are you using?)
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Hah! I do think there is an aspect of “cool club” that, whether successfully or not, the Web3 community wants to get across. I’m an outsider to that community. Perhaps @pinboard said it less hypefully when he described it as an “unregulated
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    by davepeck 5y ago

    Hi all — I wrote these notes with my colleagues at PSL while trying to wrap our heads around the madness that is Web3/Crypto. I’m an engineer by background and sort of a skeptic by nature; I think of this piece as a collection of loose