web
The Broken Half of Interactive Programs
While most front-ends today have largely agreed on the design of the rendering subsystem, we seem to be grappling with design of the interactive subsystem.
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web
Destroyed at the Boundaries
Shared mutable state invites complexity into our programs. Programming languages help with this complexity inside a program, but not across network boundaries between programs.
retro review
Year 2022 in Review
A review of the wanderings in 2021, and a focus for 2022.
pipeline
Easy Backfilling with Hooks and Components
I implemented a backfill mechanism with the basic hooks, so when the pipeline is brought back up after some downtime, it'll not only do its job of ingesting new blocks for interest rates, but it will also see how many of the last 128 blocks it missed and ingest those.
cryptocurrency
What are DeFi's Prospects?
In the last couple of years, people have been building a global, open alternative to every financial products you use today, accessible to anyone in the world with a smartphone and internet connection.
pipeline
Hooks for Pipelines
I decided to write my own version of React, but for the purposes of building ETL backends for small to medium workloads.
cryptocurrency
NFTs unbundle ownership from enjoyment
If you view NFTs as a progression of the unbundling of ownership and enjoyment, the enjoyment got digitized first. And now, we're seeing ownership being digitized. But digital ownership is kinda weird because it had digital properties like low cost to store and distribute, yet it's scarce.