The Infinite Machine – Camilla Russo
This book needed to be written, there was most certainly a story here detailing the history of the founding of Ethereum. This books takes the human story of the very dry computer code and paints a very clear picture beyond the scope of the unicorn and cat memes and chronicles the how its nomadic founder …
Creating ‘BoetCoin’ an ERC20 Ethereum Based Cryptocurrency
Even more hooked on Crypto learning than i was at the start of the year, I have recently started learning how to create tokens on the Ethereum protocol, given my interest in how crypto works and this has been a fascinating journey. This post will speak to some of the key things that I have …
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DeFi – Decentralised Finance Will Eat Everything
Ok, this space is vast and expanding at the ‘rate of thought’, having recently picked up a few books on this topic I can see some major disrupting use cases emerging. Up to now the real magic around crypto has been the ability for trust-less decentralised transactions to be injected into a public ledger (brilliant) …
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Hafiz on worry
“Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business Why not find a better job?”― Hafiz
Young and ambitious – Sage Young 04 April 2021
To the young and ambitious people of the world, take it from me. I have wasted too much time thinking about why not to do/show or talk about something that I am interested in during my career. For fear of revealing that I have a blind spot. This is the wrong approach. Have an idea …
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in a recently discovered note to himself
“Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them. … Writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well …
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
Story telling at its finest, what a fantastic book. I was inspired to read this one from watching the show called “inside Bills Brain” on Netflix. Walter tells some fascinating stories of the personal computer revolution and really how innovation works. Some great concepts that I have taken and use regularly. What talents allowed certain …
A Promised Land by Barak Obama
This book was bought for me for Chirstmas from Rachel. Based on one of the conversations one has when they are driving in late november when one partner says what do you want for Chirstmas and the answer then stored in the memory bank. This was one of those. The book is heavy on real …
My Coding Journey
My coding journey started in earnest during the start of 2018 when I was asked to solve a mapping problem. After some experimentation I found google earth and with that the ability to load a .kml file into Google Earth that would allow a user to points of interest added to that map, it was …