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A couple weeks ago @balajis posted about content archives, and it inspired me to finally buckle down and create one for my own work. My archive layout is inspired by the clean, information-centering design I saw in Balaji’s Archive. Expanding on the original concept and with an eye to future-proofing…

Content Archive

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Jun 24

Building with ZORA API

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to build a simple NFT sales dashboard using Zora’s powerful new API. Note: This tutorial uses code written in GraphQL, JavaScript, and Objective-C, but I will try and address the major implementation details at an abstract level, as they are not language-specific. I recently…

Zora

9 min read

Building with ZORA API
Building with ZORA API

Jun 18

ZORA API Hackathon In Review

ZORA recently released a new API (application programming interface), which enables anybody to query their indexer for NFT market data, and held a hackathon to give it a good shakedown run. …

Zora

11 min read

ZORA API Hackathon In Review
ZORA API Hackathon In Review

May 13

What comes next for web3?

Here are my tips for founders and startups building over Summer 2022. No matter what happens next, it’s clear that we’re entering a new phase of the crypto market, one which has significant business ramifications for anyone who got started building during the last bull run. Market dynamics are set…

Crypto

8 min read

What comes next for web3?
What comes next for web3?

Apr 26

6 Ways Elon Musk Could Make Twitter Better

Day One initiatives could breathe new life into the platform A lot of today’s discourse has revolved around ways Twitter might change for the worse in the wake of Elon Musk’s successful buyout. Not as much has focused on day one initiatives that could breathe new life into the platform. …

Twitter

3 min read

6 Ways Elon Musk Could Make Twitter Better
6 Ways Elon Musk Could Make Twitter Better

Dec 29, 2021

Trust in a trustless system

How to tell who’s worth following when navigating web3 Is that latest pfp project legit, or just a cash grab? That roadmap looks killer, but you don’t want to get rugged. One of the biggest problems faced by newcomers to the web3/NFT space is knowing who to trust. Everyone wants…

Nft

7 min read

Trust in a trustless system
Trust in a trustless system

Nov 21, 2021

Building the future

Meet web3’s new generation of creators This is essay 7of 7 for The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Check out build_ to join the conversation. The web3 space moves insanely fast and is hard to definitively pin down. Just when you think you know what it is, it’s already morphed into…

Web 3

3 min read

Building the future
Building the future

Nov 21, 2021

Lily Pads

Why it looks so different from inside the web3 pond This is essay 6 of 7 for The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Check out build_ to join the conversation. There’s a thought experiment involving lily pads that helps put the current web3 discourse into context. It goes something like this: …

Web 3

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Lily Pads
Lily Pads

Nov 19, 2021

Right-click-save-face Part 2

Continuing to clear up a common misconception about NFTs This is essay 5 of 7 for The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Check out build_ to join the conversation. Last time, we showed how to look up a specific NFT on the blockchain, determine if its data is stored on-chain or…

Nft

3 min read

Right-click-save-face Part 2
Right-click-save-face Part 2

Nov 19, 2021

Right-click-save-face

Clearing up a common misconception about NFTs This is essay 4 of 7 for The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Check out build_ to join the conversation. The “right-click save as” argument is frequently cited by people without much experience in the NFT space as a reason to blindly dismiss NFTs…

Nft

4 min read

Right-click-save-face
Right-click-save-face
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