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M1 MacBook Air 13 is incredible

First time I got my hands on a new M1 MacBook Air 13 and despite my hesitation on the past Air models being slow and outdated - this is amazing. New Air is incredibly light, fast, fanless and definitely beats my 2017 MacBook Pro 13! Apple does it again, I'm

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How to buy native REEF Finance token in 2021

Reef Finance is a very promising Substrate Project within Polkadot Ecosystem which already has some interoperability with Ethereum EVM - yes, you can upload smart contracts and execute them for Reef. However buying actual native Reef will require some tweaking... You can't just buy native Reef token. You can purchase

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A list of my Dev.to articles👇

Polkadot: create your first Rust Substrate smart contract, upload it and interact with it 🚀 [Video]From template to decentralised app using Substrate !ink smart contracts. #Polkadot #SubstrateDEV CommunityNick Shulhin🔥Persistent store with VueJS, VueX and VueX Persisted State 🔥Let’s make our VueJS web app store things locally, in a

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DotView 1.0 - Available @ Chrome Store

DotViewPolkadot viewer app | Polk4.netChrome Web StoreReasoning for this plugin was simply to create a very dummy watch-only bookmark-address keeper with balances. You can import as many addresses you want to check a balance of each at glance. There is no transfer functionality, and a completely bare minimum. If you

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Substrate !ink rust smart contract tutorial

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Polk4.net: substrate !ink smart contract template

Check out the new substrate !ink contract template I recently created for those who are interested in smart contract development for future Polkadot/Kusama projects. I also created a full video tutorial on how to interact with Canvas node using Parity Canvas UI, uploading to YouTube at this moment -&

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Please don't make complex projects on Lambdas.

No, seriously. I've been talking about it for some time, but here we go again: If your project requires substantial codebase, test coverage, complexity + expected to live for over a year - I would skip Lambdas (or any other serverless-tightened approach) 100%. The main reason is being dependant on framework.

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Rust is a piece of cake

I've been always aware of Rust language, however never invested enough time until had to try !ink smart contracts for Polkadot... which are written on Rust. Honestly, I didn't expect such a good personal vibe towards the language. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book is a situation when a human-readable guideline

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Intro to container-optimised Google Cloud VM instance

Recently I was deciding what to use to implement an API for one of my personal projects on a Google Cloud Platform. Kubernetes - too heavy for a simple need of a lightweight Node logic. Cloud Run - sounds almost perfect, however I required an instance to be always connected