Jump Start PHP Environment
A ground-up guide to building a solid, modern PHP development environment โ covering VMs, Vagrant, Composer, and the tooling decisions that make or break a PHP project before a line of app code is written.
Build Your First Ethereum DApp
A practical walkthrough of building a complete Ethereum decentralised application from smart contract to frontend โ written to bridge the gap between Solidity tutorials and something you could actually ship.
Ethereum: Tools & Skills
Multi-author collection on the Ethereum developer ecosystem. My chapter: Using Puppeth, the Ethereum Private Network Manager โ a practical guide to spinning up private Ethereum networks for testing and development.
Several Bitfalls articles are no longer live at their original URL. Links below go to the best available Wayback Machine snapshot.
The Last NFT Explanation Post You'll Ever Need
Comprehensive explanation of non-fungible tokens covering standards, use-cases, and composability โ written when most people still hadn't heard the term.
Wayback Machine snapshotWhat Is Ethereum and How Does It Compare to Bitcoin?
One of the earliest thorough English-language comparisons of the two networks: architecture, scripting, gas model, and how the goals differ fundamentally.
Wayback Machine snapshotPoW vs PoS vs Delegated PoS โ What's the Difference?
Clear breakdown of the three dominant consensus mechanisms, the trade-offs each makes, and what the choice means in practice for a chain's security model.
Wayback Machine snapshotHow Does the Lightning Network Work?
Technically accurate primer on payment channels, routing, and the L2 model โ written at a time when Lightning was genuinely hard to explain without losing people.
Wayback Machine snapshotA Beginner's Guide to NFTs
Broad-reach explainer written to demystify NFTs beyond the "overpriced art" framing, explaining standards, provenance, and real-world utility.
Wayback Machine snapshotWeb3: A New Web for a New World
Manifesto-style piece on the philosophical underpinnings of Web3 โ ownership, permissionlessness, and why the architecture of the web shapes what you can build on it.
Wayback Machine snapshotPolkadot vs Ethereum 2.0 โ On-chain Governance
Comparative governance analysis: how on-chain voting works in each system, the role of the council and referenda, and what the design choices mean for protocol upgrades.
Wayback Machine snapshotPolkadot for Ethereans โ Staking
Clear onboarding for Ethereum developers: how Polkadot's NPoS staking model differs from Ethereum's, what validators and nominators do, and how to start participating.
Wayback Machine snapshotPolkadot for Ethereans โ Transaction Costs & Economics
Fee model, weight-based pricing, and the economic design of Polkadot โ how it compares to Ethereum's gas model and what the differences mean for application developers.
Wayback Machine snapshotOpinion: On Private Blockchains
A blunt, well-argued case against private blockchains โ why they solve no meaningful distributed systems problem that a regular database doesn't already solve better.
Wayback Machine snapshotDon't Force Your ฤapp's UI on Me
A critique of DApps that trap users inside a single UI โ arguing that if you're building on an open protocol, the interface should be separable from the logic.
Wayback Machine snapshotProgressive Centralization and Value.eth
The philosophy behind running a website from ENS + IPFS โ why downtime resistance and censorship resistance matter as design constraints, not just marketing claims.
Pingui and the Vendor Lock-in of Modern Vibe Coding SaaS
On how modern AI-assisted coding tools are quietly rebuilding the same SaaS lock-in story developers have been burned by before โ and what to do about it.
Building DApps with Ethereum 8-part series
End-to-end walkthrough of building a production-grade DAO from scratch: token creation, whitelisting, voting, cross-contract communication, and a React Web3 UI. Each part ships a working piece of the StoryDao. Link goes to Part 1.
Wayback Machine snapshotAdding Web3 Logins to a Web2 App 2-part series
How to retrofit MetaMask-based wallet authentication into a legacy PHP application โ useful for any team that wants to add Web3 identity without rebuilding everything. Link goes to Part 1; Part 2 continues the integration.
Wayback Machine snapshotSolidity Crash Course: Building a Blockchain Raffle
A standalone Solidity intro for readers who want one focused article โ covers randomness, payable functions, and deploying a verifiable onchain lottery.
Wayback Machine snapshotOutsourcing Sybil Resistance in Your DAO with Modifiers
Advanced Solidity pattern for governance systems โ how to delegate identity and voter eligibility checks to external contracts so your DAO doesn't have to solve identity itself.
Wayback Machine snapshotExtending Flarum: Adding a Web3 Address to a User Profile
How to build a Flarum extension that adds a wallet address field to user profiles โ practical bridge between a traditional forum and a Web3 identity layer.
Wayback Machine snapshotWe Were Involved with a Scam ICO โ Here's What Happened
First-person account of getting close to a fraudulent project, recognising the signs, and going public rather than quiet. A rare piece of honest documentation from inside an ICO scam.
Wayback Machine snapshotThe Anatomy of a Pump & Dump Group
Investigative breakdown of how coordinated pump-and-dump groups actually operate โ the Telegram playbook, the timing, and who ends up holding the bag.
Wayback Machine snapshotThink Twice Before Giving That ICO Your KYC Data
On the data privacy risks of handing identity documents to anonymous teams running token sales โ who collects your passport scans, and why they usually don't need them.
Wayback Machine snapshotHow to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration
Practical, still-accurate guide to query optimization โ EXPLAIN output, index types, slow query log, and the configuration knobs that actually matter in production.
Wayback Machine snapshotWhy Is a String Called a String?
Etymology meets computer science โ tracing the naming of primitive types through decades of programming history and why the words we use for things actually matter.
Wayback Machine snapshotNeural Decorators
A 10-year-old piece on AI and human memory, sparked by the TV show Humans. Republished because it still holds up โ and because it shouldn't live on a platform that holds your work hostage.
How Cursor and ChatGPT Helped Me Minimise the Damage After Getting Hacked
A real incident: accidentally committed a private key, lost funds, and used AI tooling to audit the damage and harden the setup. Honest about what went wrong and specific about what helped.
Clawdex: I Built a Telegram-Operated Yolo Codex Machine
A weekend project: frankensteining old PC parts into two AI assistant nodes controlled via Telegram. Part hardware diary, part AI-tooling experiment, part "what have I done".
This is a curated selection. The complete archive of 240+ articles from 2016โ2026 is at authory.com/BrunoSkvorc.