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Comprehensive explanation of non-fungible tokens covering standards, use-cases, and composability — written when most people still hadn't heard the term.

One of the earliest thorough English-language comparisons of the two networks: architecture, scripting, gas model, and how the goals differ fundamentally.

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.

Technically accurate primer on payment channels, routing, and the L2 model — written at a time when Lightning was genuinely hard to explain without losing people.

Broad-reach explainer written to demystify NFTs beyond the "overpriced art" framing, explaining standards, provenance, and real-world utility.

Manifesto-style piece on the philosophical underpinnings of Web3 — ownership, permissionlessness, and why the architecture of the web shapes what you can build on it.

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.

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.

Fee model, weight-based pricing, and the economic design of Polkadot — how it compares to Ethereum's gas model and what the differences mean for application developers.

A blunt, well-argued case against private blockchains — why they solve no meaningful distributed systems problem that a regular database doesn't already solve better.

A critique of DApps that trap users inside a single UI — arguing that if you're building on an open protocol, the interface should be separable from the logic.

The philosophy behind running a website from ENS + IPFS — why downtime resistance and censorship resistance matter as design constraints, not just marketing claims.

On how modern AI-assisted coding tools are quietly rebuilding the same SaaS lock-in story developers have been burned by before — 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.

Adding Web3 Logins to a Web2 App 2-part series

How to retrofit MetaMask-based wallet authentication into a legacy PHP application — useful for any team that wants to add Web3 identity without rebuilding everything. Link goes to Part 1; Part 2 continues the integration.

A standalone Solidity intro for readers who want one focused article — covers randomness, payable functions, and deploying a verifiable onchain lottery.

Advanced Solidity pattern for governance systems — how to delegate identity and voter eligibility checks to external contracts so your DAO doesn't have to solve identity itself.

How to build a Flarum extension that adds a wallet address field to user profiles — practical bridge between a traditional forum and a Web3 identity layer.

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.

Investigative breakdown of how coordinated pump-and-dump groups actually operate — the Telegram playbook, the timing, and who ends up holding the bag.

On the data privacy risks of handing identity documents to anonymous teams running token sales — who collects your passport scans, and why they usually don't need them.

Practical, still-accurate guide to query optimization — EXPLAIN output, index types, slow query log, and the configuration knobs that actually matter in production.

Etymology meets computer science — tracing the naming of primitive types through decades of programming history and why the words we use for things actually matter.

A 10-year-old piece on AI and human memory, sparked by the TV show Humans. Republished because it still holds up — 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".