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It's a new day in Hell. (Part one)

12 Oct 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Mac Andrews $0.63

It is mind blowing to think that the American public operates in a mild dissociative state. I wrote about this previously in one of my posts. It is almost as if people are afflicted with a kind of PTSD - only one where the trauma is generalized, rela...

Ever wonder how to view the progress of cp, mv, dd, tar and other coreutils commands? 'progress' is there for you.

10 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments norep $0.50

What is 'progress'? Have you ever needed to move or copy a large file with the command line and had to sit there, staring at a blinking cursor while you have no idea how much longer it will take? Well 'progress' is the program you have been looking f...

TEAL programming language makes Algorand perfect for DeFi usage

7 Oct 2020 3 minute read 2 comments shadowofsatoshi $0.16

Bitcoin is written in C++ but has no smart contracts, Ethereum smart contracts are written in Solidity while Cardano and its SC in Plutus. Algorand went a bit different way of using the programming language TEAL. But what does that mean? Let’s start...

Updated: Stateful smart contract example using Python/Pyteal: simple role-based application

1 Oct 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Ddev $12.71

Algorand python SDKs provides for developers easy and convenient way of expressing smart contract codes in a more natural form. Recently, the protocol was upgraded with room to use both on-chain (stateful) and local storages in tandem with the exist...

learn Java through e-books

29 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ryosuke $0.44

If you are a beginner in the IT field, and you want to learn Java programming language ,the first question that comes to your mind is: From where should i start?, what materials should i use ? well some people prefer the use of tutorials and some use...

Elixir Comprehensions - The "for" macro

23 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Unhedged $0.93

  In this post we will be going over comprehensions in Elixir. A “Comprehension” is another word for Elixir’s for macro. It can be used to iterate through an enumerable, like Enum or Stream: for element

The Weekly Summary - Issue 24.1 - Learning Edition

21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 7 comments tvlachak $0.52

Issue 24.1 / September 21, 2020 Learning “Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.” - David J. Schwartz A simple, minimalist visualization on 10Xing yourself. Boost your productivity while work...

The Elixir Enum Module

19 Sep 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Unhedged $0.10

To help myself in learning more Elixir, I'm going to continue these Elixir guide/tutorial posts where I try to explain a different piece of Elixir in each post. Today's post will be covering the Enum module and it's usage. The Enum Module provides a...

Indie Game Dev Log: 17/9/2020 (Shader Graph Procedural Planet Tutorial)

17 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Timanious $0.25

Hey all I recently published a new Unity Shader Graph procedural planet tutorial on my blog over here:https://timcoster.com/2020/09/03/unity-shader-graph-procedural-planet-tutorial/ In the tutorial you'll learn how to create a planet shader with dif...

Recursion in Elixir, We Don't Get No Loops!

13 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Unhedged $0.14

As Elixir is a purely functional language, it doesn’t have loops. Instead, it uses a wide variety of recursive functions to achieve the same or better results. Below is an example of a list and calculating it's length. This shows how recursive funct...