A portable DApp development setup — Docker is a containerized environment for applications Docker is a lightweight virtual machine that aims to containerize the deployment runtime for applications to avoid the “works on my machine” problem. VS Code took one step further: containerized development VS Code is a modern code editor with a modularized design to make remote development easier. The brilliant team then came up with the idea to run…

Yet another way to have fun with the Pi :) Exciting crypto projects will continue in 2022 2021 was a wild ride for crypto. Institutions started buying coins, Web 3.0 started taking off, and NFTs (no words needed). Although the crypto-related ads (yea, Crypto.com, I’m looking at you) are a bit excessive/annoying, still it’s an exciting trend…

Get the information to stay on top of investment decisions — In retrospect, cryptos have come a long way in 2021, from controversial speculation to legitimate investment (sort of). However, exchange platforms/apps don’t seem to have enough engineering resource to keep up. For example, Crypto.com (the crypto app I use the most): No way to track the initial investment Inherited from…

Stop running git config every time you clone a repository — The remote extension that Visual Studio Code provides makes developing inside a Docker container more convenient than ever. Git config is not part of the container definition However, during my usage, I found configuring Git identities a bit annoying since every time a container is built or re-built, I need to the following to be able to commit changes:

Never struggle with broken infrastructure again — Running machine learning algorithms on GPUs is a common practice. Although there are cloud ML services like Paperspace and Colab, the most convenient/flexible way to prototype is still a local machine. Stop it, use a container 🦺 Since the beginning of machine learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, Torch and Caffe), dealing with Nvidia libraries has been a…

Say goodbye to release management and focus on building the features — Semantic-release is a tool to automate commit messages to version calculation to publishing flow for Node.js projects. Combined with GitHub actions, developers can simply push code and the workflow will automatically calculate versions and publish the package to registries. It’s super convenient. So convenient that it makes me feel bad…

Never forget to publish the latest GitHub Actions — What are GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions are code-defined workflows that can be triggered by GitHub events to monitor repository health. What are TS/JS GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions need code to define the workflow and configuration to define the environment to execute the code. There are three types of GitHub Actions: TS GitHub Actions which define workflow with TypeScript and…

Look up GitHub faster with just gh — As a developer, I spend a lot of time jumping between GitHub repositories, open source projects, and Stack Overflow questions. It’s frustrating to start every new tab by searching on Google, looking through bookmarks, or typing the full URL. In companies, developers commonly use some form of a “go to”…