At the moment, I’m developing a website from scratch for artists to upload commission portfolios and a bunch of other things, and as part of that, I looked into React.js as something to potentially help simplify building the front end. …

To begin with, this article talks a lot about Herman Miller chairs. Nothing in this article is sponsored or paid for. I’ve mostly made this article because I find useful information about “what chair to buy” severely lacking online, and it was rather frustrating for me in the past trying…

An often-repeated quote or quotes, are: “Experience is the best teacher” “Failure is the best teacher” In a word: no. This logic is not only often wrong, but frequently leads to dangerous conclusions. Experience does not always teach Experience only teaches what you actually choose — or are able — to learn from it. There…

A common failure seen in software engineering (and indeed in many aspects of life) is people trying to manually write their own code for security purposes and inadvertently failing to write it properly. This article goes into this topic and explains precisely why most security matters are best done with…

In the last few days, OpenSea has seen a lot of NFTs being stolen: As of yet, whether or not the attack was purely the result of phishing, a code exploit, or both is unclear. One thing that is abundantly clear is that OpenSea has absolutely no clue…

While writing a thread on Twitter about Ottomated’s NoFT plugin (a browser plugin for auto-blocking NFT users), I thought it would be a good idea to write an article explaining about APIs. The NoFT plugin doesn’t use the Twitter API, which comes with problems and risks for users, but the…

‘Web3’ is in quotes to distinguish that it refers to the concept of “decentralised blockchains and crypto”, as opposed to the Semantic Web. Driverless cars, which are being constantly touted as a solution to the problem of error-prone human drivers, are in fact a very dangerous proposition for the time…

This short article is to explain what routes are available who want to work in computer-related fields — whether it be game development, general software development, or anything else. First of all, there are three main ways into computing jobs: University / College degrees. The best option for pretty much…

The title of this article, if anything, is being as mild about Web3 as I can possibly be. It is worth less than nothing — the world would be better off without it. This articles goes into why that is, and is split into two sections: historical reasons, and technical…