This article is a review/comparison of HostGator and Amazon Lightsail webhosting; it is not sponsored or paid for by either. I recently moved from HostGator’s VPS service to Amazon Lightsail, and thought it would be helpful to write a review of both. I was until recently on Hostgator’s Snappy 2000…

As the fate of cryptocurrencies and NFTs becomes clearer — the latter have mostly died and the former is not looking too good either — there is a specific topic I would like to address: how should those who went into crypto be judged, whether they regret it or not? …

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. …

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. …

‘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…