Coding When Code Is Cheap
If writing code is no longer the bottleneck, what is software engineering actually about? On specs, harnesses, and why the most valuable part of a repo is no longer the code.
AI and Junk Development (aka Paździeż Development)
Imagine joining a company today that still ships software the way we did 30 years ago: painful merges of months-old branches, no CI, no automatic deployment, no test automation...
Learning AI coding is no longer optional. But it’s not vibe coding.
This is the first post in a series on AI-assisted coding. See the overview of the series below:
The joy and pain of living with ADHD
Entering adulthood with ADHD was not easy for me. Consider the inability to remember a simple thing or focus on a single topic for more…
Five reasons why I change my focus to cryptography
With some extra time on my hands, I decided to invest it into switching my professional focus from blockchain to cryptography. In this…
What you missed about continues delivery
The focus of this blog post is on the crucial element of modern software delivery — continuous delivery (CD). In my experience, the larger…
Running a dev shop — part 5: Growth and structure
This is the fifth and the last part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the posts below.
Running a dev shop — part 4: Attracting customers
This is the fourth part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the posts below.
Running a dev shop — part 3: Talent pipeline and employee life cycle
This is the third part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the planned posts below.
Running a dev shop — part 2: Bootstrapping and specialization
This is the second part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the posts below.
Running a dev shop — Part 1: Myths and favorable facts
This is the first part of a series on running a dev shop. See the overview of the planned posts below.
useDApp 1.0 Released!
Multichain support, WalletConnect new docs and more!
Preventing billion-dollar hacks
This is the first in a series of blog posts about the process for rapid dapp development on blockchain: Part 1: Security — Preventing…
useDApp update ‘22
useDApp is on fire 🔥🔥🔥
Introducing TrueFi Engineering
Hi Builders!
useDApp: Deep dive into custom hooks and testing
This is the second post of our series on new useDApp features: 1. Introducing useDApp 2. Deep dive into custom hooks and testing 3. Coming…
Introducing useDApp - framework for rapid DApp development
🐅 DApp - a new animal in the jungle
Bubble burst shenanigans
People’s memory is short-term and to me it seems many are doing irrational things with their crypto as the bubble progresses.
Introducing Restless: Validations for TS, Ethereum and Express.js
Validations are … everywhere
Your Clutch Award is lame, but you’re gonna share it anyway.
Yeah it is this time of the year. With recently reopened malls, we can now do our shopping accompanied by good old, worn out “Last…
Pragmatic smart contracting (TDD, Pairing, Waffle & Buidler)
With major security incidents popping up at least several times a year, an obvious question might arise: What would be a pragmatic…
Introducing Waffle support for Jest (experimental)
Adding experimental support for Jest.
Smart contract testing with ENS and Waffle
With hundreds of applications using ENS, Ethereum-based decentralised naming system, we can all agree that it has become a widely…
Our little secret superpower: Unification
With the need for highly-skilled professionals, developing software has always been an expensive and slow process. With growing complexity…
🦄 UniLogin and the Quest for a Better Txn Fees UX
Transaction fees remain one of the main usability challenges for Ethereum and blockchains in general. There are a few different problems…
🧇 Waffle 3.0 released! With ethers.js 5.0 and more!
We‘re glad to announce that we’ve just released Waffle 3.0 with support for ethers.js 5.0 and much more.
New Waffle matcher: expect().to.be.calledOnContract()
Perhaps you read my previous post about mocking smart contracts. Now, if you did, you may probably agree that writing tests is still a…
Mocking Solidity smart contracts with Waffle
Testing smart contracts written in Solidity is still somewhat cumbersome. One subtle reason is that we keep writing our unit tests as if…
Smart Contracts testing still sucks, how want to make it better
Despite these challenging times, we remain very optimistic about the future of Ethereum ecosystem. Earlier this year, when ETH price…
UniLogin Beta 4: Easier than ever with new providerAPI
Note: We recently changed the name from Universal Login to Unilogin (link to the announcement here).
The Problem with Formal Verification (What We Learned Building Universal Login — Part 2: Security)
This is the second blog post in a series “What We Learned Building Universal Login”:
Universal Login Beta 3: Gnosis Safe Support & More
Long-awaited Universal Login Beta 3 has landed, with a major announcement: we are now supporting Gnosis Safe contracts!
What We Learned Building Universal Login — Part 1: The Problem
Defining the problem you want to solve often sounds simple, but in fact it’s often the most complicated part of trying to solve it.
Formal Verification for n00bs -Part 4: Understanding K language
This is the fourth post of a series Formal Verification for n00bs: Part 1: The K ecosystem Part 2: Proving the correctness of a token Part…
Formal Verification for n00bs -Part 3: An attempt to prevent classic hack with KLab
This is the third post of a series Formal Verification for n00bs: Part 1: The K ecosystem Part 2: Proving the correctness of a token Part…
Formal Verification for n00bs -Part 2: proving the correctness of a token
An example of a high-level semantics of a single function of an Ethereum smart contract and a step-by-step guide for executing the proof.
Formal Verification for n00bs: Part 1
This is first in a series of blog posts on Formal Verification (FV).
Waffle 2.0 released
After weeks of hard work, I am glad to announce the release of Waffle version 2.0, with a dozen new functionalities.
Introducing Waffle
If you care about the quality of your software, you care about tests. You care about syntax and speed. We find a good testing framework is…
Testing contracts that use ENS with ENSBuilder
When it comes to testing contracts and functionality that uses Ethereum Naming System (ENS), it is a bit tricky. It is difficult to test in…
Spificator: a Usability Pattern for DApps
In this post, we would like to propose a new usability pattern for dapps.
The Secret of High-Performing Developers
High performers
How and What to Measure from Day One when Building a Startup
One of the biggest challenges at the initial stages is to keep the whole team focused on one common goal. Showing promising results of…
Hype Driven Development — part 2: The Phenomenon
My last post “Hype Driven Development” (read here) was surprisingly well received with 54K reads and 2K+ recommends.
Hype Driven Development
Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social…
Performance of basic Ruby types
Modern computers are extremely fast machines, what leaves us — software engineers — with no excuses to write slow programs. One of the…
Pair Programming demystified!
A managers view on Pair Programming
Pair Programming demystified!
Zero Bug Tolerance: Improve software quality with one simple practice
How to prioritize development projects with Kanban
