My other crawling efforts in Crawling GitHub for New Cryptonight Coins used the GitHub API and Python. When I started on my efforts to find new Discord or Telegram invites that could possibly be cryptocurrency related I chose to walk a different path. This set of scripts used JavaScript and I did not use the… Read More »
If you aren’t already familiar with BitcoinTalk it is a cryptocurrency focused forum where the majority of coins make their launch announcements. Crawling a forum isn’t rocket science to be sure but the fun happens in how to go about identifying a new coin as a Cryptonight coin of interest. You can crawl the forums… Read More »
Numbers quickly became one of the trickier parts of tracking and calculating mining profit. MySQL offers many different numeric types and I first settled on using DECIMAL for most of my calculations. Some ridiculous values like with 40 significant digits. That worked out fairly well at the start. The cryptocurrency market however was in a… Read More »
I dove into the world of cryptocurrency at the end of 2016. Just before the crazy rush of December but still very late to the game. November and December were a blur of activity. There was room for nothing else in my mind for those two months. The downward stroke sucked but I hadn’t invested… Read More »
Working with the web has always been accessible thanks in large part to the ability to just inspect the code of whatever site you’re on to see how it works. Many modern sites are being created as single page applications and being driven mainly by client side API calls to retrieve data or update the… Read More »
The idea of code coverage as a metric to ensure a code base is exercised really appeals to me. However when I would try to add it to my existing project I would struggle, flounder and decide to try again later on after burning too much time on it. The lure of ready to run testing stacks… Read More »
Internet Explorer 9 was released 4 years ago in 2011 which sounds like a short time, but it really is an eternity in the world of web development. IE has had 3 releases since then and the 4th is on the horizon, but the upgrade cycle of many companies doesn’t reflect that fast pace. So… Read More »
Unit testing is something every developer agrees should be done, but often doesn’t do. Setting it up isn’t hard after reading and evaluating what feels like a 7 course meal of modules that need to come together hand in hand to allow you to write some tests. It is fairly easy after you’ve learned more… Read More »
A tutorial on creating extensions and plugins for the Markdown parser Remarkable JS.
Cross-platform mobile web development is heating up and the the performance level is continuing to increase as new an more powerful devices are released. One of the allures to this style of mobile development is the single code base you can use across multiple platforms. With wrappers like Cordova and modern web frameworks you can get… Read More »