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You can still shoot yourself in the foot but how not to do that is a bit hard to boil down to an answer here. Experience, I guess.
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I do enjoy however to collect on the Tezos blockchain too where there’s a sprawling art community, way lower fees and prices in general. Tezos is Proof of Stake-based already so its energy use is also way lower.
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On Ethereum contracts are written in a programming language called Solidity. Being on the blockchain there’s a whole bunch of things that are more stressful and serious than, say, working on the web. The contract follows a standard called ERC721.
The SlimHoods website is built with a bunch of tools. Most notably Next.js, Hardhat, Ethers.js and TailwindCSS. All of these are broadly used tools so there are a million tutorials and other resources for each of them available. I suggest you look up a tutorial or 20 and learn through doing them. It’ll all be very confusing at first but that’s only because you don’t know it yet. Stick with it and you’ll be able to do everything I can do (and more!)
· 6 months ago
· 7 months ago
I think you have it right. You draw each version of each part in a layer, then have the random machine pick a random version for each part. I know nothing about After Effects but that's how I imagine it's done.
· 7 months ago
I still haven't decided whether I'm sure Eth/crypto/blockchain will be the future, but it could be a future and it's fun to be exploring the forefront of that potential future.
I don't like Proof of Work and its energy use. Eth's move to Proof of Stake can't come soon enough. I don't like the huge transaction fees of now. I don't like the pump'n'dump culture, I don't enjoy hanging in Discords all day. I'm working with a few artists to release their collections and I'm working on an entirely new NFT experiment that I'll probably release this month or the next.
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· 9 months ago
So, my background is being curious. You might already have great taste but if not you need to develop it. When you go about on the internet, take note of things and styles that you like. Notice trends in visual design. Sometimes everything looks skeumorphic like real world surfaces, sometimes they can't be flat enough and the slightest drop shadow is forbidden. Don't spend too much energy on whether you like these trends or not, just notice them come and go and try to discern what they're about and consider what goes into designing like that. The key isn't to know what's hot but at the forefront but to train yourself into noticing what's becoming popular, what you like and don't like and have a feeling of what goes into actually making things look in a certain way.
Then all that's left is to practice. You can study without doing but to learn, you need to do. So mimic and copy and try and fail and try again. Could be building your personal website. Doesn't really matter what it is. But you need to practice – of course!
· 9 months ago
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We've briefly discussed making more episodes but only want to do so if we can do it like we used to: 3 people together in a room with bad audio and a bottle of Fanta Exotic.
· 10 months ago
· 10 months ago
Hit me up via e-mail with maybe any specific questions you have and we can figure something out.
· 11 months ago
· 12 months ago
I only know the situation from what's been written publicly and what's been leaked in articles, but I was honestly a bit disappointed, as a fan, over both the stance and how it was all handled. Still am a fan, albeit a slightly more confused one.
· about 1 year ago
· about 1 year ago
One thing I can say is that I, as a coder who "can design", feel it's a superpower. Talking to designers becomes so much easier and suddenly you can make things completely on your own. I also feel, as a design who "can code" that the same is just as true from that direction. Same goes for doing "customer support" properly. "Marketing", all of it. If you're curious, you can learn the basics of almost anything. If you're humble and dare to put yourself out there, nothing's out of reach. An annoyingly fluffy statement but I believe it.
· about 1 year ago
Learning Elixir and OTP is one of those processes where you start off being confident then your mind is completely blown and you look into the abyss and think "How can anyone get anything done then?" but then, slowly, you regain your sense of the world and can see everything, Elixir and in general, in a new light. I learned through this book and it was a great introduction.
If I was building something where ability to scale was critical or something heavy on WebSockets for example, I would 100% go with Elixir/Phoenix. It's a wonderful language and framework.
· about 1 year ago
I will go solo at some point – but not quite yet. To be brutally honest: I like the money I make at Elastic. The job is nice too, my coworkers are wonderful and Elastic is an amazing company.
· about 1 year ago
Learning to use the ErgoDox actually fixed my typing on regular keyboards. My pinkies for example would never touch any alphanumeric keys before I switched. Now they have many more responsibilities than just holding shift and staying out of the way.
The few times I’ve been away from the Ergo/Moonlander and been exclusively using the built-in keyboard for a week or more because holidays or whatever, there’s a short run-in period of 15-30 mins where the layout feels slightly foreign. It’s not broken, it’s just like the very first time on your skis in a new season. Take two turns and you’re back where you left off.
· about 1 year ago
When I was 12 (1998) my father brought home a pamphlet sized book about making websites with HTML. I wanted to make one because my 10-year-older cousin had showed me his and I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I spent the whole weekend making a website about… nothing? and I had the best time doing it. Found a few friends with the same interest in this weird medium. We'd keep redoing our own websites every month or few weeks even, always trying to one-up or just impress each other. At some point people started paying me money to make their websites. That's 23 years ago now and I just now realized that's still mostly what I do. I just have more friends to show it to these days and the possibilities have expanded immensely.
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