2020

Focus! Never click around Github or Gitlab again

Developers spend too much time clicking around... and they hate that. This article shows how you can, in less than 5 minutes, save twice that at least, every day!

SRTOOL & Deterministic builds are back to Kusama & Polkadot

Deterministic builds are back, srtool is now usable again in order to build and verifiy Substrate and Polkadot WASM blobs used as runtime.

Registrars updates

Since its first implementation around the end of 2019, the `Registrar #1` (which is now a set of registrars), has evolved a lot. This article looks back on those evolutions as well as at the current stand. I will go through the challenges I ran into and how they have been solved. This includes a few dedicated web services, the use of a BPM engine as well as new functionnalities recently added to Polkadot, Kusama and the Westend chains.

Registrar #1 and offline keys

While using a website such as https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/ or the https://github.com/polkadot-js/extension are convenient, those do not provide the best internet isolation to ensure the maximum security for your keys. This article explains how to use subkey to sign challenges for `Registar #1`.

IPFS and Docker

How can docker help to get an IPFS node up and running? This article shows how easy and simple it can be to host an IPFS node on a remote server.

Docker for Polkadot & Decentralization

Docker is a powerful virtualization tool. While this is not the only virtualization solution available today, it remains one of the simplest to use. Let's see if and how it plays a critical role in decentralized systems.

confmgr

A Config Manager written for Typescript and Javascript

Kusama Identity Registrar #1 - Why and How?

The process used by Registrar #1

SRTOOL now showing Substrate proposal hashes

Substrate WASM Runtime blob builder & verification now with offline Proposal Hash calculation