Negatives of coding with AI
I have been using Claude code for several months now. I am quite impressed by its abilities. Although I have a growing sense that using LLMs for code generat...
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Feedback on my IIT education
My name is Kush Goyal and I graduated from IIT Delhi in 2012 as a Textile Engineer. Currently, I am running my software company called sumtracker.com, which ...
How to check the type of the contract in Solidity - ERC165 explained
Solidity does not have the concept of typeof or isinstance. Given a contract address you cannot find out if this is of a particular contract. But there is ...
An detailed explanation of Ethereum Layer 2 Solution Polygon Matic Network
Matic is a sidechain which uses an adapted version of plasma MVP to secure itself using the Ethereum mainchain. Sidechain and plasma chain are 2 different c...
How to use low level call for contract function calls and payments in Solidity
Solidity has the call function on address data type which can be used to call public and external functions on contracts. It can also be used to transfer eth...
Nested Serializers in Django Rest Framework
Django Rest Framework (DRF) does not handle nested json data out of the box. There is an important reason for that. DRF cannot assume how do you want it to...
Cosmos Network Explained - Cosmos Hub, ATOM tokens, Gravity DEX
Cosmos is a network of interoperable blockchains. Cosmos uses Tendermint BFT which is PoS based consensus algorithm. Tendermint BFT is an open source platf...
Uniswap V3 Explained - Concentrated Liquidity, Impermanent Loss, Slippage
Uniswap protocol is an ETH native smart contract system which enables swapping of pairs of ERC20<>ERC20 and ERC20<>ETH. Uniswap uses automated m...
Bitcoin Inflation Vs Inflation
Crypto influencers and companies use “inflation” incorrectly. “Inflation” has 2 means; the physical meaning and the economic meaning. The physical meanin...
Terra blockchain and dApps explained in detail
UPDATE (30th May 2022): Do not invest a dime in anything which Do Kwon builds. Terra is a PoS blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK. Cosmos SDK uses Tenderm...
Ethereum 2.0 upgrades explained in 5 minutes
Ethereum is facing a scaling issue because of high transaction volume. More than USD 1T were settled on Eth in 2020 and blockchain has reached its peak in te...
SaaS Business Playbook 2020
First decide what is your strength. The two main bottle necks I see in building a saas company are product and distribution. By product I mean what are you...
My investment playbook 2020
Diversify into different markets and investment options Keep 10% of capital in cash When return is high, sell enough to get back the principal When ...
How to define your customers and find them
I have made multiple attempts at starting a successful SAAS business. This time I think I have been able to do it. I am running sumtracker, an inventory and ...
Login api using Django Rest Framework Token Authentication with Google Recaptcha and token expiry
Django Rest Framework (DRF) is an amazing framework to create a REST API. It has token based auth built in to create a login api. I have used the code from D...
Finding product market fit in a SaaS business idea involves cracking 3 things
These are important to make sure you don’t fail. In my experience of trying to build a SaaS company I failed twice on all 3 aspects. I didn’t iterate on the...
Building the future at Ethereum DevCon2
Ethereum devcon2 2016 was held in Shanghai and was organised by the Ethereum foundation. The event spanned 3 days from 19th to 21st September in the Grand ba...