A recent problem I solved while working on an NFT project was “automatic whitelisting” to wallets that held certain NFTs. And the answer… — A recent problem I solved while working on an NFT project was “automatic whitelisting” to wallets that held certain NFTs. And the answer in a nutshell is Interfaces but here are the nuts and bolts of doing this in your own project: With Web3 To accomplish on your front end website using…

Recently I took a deep dive into the Crypto World. Especially on DeFi and Smart Contracts. So I did what probably every other developer… — Recently I took a deep dive into the Crypto World. Especially on DeFi and Smart Contracts. So I did what probably every other developer has done that started working on the Block Chain. I minted my own NFT. Particularly an ERC-721 Token. …

Recently I have been working on building MySpace From Scratch and sharing my journey here on Medium. At the very beginning of that series… — Recently I have been working on building MySpace From Scratch and sharing my journey here on Medium. At the very beginning of that series I went over setting up the environment for the project. …

In the last part I talked about Authentication. Today we are going to go over some MySpace stuff, and I’d like to start with photo uploads. — In the last part I talked about Authentication. Today we are going to go over some MySpace stuff, and I’d like to start with photo uploads. Photo Uploads The gist of how this is going to work is we are going to have a file input on the front end side, this…

In this post we are going to cover Account Creation and Logging In. — In this post we are going to cover Account Creation and Logging In. Here are the basics: - Someone creates a user by filling out a form that contains their email, name, and password - The user is stored in a User model in Mongo - When logging in the API checks the…

Setting up the environment. — Let’s dive right in. First we need to setup our project folder. I’m going to follow a server / client pattern. So one folder for the project, with two sub folders inside, one for the API, one for the Client. Like so: /myspace /api…

Maybe I’m old, maybe I’m nostalgic. But I woke up one day and had the thought, “I wonder how hard it would be to build myspace from… — Maybe I’m old, maybe I’m nostalgic. But I woke up one day and had the thought, “I wonder how hard it would be to build myspace from scratch?” I’ve been a software developer for over 10 years now and built some fairly complex things. The more I thought about it…

I turn 30 tomorrow and I want to write something. I didn’t know what to say so I just started writing. — I turn 30 tomorrow and I wanted to write something down. I didn’t know what I had to say, but I started writing anyway… this is what I came up with. What I’d like to start with is that you often hear that “time goes by so fast” and one…