Doug Shipp on Atomic Spin

JavaScript

Improving Unit Test Efficiency: Leveraging Assert and Expect for Type Safety

While pursuing better testing practices, my team realized the power of assert statements to improve our unit tests.

React Native

React Native Desktop: The Future is React Native?

Microsoft's React Native Desktop allows you to build apps in Javascript for Windows and MacOS with minimal variations.

Developer Tools, JavaScript

Use Fuse.js for Quick and Easy Fuzzy Searching

Recently, while building a feature that allowed users to fuzzy search over a list dynamically, I came across Fuse.js.

Blockchain

Bundling Transactions with Flashbots

It's essential to dig into the subject of how to bundle transactions with Flashbots if you're an active user of Ethereum.

Blockchain

A Peek into the Ethereum Mempool with Flashbots

I’ve been learning the inner workings of the Ethereum Virtual Machine. My journey starts with Flashbots and building my own searcher.

Blockchain

Why I’m Writing Tests in Solidity with Foundry

Foundry feels like overkill for testing most NFT smart contracts. For more complicated systems such as defi protocols, though, Foundry seems ideal.

Extracurricular Activities

A Quick Overview of NFT Token Transfer and Approval

Here's a quick overview of NFT token transfer and approval. Who can approve? When does it occur? Where does it come from? Why is this the way?

Extracurricular Activities

How to Implement an NFT Staking Contract

To implement an NFT staking contract, you'll need a staking token, data structures to track stakes, functions to create and remove stakes, and a reward.

Extracurricular Activities

Journey into Generative Art: Follow the Algorithm

When creating generative art, I find it important to relinquish some control and follow wherever the algorithm takes you.

Extracurricular Activities

Journey into Generative Art: Why I’m Using p5.js and You Should Too

When getting started with generative art, the two most popular libraries are processing and p5. My default choice was p5.js.

Blockchain

NFT Contract Factory with Off-Chain Metadata

Storing NFT metadata on-chain is very expensive and nonsensical in most situations. Here's how to create an NFT contract factory with off-chain metadata.

Development

You Should Be Using a Reentrancy Guard in Your Smart Contracts

A reentrancy guard prevents more than one function from being executed at a time and eliminates the possibility of exploiting a recursive call.

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