What happens when you don’t manage your nominations ?! TL/DR — use a nomination pool — METASPAN pool #50 is a good choice! In this graph you can see 2 things: 30/07 — we implement our new selection algorithm — the average daily returns doubled! 17/08 — we did not…

This article will show you what rewards are possible when staking KSM on Kusama. What is Kusama? Kusama is Polkadot’s ‘canary chain’. It’s a fully-fledged blockchain that takes all the new features first. Once considered stable, features are promoted to Polkadot. Kusama tokens have a stable value, and are available on most exchanges. Direct staking …

This is the setup I use to develop vue.js apps with https on localhost. Update your hosts file Generate a Certificate Authority (CA) Generate dev.local certificate and sign Update vue.config.js Test Update hosts file I don’t recommend using localhost for ssl / https. It’s a lot simpler to use a domain like dev.local…

Time is relative… If we had infinite time, would we still pursue… Wealth, power, fame…? With infinite time, [material] wealth becomes irrelevant. Resources can be accumulated over any period — even saving 1p per week — eventually we could [all] achieve financial independence. …

A simple method to read “dark mode” from the browser and use it in Vue. Keep track of dark: true/false in your store/index.js state: { dark: false }, mutations: { SET_DARK(state, dark) { state.dark = dark } }, actions: { setDark({commit}, dark) { commit("SET_DARK", dark) } } In you App.vue…

My goto stack for rapid prototyping is: Vuetify.js for the frontend (Vue2) Sails.js for the API (rest or ws) MariaDB or MongoDB Typically, you might use axios.js for REST connection to backend/api. Here is an example of how to bind sails.io.js into Vuex in order to use websocket connection to…

Build a Smartthing with Wemos D1 Mini + DHT22 temperature/humidity I use Samsung SmartThings (ST) hub for our home automation and it serves my needs just fine. However, my home office at the end of the garden is too far for devices to be controlled from the ST hub. So…

Times they are a-changing… This song title by Bob Dylan (1965) is most certainly true of the last couple of years. Blockchain and crypto — when compared to the adoption of the internet or the mobile phone — is the fastest growing phenomenon in the history of humankind. It took 7.5 …

Port forwarding & proxy config for Blynk Server I’m using blynk server (local) to monitor the state-of-charge of a battery that’s connected to a solar panel. To get the app working from inside the local network and outside when I’m travelling, we need to configure DNS and port forwarding as…