Context: In the first write up NFTs on Solana: Minting 101, we talked about minting from solana’s command line tool. If we are building a real NFT project, we probably want to mint on demand from a dApp. So let’s see how far we can go using some JS or…

If you have an NFT project that’s dynamically generating a PNG during mint time, you need a way to upload the new image to Arweave. …

Context: When I first heard about Solana, the premise was around a new blockchain hyper-optimized for scalable financial systems, more so than Ethereum. With the increase in gas fees, we have seen a significant rise in Solana, not only within DeFi but increasingly more within the NFT space. The launch…

No doubt sustainability is one of the hottest spaces in Silicon Valley, and unfortunately it will get hotter if we don’t do anything about it. When Kunal Modi and I quit our jobs to build a company, we wanted to work on something that was personally meaningful to both of…

The short answer is that there is no good reason. Someone should build an opinionated, streamlined and remote-work first code review tool that’s better than GitHub’s native code review and doesn’t require two weeks worth of integration time like Phabricator. Let’s explore what really sucks about modern code reviews, why…

The first time I used Zapier to send a new Twillio message to a user that signed up to Socials, without writing a single line of code, my mind was 🤯. …

Startups equal growth —now famous Paul Graham article points to the fact that the only differentiator between an SMB and an actual, venture capital backed company is the startups’ ability to grow exponentially over long periods of time. Once you start looking at startups with the lens of exponential growth…

We have made good progress in simplifying mobile dev 📈, but we are still years behind web. I wanted to cover some themes I uncovered while working on my latest mobile app, mostly centered around iOS social spaces, but some of the themes do translate well to the greater ecosystem. …

I wanted to take you on a quick journey through the past ten years of app development, mostly through the lens of my own personal experiences and highlight the trend of rising devsumer space and the lazy coder! Phase 1: Build em All (2009–2014) The story begins in Westwood, CA, in 2012. I was sitting in…