Joshua Alexander, Paladin

Published in BanklessDAO

·Oct 29, 2021

MakerDAO Welcomes Liquid Staked ETH (stETH) to the Ethereum DeFi Ecosystem

One of the most powerful features in the Ethereum ecosystem doesn’t get a whole lot of attention, and that’s Liquid Staked ETH (stETH). When you stake ETH towards ETH2, which we’ll discuss later below, that ETH is locked for the long term, meaning you cannot put it into circulation. By…

Banklessdao

8 min read

MakerDAO Welcomes Liquid Staked ETH (stETH) to the Ethereum DeFi Ecosystem

Jun 26, 2021

On the Power of Community

This starts off pretty rough, but the story gets better thanks to the awareness and faith of a tribe. It’s 2017. I’m in the process of developing the idea for what will become my personal fitness brand, strvtmvmnt. I don’t remember what day it was; only that it was a…

Banklessdao

5 min read

May 22, 2021

My Thoughts on the Crypto Market “Crash” of May 2021

Disclaimer: I am NOT an economist, nor should anything here be read as investment advice. Do your due diligence. I’m reading “Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and I’m really enjoying much of what he argues about creating a narrative around events that require no narrative. Black Swan events are…

Cryptocurrency

3 min read

My Thoughts on the Crypto Market “Crash” of May 2021

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Dec 1, 2020

022: My Journey to Understand Types in TypeScript, Day 2

GraphQL + TypeScript — I’m totally cherry-picking the content I’m looking up on TypeScript. It’s neat that TypeScript is code analysis for JavaScript. It’s neat that types are layered over JS to help catch errors and bugs. …

Graph QL

1 min read

022: My Journey to Understand Types in TypeScript, Day 2

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 30, 2020

021: Looking into TypeScript to Augment a GraphQL API

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. Yesterday, I concluded that I would be looking into TypeScript to strengthen my approach to GraphQL. …

Graph QL

2 min read

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 28, 2020

020: Building GraphQL Clients Over Existing APIs

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. GraphQL I’m at the point where I want to begin building out a GraphQL client. I thought I might be able to leverage existing GraphQL…

Graph QL

3 min read

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 28, 2020

019: Just a Boring Update

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. GraphQL Not much to go over regarding GraphQL but a few articles I read to understand the different ways GraphQL can be applied. GraphQL content: …

Graph QL

1 min read

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 25, 2020

018: Introspection and GraphQL APIs

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. GraphQL I jumped back into the edX GraphQL training and finished it. In theory, it all sounds very simple. There are some areas that are…

Graph QL

2 min read

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 24, 2020

017: Playing Catch Up

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. I took the weekend off from GraphQL to focus on a course on penetration testing. That’s a completely different monster than API development, for…

Graph QL

2 min read

Published in {nonsensecodes}

·Nov 18, 2020

016: GraphQL Contributor Days

This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here. GraphQL ThisDotMedia (twitter), in partnership with Hasura (twitter), put on a virtual GraphQL meetup where GraphQL community develops gathered in a public forum to discuss…

Graph QL

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