Basically when you are building a simple page that displays a list of items that contain a few filters you might want to maintain them while navigating, for example while browser through the pages of results. Nowadays many of this kind of pages are rendered client-side using libraries such as vue and react, so this […]
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In today’s post I will introduce a few open-source tools, that can help you improve the security of any of your python projects and detect possible vulnerabilities early on. These tools are quite well known in the python community and used together will provide you with great feedback about common issues and pitfalls. Safety and […]
With “Blockchain” technologies gaining a certain momentum in the last few years, we have witnessed a spread of different implementations with many variations in several aspects, even tough they are built over the same principals. This field is not easy to get started with and after taking the time to learn one approach, lets say […]
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Creating a NEP5 Token on NEO network
In this post I will try to introduce a way of creating a digital token, that doesn’t rely on the Ethereum network, neither on their ERC20 standard. Other than Ethereum there are several other blockchain implementations that ofter the possibility of running smart-contracts and therefore allowing the creation of new digital tokens. The option that […]
Following my previous posts about RSS and its importance for an open web, this week I will try to show how can we add syndication to our websites and other apps built with Django. This post will be divided in two parts. The first one covers the basics: Build an RSS feed based on a […]
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Upgrade your “neo-python” wallets
Several weeks ago I started to explore the NEO ecosystem, for those who are not aware NEO is a blockchain project that just like Ethereum pretends to create the tools and the platform to execute smart-contracts and create new types of decentralized applications. It has its pros and cons just like any other system, but […]
This post follows a recent discussion about decentralization at the first Madeira Tech Meetup of 2018. I already touched these subjects previously here on the blog a couple of times (for example, the one about Zeronet and the one about Mastodon), but this time I will try to summarize the key points of the issue […]
Crypto currencies have been at all rage in the last few months, with the price of Bitcoin and other Altcoins skyrocketing and achieving new all time heights. This is very interesting and since there is the idea that the technology supporting all of these coins is revolutionary, some saying it can be used to solve […]
Raspberry Pi was one of those projects that were “godsent” (just like Arduido). A cheap and very small computer that would let the little ones and also older folks learn, explore, prototype and build lots of things that previously would be inaccessible to many. So in this post I want to give you some tips […]
I’ve been looking into this area, of how to handle and manage a large quantity of secrets and users, for quite a while (old post), because when an organization or infrastructure grow, the number of “secrets” required for authentication and authorization increase as well. Is at this stage that bad practices (that are no more […]