Wrote this back near the end of April 2022, around the end of a somewhat chaotic semester. I was reorganizing my Notion and stumbled across it and thought it was an interesting snapshot of my thoughts. There’s this dissonance in the tech industry. Right now there’s a disproportionate abundance of…

Solana meets Rust (without Anchor) — I wrote this in February 2022 sort of last minute to provide additional guidance/resources during Illini Blockchain’s Solana Onboarding. It accompanied the echo project from the Jump Crypto x Solana Labs x Pyth Bootcamp I attended in January 2022. Figured I’d put this out there as a public record. This…

It’s treated as this daunting question, when in reality it’s much more innocent. It’s daunting because we live in a society where until early adulthood we have been placed on an assembly line path doing what people tell us. …

Preface: this is merely a snapshot of my thoughts at the moment. Most if not all of this is subject to change as the space pans out. I’m a huge fan of crypto and think it’s really cool from an engineering and ideological perspective. Take the following with a grain…

At the beginning of this year I set out to become a crypto content creator. That was my resolution: to give a serious go at content creation — something that’s been on my mind for years now. It’s honestly funny if you see my YouTube and Substack there’s just one…

Originally published on Mirror on October 26th, 2021. The following is an attempt at consolidating my understanding of smart contracts, and expressing it in a way that is beneficial not only for those familiar with the space, but also someone with little to no background in blockchain. What is a contract? A set of…

I’ve been reading the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari recently, and although I’m less than halfway through it has taught me so much. This is not a comprehensive view of my notes from the book, but a highlight and a connection that I’ve realized from my time reading. Probably…

I made a simple site for developers to easily get their own refresh and access tokens for Spotify’s API. Check it out here (updated October 2022). Motive Behind This Spotify API Authorization Wrapper I was adding this page to my personal website that calls the Spotify API to show a brief listening history for my account.

Life advice from an 18-year-old. — I see a lot of content creators I like making videos about things they wish they knew when they were younger, and I figured I’d flip the structure given that I’m in the opposite position as an 18-year-old right now. So for my older self, these are some things I…