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Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
Consistent Backends and UX: What are the Barriers to Adoption?
19.3.2020
There are very few scenarios in which an eventually consistent database is preferable over a strongly consistent database. Further, in a multi-region application scenario where scaling is necessary, choosing either an undistributed database or an eventually consistent database is even more...
Human Readability and Privacy: BCH Can Be Sent by Email With Tips Tool, No Usernames Required
3.3.2020
Tips.Bitcoin.com allows users of crypto to tip BCH to friends and family via email address, arguably cutting out some of the inconvenience associated with standard bitcoin address formats. Unlike Coinbase Wallet’s new username option, which achieves similar ease for transactions, sending keys...
Data-driven Jamstack with Sourcebit
28.2.2020
Think of building sites with Gatsby as an hourglass shape.
Gatsby itself is right in the middle. The wide funnel at the top represents the fact that Gatsby can take in data from all sorts of sources. The data could be in markdown files, from a headless CMS or some other API, from a hosted database...
Craig Wright Doubles Down on Satoshi Claim, Says Bitcoin Core Infringes His ‘Database Rights’
17.2.2020
The Australian entrepreneur who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin has suggested he might take legal action over claimed infringement of his intellectual property
Craig Wright’s $100B Theft Claim – BTC and BCH Used His Database Without Permission
15.2.2020
The infamous Craig Wright, the Australian native who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has published a blog post that explains he owns “the full rights to the Bitcoin registry” and developers do not have the right to change the protocol’s underlying database. Wright’s recent...
SFTP & Database Access on WordPress.com
11.2.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Wait what?
That's right, direct access to the files and data storage that power your site on WordPress.com, just like you have if you self-host a WordPress site. You can read their announcement here. Note this is for Business and eCommerce plans only.
All you have to...
Component-Level CMSs
23.1.2020
When a component lives in an environment where the data queries populating it live nearby, there is a pretty direct line between the visual component and the database where that exact content lives. That is opening up doors to site editing experiences that travel that line. We're starting to...
Adding Dynamic And Async Functionality To JAMstack Sites
2.1.2020
Jason Lengstorf:
Here’s an incomplete list of things that I’ve repeatedly heard people claim the JAMstack can’t handle that it definitely can:
Load data asynchronously
Handle processing files, such as manipulating images
Read from and write to a database
Handle user authentication and protect...
“Headless Mode”
2.12.2019
A couple of months ago, we invited Marc Anton Dahmen to show off his database-less content management system (CMS) Automad. His post is an interesting inside look at templating engines, including how they work, how CMSs use them, and how they impact the way we write things, such as loops.
Well...
JAMstack CMSs Have Finally Grown Up!
15.11.2019
This article is based on Brian's presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download.
In my experience, developers generally find the benefits of the JAMstack easy to comprehend. Sites are faster because the resources are static and served...
Bitcoin’s Smallest Unit ‘Satoshi’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary
15.10.2019
Oxford University Press published its recent quarterly report which revealed the term ‘satoshi’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) database. The word represents the “smallest monetary unit in the Bitcoin digital payment system,” according to the definition....
Amazon Web Services Announces Cryptography-Using Quantum Ledger Database
11.9.2019
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announces quantum ledger database to assure customers data remains immutable
San Francisco Non-profit Firm Unveils Blockchain-based Credit Database in Sierra Leone
22.8.2019
A technology non-profit firm based in San Francisco, called Kiva, has unveiled a credit database that is based on the blockchain technology in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The platform has been officially launched yesterday in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown with thorough involvement and compliance...
Amazon Is Looking for an Engineer to Put Advertising Data on a Blockchain
7.8.2019
Amazon is looking to hire a software engineer to integrate parts of its advertising business with a blockchain
Cryptopia’s Liquidator Regains Access to Customer Database
3.7.2019
Source: iStock/art-sonik
Grant Thornton, the liquidator of New-Zealand based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, said it has recovered the customer holding database and is working to reconcile this with Cryptopia-controlled cryptoasset wallets.
As reported in May, the liquidator applied for urgent...
Build a Low Latency, Globally Distributed Python App using Macrometa's Geo-Distributed Database Cloud.
20.6.2019
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily build a distributed database backend that spans across North America (Los Angeles & Ashburn VA), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia (M
Austrian Steel Alukönigstahl Develops Blockchain-Based Steel Trading Database
14.6.2019
Alukönigstahl CEO Stefan Grüll is working on the business model for a blockchain-based steel trading database dubbed “STEEL but SMART”
Steve Case Backs $4.7M Seed Round for Blockchain Database Startup Fluree
5.6.2019
This North Carolina-based startup is extending blockchain fundamentals to data sharing
Tech Startup Fluree Raises Nearly $5 Million in Seed Round for Blockchain Database
3.6.2019
Tech startup Fluree has secured almost $5 million from investors for a blockchain-based database system