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Setting up a Full Erigon Ethereum Node

While it is certainly possibly to use tools like Infura and Alchemy to make requests against the blockchain, sometimes you want to have your own Ethereum Archive Node to query. This is the case for The Graph endpoint that we are putting togethr to power the NFTX front end. While we have an enterprise account […]

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Writing

Setting up a Graph Node

In this post we go through the steps required to get a Graph Node up and running using Docker and Hetzner hosting. This is based on the instructions from Stake Squid and their GitHub repository https://github.com/StakeSquid/graphprotocol-testnet-docker. I suggest you start with that tutorial, however I will also cover off any issues I had while following […]

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NFTs Writing

XCOPY saint_less full set

A look at the full set of XCOPY Saint Less pieces.

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Writing

Adding a cache layer to NGINX Reverse Proxy

Start off by logging onto your server using SSH. Create a directory to store the cache files Change the ownership of that folder so that the NGINX user can access it Open the NGINX configuration file You need to set two directives, the proxy_cache_path (which lives in a different configuration file as outlined below) which […]

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NFTs

Avastar NFT Project Sold Out!

One of my favourite NFT projects and also one of my first three ever NFT purchases has just sold out after minting for a year. The collection is made up from five different series, 1—5 with series 5 which has just finished minting. In total there 25,000 Avastars across the series, with each series offering […]

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DevOps

Improve 3rd party API performance

This is a work in progress…. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/bulk-origin-proxy https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/cors-header-proxy Returning basics: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/return-json Suite of functions that can help (too prerolled but bits to copypasta) https://github.com/markusahlstrand/cloudworker-proxy

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NFTs

Fusion – Hideki Tsukamoto

One of my favourite NFTs in my growing collection is the Singularity by Hideki Tasukamoto through the ArtBlocks Curated project. I bought my first Singularity for around 0.49ETH not long after I dipped my toe into the scene, and then a few months later I minted it into the NFTX Singularity Vault and pulled out […]

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Cricket

Oxford 2 vs Thame 2 Division 3

Lost the toss, sent in to bat. Oxford were 3/5 (yes, that’s five wickets for just three runs) after 8 overs but managed to survive 51 overs finishing 77/9. Number 10 made a 69 ball 0*. Runs: 53 Catches: 1 (first slip, first over, slashing cut shot) Thame: 256/8 (49 overs) Oxford: 77/9 (51 overs)

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Writing

What is the best way to display my NFT collection?

Now that you’ve invested in some NFT art you’re likely going to want to view or show off your art. Below is an ongoing list of options you have to showcase you’re art Lazy 3d OnCyber Rare Rooms

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DevOps

Connecting to MongoDb from Heroku after deployment

I have a little node script which checks the holdings of some vaults every day and writes them to a MongoDb cluster. This was an improvement over manually adding the value of each item every day into a Google Sheet because It takes 5 minutes to do everyday, so that’s 35 minutes a week, or […]