Featured Proof of Concept NFT Minting Dapp is live! Several months ago I authored an end-to-end generative art NFT tutorial that has since been twice published and read by over 75k. Although a proof of concept, overwhelming interest in the project has led me to revisit and finally release the…

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” — Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes In my previous article I touched briefly on the importance of data driven decision making, you can…

In this article, we will discuss several methods for extracting details about NFT collections deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. As with anything there are several ways to go about this, here we will discuss some easy to use online tools and interfaces as well as more advanced code based API…

Incorporating user content into an NFT at mint — Having been some time since I’ve written anything blockchain or NFT related I figured an update was in order. At the time of writing this my first NFT article, Creating Generative Art NFTs with Python and Solidity, has over 80k views; many of which resulted individuals, companies and dev teams…

Author’s note: this piece is not investment advice; it is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only. I’m sure you made the same assumption as me — no modern application would be so disjoint to allow different functionality from UI vs APi, that no major player would restrict functionality by…

Use the power of code and data science to retroactively analyze the soaring stock — Editor’s note: this piece is not investment advice; it is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am sure you are all aware of the recent events with regard to the astronomical rise in GameStop stock prices; no matter where you land on the matter, the reality is that…

Some years ago, as I neared the end of the computer science accreditation I was lucky enough to interview for a BI Analyst position with a leading social media management company based in my home city of Vancouver, Canada — I’m sure you can figure out ‘WHOOO’. The interview was…

As with anything we’ll need a bit of context: I am a graduate of what I have found to be two complementary fields of study, Business Administration and Computer Science. I have nearly 7 years of experience in Software development, the most recent of which I spent as a Quality…