Hi Dev.to Community !
As a weekly habit I decided to post an update on what I actually did recently and there are actually some changes to be announced.
But before the main part, I would like to wish you all happy easter out there, hope you do not grind and touch grass in this time and you're afk, same as here me and other fellow dinos !
_Btw. There should be easter, not eastern. It's because of german word Ostern, I have primarily mismatched the words. And even after request to corrrect the text, it remained the same. 😅
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I wish you that you charge your batteries and after easter, you'll be rested out and ready for challenges and difficulties. I know that it's easier said then done, but belief dies at last.
Introduction
This week I have been doing a lot of research for an article I write on privacy-tools and privacy in general. What I mean by tools is actually a set of a lot of digital-world/IT world elements like OS, VPNs, Marketplaces, almost everything, that I use and I prepare a list of tools, I recommend.
I decided that for reliable tech-journalism, I also have to test out one of the other most popular phone OS, that cares about privacy, besides the one I'm using, so it will take time to write.
How is PokeStake doing ?
As you could see there have been couple of changes committed, most of them were mostly minor, but I actually fixed one important bug that was inside my code. Namely it was about real-time updates on frontend, it was working fine, until some time and afterwards the page crashed i.e. both players were not able to utilize their turn.
Luckily I reminded myself on useEffectEvent-hook, which basically enables you to prevent useEffect from unnecessary calls, due to it's dependency. Here's a video I recommend to see if someone does not like reading docs 😂
Now after the change the battle is working greatly, the only things now to be implemented are handling reconnections, fixing frontend bugs, handling proper display of the winner state and looser state e.g. If user leaves when the battle started already, timeout of turn. Next up there are plans to implement the rewarding-system with implementation of ZKProofs by means of Noir language, so that the contract instead of getting the data of the battle and based on it verify and grant user the reward, user could pass a hash of the battle-data and verify soundness onchain, so that the minimal anonymity is reached (that are for now just plans, but I look forward to do it).
Not everything went as planed...
It might sound, that it's almost nothing however it's good to bear in mind that I have an allergy, which occurs in the time of end of March - April and I actually got the symptoms and literally I used 2 toilet-paper rolls (not to jerk off, perverts) to blow my nose basically. It feels tough to focus and code, but somehow I manage it. So may future bring better health condition soon.
Aside from coding
I participated recently also in Hashlock online networking-event, where I got acquainted with 2 cool devy mates, whom I reckon I can
learn a lot from.
For context, Hashlock is a comapany that offers to web3 projects the security-audits, while they also host events either online or offline around the world.
Shout out to Fletcher Roberts, who invited me on the meeting ❤️
What are the impending changes ?!
Now everyone might wonder, what are the changes about that I want to announce and and label them as BIG. Before I start, I have say that I really enjoy reading and writing technical articles, coz in such way I learn from others experience, what actually can decrease the occurance of the same situation in my case.
However, weekly updates are for me kind of tough to be handled I realised. I could just ChAd-jIpiDi everything given my description, but it would take the entire joy from the process of writing. Because you have to know, that every line, every word, letter, embedding, video, has been done by me personally. And writing it is really time consuming.
Thus I decided, to temporarily cease postage of the series "From Zero To Crypto Hero", and I will hopefully come back to it later, and restart it as I finally start with actual cryptography and blockchain development/architecture.
Another big change, that I wanted to announce is that I'd rather post less, but more valuable content, I guess bi-weekly or monthly posts would be manageable with what I want perform. I currently work on an extensive article that covers a lot about digital privacy-extending tools to use, and it's gonna be really long and reliable, but I need time to do it, and recently I fell like frog hopping from a lilly-pad onto another one and another one. Something like that:
So the announcement sounds, that this month it's likely not to be any posts because weekly updates turned out to be for me a bit of burden and too short period of time to do a significant change to my devy process for now and also the I will have a lot of private matters to be resolved this month.
Summary
Temporary cease of posting for a month and change of content and series of "From Zero To Crypto Hero". Switch from weekly updates, to bi-weekly or monthly mode. Less frequent posts, but more value in posts, more to infer and learn.
That's all from my side for today, wish you all the best and take care !
Cheerio, Luftie :D
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