Hi, I'm Christoph Michel š
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I mostly do and help small to mid-sized teams from all over the world š on both short and long-term projects on an independent contractor basis.
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Latest Articles
How I gamed EOS Defi projects and still got rekt
Recently, a lot of EOS āDefi yield farming projectsā popped up. I put projects in quotes because the common trait among the ones Iām talking about is that thereās no working product - just a project token. Some examples: dmd.finance (The team behind it released a product now butā¦
Progress Report - September 2020
I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last monthās report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in September I worked 117 productive hours on side projects last month. Thatās awesome and almost twice as muchā¦
How to install an old package version with brew
Sometimes you need to roll back to a previous version of a brew package. If the brew package maintainers do versioning this is as easy as typing . Often times, thereās no versioning system though and the only available version is the latest one. In previous versions you couldā¦
Fixing C++ compilation bugs for the MacOS Catalina upgrade
I recently updated to macOS Catalina and encountered several issues with programs that use a C/C++ compiler. If you see any of these errors this post might be helpful for you: Or any error indicating that a standard library couldnāt be found: Whatās the issue? The issue is thatā¦
Progress Report - August 2020
I post a progress report showing what I did and how my products performed each month. Last monthās report can be seen here. What did I do Hours worked on side-projects in August I worked 78 productive on side projects hours last month. To make these progress reports a bit moreā¦
Progress Report - July 2020
Obfuscating EOSIO smart contracts
Progress Report - June 2020
Progress Report - May 2020
Typing transformations in TypeScript
Progress Report - April 2020
8 EOSIO WASM intrinsics you might not have heard about
EOSIO C++ IntelliSense in VSCode
Implementing efficient Dividend tokens
Testing EOSIO smart contracts with Hydra
Progress Report - March 2020
Progress Report - February 2020
How to check if an EOS account has a smart contract
Launching EOS Token Portfolio
How to deploy a create-react-app with github-actions
Progress Report - January 2020
How to rollback to an older EOSIO.CDT version with brew
Goals 2020
Progress Report - December 2019
De-anonymizing eosblender.com
EOSIO - How to pay for users' CPU
EOSIO Dev Puzzle - What's the max amount of RAM that can possibly be consumed by storing a single uint64
Progress Report - November 2019
Earn on your unused CPU and help the EOS network!
Progress Report - October 2019
Progress Report - September 2019
What really happened during the EOSPlay hack
Progress Report - August 2019
Progress Report - July 2019
How to fetch any secondary EOSIO table index using eosjs
Progress Report - June 2019
Advanced EOSIO programming concepts
Progress Report - May 2019
How EOS code and ABI hashes are computed
Progress Report - April 2019
Blog redesign with Gatsby and TailwindCSS
Progress Report - March 2019
How to create beautiful epub programming ebooks
Progress Report - February 2019
Progress Report - January 2019
How to write pandoc plugins in Nodejs
Goals for 2019
Progress Report - December 2018
Deferred Transactions on EOS
Difference Boolean Constructor and Double Negation
Progress Report - November 2018
Deploying EOS contracts using EOS.js
Progress Report - October 2018 - No more mobile apps š¬
EOS 1.3 Contract Development Toolkit Updates
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Header files
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Multi-Index Container
Progress Report - September 2018
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Iterators & Lambda Expressions
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Templates
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Classes and Structs
Progress Report - August 2018
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Call by value / reference
C++ Guide for EOS Development - Basics
Learnings from building my first dapp on EOS blockchain
Progress Report - July 2018
Introducing King of EOS š„
Bugs in V8's Exponentiation Operator
Progress Report - June 2018
Building a landing page in Vue.js
React just got ugly - React 16.4 Update
Progress Report - May 2018
Async / Await - Return values
React - Fun with keys
Progress Report - April 2018
You might not need React Context
Importing Blender 3D Model with Texture to Three.js
Progress Report - March 2018
Lazy-loading images with React and Semantic UI
Thoughts on making EOS development easier
Progress Report - February 2018
How to access Google Spreadsheets with Node
Differences in Defining ES6 Class Methods
Creating a Remind-Me bot for Steem
Progress Report - January 2018
Splitting your app into micro-processes
Book Review - Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
How does Steem work, anyway?
Goals for 2018
Progress Report - December 2017
How to cross-post to Steem
How to cross-post to Medium
Progress Report - November 2017
Released my fifth React Native app
Trying DynamoDB for the first time
Progress Report - October 2017
Progress Report - September 2017
Headless Chrome in Node.js
Progress Report - August 2017
Progress Report - July 2017
React Native CodePush Cheat Sheet
Progress Report - June 2017
Progress Report - May 2017
Lightweight Progress Circles in React Native
Progress Report - April 2017
Book Summary - Clean Code
Progress Report - March 2017
Getting Song Lyrics in Node.js
Creating Dynamic Promise chains
Progress Report - February 2017
Google Drive in React Native
JavaScript void Keyword
Progress Report - January 2017
How to use D3.js in React
Playing around with Relay and GraphQL
Book Summary - Heard On The Street - Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews
Creating Google AdSense Reports with Express
Progress Report - December 2016
Book Summary - On Writing Well
How is async/await transpiled to ES5
How are generators transpiled to ES5
Released my fourth React Native app
Styling TimePickerAndroid in React Native
Structuring Redux Selectors
How to set appParams in React-Native
Progress Report - November 2016
Book Summary - Team Geek
How to create a React Native Android Library
Ultimate Guide to non-working CSS margins
How to use React in Markdown
How to migrate from Wordpress to Phenomic
Moving from WordPress to a Static Site Generator
Publishing React Native App on Android
What I learned from building my first React Native App
Set React Native App Icon When Minimized
Charts in React Native with React-Native-SVG and D3.js
How to add Permissions in React Native
How to Get The Size of a React Native View Dynamically
Performance Optimizations in Redux' mapStateToProps
How to create a Pull Request on GitHub
Why you should not use mapStateToProps too often
Modifying a Leaf of the Redux State Tree
Styling DatePickerAndroid in React Native
How to create a More-Popup Menu in React-Native
Better JS Logger for Debugging
Limitations of the react-native JS engine
Enumerating a Grid in Spiral Order
Using Actions in Redux the Correct Way
Drawing Fractals with L-Systems in D3.js
Moving Wordpress to a different domain
Javascript ES6 + Babel.js + Grunt with Sublime Text
Howto Raytracer: Ray / Triangle Intersection Theory
Howto Raytracer: Ray / Plane Intersection Theory
Howto Raytracer: Ray / Sphere Intersection Theory
Creating seamless textures the easy way
Understanding front faces - winding order and normals
