June 2025
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Crossing The Chasm Summary by Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm presents a seminal roadmap for technology startups seeking to scale beyond early adopters and into mass markets. The central thesis of the book is that there is a dangerous and often underestimated gap, “the chasm“, between early adopters of a new technology and the mainstream market. Startups that fail to…
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Scaffold Stellar | A Boilerplate For Stellar Developers
If a single command could spin up a Stellar contract, connect it to a React front end, hot reload every edit, and hand you push button deployment to Stellar testnet, would you finally ship that web3 idea? Scaffold Stellar from Aha Labs promises exactly that. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/7wKD3d9w5d0 | Subscribe Stellar’s…
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Maths For Developers | 6 Essential Techniques Every Developer Needs
The harsh reality is that most developers are self taught with a surface level understanding of the mathematical foundations that power their code. We learn syntax, frameworks, and design patterns, but we often miss the elegant mathematical principles that make our algorithms efficient and our solutions robust. This gap costs us time, creates bugs, and…
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How I Installed Ollama To Run AI Models Locally
Ever wondered if you could ditch the cloud and run powerful AI models on your own laptop or server? I thought it sounded impossible until I installed Ollama. In just a few hours, I had Llama3.2 up and running locally. I’ll walk you through exactly how I did it, the trade offs I discovered (spoiler:…
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Founders at Work Summary | Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work offers an intimate, behind the scenes chronicle of the early stages of iconic tech startups through in depth interviews with over 30 influential founders, including Steve Wozniak (Apple), Paul Graham (Viaweb/Y Combinator), Caterina Fake (Flickr), and Max Levchin (PayPal). The core thesis is that successful startups are not born from…
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Creating A Wrapped Stablecoin
In this tutorial I will be creating a SEP41 wrapped stablecoin using a Stellar smart contract. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/jfjKg86GEwY | Subscribe I’ll be using the soropg.com online IDE along with the latest libraries from OpenZeppelin. Note that all code in this tutorial is open source on github here: https://github.com/jamesbachini/Soroban-Stablecoin/ Let’s dive…
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Pre Audit Checklist For DeFi/Web3 Projects
Here’s a Pre Audit & Bug Bounty Checklist for DeFi Protocols and Web3 Projects, adapted from best practices and structured for easy use across projects preparing for third party audits or launching a bug bounty program. Use this checklist to prepare your protocol for a formal audit and/or bug bounty launch. Completing these tasks will…
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How The Next Decade Will Reshape Civilization
Twenty two percent. That was the interest rate on a six month commercial paper the morning my brother tried to refinance his mortgage. He walked out of the bank without a cent and with a look in his eyes I had never seen: the dull astonishment of a man who finally understands the rules have…
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System Trading Bot Design Breakdown
In this post I’m going to breakdown the different parts of a system trading bot that I built to execute trend following and mean reversion strategies. There’s a short video here if you prefer a quick walkthrough: https://youtube.com/shorts/3tWl4ETbqTw Building a robust and profitable system trading bot requires careful planning, solid architecture, and a deep understanding…
