October 2025
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Automate Testing and Deployment with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions provides a powerful way to automate your software development workflows directly within your GitHub repository. By defining custom workflows, you can automate tasks like running tests, building your application, and deploying it to various environments. This article will guide you through setting up a basic Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions. What…
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The Power of Events: Building a Serverless Webhook on Google Cloud
Webhooks are the backbone of modern, event-driven architectures, turning your applications from passive servers into reactive listeners. They allow 3rd party services like GitHub, Stripe, or Slack to push real-time updates directly to your code. The best part? You don’t need a dedicated server to handle this traffic. This is where Google Cloud’s serverless suite…
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DeFi and the Future of Finance Summary
Book Summary DeFi and the Future of Finance by Campbell R. Harvey, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Joey Santoro DeFi and the Future of Finance presents a compelling case that decentralized finance is not a niche experiment but a transformative technological and economic force that could reshape the structure of global financial systems. The core thesis is…
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Everything You Didn’t Want To Know About Docker and Kubernetes
Docker and Kubernetes are two of the most important tools in modern software development. At A Glance… What is Docker? The Shipping Container for Your Code Imagine you’re shipping a valuable item. You wouldn’t just put a stamp on it; you’d place it in a box with padding and everything it needs to arrive safely.…
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Privacy Preserving Auth on Stellar | BLS Ring Signatures in Soroban
In this tutorial I’ll be walking you through how I built a zkLogin system on stellar using BLS ring signatures in a Soroban smart contract. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/32xCKGrf3MI | Subscribe BLS & Ring Signatures Stellar smart contracts have native BLS12_381 functions (env.crypto().bls12_381()) which enable us to verify aggregated signatures on-chain. BLS…
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Claude Code vs Cursor
While both tools aim to enhance developer productivity, they approach the task from fundamentally different angles. Claude Code operates as an agentic coding tool primarily within the terminal, focusing on a conversational, command line driven workflow. Cursor is an AI native code editor, a fork of VS Code, that deeply integrates AI features into a…
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How To Create A SEP-41 Token Airdrop Using A Merkle Tree
In this tutorial we will be creating a SEP-41 token and distributing it to a curated list of recipients using a merkle tree. James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/TqNp831aOBI | Subscribe We will start by collecting a list of addresses who are currently using Stellar’s SDEX, then we will form these into a merkle…
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AI Superpowers Summary | Kai-Fu Lee
Book Summary AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World In AI Superpowers, Kai Fu Lee presents a compelling narrative about the global race for artificial intelligence dominance, arguing that the balance of technological power is rapidly shifting from Silicon Valley to China. The book asserts that while the United States pioneered foundational AI…
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6 Prompt Patterns Every Developer Should Know
AI models have become powerful coding partners but how much value you get depends on how you prompt. Writing better prompts isn’t just about phrasing; it’s about thinking in reusable patterns that map to how the model interprets instructions. Here are six prompt patterns every developer should know, complete with examples, when to use them,…
