Rust for Ruby Developers
I've written Ruby for most of my career and Rails still pays the bills. But these days a lot of my time goes into SolRengine, and Solana programs a...
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Lamport - From a Solana Workshop to a Neo-Bank Demo on Rails
A few days ago I attended a Solana workshop in Thailand, run by Superteam Thailand and led by Gui Bibeau, Product Engineering Lead at the Solana Fo...
A Frontend for the Dutch Auction - Dropping the Legacy Solana Stack
The piggy bank frontend used the standard Solana web stack: `@solana/web3.js` v1, `@solana/wallet-adapter-react`, and the Anchor TypeScript client....
Shippy - An Autonomous GitHub Agent in 630 Lines of Bash
I wanted an agent that ships code while I sleep. Not a SaaS platform, not a Docker container, not a framework — just a script on a cheap VPS that p...
A Frontend for the Piggy Bank - Interacting with Solana from the Browser
The piggy bank post covered the Anchor program — lock SOL, enforce a time constraint, unlock after expiration. But a program without a frontend is ...
Declining Price Token Sales with Anchor - Building a Dutch Auction on Solana
After building a hello world, a price oracle, and a piggy bank, this exercise introduces the two concepts the piggy bank post promised: PDAs (Progr...
Time-Locked SOL Savings with Anchor - Building a Piggy Bank on Solana
After building a hello world and a price oracle, this exercise brings together several Solana concepts: time-based logic, SOL transfers via CPI, di...
Building a Price Oracle on Solana with Anchor
After building a Hello World program, the next step is managing real state on-chain. A price oracle is a great exercise for this: it needs to creat...
Your First Anchor Program on Solana - Hello World
After spending years building web applications with Rails, I decided to go deeper into Solana development. Not just using wallets and tokens — actu...
A Zero Setup Docker-based Development Environment for Learning Rust with Rustlings
Learning a new programming language often comes with an unexpected challenge: setting up the development environment. Before you can even write you...
Integrate SPL Tokens - Building a Solana Open Source Cross-Platform Wallet App
Now that the Wallet App has implemented the basic operations to: - Create Accounts - Get Balances - Receive SOL - Send SOL - Request an Airdrop I...
My first impressions after one month learning and building with Web3 and Solana
I've been learning and building with Web3 for almost one month and I have to say that it's mind blowing and more having a background working with T...
Derivation Path and Multiple Accounts from same Seed - Building a Solana Open Source Cross-Platform Wallet App
These days I've been reading and learning about how other Wallet Apps generate the accounts. I noticed that there is something called Derivation P...
Building a Solana Wallet Cross-Platform App with Expo, Web3 & React Native
As a developer I've been interested in the Blockchain space for long time and although a few years ago I started to learn Solidity for fun I didn't...