Dima Knivets

What is an account in Solana?

When it comes to Solana development, the concept of account has been the trickiest thing for me to understand. The official docs are good but it was challenging to wrap my head around how it all works without reading sources and asking questions in Discord communities. In this article, I& Dec 6, 2021 5 min read ethereum

How to create and deploy a hello world smart contract in Solidity?

After searching the internets, to my surprise, I haven't been able to find an up-to-date Solidity hello world tutorial that would use web3.js and geth to deploy a smart contract. In this article, I'll share the process of creating a simple smart contract, compiling it, Sep 12, 2021 5 min read ethereum

How to spin up a private Ethereum node?

In this guide we'll spin up a private Ethereum node, create two accounts, allocate them with funds and make a transaction transferring some ETH between accounts.

How to use Django with an existing database?

In order to use an existing database in Django, you need to have a model for each table. Creating models for existing tables manually is just too much work. However, there's no need to do that, since Django has a builtin tool to solve this exact problem. Note: Oct 23, 2019 2 min read OpenAPI

How to configure Hot Module Replacement (HMR) with django-webpack-loader?

It is very frustrating to reload your Django website manually each time you make a change to the frontend code. In addition to performing an extra action every time you change something, you also waste a lot of time by waiting until your whole website reloads.