How to build a copy of Vine using IPFS
In September 2017, my team at TheoremOne embarked on a research project into distributed applications. We set our goal to build a distributed clone of Vine—the GIF sharing app:
In September 2017, my team at TheoremOne embarked on a research project into distributed applications. We set our goal to build a distributed clone of Vine—the GIF sharing app:
Decentralized Apps (a.k.a Dapps) are something we’re very familiar with at TheoremOne. It’s been a strong theme of research for us over the last year and something we’re starting to write more and more about.
Not too long ago I was asked whether it was possible to continuously record a video while switching your camera from front to back on an iPhone. Neither the standard camera app or the standard camera control would allow this behaviour, but I suspected we may be able to do so with a custom solution.
Component-Based-Architecture (CBA) is all the rage these days in the world of front-end development. Popular libraries and frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, and Riot, to name just a few, all use a CBA approach.
With vw
and vh
, you can have font sizes that adjust to the width of your screen. Here’s how to manage them like a champ.
A few days ago I clicked on the thumbs-up icon on a GitHub issue, yet nothing happened. An old, dark feeling rose up again. Depression came and pointed out that I couldn’t go a day without a program malfunctioning. I hate computers. And then suddenly the number on the screen changed! I felt relieved and continued with my day.
Where should you put your server? If it is a web server probably in a public subnet. Wrong!