Bruno Skvorc
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Croatia
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Past articles by Bruno:
Web3: A New Web for a New World
Trusting people is an issue as old as humankind. Learn how Web3 technology is offering a level of trust previously unknown in human history. → Read More
Building an Ethereum DApp: Launching the StoryDao —
In this eighth and final tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno focuses on deploying the project to the live internet. → Read More
Building Ethereum DApps: Voting with Custom Tokens —
In this sixth tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno takes the DAO to its final form, adding voting, blacklisting/unblacklisting, and dividend distribution and withdrawal, while throwing in some additional helper functions for good measure. → Read More
Ethereum DApps: Cross-contract Communication & Token Selling —
In this fifth tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno shows how to add the ability for participants to buy tokens from the DAO and to add submissions into the story. → Read More
Building Ethereum DApps: Whitelisting & Testing a Story DAO —
In this fourth tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno takes the first steps towards developing a Story DAO, covering whitelisting and testing. → Read More
Ethereum DApps: Compiling, Deploying, Testing TNS tokens —
In this third tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno looks at how to compile, deploy, test and verify a TNS token, which is compatible with all exchanges and can be used as a regular ERC20 token. → Read More
Building DApps with Ethereum: App Rules and Blockchain Setup —
In this first tutorial in his series explaining how to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain, Bruno lays out the app's rules and features and sets up the private blockchain, showing how to build your own custom Ethereum token with or without an accompanying DAO and app. → Read More
Improving Performance Perception: On-demand Image Resizing —
Image Resizing: Bruno Škvorc shows how to modify a multi-image gallery blog to serve resized versions of images depending on the size of the viewport. → Read More
PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire —
Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing. → Read More
What Is a CDN and How Does It Work? —
What's a CDN? How do Content Delivery Networks work anyway, and what's so special about them? Which one should you choose? Come find out! → Read More
Ethereum: How Transaction Costs are Calculated —
Bruno Skvorc explains how transaction costs on Ethereum are calculated, covering the concepts of gas, the Ethereum Virtual Machine, ether, GWei, gas limit and gas price. → Read More
How the Lightning Network Helps Blockchains Scale —
Bitcoin is currently impractical to use because of slow and expensive transactions plaguing its blockchain. Bruno Skvorc explains the concept of the Lightning Network, which was introduced as a solution to this scalability issue. → Read More
What is a Bitcoin Node? Mining versus Validation —
Bruno Skvorc explains the concept of nodes in Bitcoin, exploring the difference between mining and validation. → Read More
Introduction to Ethereum: A Cryptocurrency with a Difference —
Bruno Skvorc introduces Ethereum, a special blockchain with a special token called Ether, showing how it's different from bitcoin, and what makes it stand out in the world of cryptocurrency. → Read More
Storing Cryptocurrency: How Hardware Wallets Work —
Bruno Skvorc explains how hardware wallets work in a technical (but hopefully human-readable) way, detailing how they do what they do and how they can be this flexible and yet this secure. → Read More
Blockchain: What It Is, How It Works, Why It’s So Popular —
Bruno Skvorc explains what “the blockchain” actually is, how it works, why it’s popular, and why so many people claim it’ll revolutionize the world. → Read More
How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration —
Here's a compendium of practical MySQL optimization tricks - from bottlenecks to configuration and indexes. Leave your ORM behind and get your hands dirty! → Read More
Git and Wordpress: How to Auto-Update Posts with Pull Requests —
How compatible are git and wordpress? Let's see how easy it is to make WordPress posts auto-update based on PR submissions on the Github repository! → Read More
Symfony Flex: Paving the Path to a Faster, Better Symfony —
Symfony Flex is a new package manager exclusively for Symfony 3.3 and above, sporting a new directory structure and smoother workflow. Come see! → Read More
Are Bitwise Operators Still Relevant in Modern PHP? —
Heard of bitwise operators? Let's explore their practical application in storing and checking for user permissions, and whether this makes sense! → Read More