Toyblocks: Playing with Block(chain)s – Part 1

I read the original bitcoin whitepaper today, and I wanted to play around with some of the ideas in it. So, here is a toy project in Ruby to do just that. I’m not going to go into the mathematical stuff about hash functions - I’ll just handwave all that and assume it’s being taken care of. …

A Simple ES6 (ES2015) Javascript Project

UPDATED 2017/02/04: There is now a webpack versionof this post. In this post, I’m going to walk through creating a very simple Javascript project. The project itself is not going to do anything much, but the point (as always, with javascript) is to figure out how to get the build and test pipelines set up correctly. …