PinnedHow we designed our Cardano Stake Pool and Cardano DashboardContext and Mission ADA Ocean Australia was built to be the first fully Australian Cardano Stake Pool. At the time we registered our stake pool, all other Australian pools had all their servers, or a majority of their servers in countries other than Australia. Their reasoning was server costs, as Australian…Cardano7 min readCardano7 min read
Nov 11, 2021The SundaeSwap ISO — It’s not a Popularity VoteSundaeSwap is a native, scalable decentralised exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol that’s built on the Cardano network. Once it is released, it will be one of the first Cardano decentralised exchanges and will show the entire community just what Cardano is capable of. While SundaeSwap is close to being…Cardano3 min readCardano3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·May 24, 2020Colliding JavaScript ObjectsHow to merge objects and handling their collisions. Merging Javascript Objects is a frequently discussed topic. Doing a quick search will find you many articles and ways to merge your objects. What most of them don’t talk about is what happens when two or more objects that are being merged…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Published in The Startup·May 5, 2020How to install Jitsi Meet on your QNAP serverZoom has become an extremely popular alternative to Skype for video conferencing and has even been the go to over Microsoft and Googles offerings. Like a lot of services, they come at a price. Literally and figuratively. Jitsi Meet is a completely open source video conferencing service that directly competes…Video Conferencing4 min readVideo Conferencing4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Feb 2, 2020Going BIG with JavaScript: NumbersLike all things, JavaScript has limits. Interestingly there are artificial limits and then there are physical limits. I’m going to be exploring these limits and try and push them as much as possible to their true limits. In JavaScript, a Number is defined by w3schools.com as: Unlike many other programming…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Jan 7, 2020How to Stream Videos with AWSStreaming Introduction If you know how streaming works, jump down to “Using Video On Demand on AWS”. A big mistake that first time developers make is not processing videos correctly for streaming. …AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 1, 2020Fighting Cancer With Your SmartphoneSmartphones are frequently used throughout our day, however they’re rarely used to their full potential. My smartphone when I’m not using it, is using only 10% of it’s CPU. As I’m writing this article, my laptop is using only 5% of its CPU. What if we could use our idle…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Dec 22, 2019Encryption vs HashingFor centuries cryptography has been used to stop unauthorised humans from reading each others communications. From simply swapping out letters, to more advanced machines such as the Enigma machine, which was used heavily during World War II. With the introduction of computers, encryption has been taken to a whole new…Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Dec 22, 2019Understanding Cryptographic HashingCryptographic Hashing is one of the lesser known forms of security and data integrity, and is often mistaken for encryption. Hashing is however a critical element in the ways computers operate and communicate with one another. …Security5 min readSecurity5 min read
Published in The Startup·Dec 19, 2019Compression — “In a nutshell”compression: the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it gets smaller https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/compression We’ve all been there. We’ve tried to squeeze an object into a smaller space with the intention of removing it for use later. …Compression3 min readCompression3 min read