Event ticket Scalpers Don't Use Bots Anymore. They Rent People.
Peering into red hot events & grey slimy ticket markets
Saksham's DevBlog
Learning and sharing tech and product related information and anecdotes from my journey
Latest articles
On steerable AI
You notice it after a while. You push back on a model's answer — even mildly — and it folds. Apologizes, rewrites, agrees with the new framing. Tell it you wanted formal, then ask for casual; it shift
React Native developer; or, the Modern Procustes
Two choices: stretch the framework or remove the performance bottleneck
Validating a hypothesis - Pt-3
After battling for a long time to simply get firebase auth to work in an expo app, having face issues with signInWithPopup, signInWithRedirect, Async storage, and other such problems, it was decided to simply use Google auth with the authentication A...
Validating a hypothesis - Pt-2
In Pt-1, we talked about my plan to validate a hypothesis in market. The first step was to gather data on AdMob rewarded video to tweak the model if needed. Monday came, and I have not launched anything yet. Need to work on estimation and prioritizin...
Validating a hypothesis - Pt-1
Idea: Play games, to win prizes. This format is an ancient ancient one. Such an idea with a twist popped up in my head, and now I have decided to test out whether it will be accepted in the market or not. Hypothesis: Users play chance based games, an...
SOLVED: No RPC Url available for chainId: 137 when using Web3Modal and WalletConnect
Context: In our application we are using @walletconnect/web3-provider and web3Modal to connect to Polygon. So, according to provider options for walletconnect it will go like following: const providerOptions = { walletconnect: { package: ...
Things to keep in mind for arrays in JS
We know that immutability is an important factor when working in React. The thing with arrays in JS is that, they are reference values. CODE: const arr = [20, 1, 2, 100]; const getSortedArray = (array) => array.sort((a, b) => a - b); console.log("ar...
Is JS a compiled language or not?
JavaScript is an interpreted language, not a compiled language. A program such as C++ or Java needs to be compiled before it is run. The source code is passed through a program called a compiler, which translates it into bytecode that the machine und...
