Writings

It was about two years ago, in 2017, that I got to know IPFS through David Dias. This is not the first time I talk about IPFS here, in my website, but here’s a brief description of what it is: IPFS stands for InterPlanetary File System and it is a peer-to-peer, content-addressed and decentralized protocol.

As many of you probably know, xkcd is a web comic created in 2005 by Randall Munroe. Its tagline is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. You can read more about the web comic itself on their website.

Recently I’ve been wanting to try out more things in my life. Perhaps not recently, I always have this urge to try out this “new” things that I haven’t done before and that they seem to be… I don’t know… interesting to me.

I’ve been wanting to write about my journey at Protocol Labs for a while already. Well, for a big while but unfortunately I haven’t had the time nor the disposition to write: the last post I wrote was in June 2017. This is something I want to change.

Go is a relatively new player in the world of programming, having been around since 2009. It was created by Google and many open-source contributors.

On 18th June 2015 I went to Lisbon to attend the Landing Festival — a tech jobs event organised by Landing.jobs. I was 15. And now you ask: what was a 15-year-old boy doing in a job fair? So, I was there as a journalist for Pplware. Though that’s not the piece of information that matters, I have to thank a lot to them because they were my ground floor.

Nowadays, we are used to hear about bits and bytes and sometimes, in the advertising, we see that the Internet speed is about 100 Mbps. Is that 100 megabytes per second? No, it isn’t. There are some differences between bits and bytes. Let’s see.

When we were creating our theme and setting up our WordPress installation, we noticed that every single static asset had a query string in the end of the URL like ?ver=3.5 and we didn’t want that because we were using Cloudflare and we were having problems updating the cache. So, we decided to remove that from our URLs. But how?

In our beginning articles, we mentioned that there are some types of variables and constants and that is what we are going to talk today. This is part of our Fundamentals of Programming Using C series.