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Not knowing it was about a game, that was one of the strangest headlines ever to read on here.

One of the most hyped use cases of blockchains is event ticketing. We had a close look. It cannot solve most problems it claims to solve. The only thing it might be useful for is d…

It works. Yet I have no idea what I should use it for.

Ok, so I‘ll have to check with the event official. How often do you actually know who that really is? Let‘s say Beyoncé is coming to the arena closest to you. Are you aware of who …

If you sell it to me as an NFT, how do I know it‘s not a fake NFT ticket or even a fake event? All potential solutions to that question have one thing in common: An event has by de…

I like this approach and will have a closer look.

I have seen many trends, frameworks and „best practices“ come an go. The app our company provides is based on very basic tech, with little js, and server-rendered pages. But you kn…

In German language, the word Zugzwang is also often used figuratively to describe a situation in which you are forced to take (unwanted) action due to external circumstances. Examp…

I am in the event ticketing business. It currently feels like a new provider appears every other day as the entry bar is very low. The tricky parts start when you realize how diver…

I run an independent, localized wedding registry platform. Couples pay a one-time activation fee. A friend and I built the site some years ago and never really changed anything. Al…

My first try was "today + 6 weeks". Got "Lexing failed". My second try was "now + 2 hours in new york". Got "Lexing failed". I suppose, I doesn't understand my accent ;)

SomeCache is a real, functioning implementation. Maybe cache is a bad example. It could also be a HTTP client to fetch some data over an api. Let's say the library by default uses …

Actually, in my example, a cache will _always_ be used. It is mandatory to use a cache and therefore, if none is provided, a default cache is used. That's why it put it into the co…

Often when writing a library I feel the need to make things simpler for quick and small projects and provide a way to skip verbose dependency injection for non-optional dependencie…