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Holo Kitty
Dani Grant – Dec 11, 2018
My latest project is a holographic cat you can pet. 🐈! Read more
A New Tab For Spaced Repetition
Dani Grant – Dec 5, 2018
Recently I've been using Quizlet to record information I'm trying to learn. Quizlet rocks, but I forget to go back and study the flashcards after I make them. Yesterday I built a chrome extension that surfaces a flashcard from Quizlet [...] Read more
Looking For Syllabus 2.0
Dani Grant – Nov 19, 2018
Becoming a fast expert in a new topic is still a big challenge. There are a lot of open resources available on the web, but finding, qualifying, and navigating them--let alone combining them into a self directed system--is a challenge. In the classroom, the syllabus plays that role. The syllabus is a learning map. There's a big opportunity to reinvent the syllabus for the internet. Read more
The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
Dani Grant and Nick Grossman – Oct 1, 2018
We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infrastructure and are rarely built in an outside vacuum. Read more
Observations About The Crypto Dev Experience
Dani Grant – Aug 22, 2018
It's been really fun learning about the crypto space while building Gravity and Middleman . As I've been working on these projects, I've been keeping a list of observations about what it's like to dev in the crypto space. Here [...] Read more
Announcing Gravity
Dani Grant – Aug 21, 2018
This weekend I built a tool called Gravity . The TLDR is that it's like Gravatar, but for Ethereum. If you want to skip ahead, you can go to gravity.cool and create your own Gravatar. Okay, more on Gravity: Right [...] Read more
Planet Money Buys A CryptoKitty; Takes Them Over An Hour
Dani Grant – Aug 17, 2018
In yesterday's episode of The Indicator , Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia buy their first CryptoKitty. You can listen to the episode here . Just the first step of creating a Coinbase account and buying ETH took [...] Read more
Middleman: In Beta Today
Dani Grant – Aug 6, 2018
Exciting news! Middleman is a hosted wallet API and it goes into beta today. If you want to jump ahead and check it out, go here: middleman.cx . If you want to learn more, read ⬇. Web3 should be really [...] Read more
Lite Mining
Dani Grant – Jul 31, 2018
I’m oddly excited about solutions like CoinHive that make it feasible to mine cryptocurrencies from a browser. I think we are going to see a lot of distributed and light mining solutions crop up and that in a more mature [...] Read more