Fullstack Blockchain Developer at TheLedger.be with a passion for the crypto atmosphere.
Michiel's articles
How to Build Your First Discord Bot with Node.js
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders shows you how to install and set up a new Discord bot, which is made easier thanks to the API offered by the Discord.js package.
How We Can Solve the Cryptocurrency Energy Usage Problem
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders discusses the huge amounts of energy consumed by blockchain projects, and a range a creative solutions to making them more energy-efficient.
How to Build Your First Amazon Alexa Skill
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders explains how to build new custom Alexa skills by using the Alexa Skill Kit, showing how to create a basic "get a fact" Alexa skill.
How to Build Your First Telegram Chatbot with Node.js
By Michiel Mulders,
In this guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know to build your first Telegram chatbot using JavaScript and Node.js.
What Every Dev Company Needs to Know about NoOps Development
By Michiel Mulders,
Automation has formed a new development model known as NoOps. We cover what NoOps is, the benefits of using it, and how to implement it.
Optimize the Performance of a Vue App with Async Components
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders demonstrates how, when building a Vue app with Vue CLI, to make use of both Vue’s async components and webpack’s code-splitting functionality to load in parts of a page after a Vue app’s initial render — keeping initial load time to a minimum and giving your app a snappier feel.
Smart Contract Safety: Best Practices & Design Patterns
By Michiel Mulders,
Developing with a security mindset is extremely important as the cost of failure can be high and change can be difficult. It’s recommended to use secure design patterns like rate limiters, exit strategies or circuit breakers to protect your contract against unexpected events.
Solidity Pitfalls: Random Number Generation for Ethereum
By Michiel Mulders,
This article will guide you through the best practices and pitfalls when using a random number as input for your Ethereum smart contract.
A Beginner Splurge in Node.js
By Camilo Reyes, Michiel Mulders,
Camillo Reyes and Michiel Mulders demonstrate some experiments with Node.js and the command line, using callbacks, I/O operations and a web server.
How to Deploy Node Applications: Heroku vs Now.sh
By Michiel Mulders,
Michiel Mulders compares Heroku and Now.sh, showing how to deploy Node apps to each service and looking at additional features like monitoring and logging.