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I was just reading through a diary I wrote about a decade ago when I went travelling. Whilst I remember one or two explicit events, the majority of the content was seemingly completely new to me. For example. I lost my wallet after a drunken night out in Hong Kong.

Recently I had to cancel an Internet connection for a family member. The ISP informed me that once cancelled we would understandably no longer be able to access email or cloud services associated with the account. I wanted to back up the email account on the off chance there was

An overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Why it is great, but not cost effective for many use cases.

In todays blog post I will show you how to create the input data of a complex function call. This example is based on the example contained within the Ethereum Wiki. I am simply going to explain it further to (hopefully) add more clarity. To demonstrate this in a clear

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Namecheap. I have used them for years and years because they offer the best interface for traditional domain name management. They are not perfect, and there are a number of issues with their tooling but sadly no-one else does any

I recently played with Medium, and ended up back using Ghost. I figured I would upgrade Ghost to the latest version, and boy was I surprised. I wrote a post at the end of 2016 about automatically updating your Ghost install. A lot has seemingly happened in a year. I

I have written a number of blog posts about Ethereum, the process of developing EthTools.com, the reasoning behind it, and the features of the product. Take a look: * Ethereum — Security and wallets * EthTools.com — Tools for Ethereum * Ethereum contract deployment and interaction * Verifying an Ethereum signature on the server

I am no Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guru, but I am aware of the basics, namely: * That duplicate content is bad * That spamming or paying for links is bad * That using keywords, and having appropriate title/descriptions is good etc etc. Having written, and run blog on many platforms over

A brief look at how one builds an Ethereum block chain explorer, and why it is necessary for providing useful tooling for the ENS

Whilst extremely simple stuff, I often find myself (at the end of a 12 hour day) with brain fuzz trying to remember the most simple of commands. Given how regularly I utilise these commands I figured that I would document them in one place for easy reference. Hopefully this reference

Today (Monday 8th May), I am able to announce some new functionality for EthTools.com - Accounts, and Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Integration. Double Negative has always been a company created to build high utility web applications on top end domain names. Having been personally invested in the Ethereum platform

Ethereum has an extremely strong Javascript ecosystem. There are fantastic open source projects such as ethereumjs-util which provide out of the box functionality for signing messages with an Ethereum account. One downside to Javascript is that in many areas it poses security issues. One such security risk became apparent as