I started to write some notes on this blog a month ago to summarize my thoughts when reading and found it quite helpful overall. I have set up a simple rule for myself to write the notes when I st...

The book mostly consists of details of Din Tai Fung by a reporter without a systematic breakdown, however it provides a glimpse on how it operates and what is its “meme” / “brand image”. The book a...

A short book about martial arts, mostly consists of graphs illustrating the movements, yet there are some text that describes his philosophy which clearly shows his cultural root. The fluidness of...

The book describes the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman’s free-market capitalism as one of the powers that caused economic, political mayhem and tragedy all over the world. The detail and backstories...

Camus’ “The Plague” is a perfect read right after Covid. Absolutely stunned by the resemblance of what happened during Covid and what he described in the book, especially on the development of peop...

The following understanding is based on the Devcon talk, I have not looked into their code yet. ZKBadge is a project that allows one to selectively import reputation from source addresses to tar...

The book is a perfect sketch of adolescent teen’s mind. Reading the words, it feels like you’re inside Holden’s head and hearing his mumbling through the situation, as if you’re experiencing not on...

After the concluding meetings this week, I finally feel that the major dusts of ETHTaipei are settled and it is a good time to review and summarize my learnings for hosting the event. As this is th...

Now that I learned how to add a rpc method method in the ganache-core, I wanted to be able to modify the blockchain data directly. Ganache-core simulates a geth client and also a blockchain, it sim...

Ganache implements all the rpc methods in lib/subproviders/geth_api_double.js. To add a custom rpc method, one can add a function under GethApiDouble like below: GethApiDouble.prototype.helloWorld...