Kirk Haines

@wyhaines

Developer Relations and Software Engineering; Polyglot. Rust, Crystal, Ruby, Typescript, React, DevOps, lots of other stuff.

Wyoming, US -- Santarem, PortuJoined December 2022

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KHKirk Haineswyhaines.ioJul 5, 2024 · 9 min read

Building GnoSocial: A Decentralized Microblogging Platform on Gno.land

Introduction Gno.land is an open source smart contract system, built using Gno, an interpreted, fully deterministic language based on and extremely similar to Go. It empowers developers to build sophisticated smart contracts using the simple and fami...

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KHKirk Haineswyhaines.ioJun 12, 2024 · 10 min read

Simple, Internet-Addressable, Distributed Storage

The Background History Most good stories start at the beginning, and so does this one. However, if you're eager to dive into the code, feel free to scroll down to the Let's Build It section. For everyone else, here's the tale leading up to the code. ...

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KHKirk Haineswyhaines.ioAug 30, 2023 · 10 min read

Unlocking the Future: Embracing Zero-Knowledge Technology

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, one concept has emerged as a game-changer: Zero Knowledge Technology. This cutting-edge cryptographic approach has been making waves in recent times, and its relevance has never been more pronounced than ...

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KHKirk Haineswyhaines.ioJun 4, 2023 · 11 min read

Stretching the Language with Macros; Implementing a `for` Loop In Crystal

This article was originally published a couple of years ago on New Relic's now-defunct Relicans site. I am reprinting it here as I was the original author. What Are Crystal's Looping Structures? The Crystal language offers three different language-l...

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KHKirk Haineswyhaines.ioJan 30, 2023 · 7 min read

Base58 - What Is it? Why Use It?

As programmers, we are familiar with using numbers in different bases. We know about the binary, or base 2 system, that underlies our hardware. We are also usually aware of hexadecimal, or base 16, numbers because they are ubiquitous in many areas of...

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Building GnoSocial: A Decentralized Microblogging Platform on Gno.land

Simple, Internet-Addressable, Distributed Storage

Unlocking the Future: Embracing Zero-Knowledge Technology

Stretching the Language with Macros; Implementing a `for` Loop In Crystal

Base58 - What Is it? Why Use It?

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Kirk Haines's blogs

Recently published

Building GnoSocial: A Decentralized Microblogging Platform on Gno.land

Simple, Internet-Addressable, Distributed Storage

Unlocking the Future: Embracing Zero-Knowledge Technology

Stretching the Language with Macros; Implementing a `for` Loop In Crystal

Base58 - What Is it? Why Use It?