We Must Not Build The Camps
An open letter to Democratic leadership in California
Kai's Blog
Welcome to my blog! I’m very important, which you can tell because I have a website. Here are some of my latest posts:
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Grief
I’m afraid
The Swimsuit Situation
A story of being trans in sports
Motoko Server Path Parameters
Introducing path parameters for Motoko Server
My German Passport
The last steps of German naturalization - getting my passport and my reflections on the experience
A German Citizenship Update
A small update on my journey to German Citizenship
Students Occupy the University of San Francisco
On Monday, April 29th, students set up tents on the university lawn and are calling for the University of San Francisco to divest from its relationship with the state of Israel
React Native for IC Apps
Build a React Native app for the Internet Computer using Expo and Internet Identity
Using Motoko Variants
Motoko variants are a powerful way to represent mixed data in a type-safe way.
Make your Canister Pullable
How to enable dfx pull for your canister and thrill your users with a seamless development experience
How to use DFX Pull
How to use pull-enabled canisters in your own project
Access Controls Tutorial
Produced for Motoko Bootcamp, this guide shows a minimal example of how to add authentication to your frontend and manage updates in a Motoko canister
Level up your canister with a Http Cache
Http requests are queries by default, but you may need to upgrade to an update in some cases. This example shows how to cache those results so your users can reap the performance benefits!
Motoko Cheat Sheet
Quick References for Basic Motoko Syntax
German Citizenship
Chronicling my efforts to obtain German Citizenship
Paula Littauer's Refugee Story
Paula, my great aunt once removed, had her story as a refugee from Berlin documented in her diary. Here is an article she published in the NYTimes, about her story.
Testing Your Canister With Vitest
An intro into end-to-end testing Internet Computer canisters in JavaScript/TypeScript using Vitest
Using JavaScript with the Internet Computer
Getting started with IC Development - Hhw the JavaScript Agent works, my recommended workflows, and how to get set up with various tools and environments
Outline: Frontend Architecture and Authentication
Outline for a talk I have presented at ASPLOS 2022 and adapted for Motoko Bootcamp 2022
Unit Testing in Motoko
Some early lessons learned from unit testing a Motoko canister
Page View Tracking
Anonymous and open page view tracking for kaipeacock.com
Working with Candid
How to interact with a canister using just a candid declaration using dfx or the didc tool directly
Dfx 0.7.7 Changes
Explaining the changes coming to frontend development in dfx 0.7.7
Deploying Your First Canister (NNS dapp)
How to take ICP utility tokens and get your first Internet Computer Canister up and running (<5 minutes)
Static Site Generators on the IC
Interested in running a website on a decentralized cloud platform? Follow along as I start from a fresh project and adapt it for the Internet Computer
Reimagining Frontend Development on the IC
It’s been a few months since I started at Dfinity, and I have an exciting feature to share with you
Frontend Development on the Internet Computer
Curious about how frontend code works on the Internet Computer? Here’s what I’ve learned after two weeks on the job
Sennheiser PXC 550 Battery Replacement
Guide on how to replace the battery on an ageing pair of headphones
JFK and Great Highway Timelapse
Filming what it was like on a sunny day on the SF West side
JFK Drive
Some thoughts on San Francisco closing JFK Drive during coronavirus
Power Strip
Guide for how I built my DIY Power Strip that I can automate and control using Google Home with a Raspberry Pi