Technical Articles on Web3 & AI Development
Real-world insights from building blockchain integrations, AI agents, and scalable infrastructure. I write about Web3 development, DeFi platforms, developer productivity, and lessons learned from 10+ years in software engineering. Check out my portfolio to see projects I've built.
Follow my journey building in public across 4 newsletters: technical deep-dives on Web3 and AI, no-code automation with STACKFORMERS, LinkedIn growth strategies, and Cloudflare infrastructure tutorials. Each article shares practical code examples, architecture decisions, and real problems I've solved for consulting clients. Want to work together? Get in touch.
How to Integrate Blockchain Into Your Existing App (Without Starting Over)
Most blockchain integrations fail because teams try to rebuild everything. Here's a practical guide to adding blockchain where it actually matters. From someone who's done it across DeFi protocols worth $20M+.
Freelance Blockchain Developer vs Agency vs Platform: An Honest Comparison
Hiring for a blockchain project? Your real options are a senior freelancer, an agency, or a platform like Upwork or Toptal. Here's the honest trade-off on cost, speed, seniority, and accountability, and which one actually fits your situation.
LLM Integration for Web3 Products: A Practical Guide
Putting an LLM behind your product is easy to prototype and hard to ship. Here's how to integrate one properly: prompt design, rate limiting, fallbacks, structured output, and what changes when the model has to reason about on-chain data.
React + TypeScript Refactoring: A Field Guide
A React codebase doesn't become unmaintainable overnight. It erodes one any and one prop-drilled component at a time. Here's how to refactor a React + TypeScript app incrementally, without a rewrite and without freezing feature work.
What a Blockchain Integration Consultant Actually Does
Blockchain integration consultant sounds vague until you're the one who needs to connect a real product to a chain without breaking it. Here's what the role actually involves, when you need one, and how to tell a good one from an expensive one.
Custom AI Agent Development: What It Takes to Build One That Works
Off-the-shelf chatbots are easy. A custom AI agent that plans, calls tools, and acts reliably is a different engineering problem. Here's the architecture, the guardrails, and an honest take on cost, timeline, and when it's worth building one.
Building a RAG Pipeline: A Practical Tutorial (2026)
RAG makes an LLM answer from your data instead of guessing. This is the full build: ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, re-ranking, and the evaluation step most tutorials skip, with the trade-offs that matter in production.
Connect a React App to Ethereum with wagmi and viem
A complete, current walkthrough: wire a React app to Ethereum with wagmi v2 and viem: wallet connection, reading contract state, sending a transaction, typed ABIs, and the loading and error states that separate a demo from a real dApp.
How to Build AI Agents with Blockchain Integration (2026 Guide)
AI agents that can reason are useful. AI agents that can also read from and write to a blockchain are a different category of tool. This is the practical architecture for building them: wallet management, transaction signing, on-chain reads, and the safety boundaries you need before anything touches real funds.
Web3 Code Refactoring: When to Modernize a Legacy Codebase
Most Web3 codebases don't fail on the blockchain side. They fail because the application layer around the chain is a mess. Here's how to recognize when refactoring is overdue, what to do first, and how to sell the work to a team that's afraid of touching anything.
How Much Does Blockchain Integration Cost? (Real Numbers, Not Estimates)
Most blockchain integration quotes are either fairy tales or padded contracts. Here are the real numbers, broken down by tier, with the variables that actually move the price.
Smart Contract Integration with React and ethers.js: A Practical Guide
A working guide to integrating smart contracts in a React app with ethers.js v6 and TypeScript. Provider/signer/contract setup, real read and write flows, a clean custom hook, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.
Blockchain Consulting for Startups: What to Expect, What to Budget, What to Avoid
Thinking about adding blockchain to your startup? Here's what the process actually looks like, how much it costs, and the mistakes that burn through your runway.
How to Hire a Blockchain Developer (From Someone Who Is One)
Most companies hiring blockchain developers look for the wrong things. Here's what actually matters: the skills, red flags, and questions to ask before you sign anyone.
rocco.me Is Live - Here's What It Actually Does
After years of building for others, I finally built something for myself. A simple site that tells you what I do, how I can help, and how to reach me.
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