Using newer compiler versions and the optimizer gives gas optimizations and additional safety checks for free!
The advantages of versions 0.8.* over <0.8.0 are:
0.8.0 (can be more gas efficient than some
library based safemath).0.8.2, leads to cheaper runtime gas.
Especially relevant when the contract has small functions. For
Recently, Let's Encrypt launched free wildcard certificates. While this is good news in and of itself, as it removes one of the last remaining reasons for expensive commercial certificates, I've unfortunately seen a lot of people dangerously misunderstand what wildcard certificates are for.
Therefore, in this brief post I'll explain why you probably shouldn't use a wildcard certificate, as it will put your security at risk.
It's generally pretty poorly understood (and documented!) how TLS ("SSL") works, so let's go through a brief explanation of the parts that are important here.
The general (simplified) idea behind how real-world TLS deployments work, is that you:
Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.
Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000