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Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
10.3.2021
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe’s approach to building websites:
There are three key web technologies underpinning Kehoe’s approach:
ES6 Modules: JavaScript ES6 can support import modules, which are also supported by browsers.
Module CDNs: JavaScript modules can now
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Parity Technologies to propose parachain governance framework for Polkadot
9.3.2021
The development arm behind Polkadot plans to develop and propose a new parachain governance framework called “Statemint.”
$2 Billion Merger: Bitcoin Miner Cipher Going Public Backed by Fidelity and Morgan Stanley
5.3.2021
Cipher Mining, a bitcoin mining operation of Bitfury, has announced that it is going public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal values the combined company at $2 billion, with funding from investors such as Morgan Stanley and Fidelity. Cipher Mining Technologies...
Polkadot’s Gavin Wood to Give Lecture Series as Part of UC Berkeley Blockchain Curriculum
5.3.2021
University of California, Berkeley and Parity Technologies are joining forces on several blockchain fronts, including educational development and awareness, by leveraging Parity’s expert team and the Substrate framework as knowledge-building resources. UC Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator...
UC Berkeley partners with Parity Technologies to bolster blockchain curriculum
4.3.2021
UC Berkeley, once known for its activism and progressive atmosphere, is now also major player in blockchain education
Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Contradicts Central Bank, Says Cryptocurrencies Must Regulated and Not Prohibited
27.2.2021
In an apparent rebuke of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo says the country’s monetary authorities must consider regulating crypto assets. He adds that instead of “killing the goose that might lay the golden egg”, Nigerian monetary...
[aktualita] Seznam Zprávy: Do Rohlíku vstupují další dva investoři, fondy Quadrille Technologies a Index Ventures
26.2.2021
Do online supermarketu Rohlík.cz podle Seznam Zpráv (SZ) vstupují investiční fondy Quadrille Technologies a Vitavest, která spadá pod Index Ventures. Přidávají se tak k dalším investorům, kteří do firmy vstoupili již dříve. Zakladatel a většinový majitel Rohlíku Tomáš Čupr shání investory kvůli...
Federal Reserve Appoints Pro-Bitcoin Chief Innovation Officer
23.2.2021
A pro-bitcoin head of digital assets from TD Ameritrade has been appointed as the Federal Reserve System’s chief innovation officer. This is “a new role in which she will lead efforts to identify, research, enable and advocate for new technologies,” the Fed explained....
Celsius Network, Argo Blockchain Back Pre-Seed Round for Bitcoin Mining Startup
16.2.2021
Luxor Technologies will use the funds to expand its hashrate and hire more engineers
Blockchain Mortgage Platform Figure Launches SPAC to Raise $250M
12.2.2021
Figure seeks to raise $250 million through the special purpose acquisition company, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday night
Servers: Cool Once Again
22.1.2021
There were jokes coming back from the holiday break that JavaScript decided to go all server-side. I think it was rooted in:
The Basecamp gang releasing Hotwire, which looks like marketing panache around a combination of technologies. “HTML over
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JPMorgan Provides $100M Financing Facility for Blockchain Mortgage Platform Figure
15.1.2021
The facility covers both conforming and jumbo mortgages – loans in excess of the traditional lending restrictions
Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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Futuristicx Hybrid Conclave, Driving Customer Experience Through Technologies
7.1.2021
The Middle East currently is the biggest digital hub with a massive technological transformation taking place. In the past decade, the Middle Eastern market has completely migrated its infrastructure to a digital platform. The current pandemic has enabled a forced acceleration in technological...
MinePlex Creates CrossFi Crypto Bank by Combining Traditional Finances With Blockchain
24.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. The MinePlex platform announces the creation of a new mobile crypto bank for CrossFi industry that aims to combine the traditional financial instruments with blockchain technologies. The mobile crypto bank is supplied with the functionality that allows using cryptocurrencies...
Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel
22.12.2020
This article is for anyone interested in the emerging ecosystem of tools and technologies related to Jamstack and serverless. We’re going to use Fauna’s GraphQL API as a serverless back-end for a Jamstack front-end built with the Redwood framework and deployed with a one-click deploy on Vercel.
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Change vs. Inertia
18.12.2020
Recently, I’ve become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These forces have always been present and opposed to each other, but it seems to me that the side effects of these collisions are impacting...
IMF Cautions Central Banks May Have to Rethink What Constitutes Reserves
18.12.2020
The IMF warns that central banks may have to rethink what constitutes their reserve currency holdings. In a recent study, the global lender points to the changing geopolitical landscape, technological advances and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as events likely to influence the composition...
LPNT’s Strategy For Increasing LPN TOKEN’s Utilization, Circulation, Demand and Supply
17.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Forex trading is the world’s largest decentralized liquidity market. LPN TOKEN is an undisputed leader in this domain of finance. This is possible with the help of Dubai based Next Forex Technologies LLC, the sister company of LPNT. LPN TOKEN actually provides the best forex...
Not Much
14.12.2020
What’s one thing I learned about building websites this year? Not all that much.
This year, unlike most previous years, I didn’t explore a lot of new technologies. For obvious reasons, it’s been a difficult year to be as engaged in the hot new topics and to spend time playing around with...