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Major HSBC Layoffs: 35,000 Job Cuts and Massive Restructuring Announced
22.2.2020
Banking giant HSBC has unveiled a major restructuring plan that includes 35,000 job cuts. The move came as the bank’s net profit plunged 53% last year. HSBC is also slashing $100 billion in assets and closing many branches. “This represents one of the deepest restructuring...
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20.2.2020
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Solving Sticky Hover States with @media (hover: hover)
18.2.2020
Mezo Istvan does a good job of covering the problem and a solution to it in a blog post on Medium¹.
If you tap on something that has a :hover state but you don't leave the page then, on a mobile device, there is a chance that :hover state "sticks." You'll see this with stuff like jump-links used...
Land Your Dream Job with Vettery (Sponsored)
17.2.2020
Whether you’re an experienced pro or someone new to the industry, finding a great job can be a scary, stressful process. Engineers and designers get inundated with Hacker Rank tests, portfolio requests, and a variety of other queries. Vettery improves the experience for free agents...
US Worried Crypto Could Undermine Dollar as World Reserve Currency, Hiring Researchers to Prepare Response
16.2.2020
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence has admitted that cryptocurrency could undermine the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The head of the U.S. Intelligence Community is seeking researchers to detail the impact of that status loss on the U.S., its economy,...
2020 Stack
13.2.2020
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack" perhaps had its day as a useful term, but since front-end development touches so many parts of the stack now, it's not a particularly useful term....
US Defense Contractor Seeks Cryptocurrency Exploiters
12.2.2020
U.S.-based intelligence services firm BAE Systems, Inc., is looking for so called cryptocurrency exploiters
Blockchain Plays an Unlikely Role in the Global Battle for Human Rights
4.2.2020
Shutting down slavery: See how blockchain technology is joining the fight
Use and Reuse Everything in SVG… Even Animations!
28.1.2020
If you are familiar with SVG and CSS animations and started to work with them often, here are some ideas you might want to keep in mind before jumping into the job. This article will be about learning how to build and optimize your code with <use> element, CSS Variables and...
Flexible Captioned Slanted Images
25.1.2020
The end result of Eric Meyer's tutorial on creating this row of slanted images is pretty classy. But it's more about the journey than the destination (there isn't even really an isolated demo for it). Eric does an amazing job at talking it through like a thought process.
We did that recently, only...
UK Tax Agency to Pay $100K for Blockchain Surveillance Software
21.1.2020
On January 17, the UK tax agency Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published a job opportunity for a private contractor to design a cryptocurrency blockchain analysis tool. According to the listing, the contract is for one year and HMRC will pay the contractor $100,000 for software...
How to Turn a Procreate Drawing into a Web Animation
20.1.2020
I recently started drawing on my iPad using the Procreate app with Apple Pencil. I’m enjoying the flexibility of drawing this way. What usually keeps me from painting at home are basic things, like setup, cleaning brushes, proper ventilation, and other factors not really tied to the painting...
Kraken Hires Former CoinDesk Editor Pete Rizzo for Content Department
15.1.2020
Pete Rizzo, who left CoinDesk in September, has joined Kraken’s content production department
In Defence of “Serverless” —the term
14.1.2020
Ben Ellerby:
For now Serverless, to me at least, manages to do a hard job, defining the borders of a very fluid and complex space of possible solutions in which we can build next-generation architectures. It would help if there was not a framework of the same name, it would help if people didn’t...
Blockchain Will Be Most In-Demand Hard Skill in 2020: LinkedIn
14.1.2020
LinkedIn Learning — an educational subsidiary of the professional social network — projects blockchain to top the list of most-needed hard skills in 2020
How to Animate on the Web With Greensock
13.1.2020
There are truly thousands of ways to animate on the web. We’ve covered a comparison of different animation technologies here before. Today, we’re going to dive into a step-by-step guide of one of my favorite ways to get it done: using GreenSock.
(They don’t pay me or anything, I just really enjoy...
Blockchain Tops the List of Most In-Demand Tech Skills for 2020
13.1.2020
If you are planning to start a new career this year, or just improve your value in the jobs market, the best thing that you can do is acquire some blockchain skills. Companies around the world are looking for people with capabilities in this field and it appears that demand far outpaces the supply....
let vs. const
9.1.2020
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const are replacements to the point we rarely (if ever) need var anymore. This doodle explanation does a pretty good job, if you need...
Facebook’s Calibra Looks for Two Marketing Professionals
8.1.2020
Facebook’s Calibra continues expanding the team of professionals working on the project
Regs Roundup: SEC Actions, Crypto Tax-Free in Korea, India’s National Blockchain Seminar
7.1.2020
In this roundup, we cover several crypto-related actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York regulator’s crypto job posting. We also cover new Chinese laws, South Korea’s tax clarification, India’s blockchain education, the IMF working with...