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The reasons why I left a comfortable government job for crypto
21.9.2020
What was behind my decision to leave a government position and continue down a path within the crypto and blockchain space
BIS Seeking Blockchain Expert to Lead Digital Currency Research
16.9.2020
BIS is looking for a blockchain engineer to take a lead on its digital currency initiatives, which includes CBDC and digital security research
Another inside job at Shapeshift cost the company nearly $1 million
27.8.2020
An employee allegedly used his credentials at Shapeshift to steal from the company
ShapeShift Accuses Former Employee of Stealing $900K in Bitcoin
27.8.2020
The exchange wants $5,000 in damages from Azamat Mukhiddinov, its now-fired senior engineer
Lazarus is attacking the crypto industry via LinkedIn, warns F-Secure
25.8.2020
Careful! Those job offers you’re seeing on LinkedIn might actually be a crypto attack
Japan’s Top HR Firm Is Working on a Blockchain-Based Recruitment App
13.8.2020
Your next job might hire you using the Blockchain
Chinese Schools Can’t Keep Up With Demand for Blockchain
7.8.2020
The Chinese academic sector is “seriously lagging” in terms of keeping up with demand for blockchain specialists
Blockchain Salaries in China Are Exploding in Value As The Industry Expands
5.8.2020
Chinese recruiting platforms revealed a significant rise in wages paid for blockchain-related job roles in the country
Blockchain Job Salaries on the March in China
5.8.2020
Blockchain technology-related salaries are rising to almost 2.5 times the national average for workers in major cities in China – as demand for developers and specialists skyrockets in the country.
Per Chainnews, “hundreds of companies across the country are hiring blockchain staff, with monthly...
10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS
31.7.2020
Una doing an amazing job of showing just how (dare I say it?) easy CSS layout has gotten. There is plenty to learn, but what you learn makes sense, and once you have, it’s quite empowering.
The demos are all together here.
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Reactive jQuery for Spaghetti-fied Legacy Codebases (or When You Can’t Have Nice Things)
22.7.2020
I can hear you crying out now: “Why on Earth would you want to use jQuery when there are much better tools available? Madness! What sort of maniac are you?” These are reasonable questions, and I’ll answer them with a little bit of context.
In my current job, I am responsible for the care...
The Cashaa Hack: Investigators Stay Silent as Inside Job Rumors Emerge
19.7.2020
As 336 BTC get stolen from crypto-friendly bank Cashaa, there is still no clear explanation for what happened
Netlify Does Cache Invalidation For You
15.7.2020
This is one of my favorite Netlify features. Say you’re working on a site and you change as asset like a CSS, JavaScript, or image file. Ya know, like do our job. On Netlify, you don’t have to think about how that’s going to play out with deployment, browsers, and cache. Netlify...
Three CSS Alternatives to JavaScript Navigation
14.7.2020
Hey quick! You’ve gotta create the navigation for the site and you start working on the mobile behavior. What pattern do you choose? If you’re like most folks, it’s probably the “hamburger” menu that, when clicked, uses a little JavaScript to expand a vertical list of navigation links.
But that’s...
Displaying the Current Step with CSS Counters
8.7.2020
Say you have five buttons. Each button is a step. If you click on the fourth button, you’re on step 4 of 5, and you want to display that.
This kind of counting and displaying could be hard-coded, but that’s no fun. JavaScript could do this job as well. But CSS? Hmmmm. Can it? CSS...
Patternico
20.6.2020
I remember searching for tutorials for making seamless patterns in Photoshop¹ all the time back in the day.
It’s fun to see this little website for building repeating patterns as its one job. It does everything you’d expect: pick a background, drag some decorations onto it and position...
Canada’s Central Bank Is Serious About Designing a CBDC, Job Posting Reveals
16.6.2020
The Bank of Canada is preparing to design its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), detailing its plans in a new job posting
Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health
16.6.2020
As front-end developers, our job is working with browsers. Knowing how many we have and the health of them is always of great interest. As far as numbers go, we have fewer recently than we have in the past. It’s only this month that Edge is starting to auto-update browsers to the Chromium...
What is Developer Experience (DX)?
16.6.2020
Developer Experience¹ is a term² that has one somewhat obvious meaning — the experience of developers — but it eludes definition in the sense that people invoke it at different times for different reasons referring to different things. For instance, our own Sarah Drasner’s current job title...
Blockchain Can Disrupt Higher Education Today, Global Labor Market Tomorrow
14.6.2020
Blockchain can play its part in the education sector — record-keeping in 2–3 years and then adoption by the labor market?