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Call of Duty Studio Vaguely Promises To Do Better A Month After Sexual Harassment Report
21.12.2021
Call of Duty studio Treyarch just issued the latest in a long series of murky apologies from Activision-owned studios regarding the ongoing investigation into company-wide sexism, harassment, discrimination, and bullying. In a tweet issued today, a little over a month after the Wall Street Journal...
Build Great Apps: Designer and Developer Collaboration Just Got Easier
20.12.2021
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We’re going to go over details on how designer ↔️ developer collaboration in AWS Amplify Studio can make app building easier, but let’s cover one of those things right at the top here.
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ShibaSwap Developer Hints at Shiba Inu Layer 2 Scaling Solution Release
20.12.2021
Shiba Inu makes headlines again with Eric M hints at its Layer 2 scaling solution. The ShibaSwap developer briefly discussed the subject in a discord server primarily focused on SHIB. When asked by a user about Shiba Inu’s Layer 2 solution, Eric responded “soon” without presenting a specific time....
Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-burn blockchain consensus
19.12.2021
Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but, meanwhile, widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm
The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2021
16.12.2021
Face it: The past year has been…not great. Over the course of 2021, the global temperature rose at a once again alarming rate, Marvel released not one but two panned films, and we’ve all gotta come to terms with the sobering realization that this covid-19 pandemic might never fully end. A fitting...
Indie Studio Forms First Video Game Union In The Country
15.12.2021
Developers at Vodeo Games, the indie studio behind this year’s excellent turn-based pinball RPG Beast Breaker, revealed over at Polygon today that they’ve unionized. Management at the studio is voluntarily recognizing the newly formed group, called Vodeo Workers Unite, making it the first of...
The Graph awards $48M to GraphQL developer The Guild
15.12.2021
The Guild will join the Web 3.0 network as a core developer in a four-year partnership to facilitate the expansion and development of The Graph's existing 31,000 subgraphs
Game Developer Moonray PBC Raises $3.5 Million, Aims to Bring NFT and Blockchain Gaming to Bitcoin
15.12.2021
On December 14, Moonray PBC, the developer behind the multiplayer action-role-playing game (RPG) Moonray, announced that the project has raised $3.5 million from strategic investors. Moonray is considered the first metaverse and gaming non-fungible token (NFT) exchange built on the Bitcoin network...
Bored Ape Yacht Club Partners With Animoca Brands to Launch BAYC Play-to-Earn Game
14.12.2021
On Monday, the blockchain game developer and investor Animoca Brands announced a partnership with the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) in order to develop a BAYC play-to-earn game leveraging the collection’s popular NFTs. Bored Ape Yacht Club has seen 23,016 sales to date and has a market...
Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Proof-of-stake blockchain consensus
12.12.2021
Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm
Bitcoin Core developer Samuel Dobson decides it is "Time to go"
10.12.2021
Dobson is the second developer to leave Bitcoin Core in the past two months
Learn From Remix
8.12.2021
I’ve built websites that are used by millions of people all over the world. I’ve made more mistakes than I care to count and I’ve had to deal with the repercussions of those mistakes for years thereafter. Through all of …
Inertia
7.12.2021
I’ve always like Jeremy’s categorization of developer tools:
I’ve mentioned two categories of tools for web development. I still don’t know quite what to call these categories. Internal and external? Developer-facing and user-facing?The first category covers things like …
Call Of Duty: Warzone Devs Stage Walkout Over Layoffs
6.12.2021
Quality assurance testers and other developers at Raven Software, the Activision studio in charge of the extremely lucrative free-to-play battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone, are walking out on the job today to protest surprise layoffs that were foisted on staff beginning last Friday. The group...
Inside the blockchain developer’s mind: Blockchain consensus, Part 1
5.12.2021
Gaining a deeper understanding of a popular — but meanwhile widely misunderstood — concept in blockchain technology: the consensus algorithm
The Game Awards Won't Take Sides On Activision Fallout To Focus On Reveals
3.12.2021
As Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards show enters its eighth year, the creator and host told The Washington Post today that he’s still thinking about how to “navigate” Activision Blizzard’s involvement in the ceremony following the latest reports of sexual misconduct at the publisher.Read more
Dock Life: Using Docker for All The Things!
1.12.2021
I think if you’re a DevOps person in any capacity, the utility of Docker is very clear. Your things run in containers that are identical everywhere. Assuming Docker is working/running, the code will execute in a reliably consistent way whether …
Ethereum Developer Calls for the Community to Test the Merge
1.12.2021
An Ethereum (ETH) developer has called onto the community to help test the so-called Merge – Ethereum mainnet "merging" with the beacon chain proof-of-stake (PoS) system – and the new program’s start seems to have been a success.
“Ethereum needs you to test the Merge,” urged the meme accompanying...
Ethereum Layer-two developer StarkWare valued at $2B following $50M raise
17.11.2021
Sequoia Capital led ZK-Rollup protocol StarkWare’s Series C funding round
The Gap (Design Engineering)
17.11.2021
Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey) developer implements the change exactly as requested—but really what was required was both a bug …
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