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How to Detect the Default Branch in a git Repository

28.9.2020
Over the past few years, many engineering teams have switched their default git branch name from master to a different, potentially less offensive term. I’m all for choosing to name your default branch whatever you’d like, but not having a universal default branch name can complicate...

Never Build a CSV Importer Again

20.8.2020
(This is a sponsored post.) CSV import as a process is broken. Messy customer data, edge cases, encoding formats, error messages, non-technical users: importing data into applications is a huge pain! Ingesting data has been long neglected as a software product experience, leading to customer...

Coinbase Snags Lyft Engineering Executive Manish Gupta

10.8.2020
Gupta will help Coinbase 'through the next phase of company growth.'

Building Custom Data Importers: What Engineers Need to Know

6.8.2020
Importing data is a common pain-point for engineering teams. Whether its importing CRM data, inventory SKUs, or customer details, importing data into various applications and building a solution for this is a frustrating experience nearly every engineer can relate to. Data import, as a critical...

Social Engineering: A Plague on Crypto and Twitter, Unlikely to Stop

5.8.2020
The SIM swapping community entered the spotlight after helping the Twitter hacker breach the social media platform, but these threat actors have been going after the crypto community for years

Twitter Hack: ‘Social Engineering Attack’ on Employee Admin Panels

16.7.2020
Hackers were able to get away with posting fake Bitcoin giveaways on various Twitter accounts thanks to high level internal admin access

Twitter Says ‘Coordinated Social Engineering’ Attack Caused Bitcoin Scam

16.7.2020
Twitter says "a coordinated social engineering attack" against an employee caused Wednesday's massive takeover

How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written

18.4.2020
Interesting research from Dan Luu: … it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it’s not uncommon for my blog to get an order of magnitude more traffic. I think this is...

Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?

12.3.2020
Article Series Why should you care? What can go wrong? What are the barriers to adoption? (Coming soon) How do new algorithms help? (Coming soon) In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of a series where we explain how...

Maybe Blockchain Engineering Is Not a Golden Ticket after All

12.2.2020
Are international companies slowing down their once-relentless spate of blockchain hires? A recent report from jobsearch website Hired suggests that new augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) engineering jobs are coming up faster than blockchain engineering posts. The firm claims...

Getting Fancy with position: sticky;

7.2.2020
Mike Solomon worked on a fancy scrollytelling post for Esquire and blogged about it. It has GIFs of each step along the way of figuring out not just position: sticky; but also using negative margins, wrapper divs, backgrounds, and even a smidge of JavaScript measuring to get it all right. What...

Zcash Community Votes to Distribute 20% of Mining Rewards to Infrastructure Development

31.1.2020
The Electric Coin Company, a group that supports the development of Zcash (ZEC), announced the community has voted to distribute 20% of the ZEC network’s mining rewards to infrastructure and marketing development. The ZEC development funding proposal was initiated because the coin’s...

Why Quantum Computing’s Threat to Crypto May Be Further out Than Previously Thought

22.12.2019
According to one researcher, quantum computing faces more hurdles than many realize when it comes to achieving viability in breaking encryption. In a recent report Dr. Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, notes that there are issues...

Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL

6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL. Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...