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Sanctioned Russian Bank Tests In-app Operations With Digital Rubles
3.9.2022
A Russian bank, one of the country’s largest by assets, has conducted a successful trial with digital ruble transactions processed through its mobile app. The state-owned Promsvyazbank was one the institutions placed under Western sanctions earlier this year in connection with...
Bank of Russia Accelerates Schedule for Digital Ruble Project
26.6.2022
The Central Bank of Russia continues to step up efforts to test and issue the digital ruble, with a roadmap for the full implementation of the new form of the national fiat now expected by the end of 2023. Trials with real transactions and users are scheduled to begin next April, earlier than...
Dragon Age QA Workers Votes Unanimously To Form Labor Union
6.6.2022
This morning, quality assurance testers on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf unanimously voted to form Canada’s first video game labor union. They filed the motion on April 20, and the election concluded 16-0 in favor of unionizing. This came after the devs mounted an organized campaign focused on bad pay...
Bank of Russia Steps Up Efforts to Issue Digital Ruble Due to Sanctions
29.5.2022
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has accelerated the development of its digital ruble in response to Western sanctions. The monetary authority now intends to pilot transactions with the new version of the national fiat in early 2023 instead of 2024, as originally planned. CBR to Launch...
Bank of Russia to Pilot Digital Ruble Settlements in 2023
25.4.2022
Russia’s monetary authority intends to conduct the first settlements with the digital ruble next year, its governor announced this week. Speaking to Russian lawmakers, the official highlighted the important role the new currency is going to play for Russia under sanctions. Russia to Trial...
Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators
22.4.2022
Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, …
Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
Digital Ruble ‘Much Needed,’ Russia’s Central Bank Says, Won’t Delay Testing
19.4.2022
The Central Bank of Russia has emphasized the importance of moving forward with its digital ruble project. According to a statement by a top representative, the monetary authority has no intention to delay the trials despite not all invited banks being ready to participate yet. Bank of Russia...
Bank of Russia Reports First Successful Digital Ruble Transfers Between Users
16.2.2022
Testing of the digital ruble has started in Russia with the country’s central bank announcing the first complete transactions between individual wallets. The monetary authority, a staunch opponent of cryptocurrencies, says its digital currency will create new opportunities for citizens...
China Designates 15 National Pilot Zones and 164 Entities for Blockchain Projects
3.2.2022
The Chinese government has established 15 pilot zones and 164 entities for blockchain projects. “Projects will be carried out in various fields such as manufacturing, energy, government and tax services, law, education, health, trade and finance, and cross border finance.” China...
Covid Testing Is Such A Debacle Even Wario64 Is Trying To Help
6.1.2022
Welcome to the winter of our discontent. Over 500,000 new cases of covid-19 a day. More than 1,000 new deaths. Testing sites are backed up for days and the more convenient but less reliable at-home antigen kits have become all but impossible to get a hold of. Now even the patron saint of helping...
SWIFT Aims to Test Tokenization in 2022, Clearstream, Northern Trust, SETL to Participate
24.12.2021
SWIFT, the Belgian-based cooperative that serves as an intermediary and settlement executor of financial transactions between banks worldwide is planning to experiment with asset tokenization in 2022. In a blog post about the subject, SWIFT notes that it will be working with firms like Clearstream...
Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop
7.12.2021
There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret that the average size of a website is huge, and …
Test Your Site With Real Users
2.12.2021
A few years ago, there was this French book publisher. They specialize in technical books and published an author who wrote a book about CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery. The final version, however, a glaring typo on the cover where “HTML5” …
Eth2 devs put out call to community to help test out the Merge
1.12.2021
As the transition to Eth2 edges closer, Ethereum developers have launched a program for the non-technical users and technical users alike to help test the upcoming Beacon Chain merge
Testing Vue Components With Cypress
27.10.2021
Cypress is an automated test runner for browser-based applications and pages. I’ve used it for years to write end-to-end tests for web projects, and was happy to see recently that individual component testing had come to Cypress. I work on …
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Writing Your Own Code Rules
8.10.2021
There comes a time on a project when it’s worth investing in tooling to protect the codebase. I’m not sure how to articulate when, but it’s somewhere after the project has proven to be something long-term and rough edges …
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Quickly Testing CSS Fallbacks
4.10.2021
Dumb trick alert!
Not all browsers support all features. Say you want to write a fallback for browsers that doesn’t support CSS Grid. Not very common these days, but it’s just to illustrate a point.
You could write the supporting …
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Central Bank of Turkey Expands Research, Prepares to Test Digital Lira on New Platform
16.9.2021
The Turkish central bank has established a new platform together with technology stakeholders to further the development of a digitalized version of the national fiat currency. The new collaboration will allow Turkey to focus on expanding research and conducting tests of the prospective digital...
Call Of Duty League Crowds Will Have To Be Vaccinated, Wear Masks
12.8.2021
While some events around the world are starting to let big crowds back in, like the NBA and English football, the rising number of Delta variant cases in the US is forcing a rethink of other, indoor shows, like the Call of Duty League.Read more
China Opens Digital Yuan Whitelist for Ten Million Citizens
10.7.2021
The Chinese government is taking its digital yuan test one step further. Now, 10 million users will be able to test and use the currency after applying to join a whitelist in selected state banks. This new phase of the test aims to detect possible problems in a more broad testing environment. China...