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Uniswap Labs has introduced a new methodology for evaluating price improvements when using Order Flow Auctions (OFAs) and Automated Market Makers (AMMs). It focuses on factors like liquidity access, gas optimization, and priority fee settings. Uniswap Labs' initial findings suggest that the Uniswap interface, when compared to other major interfaces like 1inch, often provides better pricing for users, especially in larger trades.
Value transfers from the impatient to the patient. Avoid opening positions that represent less than 1% of your portfolio - focus instead on higher-conviction allocations. Keep your lifestyle insulated from the volatile movements of the market with alternative cash flow streams. Remain focused on your individual investment goals, not others', and do not act with extreme fear or greed.
The average ROI of 18 recent airdrops was about 15%, with 5.88% of the token supply allocated to the drop. Jito and Juptier were the most fair with 10% of the supply dedicated to the initial airdrop. Celestia had the best ROI at over 300%, and PARCL had the worst at -60%. EtherFi's post-drop sentiment was the highest in recent history, with many others drawing criticism for their small allocations or tokenomics.
Vitalik Buterin advises on crypto security by suggesting that folks decentralize their security setup. Instead of using a cold wallet, he relies on a multisig Safe wallet for 90% of his crypto assets, with multiple trusted signatories and undisclosed identities to enhance security.
Tether had a record profit of $4.52 billion for Q1 2024, demonstrating how profitable the stablecoin industry can be.
Rabby Wallet is offering free transactions across various chains, including Ethereum, Avalanche, and most popular ETH L2s.
Early Bitcoiner Roger Ver was charged with mail fraud and tax evasion related to his relinquishment of US citizenship in 2014.
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The latest Skittle brand refresh, which tries to appeal to Gen Z, focuses on the brand's quirks. The letter 'k' in the logo now has a distinctive upward flick. The signature upside-down rainbow icon was given a more vibrant makeover, and the iconic lentils have a 'dynamic signature layout', with matching flowing visual effects to boot.
Google I/O 2024 will take place on May 14. The Material Design team will be there to showcase the latest updates and on-demand content. The event's sessions include lessons on designing adaptive apps, creating UI with the Material 3 adaptive library, and using Material for Compose for faster, more expressive designs.
WK Kellogg Co Script is a new typeface based on the signature of founder William Keith Kellogg. The proprietary typeface will be used for the company's corporate messaging, communications, website, and social media assets. It was created as a joint effort between WK Kellogg Co, advisory firm Brunswick, and XYZ and Plau-type foundries. The process of creating the typeface involved its designers looking at old Kellogg's ads and painted signs from the early 20th century.
Every product goes through five stages according to the Product Life Cycle (PLC). As a product matures, system thinking provides the flexibility necessary for a more sustainable existence, which avoids unnecessary rewrites or pivots. Incorporating system thinking into a workflow requires establishing a dedicated and centralized platform, implementing frameworks and patterns, creating a shared UI library, and implementing system processes and checks.
Anthropologist and illustrator Julien Posture explains why creative work has always been seen as opposing productive labor. The problem has been made worse with generative AI models since they require massive amounts of unpaid and uncredited input, whereas the labor that drives their output needs to be noticed. Creatives rarely organize in unions, but this can strengthen their bargaining position and create the standards they want to operate.
A design system should consist of high-quality, vetted solutions, not rushed or low-quality work known as "crap," which undermines its reliability and the trust of its users. To handle inevitable crap, organizations can adopt strategies like establishing a layered UI ecosystem, allowing different paces for product and design system development, and formalizing conversational governance to manage and mitigate the impact thoughtfully.
Lumni is a collection of free stock photos and royalty-free images generated by AI. Photos can be filtered by color, orientation, focal point, luminance, and category.
Visualize your color choices on accurate designs like websites, business cards, illustrations, and more.
Pre-visualize your ad in real-time on various social media platforms so you can try different visuals, captions, calls to action, and titles and see what works best.
Porto Rocha designed PAC NYC's identity to welcome diverse audiences with a bespoke typeface merging 19th-century American Gothic fonts with the building's cubic shape. The color palette, contrasting vibrant tones with a foundational monochrome, offers flexibility to convey seriousness and expression across different contexts.
Business design applies design methodologies to enhance business strategies, with business designers focusing on human-centered innovation and customer needs to improve models, processes, and services, merging business management with design principles to achieve both economic and human-centric outcomes.
When looking at numbers within a font, there are many considerations, such as whether the characters are capital-height or have ascender and descender lines. Additionally, check whether the zero is similar to a capital O. You should also remember that a minivan font can cause the number 1 to appear lonely if tracking is not applied. This article lists the best number of fonts based on tips like these.
Joey Spiotto's new art show "Creators" is now at gallery1988.com.
John Ed De Vera is a designer with diverse skills and interests. He specializes in lettering, paper-cutting, and exploring innovative media.
Agricultural and food-production practices are an ideal place to begin rethinking how we design since they're the ultimate example of people in partnership with their contexts.
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When every design change requires developer intervention, marketing stagnates. You want to bring your digital vision to life quickly and at scale [4], without needing to know the technical ins-and-outs of composable content — and now you can.
Helpful agents have the potential to revolutionize technology without the need for significant hardware upgrades or extensive training data. Altman suggests there will be a departure from traditional hardware-centric approaches and a shift towards seamless integration into daily life through existing devices.
This piece looks at the current shortcomings of traditional AI voice assistants, highlighting their limited understanding and rigid task performance. It compares these limitations to ChatGPT, which offers more fluidity and capabilities in human-computer interaction. Upcoming conferences, including Google's I/O, Microsoft's Build, and Apple's WWDC, are anticipated to make announcements on transformative improvements in AI assistants.
A good CTA incorporates urgency, scarcity, and incentive. One tactic is to frame the CTA as a choice between your solution and the cost of choosing something else. For physical products, give the user permission to buy more than one item.
Crafting campaigns that align with students' academic pursuits, social experiences, and values is key to driving engagement and loyalty. College students are digital natives immersed in tech and social media. They have their own language, slang, and memes. Tactics to reach this segment include investing in branded content placements on college blogs or newsletters (ie. College Cures, Student Minds), offering student bundling for products/services commonly used by them (ie. entertainment subscriptions, tech gadgets), and partnering with student organizations or clubs to drive change on campus and in the community.
LinkedIn is launching thinking-oriented games on the platform as a way for users to exercise their brains during a quick break and also connect with others. The games can be found in the News module on the LinkedIn homepage or the MyNetwork tab. You can see connections who have played that day and engage in some friendly rivalry with leaderboards. 3 games are currently available — Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and Queens — and you can play each game once a day.
Instagram is shifting its algorithm to give smaller accounts more visibility by prioritizing original content over reposts and content aggregators. Changes include a new ranking system favoring smaller creators, replacing reposts with original content in recommendations, and labeling reported content to acknowledge the original creator.
Google Ads introduced 6 new AI features for Performance Max campaigns, 3 of which are in beta. Customer Value mode is meant to help PMax advertisers who use purchase conversion goals to acquire high-value customers. Detailed age and gender demographics are designed to help advertisers understand untapped demographics and craft ads that resonate with specific groups. PMax campaigns can now exclude specific IP addresses (e.g. your company's) in order to reduce wasted budget on unwanted ad interactions. More details on all 6 features are available in the article.
“Adaptability” is the top trending skill of the moment. A skills gap analysis based on open marketing positions shows that companies are prioritizing a blend of left and right-brain skills. They're looking for talent with analytical chops, but also flexible core skills like social media marketing and SEO. The fastest-growing skills in marketing in the past 12 months are web3.js, SaaS sales, Discord, and social media strategy.
Hubspot published a “how to buy bitcoin stock” article, which doesn't relate to its offerings. This article explores why this strategy might actually be deliberate. Every published URL is a chance to acquire backlinks and an opportunity to get your brand in front of thousands of new, otherwise unfamiliar people. This traffic will typically convert at a low rate, but over time it can have a meaningful indirect impact on revenue. Large-scale content creation is marginally cheap so there is little to no opportunity cost for creating more “bad” content.
Googlebot often crawls from a Californian IP. If your website changes its content based on location, Google will index your content in California by default.
Microsoft has officially opened Copilot to all advertisers in the Microsoft Advertising Platform.
This article discusses 5 pricing trends for 40 leading startups like EvenUp and Jasper.
The recent hype around "AI developers" replacing software engineers is a marketing strategy by startups trying to break into a market dominated by Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. AI tools are still far from replacing human developers, but these startups need to make bold claims to get attention. While AI is changing how software is created, fully replacing engineers will either never happen or is a long time away.
The “Saff Squeeze” debugging technique is used to debug failing tests. It involves progressively inlining parts of a failing test until pinpointing the problematic logic. The result is a minimal failing test, which then makes it easy to fix.
The PostgreSQL extension pgvector has sped up over 150x this past year in its index build times. This is due to binary quantization methods, which reduces index sizes. New indexing methods and CPU-specific SIMD acceleration also helped increase query throughput and reduced latency.
Engineers need to develop a whole new set of skills to progress past the senior engineer level. They need to learn to scale themselves, navigate ambiguity, and influence without authority through credibility and personal connections.
To become a better developer in 2024, get better at using AI tools like GitHub Copilot, use shortcuts often, and focus on soft skills. It's best to use AI in a way that makes you more productive, for example, by automating boilerplate code and finding bugs early.
Dokploy is a free self-hostable platform that makes application/database deployment and management easier. It can deploy any type of application (Python, Go, Node.js, etc) along with all major databases. Dokploy comes with real-time monitoring, docker management, and Traefik integration for routing and load balancing.
Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine that searches the web and understands your questions. It uses machine learning algorithms like similarity searching and embeddings to refine results and cite sources.
Prompt engineering has evolved a lot and there are certain strategies to get the most out of LLMs. Basic strategies include zero-shot, few-shot, and instruction prompts, where users give the LLM a task description (zero-shot) and a couple of examples (few-shot). Advanced strategies include step-by-step reasoning with examples (Chain-of-Thought prompting) and self-consistency, which is where multiple reasoning paths are generated and then a majority vote is taken for the answer.
There needs to be a focus on MLOps for organizations to be great at machine learning. This means that ML engineers should engage in data work, feature engineering, model experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Experimentation and evaluation should be encouraged. Successful MLOps teams have high velocity, great validation (early error detection), and good versioning practices.
Terminal.shop is an online coffee shop where you have to use SSH to order coffee.
Sites allowing LLM bots to crawl them face a lose-lose situation as they incur costs in serving bot requests without receiving traffic in return while also subsidizing the training of a competitor's monetized LLM model.
Excessive null/undefined value checking in React components is difficult to deal with as a codebase grows, especially if the codebase is poorly typed.