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Tether froze $225 million in stablecoins tied to a Southeast Asian human trafficking ring, marking the largest-ever stablecoin freeze unrelated to Tether customers.
Pantera Capital has released a report on whether it expects the approval of Bitcoin ETF applications to be a bullish or bearish event.
Bitcoin's distributed ledger technology, likened to medieval tally sticks in this post, embodies trust and verification principles, offering a secure, transparent ledger system for modern financial transactions.
Emu Edit allows users to input text-based instructions to make changes to images like local and global editing, adding or removing backgrounds, color and geometry transformations, object detection, and segmentation. The Emu Video tool, based on diffusion models, provides a simple method for text-to-video generation — it responds to various inputs, including text only, image only, or both.
Tinder is redesigning its profile pages to make them more informative and to facilitate starting conversations. Users will be able to create profiles, take quizzes, add basic information tags, utilize dark mode, and launch profile prompts as conversation starters.
EU regulators have filed a formal antitrust complaint against Adobe regarding its $20 billion acquisition of cloud-based design platform Figma. The European Commission reached a preliminary conclusion on Friday following an in-depth investigation launched on August 7th that the deal would lead to significantly reduced competition in the global market for interactive product design tools, vector editing tools, and raster editing tools.
A study by Auth0 and YouGov found that users around the world want greater choice in login technologies, but less than a third of companies surveyed offered multifactor authentication, only one-fourth offered biometric authentication, and one-fifth offered passwordless authentication. One of the main challenges designers face when designing authentication systems is the range of users and devices, as there’s no one-size-fits-all.
Small design teams focus less on internal patterns and processes and more on looking out and getting involved. As growth happens, new pains and problems arise, shifting people to where the money is instead of where the impact is.
As media creation moves towards using creative machines that can replicate any artistic style, format, or medium, taste is becoming the ultimate skill. Although humans still have an edge on the craft, DALL-E's recent enhanced text rendering capability shows that AI tools are rapidly catching up.
With Shots.so, you can create beautiful mockups in just a few clicks.
A tool to convert JPEG and PNG bitmaps to SVG vectors in full color. Now in Beta and free to use.
Figma plugin Polychrom displays APCA-based contrast and font size recommendations. APC is an algorithm specially optimized to address the needs of visually impaired users, focusing on improving visual readability.
A custom-made logo needs to have 5 basic variations to increase its adaptability. It should have a primary logo variant, a simplified primary logo, just the words, just the icon, and a reversed color variation. A fully adaptable custom logo is a simple and flat image, uses fewer details, has a mindful color palette, works in black and white, can be resized without losing its shape or meaning, and uses appropriate typography.
Users prefer brief and simple interactions on smartwatches, largely because of the tiny screens. NNG’s latest research identified 6 main types of interactions on smartwatches: Receiving and checking information, capturing data, manipulating an ongoing process, connecting with other people via calls or messages, and providing in-the-moment direction during an activity.
This provocative take on space explores why we choose one amount of space over another. The post includes the industry's current practices, how to set up a spacing system, and code examples to kick off further explorations.
Can you recognize a font in a side-by-side comparison?
Scroll-driven shape morph animations with tilt interaction inspired by the effect seen on KPR.
To be successful and fulfilled in business, you must price your design work appropriately. Underpricing yourself leads to underpayment and overworking. Overpricing can result in losing potential clients.
Brand chiefs and marketing leaders are urging X CEO Linda Yaccarino to resign from the Elon Musk-owned social media platform to preserve her reputation. She has shown no inclination to step down despite facing pressure, growing criticism from leading advertising executives, and a temporary ad suspension by major advertisers on the platform.
Threads missed the chance to compete with X during the OpenAI scandal. Journalists were primarily breaking news on X, sharing the latest in the boardroom drama, the threatened employee exodus, the move to perhaps reinstate Altman, and then Microsoft’s Monday morning that Altman and Brockman had joined the company to lead a new AI team.
The CEO of Animalz developed a 3-tier system for leveraging AI content. Tier 1 content is strategic assets with the highest value, which should be created internally with little to no aid from AI tools. Tier 2 is outsourced premium content, which you might use AI to craft the brief or a basic outline for, but you’d want to be as high-touch as possible. Tier 3 is high-volume AI-generated content, which includes lower-priority SEO content and website pages that help with overall domain authority.
This article shares discount code strategies while tracing the historical use of coupons from traditional to online marketing, citing examples such as Coca-Cola's early initiatives. It emphasizes the appeal of discounts to consumers, mentions endorsements from notable personalities like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, and delineates strategies from early bird discounts to referral discounts with diverse company illustrations.
Klaviyo and Qualtrics surveyed over 3,000 consumers to get a pulse on spending trends, the impact of inflation, and potential impacts on shopping during the upcoming holiday season. This report provides insights into current economic perceptions, current vs. future spending, and holiday shopping plans in the U.S.
This playbook provides a comprehensive guide for holiday ad campaigns. It stresses the significance of initiating campaigns in October to tap into heightened web traffic and capitalize on consumers actively seeking deals. It also digs into consumer preferences for online shopping during the festive period, highlighting trends in deal-seeking behavior and advocating for diverse ad strategies covering mobile, CTV/video, and search platforms.
Average revenue per employee (ARR divided by the number of full-time employees) is an indicator of how healthy a growing company is. It’s an efficiency metric that helps companies keep headcount at a reasonable size, relative to revenue. Companies should avoid going below $200,000 ARR per FTE wherever possible.
Average revenue per employee (ARR divided by the number of full-time employees) is an indicator of how healthy a growing company is. It’s an efficiency metric that helps companies keep headcount at a reasonable size, relative to revenue. Companies should avoid going below $200,000 ARR per FTE wherever possible.
Travel loyalty programs have morphed into profit centers, yet some have drifted from their intended purpose. Disillusionment among customers due to post-pandemic changes like devalued points and increased rule changes has led to decreased loyalty, challenging brands to rethink and transform loyalty programs beyond tangible rewards.
Travel loyalty programs have morphed into profit centers, yet some have drifted from their intended purpose. Disillusionment among customers due to post-pandemic changes like devalued points and increased rule changes has led to decreased loyalty, challenging brands to rethink and transform loyalty programs beyond tangible rewards.
This article highlights the significance of time, effort, and collaborative engagement between businesses and SEO professionals. It challenges the oversimplified notion of SEO as a hands-off process, emphasizing the need for strategic planning, cohesive partnerships, and a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted expenses associated with achieving impactful SEO outcomes.
This article highlights the significance of time, effort, and collaborative engagement between businesses and SEO professionals. It challenges the oversimplified notion of SEO as a hands-off process, emphasizing the need for strategic planning, cohesive partnerships, and a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted expenses associated with achieving impactful SEO outcomes.
This article discusses the introduction of native CSS nesting in major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, a feature previously available only in CSS preprocessors (like Sass). It emphasizes the ease and benefits of using CSS nesting, providing various examples to illustrate its utility. Examples include nesting elements without a class or ID, using CSS combinators, and employing the ampersand symbol for more complex nesting scenarios. The article also showcases practical applications of CSS nesting in different contexts, such as styling post content and card components.
Databases store tables and indexes in files, writing to data pages in memory, which are then written to disk. A challenge arises when there's a power loss or crash during writing, leading to corrupted files. To address this, databases use a Write-Ahead Log (WAL). This article describes how the WAL is used as a source of truth to help the database regain its bearings after a crash.
A CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment) pipeline automates various stages of the software development life cycle. It typically includes stages like coding, building, testing, releasing, deploying, monitoring, and planning. This article dives into best practices for an effective CI/CD pipeline, including making small, frequent changes, using feature flags, having rollback strategies, secure deployment strategies, prioritizing security, and fostering collaboration among all teams.
Although clever code feels impressive to write, it’s often unmaintainable and unreasonable to write in production. Code that is easy to understand and readable is arguably harder to write than clever code. This article provides tips and resources, such as an email about coding style from John Carmack, for getting better at writing clear code, along with an anecdote about the difficulties of writing clear code.
Data-driven development (DDD) is where logic is expressed through data structures rather than code. This article describes a typical DDD scenario in Clojure involving maps and rules for decision-making, highlighting how initially simple data-driven solutions can become complex and unwieldy as requirements evolve. The author criticizes the overselling of DDD in the community and advocates for a more balanced approach, suggesting that complex checks are often better implemented directly in Clojure rather than through a data-driven framework.
Make Real is built with tldraw, a React library for creating whiteboards and drawings on an infinite canvas. It allows users to draw a UI mockup and use GPT-4 to turn the image into an HTML file.
River is a robust high-performance job processing system for Go and Postgres. It enqueues jobs transactionally with other database changes, resulting in whole classes of distributed systems problems being avoided. Jobs that are enqueued will be guaranteed only if their corresponding transaction successfully commits. Conversely, if a job’s transaction is rolled back, then that job will be removed. These jobs remain invisible and unavailable for work until the transaction is fully committed.
React Joyride is a tool that lets you create guided tours of your React applications. It uses react-floater for styling and positioning and it gives you the capability to use your own components.
This report was created with the feedback and insights of 26,348 developers from around the world. It covers topics like programming languages, tools, and AI, touching a wide variety of disciplines including web development. For example, Rust is becoming more popular, while Scala is one of the highest-paid languages.
Sam Altman was removed as CEO of OpenAI on Friday, with exact reasons unknown. OpenAI, founded in 2015 as a non-profit by Altman and others, made significant strides in AI research, particularly in deep learning and reinforcement learning. In 2019, OpenAI transitioned to a capped-profit model to combine the aspects of for-profit and non-profit entities, leading to a complex corporate structure. The recent years saw the release of influential AI models like GPT-3 and DALL-E and the successful launch of ChatGPT.
A free course by Google on web performance. It covers key web performance concepts and techniques for improving performance, like code splitting, lazy loading, and optimizing images, videos, and fonts.
CSS nesting, where one style rule can be nested inside another, is now native to CSS.
This article provides thoughts on what bad strategy looks like, AI tools for meetings, and how tech debt impacts companies at different stages. Bad strategies are often fluffy, mistaken as goals, and not focused on specific problems. Tech debt happens at every stage but can be leveraged better the earlier you are and becomes a drift as you scale.
Functional programming is a declarative programming style that uses functions and expressions to create computer programs with the goal of clear code. Principles of Functional Programming is a free course by Carnegie Mellon that was taught to computer science students in the summer of 2023.
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Progress MOVEit [5] places first in the G2 Fall 2023 Report for Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions. The evaluation is based on factors including customer satisfaction, features and functionality, and market presence. The G2 Grid [5] report aggregates reviews and other publicly available information to determine the most prominent MFT vendors on the market.
Sam Altman was fired as CEO of OpenAI late Friday. The company's president and co-founder Greg Brockman and three senior OpenAI researchers resigned following Altman's departure. The situation is fast-moving. This article presents a timeline to make it easier to follow what's happening.
SpaceX flew Starship for the second time on November 18. While both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up mid-air, the test was still a huge success for SpaceX. It appears that the new water deluge system successfully protected the launch infrastructure. The hot staging separation technique was also successful. A video of the test is available in the article.
One of the reasons robots seem to move differently from living creatures is due to their lack of bones and flexible tissues. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and US-based startup Inkbit have figured out how to 3D print a robotic hand with an internal structure composed of human-like bones, ligaments, and tendons. The technique can create robots that outperform hard robots in terms of flexibility and overcome the design and scale-related issues faced by soft robots. A picture of the 3D-printed robot hand is available in the article.