2025-04-13
Inside DAI: The Crypto Dollar That Defends Itself with Code
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
DAI Doesn’t Stay at $1 by Accident—Here’s the System That Keeps It There
Explore how DAI maintains its $1 peg through smart contracts, market belief, and simulations—plus key risks affecting stablecoins in volatile DeFi markets.
Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
Heavy boozers beware: a new study has found links between hitting the bottle and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers have found in a new...
Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch
Get your hands on the latest in holographic tech — or if you want to be pedantic about it, volumetric displays. Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly...
Modern Engineering Tools Are Designed to Punish System Thinkers
This article explores how modern tech companies systematically filter out high-agency, systems-level thinkers by design. Through tools like LeetCode, Go, and React, the industry scales control and predictability—at the cost...
Tired of Digging Through Long PDFs? You Can Build a Bot That Can Quickly Answer Questions for You
Tired of digging through long PDFs? This guide walks you through building a basic "Ask My Book" bot using a RAG pipeline — where your questions are answered based on...
Confession: I Used to Think Specs Were Everything. Agile Broke Me (and Made Me Better)
When I started out as a BA, we were taught to treat documentation like gospel. But in an Agile world, usefulness doesn’t come from a polished doc. What they needed...
Make Your Vaadin App Smarter, Prettier, and Faster With These Advanced Styling Hacks
Styling in Vaadin goes beyond simple theme definitions.
Lumo Who? Build Your Own Theme in Vaadin and Rule the UI
While Vaadin offers built-in themes like Lumo, customizing themes is often necessary to align the application’s appearance with branding requirements.
This One Line of Code Can Change Your Entire Vaadin App’s Look
Theming is a fundamental aspect of any Vaadin application, allowing developers to define the look and feel of their UI.
Sunday Rewind: Why you need quantitative AND qualitative data
This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2018 post from Glenn Block and Timo Hilhorst on the differences and respective merits of quantitative and qualitative data and why it’s important for...
Before You Burn Millions on Ads, Try Talking to People
Business development can be used as a blueprint for market validation. Instead of asking, “How can we sell here?’ — we asked, ‘What can we learn here?' The KPIs weren’t...
Your Marketing Team Doesn’t Need Another Meeting—It Needs a Better Data Stack
In fast-scaling tech companies, misalignment between product, sales, and marketing isn’t just inconvenient — it’s expensive. Teams operate on different metrics, tools, and timelines. Disconnected strategies, delayed feedback loops, and...
AI is Changing the DNA of Sales Enablement
Sales enablement was synonymous with static PDFs, battlecards, and quarterly workshops. From hyper-personalized coaching to real-time intelligence, artificial intelligence is moving sales enablement from the realm of support to a...
Bitcoin Promised to Help Tonga After Disaster—But the Blockchain Tells a Murkier Story
What happened to Bitcoin donations sent to Tonga after the January 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption and tsunami?
Keep Your Happy Path Flowing, Not Nesting
Arrange your code so the main logic flows along the left margin, handling edge cases early with guard clauses.
How I switched careers from software engineer to AI policy operations
Published on April 13, 2025 6:37 AM GMTThanks to Linda Linsefors for encouraging me to write my story. Although it might not generalize to anyone else, I hope it will...
The TechBeat: Google A2A - a First Look at Another Agent-agent Protocol (4/13/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom
...and includes a little Cacodemon toy that runs Doom.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not
Downgraded to "playable" over a month later.
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