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Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open source Unix operating system (386BSD) it continues the legacy that the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) began in 1978 until its final release […]
Artificial intelligence technology is evolving fast but already changing how people work. It’s having an impact across dozens of industries, including, of course, media. The tech affects the news industry from two directions: the inside — how AI tools are used to make the news — and the outside: how news products get used by […]
As companies integrate AI, there are two perspectives to consider: the employee and the customer. Each group has different risks associated with it, especially in industries that handle sensitive information. But through experimentation and education, companies can get their employees comfortable with it to better develop tools, said Mike Urban, chief technology operations officer at […]
Stage 1. Monitoring the Fundamentals 🏠 The first stage involves either establishing new design foundations or absorbing existing ones. Sometimes, it’s as simple as digesting documentation for CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, etc., other times it requires building everything from the ground up. Naturally, the more complex the development project, the more sophisticated the underlying […]
Job Title Software Development Manager Application Deadline September 23, 2024 Location Worldwide About NN/g Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) is a UX insights organization trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience. We provide evidence-based UX articles, in-depth training, research reports, and consulting. We’re a small, fully remote company (fewer than 40 […]
I won’t however just leave you with a table up for interpretation, as I think all of those traits are worth a paragraph or two of clarification. Impact driven as opposed to being creative or technology driven. In over a decade, I have met more passionate engineers about technologies, coding paradigms and abstractions than those […]
Prezi has quite a sophisticated engineering culture where solutions are built that do the job. Some solutions that have been built in the past stood out and aged well. In other areas, some solutions have lost traction compared to industry standards. In the second half of 2023, we modernized one of those areas that was […]
For the most part, I think that software engineers, developers, programmers, coders — call ’em whatever you like — all tend to share an important trait — curiosity. Yes, even the jaded cynics with a decades-long career behind them. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but when it comes to those of us who write […]
Or, how scripting revolutionized my workflow Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash Imagine a time when factories were full of life, with gears turning and machines working together. It was a big change, like what’s happening today with computers. In the world of creating and managing software, we’re moving from doing things by hand to […]
Emotional Architecture in Software Design 14 min read · Nov 10, 2023 Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash Imagine sitting down at your desk to untangle a particularly complex piece of software code. Your eyes scan lines packed with logical operations and function calls. Somewhere in this intricate weave, a bug lurks, derailing the application’s […]