A Tour of 3D Worlds, NFTs, and the Future of Music In 2021, the music industry was rocked by a revolution that will forever change how musicians earn a living. On March 11, 2021, an Instagram artist who had never sold a print for more than $100 prior to October…

Right now, the music industry is awakening to the potential of digital property rights to transform how musicians earn a living, and fans are discovering new ways to connect with the music and each other. Asking “What is the metaverse?” is a bit like asking “what is the internet”? In…

This post is part of the Managing Software series. < Previous As an engineer, I served on many teams: some very efficient and functional, some less so. One predictive factor in the health of the development teams was time pressure. Too much time pressure inevitably led to burnout, poor morale…

“Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises For many years, people have been skeptical about AI. So much so that the term “AI” has been derided variously as misleading, vague, or fantasy. I have been disappointed by AI chatbots since I first got interested in natural language…

Apple customers spent $1.8 billion on digital items and services between Christmas and New Year’s leading into 2021. The digital economy is taking over quickly. Blockchains and NFTs will soon be at the center of the transformation. Due to a looming convergence of technologies, this trend is going to accelerate…

Happy New Year! It’s time to review the big trends in JavaScript and technology in 2020 and consider our momentum going into 2021. Our aim is to highlight the learning topics and technologies with the highest potential job ROI. This is not about which ones are best, but which ones…

Why React is the Top UI Framework in the World — React is the world’s most popular JavaScript framework, but it’s not cool because it’s popular. It’s popular because it’s cool. Most React introductions jump right into showing you examples of how to use React, and skip the “why”. That’s cool. If you want to jump in and start playing with…

How 10x Developers Produce 10x Value — Is there a shortcut to becoming a 10x developer? Is there some magical secret that — if you only knew it — would unlock a whole new world of software development mastery and productivity for you? This is where the doubters are thinking “There are no shortcuts! Everybody needs to…

Redux is an amazing tool if you take the time to get to know it. One of the things about Redux that commonly trips people up is that reducers must be pure functions. A pure function is a function which: Given same arguments, always returns the same result, and Has…