For the past few months, I’ve been hacking away on Hacker Noon 2.0. In that time, I’ve encountered a wide array of technical challenges, gotchas, tricks, and treats. Today, I’d like to share some of that with you, our community. Let’s start with some of our architecture: we started by…

#DevStories at Github HQ:What I Learned in Preparing for My First Dev Talk — How a CDN Saved Our Hosting Bill Last month, I gave my first dev talk! It was the first time I had spoken in front of a crowd since I was 11, so naturally, I was extremely nervous. Here, I’d like to share some tips for devs giving a talk for the first time, from someone who just went through it: Look people in the eye! If this is too nerve-racking, try looking towards the back of the audience. You won’t have to make direct eye contact, but it’ll look like you are. Engage with the audience!

Cryptocurrency: What is and What Could Have Been Despite what the popular media may report, cryptocurrency didn’t start with Bitcoin. On the contrary, the concept of anonymous digital cash goes back to the 80s! Not only is anonymous digital cash an ancient idea in tech years, but its original conception was far different from what we accept today as cryptocurrency. A quick note: I’ll refer to anonymous digital cash as “bitcash” from here on, to avoid repetition.

I’ve collected a treasure trove of git tricks over the years, the vast majority coming from raw necessity (and a few that were just technically neat). …