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Issue 455
Some details of WWDC, but you'll have to keep guessing on most things for now!
Published on: May 08, 2020 | Source:
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Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update, Q1 2020
The Ecosystem Support Program is an arm of the Ethereum Foundation dedicated to providing financial and non-financial support to projects working to help Ethereum grow and thrive. We recently published an update detailing how the Ecosystem Support Program spent 2019, and how we allocated financial support throughout the year....
Published on: May 07, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 11
We've all been pretty busy with all the things! I'll try to keep these posts rolling out, but in the meantime, be sure to checkout Ben Edgington's What's New in Eth2 to get your fix. Tune into Ethereal Virtual Summit this Thursday and Friday! It's full of excellent eth2...
Published on: May 06, 2020 | Source:Development Update #3 - Ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Published on: May 05, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: A Primer for the Witness Specification
Since a lot of us have a bit more time on our hands, I thought now might be a good opportunity to proceed with something perhaps a little bit boring and tedious, but nevertheless quite fundamental to the Stateless Ethereum effort: understanding the formal Witness Specification. Like the captain...
Published on: May 04, 2020 | Source:Issue 454
Is there a middle ground between full a full, widget laden springboard, and what we have in iOS 13?
Published on: May 01, 2020 | Source:Issue 453
How is Swift on the server doing? Find out with some analysis of the iOS Developer Community survey.
Published on: April 24, 2020 | Source:Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that Iβve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess thatβs yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Published on: April 19, 2020 | Source:Issue 452
Will WWDC re-invent online conferences? Probably not, but the community might!
Published on: April 17, 2020 | Source:Issue 451
Will Apple experiment with pricing models on the App Store? Probably not, but we can live in hope!
Published on: April 10, 2020 | Source:Issue 450
Is the new Apple/Amazon agreement good for other developers, or is it just a one off?
Published on: April 03, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Updated Stateless Tech Tree
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Published on: April 02, 2020 | Source:Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update
As we embark on a new decade(!), the Ecosystem Support Program team wanted to speak to some of the recent growth, transition and learning around the program, and share details of our 2019 financial allocations....
Published on: April 01, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 10
Have some fun announcements for y'all this week :) Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week! tl;dr Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete Phase 0 Pre-Launch Bounty Program Unification of eth1+eth2 communications in the Eth R&D...
Published on: March 31, 2020 | Source:Introducing the Devcon Archive (and an event update)
Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that weβve been working...
Published on: March 30, 2020 | Source:Issue 449
How is the situation the world is facing right now affecting the App Store?
Published on: March 27, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means...
Published on: March 27, 2020 | Source:Issue 448
Was anyone expecting an entirely new way for a mouse/trackpad cursor to interact with UI this week?
Published on: March 20, 2020 | Source:Development Update #2 - Ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Published on: March 20, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 9
Strange times. I hope you are all well and continue to take care of yourselves, your families, and your communities. We're a bit overdue on a quick update. My apologies. I'll keep them coming at a regular clip after this one. Eth2 is looking good -- Phase 0 is...
Published on: March 17, 2020 | Source:Issue 447
WWDC 2020 is announced, and it's online-only. It'll be fascinating to see how that works in practice...
Published on: March 13, 2020 | Source:Issue 446
Will there be a virtual WWDC this year? Will WWDC be virtual from now on?
Published on: March 06, 2020 | Source:Issue 445
Will you be able to read this newsletter? Who knows! Fingers crossed, and here we goβ¦
Published on: February 28, 2020 | Source:Issue 444
The results of the first ever iOS Developer Community Survey are here! Find out how the broader community feels about Apple platform development.
Published on: February 21, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The State(lessness) of the Union
The next Stateless Ethereum research call is coming up in less than a week! The telegram chat now has hundreds of messages to catch up on, and only a small portion of the topics discussed have made it into the ethresearch forums. This post is just a quick primer...
Published on: February 18, 2020 | Source:Issue 443
The iOS Developer Community Survey results are coming, soonβ¦
Published on: February 14, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #2 - Two ghosts in a trench coat
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review. In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks are and are not a part of the chain....
Published on: February 12, 2020 | Source:Issue 442
Ready for the biggest Xcode beta since last June?
Published on: February 07, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 8
Keep it coming tldr; Audit and formal verification of deposit contract bytecode completed by Runtime Verification The word of the month is "optimization" Ongoing Phase 2 research driven by Quilt and eWASM. Welcome TXRX to the table Whiteblock releases [gossipsub testing results](https://github.com/wh...
Published on: February 04, 2020 | Source:Issue 441
Are you looking for something a bit more⦠firehose'y?
Published on: January 31, 2020 | Source:Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function...
Published on: January 29, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree
I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all ββ at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x...
Published on: January 28, 2020 | Source: