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Does development of the core protocols that power the Ethereum blockchain excite you? Are you interested in getting involved at the most fundemental and technical levels of the Ethereum protocol? I am excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Core Developer...
Should I write about the App Store, again? Or, should we find something more positive to talk about?
Announcing the first preview release of Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.MauiCompat The post Introducing .NET MAUI Compatibility for the Xamarin Community Toolkit appeared first on Xamarin Blog.
Here's everything you need to know about Disney Plus, including its price points, what's available to stream, and more.
Another take on SwiftUI readiness.
Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that βintention without strategy is chaos.β Weβve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical techβbut what, specifically, do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to...
The Road to Altair edition tl;dr Pyrmont upgrade successful, scenario testing underway Prater upgrade scheduled for September 2, 12pm UTC Mainnet to follow...
Dear SaaStr: What are the best marketing techniques for an early-stage SaaS startup? My list of things that almost always work in B2B marketing: Try everything β and Double Down on anything that works. If your price point is very low, this sometimes doesnβt work. But in general, most startups find that, at best, 1β2... Continue Reading
Ethereumβs diverse client ecosystem is at the foundation of all that weβre building together. This includes both execution-layer and consensus-layer clients, both of which are essential parts of Ethereum's post-merge future. Supporting execution-layer (formerly βEth1β) clients remains one of the Ethereum Foundationβs highest priorities. These client teams have supported...
Are you working too hard? I think I am. Should I create some more "blank" days?
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Welcome to London! This is an exciting time for the Ethereum ecosystem, and the pace will only pick up further as we approach Altair and the Merge in the months ahead. The Beacon Chain now has 6.5+ million Ether staked, and 200K+ active validators online across five clients, and...
The real moat in SaaS is brand Almost every market leader has a really, really good competitor or 2 or even 3 That would honestly do the job just as well β Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 5, 2025 A while back we did an extra βDay 0β AMA session at... Continue Reading
Itβs always fun to hear about new grants as theyβre awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, weβll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway - or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by...
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasnβt possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body simply wasnβt built for the task. But on May 6, 1956, Roger Bannister took everyone by surprise. It was a cold, wet day in Oxford, Englandβconditions no one expected to...
Trying to get my thoughts straight on how I feel about the iPad.
Weβve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the...
tl;dr It's time to upgrade for London Merge checklist and draft EIP released Altair devnets launch; clients position themselves for mainnet...
Dear SaaStr: What Percent of My Revenue Should Come from Referrals and Word of Mouth? "Word of mouth is ultimately the only way you can scale in SaaS." pic.twitter.com/UAsIkG4Ixx β Jason SaaStr.Ai Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 18, 2024 Ultimately, most top software companies end up getting 20-50% or so of their new customers from their existing... Continue Reading
Focusing on positivity and balance.
Sharing server resources with other users can lead to performance issues which may drive away customers.
Iβm not sure when I first heard this quote, but itβs something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you canβt imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop...
Community organizers are the glue that holds the Ethereum ecosystem together, and whether they're leading large-scale events, local meetups, hackathons or seminars, we might all be wandering in the dark forest of the analog world without them. But where's the fun in relying on chance encounters with kindred spirits identified...
What would an alternative App Store look like? Shall we look over the fence into next door's backyard?
Do you want to pair program with a copilot?
βAny comment?β is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. Itβs vague and open ended, and it doesnβt provide any indication of what weβre looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request. It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of receiving feedback with a question, but that makes sense if we realize that getting feedback can be thought of as a...
Happy July! Read on for the list of projects funded in Q1 of this year. But first: office hours are in session! Signups are open now through this Sunday (July 4) for teams or individuals to request a one-on-one call with the ESP team during the week of July...
I may be out of things to say, but there's still plenty of links!
The long-anticipated London upgrade is now ready for deployement on the Ethereum testnets! The upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, at block 10499401, which is expected to happen around June 24, 2021. This upgrade follows Berlin, which was activated only a few months ago on the Ethereum mainnet....
A truly amazing feature of Xcode, that I might never useβ¦
Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the most effective soft skills that we have at our disposal to collaboratively get our designs to a better place while growing our own skills and perspectives. Feedback is also one of the most underestimated tools, and often by assuming that weβre already good at it, we settle, forgetting that itβs a skill that can be trained, grown, and...
Did you have a good WWDC? Mine was a bit special!