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After waaay too much time under development, we're proud to finally announce version 1.8.0 of the Go Ethereum client: Iceberg! The release fixes a lot of pain points felt by the community and ships a few notable new features, tallying up to ~170 modifications! **Please note, this release introduces...
A look at CloudKit's internals and a better messaging interface
What does getting featured mean for your numbers in the newly designed iOS 11 App Store?
It is with sadness that we announcethat Ming Chan, who has served as Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation for nearly three years, is leaving the Foundation. Since her arrival in 2015, she has played a critical role in the development and success of the Foundation. We will miss the...
Dear Ethereum community (and wonderful Etherheads!), Today, January 31, 2018, is my last day as Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. Iβm pleased to have been able to guide the Foundation as ED with my fellow directors, team leads, and outstanding group of team members, each of whom...
The debut of the Swift Forums and a better way to manage files
Which of these is bigger, developer payouts from the App Store, or the revenue of McDonald's in 2016?
Vulnerabilities affecting Apple devices, another newsletter coming to an end, and a new section for beginners!
Happy new year, here's wishing you all a happy and successful 2018!
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in...
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000
I didnβt choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed,the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was thisunambiguously great-for-everyone career field
Happy holidays everyone! Would you like a cross platform development environment for iOS and macOS as your gift this year?
Due to a Chromium vulnerability affecting all released versions of the Mist Browser Beta v0.9.3 and below, we are issuing this alert warning users not to browse untrusted websites with Mist Browser Beta at this time. Users of "Ethereum Wallet" desktop app are not affected. Affected configurations: Mist Browser...
Say goodbye to templated apps, but is that the *real* problem in the App Store?
Was the iOS 11 App Store redesign a success? I think so!
Holiday app submission deadline and autocorrect 'it' to 'I.T' bug workarounds.
To accommodate the biggest post-devcon request, we're happy to announce that Devcon3 videos are now available for viewing! Aspromised, we recorded sessions from both the main hall and breakout hall on all four days of Devcon3. Given we had two halls instead of one this year, and also added...
Happy Thanksgiving! Now where's my HomePod?
Can innovation thrive on a mainstream mobile platform? Maybe!
A note from the ED: A big thanks to our attending dev community, presenters, internal team, sponsors, enthusiasts, volunteers, event team, students and other stakeholdersforcoming together for another phenomenal Devcon3! First of all, yes, video of all sessions, both from the Main Hall and Breakout Hall will be...
Introductory pricing for subscriptions, plus iPhone X marketing resources.
Itβs been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probablythe single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else Iβve done professionally after that.
App design and how to make your screenshots look great on the iPhone X
iPhone X pre-order day! Are we all ready for what the new phone will do for the platform?
There's a plan for Swift 4.1 in progress, plus some great tips on open-sourcing your Swift code
Which countries ban VPNs and where are they illegal? Here's everything you need to know about VPN legality.
Security issues come to light and the right way to add drag and drop.
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork atblock number 4.37mil (4,370,000), which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC onMonday, October 16, 2017. The Ropsten test network underwent a hard fork on September 19th (UTC) at block number 1.7mil (1,700,000). A countdown timer can be...
Metropolis is finally (almost) here! The fork for Byzantium, the first and larger part of Metropolis, succeeded on the testnet over two weeksago, and the likely date for the fork on the mainnet has been set to block 4.37 million, which is expected to be on Oct 17. New features...
iOS 11 installation rates are back on track and is the watchOS SDK lagging behind the hardware?
New betas and the secret to making Xcode take up less space
Is your Xcode 9 simulator feeling sloooowwwwww? How about an unofficial fix?
The iPhone X is on the way, here's everything you need to know about developing for it!
The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions forvarious parts of the project....