GitHub Quietly Opens Learning Lab to Everyone (and Any Subject) Nate Swanner, August 20, 2019 5 min read Last year, GitHub spun up its Learning Lab to teach developers how its platform worked. Now, the company has gently...
GitHub Token Scanning Adds Dropbox, Discord, Atlassian as Partners Nate Swanner, August 19, 2019 3 min read GitHub’s token-scanning feature, which carefully monitors repositories for nefarious code injection, is adding...
H-1B Visa Most Used for ‘Software Engineer,’ ‘Software Developer’ Roles Nate Swanner, August 19, 2019 3 min read A recent H-1B visa data-dump from the U.S. Department of Labor shows job titles such as “software developer” and...
Weekend Roundup: Planes, Purchases, Poor Judgement, and Just Plain Spyin’ Nate Swanner, August 16, 2019 7 min read It’s the weekend, which means you’re going to procrastinate doing anything until Sunday at 8 PM, then curse...
Self-Taught Developers: An Increasing Problem? Nate Swanner, August 15, 2019 6 min read Developers are increasingly self-taught, according to studies from Stack Overflow and HackerRank. By some measures, at...
Survey Results: Alexa, Siri, Google Voice Queries Should Not Be Heard Nate Swanner, August 15, 2019 4 min read Two weeks ago, we asked if you thought voice-activated A.I. queries made via Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or...
What Can We Learn From the Programming Language ‘Silly Season’? Nate Swanner, August 14, 2019 4 min read According to TIOBE, this is “silly season in the programming language world.” Looking over their monthly report...
Survey Results: Most Tech Professionals Have Honest Résumés Nate Swanner, August 13, 2019 3 min read Do tech professionals lie on their résumés? Our polling data suggests they are (usually) very honest. Via...
H-1B Visa Program: U.S. Cities That Use It Most… and Why Nate Swanner, August 12, 2019 5 min read When you think of the H-1B visa, chances are good you’re also thinking of Silicon Valley as the place with the...
Weekend Roundup: Skype, Samsung, a Shutdown, Shiny Things, and… Shingy?! Nate Swanner, August 9, 2019 7 min read The weekend is here (or almost here), so let’s catch up on the things you may have missed in tech this week,...
