Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Your Job Interview: What to Wear, and Which Looks to Avoid

  After a series of phone screenings, you’ve finally landed a job interview with a company you’re really excited about. Then you realize your de facto outfit is jeans and a t-shirt, and that’s not…
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  Open Office & Virtual Desktop is Our Nightmare Come True

  We were wrong. In October, we discovered a product meant to help you stay focused in an open office setting. It was called the “Wear Space,” and it strapped panels to the wearer's head that restr…
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  JavaScript Dependencies: Why You Should Watch Them Closely

  Last week, someone injected malicious code into a wildly popular JavaScript library. The library wasn’t hacked; the code was put there by a maintainer who was given access by the library’s creato…
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  Swift Is Getting LSP Support in Future Release (It's a Big Deal)

  Swift, the upstart language poised to cement itself amongst the most-used in the industry, will soon support the Language Server Protocol (LSP). On its surface, this news may sound like a languag…
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  Apple’s Supreme Court Case is Important for All Developers

  Large tech companies being sued usually isn’t interesting, at least to developers. Such lawsuits typically boil down to squabbling about contracts or supply chain woes, a slap-fight between #bran…
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  VC Funding Fueled 20-Year Silicon Valley Wage Decline: Study

  Over the past 20 years, wages in Silicon Valley have actually fallen 14 percent, according to new research from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Working Partnership USA. Moreover, th…
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  With Cryptocurrency in Free-fall, Blockchain Still Doing Fine

  Cryptocurrency, the unregulated digital “money” that many people pretend to fully understand, is in a tailspin. As of Nov. 20, it’s at a 13-month low, Bloomberg reports, with industry leader Bitc…
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  Whiteboard Interviews Absolutely Terrify Tech Pros

  Earlier this year, we asked what worried tech professionals most about the job-interview process. The results are in, and wow, do they ever hate whiteboard interviews! A full 42 percent of respon…
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  Study Highlights Salary, Job Loss as Biggest Fears for Professionals

  A new study suggests employees nationwide are most concerned about their salary, underscoring a trend we’ve seen developing for some time. The Business.org study shows 64 percent of respondents r…
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  Missed Opportunity? Swift Playgrounds Should Be on Mac, Too

  When Apple introduced macOS Mojave at WWDC 2018, it also launched four ‘Marzipan’ apps: News, Voice Memos, Home, and Stocks. They’re iPad apps for the desktop, but Apple missed its most important…