Articles by Nate Swanner

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  GitHub Commits Open Source Guides for Devs

  [caption id="attachment_139773" align="aligncenter" width="2858"] GitHub Open Source Guidelines[/caption] GitHub doesn’t think you know how open source works, and it may be right. The company has…
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  Craft 'Freehand' Makes Design Collaboration Fun

  [caption id="attachment_139761" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] InVision Craft Freehand[/caption] Collaboration is important to designers and developers, but the tedium of making changes and ta…
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  Developers: Do We Really Need the Mac App Store?

  [caption id="attachment_138519" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Mac App Store WWDC 2016[/caption] Do developers need the Mac App Store? It’s a question many are asking themselves these days. On…
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  Improve Your Salary by Avoiding Silicon Valley

  [caption id="attachment_130845" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Your salary may go further outside of the SV tech bubble.[/caption] While developers and software engineers (hopefully!) love wha…
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  Twitter CEO Suggests Developers "Did Not Matter"

  [caption id="attachment_139341" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey[/caption] Twitter (still) has monetization issues. In its most recent earnings call, the company again no…
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  'Square for Retail' Brings Big Changes to POS

  [caption id="attachment_139671" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] Square for Retail Interface[/caption] Square, the mobile-payments company, is changing how much retailers can do with an iPad. Wh…
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  Android Wear 2.0: Here's What's New

  Android Wear 2.0 has finally found its way to consumers via two new watches from LG. Months in development, the platform has undergone a hefty refresh, and makes Google’s wrist-worn wearables fea…
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  Will the Chatbot Craze Finally Die for Good This Year?

  A few years back, chatbots were one of the biggest tech stories, especially for the enterprise and businesses. As a prime example of user-facing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the hope was that…
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  What We Can Learn from Jawbone's Failures

  [caption id="attachment_108001" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Jawbone Up24[/caption] News is surfacing that Jawbone, the once-dominant fitness wearable company, will soon go under or pivot to…
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  Apple Pushes 64-Bit Apps: How to Update Yours

  [caption id="attachment_138519" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Apple App Store WWDC 2016[/caption] At some point in the near future, all iOS apps will have to support 64-bit architecture. Whil…