Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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VR, Blockchain, and More Overhyped Technologies
If the technology industry knows how to do anything, it’s hype up a product or platform. With the right PR campaign, mundane apps suddenly become world-altering; new smartphones are potential “iP… -
5 Programming Languages to Consider Learning in 2019
Whether you’re totally new to programming, or an experienced developer with multiple projects under your belt, the New Year is a chance to boost your programming-language knowledge. That being sa… -
This Year's Worst Passwords Show You Love Simplicity Too Much
For the eighth time, SplashData has released its annual list of the Worst Passwords of the Year. The list features some tried-and-true favorites (“123456,” we’re looking at you!) along with some… -
DevOps Specialists Top Developer Salaries: Stack Overflow
Which kinds of developers make the most money? According to some new data crunching by Stack Overflow, DevOps specialists top that particular list, easily making more than $100,000 per year. In t… -
How Older Workers May Benefit Big from Automation
Another day, another story about how automation may wipe out yet another segment of jobs: this time, it’s Amazon Go stores, which could use a combination of sensors and software to eliminate the… -
TIOBE's Latest Language Rankings are a Little 'Ya Basic'
This month’s edition of the TIOBE Index, which ranks the popularity of various programming languages, has a surprise: Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET has climbed into fifth place, its highest ever.… -
Facebook, Google Tumble as Best Places to Work
Yet again, Glassdoor has issued its annual list of the best places to work, and yet again, a handful of tech companies made the upper echelons of the list. However, there’s one big change from la… -
Google's Flutter 1.0 Aims to Streamline Android, iOS Development
This week, Google announced Flutter 1.0, the “first stable release” of its UI framework for building native interfaces in iOS and Android. “With Flutter, we believe we have a solution that gives… -
Technical Debt and Bad Code Have a Bigger Impact Than You Think
Bad code isn’t just a problem for developers to solve whenever they’ve cleared other tasks from their queue—it has a measurable impact on company profitability, according to a recent study by Str… -
Will a Longer Résumé Kill Your Chances of Landing That Interview?
One page or two? That’s a surprisingly active source of debate when it comes to résumé-writing. Earlier this year, résumé-writing service ResumeGo conducted a survey of recruiters and hiring mana…