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Coin Carbon Cap: PoW currencies ranked by energy efficiency

coincarboncap.com/
Compare the energy efficiency, CO2 emissions and fees of various cryptocurrencies that are secured by Proof-of-Work.

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security

krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
DarkSide, like a great many other malware strains, has a hard-coded do-not-install list of countries which are the principal members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) — former Soviet satellites that mostly have favorable relations with the Kremlin. The full exclusion list in DarkSide (published by Cybereason) is below:

Four-Woman Group That Fought U.K. Algorithms Steps Up for Tech-Worker Rights - WSJ

wsj.com/articles/four-woman-group-that-fought-u-k-algorithms-steps-up-for-tech-worker-rights-11621087200
An advocacy group that successfully challenged the use of algorithms in U.K. immigration and education policy is preparing to take on Facebook and Uber Technologies over tech workers’ rights.

5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean

iainbean.com/posts/2021/5-steps-to-faster-web-fonts/
Fine-tune your font files and optimise your loading strategy for maximum speed + minimum FOUT

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer - haseeb qureshi

haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex...

HRIS Employee Management Software | Humaans

humaans.io/
The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.

Staying on the path to high performing teams. | Irrational Exuberance

lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/
As a caveat, the system fix is to hire net-new people, increasing the overall capacity of the company. Sometimes folks instead attempt to capture more resources from existing company, and I’m pretty negative on that. People are not fungible, and generally folks end up in useful places, so I’m skeptical of reassigning existing folks to drive optimality. By nature, it’s also impossible for this kind of discussion to not become political, even when everyone involved has deep trust and r...

Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility | Deque

deque.com/blog/auditing-design-systems-for-accessibility/
Let's review how to create a design system with baked-in accessibility and how to find and audit accessibility issues in our existing design systems.

Budgeting for creative departments | by Matthew Cunningham | Mar, 2021 | Bootcamp

bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/budgeting-for-creative-departments-95b8843e24b6
The following information targets in-house corporate design leaders, managers, or operations who have departments for which they have financial accountability. This article does not cover the…

Competitive Analysis For Product Engineers | Stay SaaSy

staysaasy.com/product/2021/05/02/competition.html
In my experience, most professional software engineers in industry have little to no experience doing competitive analysis. That’s a shame, because competitive analysis is one of the most useful skills that an engineer can have.

The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive - Lessons From The Crisis

lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/the-experts-can-stay-wrong-longer
Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to limit the spread of coronavirus into their country. The UK government consulted its pandemic flu plans

Fluid Typography

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Calculate CSS declarations for beautiful fluid typography headings.