Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, is taking his public persona of a millennial disruptor to new heights and to a place where no one can predict the consequences. The Central American country is going to be the first in the world to adopt bitcoin as an official currency, a decision that has been announced in English and fast-tracked by a parliament that is...
Check out this evergreen article if you’re considering submitting to the RailsConf 2024 CFP! All of the reasons below still apply. Good luck! 😄 In case you missed it, the Call For Proposals for RubyConf 2022 — and RubyConf Mini — is live, and in case you needed a calendar check, there’s just under a week left to submit! Whether you’ve been preparing for this...
A visitor perusing the fifth floor of France’s Centre Pompidou will encounter two very different compositions in short succession. Wassily Kandinsky’s Picture with a Black Arch is a hodgepodge of lurid blotches and angular black streaks, now recognized as one of the first fully abstract paintings to come out of Europe. Nearby hangs Marc Chagall’s The Wedding. Painted...
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