A comprehensive guide to Typescript for JavaScript developers What is Typescript? You can think of Typescript as a language that provides an additional layer over JavaScript. Why? Although we initially write our code in Typescript, we can’t directly run Typescript on a browser like we run JavaScript. Instead, Typescript goes through an additional compilation step to convert its code into browser-recognized JavaScript. So, even when we program in Typescript, the end-program that runs on the browser will be in JavaScript....

A computer can guess more than 100 billion passwords per second — still think yours is secure? What makes a good password? Until relatively recently, a good password might have been a word or phrase of as little as six to eight characters. But we now have minimum length guidelines. This is because of “entropy.” When talking about passwords, entropy is themeasure of predictability. The maths behind this isn’t complex, but let’s examine it with an even simpler measure: the number of possible passwords, sometimes referred to as the “password space....

To kick off the latestStartup Weekendin the Bay Area, Silicon Valley celebritySteve Blankdeclared “founders are artists,” a simple affirmation drawing from lot of experience. Steve Blankis a multi-faceted personality, whom I discovered through his“Secret History of the Silicon Valley”talk, later to find out that he’s serial entrepreneur teaching entrepreneurship to both undergraduate and graduate students at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and the Columbia University/Berkeley Joint Executive MBA program. When you speak with someone like Steve Blank you feel that inspiration is not a concept, but something that you can provoke by sharing knowledge....

Hanfree (think handsfree) is aKickstarterproject started by Seth Quest to create a handsfree gadget that secures your iPad on a bendable arm, enabling the iPad to “float” a few feet off the ground. Hanfree has a flexible stainless steel pipe that fits into an acrylic base and connects to the iPad via a transparent case. The way it attaches to the iPad is pretty great because the integrated ball and socket joint connection brings 360 degree rotation– no matter where you decide to use it....

Leading crypto banks such as BlockFi and Nexo are attracting a lot of attention. Customers can earn an APY (annual percentage yield)of up to 12%, dwarfing high-street savings accounts, whose interest rates aresub-1%. But before you rush to transfer your hard-earned savings, there’s some important things to be aware of. First, you need to realize what these banks are offering interest on. Apart from Nexo, which pays up to 12% interest on pounds, US dollars, and euros, most crypto banks only allow customers to save in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoinand ethereum, orstablecoinslike Tether or USDC which trade one for one with the US dollar....