MakerX Blog

Information architecture today: Meetup recording

Donna recently talked to the Preely meetup about what information architecture looks like at the moment, how it differs from the way it was written about in books from the past, and what skills are needed for it.

welcome

Welcome Tristan

Today is a special day. That's because a special person, Tristan Menzel, joins us in Brisbane as a Lead Engineer at MakerX.

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Welcome Wade

Very happy to announce that this week Wade Baglin joins our growing Brisbane team as a Lead Engineer.

press-release

Data History Museum Reimagines Museums by Launching the World’s First NFT-Powered Collection of Earthquake Artifacts

Built on the Algorand blockchain, Data History Museum's first NFT series of historical artifacts utilizes the US Geological Survey’s open API to create real time assets originating from earthquakes around the globe. Melbourne, Australia – May 23, 2022 – Data History Museum, a MakerX venture, has sold out its Genesis Collection,

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for Slack app with Azure DevOps

How to deploy a Slack Bolt app from Azure DevOps to AWS Lambda with Serverless.

frontend

Polymorphic, typesafe UI components with React (and Tailwind and Radix Slot)

Sometimes you want your buttons to be buttons. Sometimes you want them to be links.

welcome

Welcome aboard Paul

Today is exciting because Paul Robson joins us at MakerX as a Senior Engineer. Paul is joining our amazing team in Brisbane, Australia.

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Welcome Patrick

Super excited to announce that Patrick Dinh is joining MakerX this week as a Senior Engineer. Patrick joins us from Brisbane, Australia. Patrick is a really skilled full stack engineer with heaps of experience across a range of industries and projects. I first met Patrick a few years back when

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Welcome to Meng!

I'm excited to announce a new addition to the MakerX team, Meng Chua, who joined us last week as a Senior Designer. Meng joins us from Hong Kong. Meng has already been helping us out with the visual design elements of one of our ventures and has proven himself to

frontend

Extracting reusable Tailwind CSS / React components

A collection of opinions on creating maintainable, reusable and extendable React components using Tailwind CSS

frontend

Styling Radix UI components using Tailwind CSS

How to create a tailwind plugin that helps style Radix UI components using data attribute CSS selectors.

web3

Ethical, pragmatic Web3 decision framework

As part of the research we've performed into the web3 ecosystem, we've established that there are many concerns and problems. This spurred a series of questions we wanted to answer: What are all of the problems? What is fact vs emotion vs opinion? How can we properly understand and consider

web3

Layperson's Web3 terminology guide

One of the things that adds to the confusion in the web3 space is all of the terminology. As part of understanding this space, we've been wrapping our heads around the terminology and culture. To that end, we've created a non-exhaustive list of some of the key terms we have

web3

A pragmatic, ethical exploration of Web3

Over the last few months the MakerX team has performed an extensive exploration of the web3 ecosystem with a view to understanding how to participate in this space in an ethical, pragmatic way. I'm (Rob Moore, CTO) writing this post on behalf of the entire team at MakerX, who have

welcome

Welcome to Turtle!

I'm stoked to announce a new addition to the MakerX team, Brendan "Turtle" Graham, who joined us last week as a Principal Engineer. Brendan joins us from Brisbane, Australia.

aws

Secure AWS accounts using AWS IAM Access Analyzer

A hands-on post on how to secure AWS accounts using AWS IAM Access Analyzer by detecting the least privileges for service accounts.

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design process

Working backwards

A video blog about starting at the end and planning (or writing) towards the beginning. Transcript(this isn't the video transcript, it's the script I worked from, so might be slightly different, but better!) Today’s blog post is all about planning, and specifically about working backwards. And I decided

user research

How people research a company for a new role

We asked people how they researched a role at a new company. Learn how they do it and what matters to them.

welcome

Welcome to Wilson!

I'm super happy to announce that Wilson Waters is joining MakerX as a Principal Engineer this week. Wilson is joining the rapidly growing contingent of makers in Perth, Australia. Wilson!I've known Wilson for 14 years and can honestly say he's both one of the nicest and most diligent people

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Welcome to Adam!

I'm stoked to officially welcome Adam Chidlow to the MakerX team! Adam joined our Perth, Australia team this week as a Senior Engineer. I've worked with Adam before and you'd be hard pressed to find a smarter engineer. Adam is a great human being too and I really enjoyed working

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makersmake

Weeknotes 24 Jan 2022

Weeknotes from Donna for week 9 with MakerX; just wait until you see the shocking twist :)

aws

Empowering Event-Driven Architecture using AWS EventBridge

ContextData has become the centre of our lives. We consume many sources of data and handle notifications (i.e. events) from different devices in order to live and work such as requesting Uber or receiving an SMS to pick up your partner. The same is becoming true of many systems.

Next.js code for creating React applications with functional components and React hooks for managing life-cycles

frontend

Optimizing React Components with useCallback() hook

Optimization is a crucial part of any application. In React applications this include to mitigate unnecessary renders as well as reducing the rendering time itself. In this article, we'll see how the React useCallback hook can help us to make our application to preform better. MemoizationLet's first understand what memoization

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Welcome to Mo!

I'm super excited to officially welcome Mo Zaatar to the MakerX team! Mo joined our Perth, Australia team yesterday as a Lead Architect.

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design process

The power of anonymity in online workshops

Anonymous participation in a series of client workshops brought much better engagement than I expected. I explain why I think it might have happened.