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Welcome to Goodo!

Welcome to Goodo!

I could not be more excited this week to welcome Rachael Goodenough (Goodo) to MakerX as our Head of People & Culture. We've had so many amazing new starters at MakerX in a relatively short period of time, going from 1 to 25 permanent staff in just under

You might not be using typeof as much as you could

You might not be using typeof as much as you could

Here I show a handy little trick using the typeof operator in TypeScript to reduce the number of concrete types one might have to create

Fight the focus loss, inspect elements that like to disappear

Fight the focus loss, inspect elements that like to disappear

Here I explain and demonstrate a not so well known feature of Chromium-based browsers that can be used to help inspect elements that disappear on focus loss.

Welcome to Daniel

Welcome to Daniel

I'm excited to welcome Daniel McGregor to the MakerX team this week. Daniel joins us as a Lead Engineer based in Dunsborough, Australia. While I only met Daniel recently, I have been impressed with his knowledge and humility. Daniel was introduced to me by a mutual colleague who

Welcome to Mickaël

Welcome to Mickaël

I'm excited to welcome Mickaël Derriey to the MakerX team this week. Mickaël joins us as a Lead Engineer based in Luxembourg. I've known and worked with Mickaël for many years and have always appreciated how calm and well measured he is, while being a phenominally

Welcome to Stafford!

Welcome to Stafford!

I'm thrilled to welcome Stafford Williams to our growing MakerX team. Stafford joins us as a Lead Engineer from Sydney, Australia.

Build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

Build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

How to build a type-safe event emitter in Node.js using TypeScript

VentureCrowd partners with MakerX to further democratise investment with WealthTech platform, Vest

VentureCrowd partners with MakerX to further democratise investment with WealthTech platform, Vest

MEDIA RELEASE 20 October 2022 Sydney, Australia - Australia’s leading digital investment platform for alternative assets, VentureCrowd, today announced a partnership with venture-focused digital product development firm MakerX to build Vest, a world-first, blockchain-based wealth technology (WealthTech) platform where syndicate communities can view hyper niche deal flow,

User experience design (UX) for Web 3

User experience design (UX) for Web 3

Here I explain how web 3 is different to web 2 (with as little jargon as I can), show examples of poor user experiences, explain why we should not be saying it’s ‘user error’ when people get in trouble, and give some practical advice on how to design good user experiences for web 3.

Meta-programming magic with Type Script and JavaScript Object Proxies

Meta-programming magic with Type Script and JavaScript Object Proxies

Way back in 2015, ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) introduced amongst a host of other new features, Object Proxies [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Proxy/Proxy] . An Object Proxy allows you to take an JavaScript object, and wrap it in a proxy type which allows

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms

Introduction to @makerx/cloudwatch-error-alarms, an NPM package to send alerts to Slack on AWS Cloudwatch errors

Al Goanna and MakerX push the boundaries of NFT technology with dynamic NFT-powered dashboard of Algorand market performance

Al Goanna and MakerX push the boundaries of NFT technology with dynamic NFT-powered dashboard of Algorand market performance

Built on the Algorand blockchain, the GoannaX Dashboard uses a series of dynamically updating NFTs to visually represent the up to date market performance of the ALGO cryptocurrency through a humorous set of art works. Melbourne, Australia – July 19, 2022 – Al Goanna, a leading Algorand Non-Fungible Token (NFT) project,

Welcome to Sam!

Welcome to Sam!

I'm excited to welcome Sam Curry to the MakerX team this week. Sam joins us as a Lead Engineer based in Perth, Australia. I've known and worked with Sam for many years and have always been impressed at his calm, focused technical and people leadership. He&

Welcome to Amy!

Welcome to Amy!

Excited to formally welcome Amy Kapernick to the Makers!

Information architecture today: Meetup recording

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 Tristan

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.

Welcome Wade

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

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

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 [https://www.datahistory.org/], a MakerX [https:

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for Slack app with Azure DevOps

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.

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

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 aboard Paul

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.

Welcome Patrick

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

Extracting reusable Tailwind CSS / React components

Extracting reusable Tailwind CSS / React components

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

Styling Radix UI components using Tailwind CSS

Styling Radix UI components using Tailwind CSS

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