When Apple’s WWDC 2020 digital-only Keynote event kickstarted, all eyes were on the new mac OS Big Sur and the ambitious Apple Silicon chips.

But, from the perspective of advertisement agencies, it was the new iOS 14 privacy-based features that sent shockwaves in their industry and became the major talking point.

For the uninitiated, a lot of apps today use an Advertising identifier (IDFA). It allows developers and marketers to track activity for advertising purposes.

Plenty of marketing agencies backed by Google and Facebook run campaigns to record purchases, usage time, user actions, and subsequently serve personalized ads.

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Cryptocurrencies have been the talk of the town this year due to the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and altcoins.

But the use cases of cryptocurrency go far beyond just moving programmable money. Smart contracts and the Solidity programming language have witnessed an increase in adoption from developers who’re looking to build decentralized apps on the Ethereum network.

Now, Solidity is still a relatively new language and you might not have got a chance to explore it. Regardless, there are so many cryptocurrency APIs available to inspire you to build cool stuff.

In the next few sections, we’ll explore a few…

Hey Better Programming readers,

We’re already midway through 2021 and I hope it’s been a fine year for y’all. In this Better Programming weekly issue, we’ve got some interesting stories from the past two weeks. From leadership traits to identifying the best software engineers, we’ve got all covered. Without further ado, let’s get started.

9 Soft Skill Mistakes Good Bosses Don’t Make by Max Klein

They can adapt decisively, wisely, and without losing control of their emotions.

After studying and practicing leadership for 25 years, Max walks us through nine soft skill mistakes that many people make and how to avoid them.

Hey Better Programming readers,

Another Friday and I hope y’all are doing well. Recently, we saw Github and Open AI unveiling a new AI tool — Copilot. Programmers now have an AI pair programming assistant to help write entire functions. Don’t worry, it won’t replace your jobs. However, it might just reduce your reliance on Google if you’re into copy-pasting solutions.

After covering interview experiences from both sides of the table in the previous newsletters, it’s time for some managerial device. Without further ado, here are five Better Programming contributors sharing their experiences for managers.

The Most Valuable Skill Project Managers Need to Develop

As a manager, decision-making is…

Vision is Apple’s framework that provides out-of-the-box solutions for complex computer vision challenges. It also abstracts the Core ML request by handling the pre-processing of images during classification.

With iOS 14, we got half a dozen new Vision features, including contour detection, optical flow, trajectory detection, offline video processing, and hand and body pose estimation.

At WWDC 2021, Apple announced two new Vision requests: person and document segmentation.

In this article, I’ll be focusing on the new Person Segmentation Vision request introduced with iOS 15.

Vision Person Segmentation Request

Semantic segmentation is a technique used to classify each pixel in an image. …

Hey Better Programming readers,

Another Saturday and I hope y’all are doing well. June is always a great month for tech enthusiasts. Besides, the WWDC event for iOS developers, this year we also saw Microsoft bringing Android apps on its Windows OS. I’m sure Android developers would love this change.

Continuing with our weekly theme tradition, in this newsletter, we’re gonna do a roundup of the biggest WWDC 2021 announcements for developers. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Markdown Support in SwiftUI

SwiftUI has been getting the limelight since the previous two WWDC events, and this year was no different. …

SwiftUI might’ve been the talk of the WWDC 2021 event once again, but UIKit’s story is over yet. As a matter of fact, most SwiftUI codebases today rely on UIKit in some form or other. Understandably, we’ve got plenty of interesting additions to the UIKit framework this year. Amongst them the UIButton has the most notable changes.

UIButton API has been more or less been the same since the beginning, with only a few interesting updates in the past couple of years — like iOS 14 introduced a new UIAction as a replacement for Target Actions for setting controls.

With…

Hey Better Programming readers,

I hope y’all are doing well. Last week we covered the job interview experiences of some of our contributors. I hope it helps your next job interview process go a lot more smoothly.

Even so, it takes two to tango. So, knowing how your hiring manager is thinking is an invaluable asset for acing interviews. This week, we have four of our contributors sharing their insights gained from hours interviewing candidates for different roles.

So, without further ado, let’s get some advice from the other side of the interview table.