“So what are you working on at NEAR Protocol” — Roughly a year back, I started speaking with the team at NEAR about communities. I wanted to take on a new challenge. I’ve always had breaks between my crypto roles(just cuz crypto can be a bit much🤷🏽‍♂️), but now I was excited to take on this “new role” at NEAR. …

Joining the crypto world🚀 — It’s been about 3 months since I’ve moved out of HasGeek to join Constellation Labs as a community manager. I joined HasGeek as a full-time community manager in January 2017. It’s been a wonderful journey, thanks to the entire team and the amazing community. I must admit that it did…

The HasGeek Newsletter 💌 — How do you learn? What do you decide to learn and and why? We want to know! Learning is necessary for those of us in technology since things change so fast. Question is: what do you choose to learn and why? Last week, we started a conversation on Twitter about which avenues facilitate learning for you: Here are a few insights from the discussion on Twitter: Joseph…

The HasGeek Newsletter💌 — Node.js Hacknight Stay up all night and hack your Node.js project together HasGeek hacknights bring together clever nightowls to work on pet projects. The next one, starting at 5 pm on Saturday, 24 February, is all about digging into Node.js. We’ll have mentors on hand to help you with any hurdles and…

The HasGeek Newsletter💌 — Never thought we’d say this but we’ve finally hopped on the Instagram bandwagon(or should we say Instawagon? Okay, yeah, that was a bad joke)! Follow us @has.geek for photos from previous events, geek stories with gifs, and a sneak-peek into what happens behind the scenes. …

The HasGeek Newsletter 💌 — Hi there! 👋 Unicode Consortium announces beta version of 2018 emoji The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year’s emoji release. Here’s what you should know we may now have the ability to flip the direction…

The HasGeek Newsletter 💌 — Hi there! 👋 Apple’s MacOS HIgh Sierra has a serious security flaw Apple’s MacOS High Sierra has a security flaw that allows anyone to the access the file system for a Mac, exposing private documents on that particular computer. It’s apparently as easy as entering ‘root’ for username with an empty password. Read more about the hack here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/macos-bug-lets-you-log-in-as-admin-with-no-password-required/

The HasGeek Newsletter 💌 — Hi there! 👋 Tesla launches new Roadster and semi-truck On Friday, Tesla announced the launch of their semi-truck, an electric heavy-duty truck, and the new Tesla Roadster that can hit 0–100 mph in less than 5 seconds! The launch event was super interesting. Just when you thought that the launch event was about to end, they announced the new…

Cloud Server Management Miniconf Schedule, who should attend and what you can expect — In September 2017, we did a Fragments meetup in Chennai. The wonderful people at Zoho had allowed us to use their space. We had some amazing people turn up to the attend the meetup, despite it happening on a Saturday morning at a place half way across the city. …