Community branch
As mentioned earlier, we shift our bigger focus to community work. The team is putting their effort for Startup.vn and supporting Cosmos for their Blockchain Hackathon. Ping HuyN if you want to join a hand.
Covid notice
We’ve posted a short message on encouraging the Dwarves to start working from home. Covid expansion is getting heavier and we hope you can all stay safe.
If you’re in need of help to setup workable home office, please let us know.
VssID application for social insurance
For the Dwarves with Viet Nam work contract, please help to install VSSID to keep track on your social insurance status. In the event of concluding your work contract, this will replace your health insurance and social insurance in the event your work contract is concluded.
Please find the detail announcement here: VssID Application.
News of the week
Google moves to canvas rendering
In terms of prediction, there could be two reasons behind this
- Less painful in supporting multiple browsers: Each browser has different method to display the HTML code. Seeing things in Safari is different from Chrome, obviously. A canvas-based approach gives Google Docs a much more consistent framework to display content. It speeds up the ability to get text, objects, graphs, and images rendered to provide better user experience.
- Support Flutter: Google have already gotten CanvasKit built for Flutter. This move can somehow predicts the future of Google featuring Flutter web However, changing into canvas-based also change the logic of building UI (how backend used to be structured with specific bits of HTML), which prevents some extension to function as it used to.
Notion rolled out their public API
Notion’s latest rolled out API in beta to better support the development and database management. Formatting things in Notion have been bringing a smooth reading and writing experience, and I believe we all can benefit from it once Notion has allowed us to sync their system with other services. Their detailed changelog can be found here. Hope you find some of them useful
