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# Kick-start our newsletter 

Welcome to the very first issue of WeBuild: The Programmer Week. As simple as it sounds, WeBuild: The Programmer Week is a week round up. It brings you the sum up in tech with different perspectives. It constantly changes, event by event. We collect the news and the happenings, give them some point of view, and share it with the people who care about tech just like us.

That's why we want this newsletter first to reach those who matter. Thank you for having been a great part of the tech community. Let's go for a ride.

## What's Going On?

The world is on [an NFT craze](https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq). It all started when a cat meme was acquired for six figures worth of cryptocurrency, and things escalated. NFT promises to open up new ways of making moolah for the creative communities. To sum up the keywords you can begin to dive into this digital currency? Non-fungible token & Nyan Cat. So far, NFTs are more common in the digital art industry, but it's positive to say it would invade more on other product markets. Read more on the top stories of NFTs explanation, how the world is reacting to this popular blockchain asset.

Bank transfer has just been leveled up to a higher level. We have been hearing of Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Stellar, etc. But not until now. Cryptocurrency has been adopting in many aspects of the economy. It's time to move with the industry, and [VISA made its first](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-visa-exclusive/exclusive-visa-moves-to-allow-payment-settlements-using-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN2BL0X9).

[A landmark battle over the future of software development](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/07/tech/google-oracle-supreme-court/index.html). Long story short, Google was claimed to copy the API built by Oracle for its Android system. According to the Supreme Court, who handed Google a victory over the battle: Prewritten programs are shortcuts for developers. This raised an opinion wave in the tech community: Should this be considered a legal exculpation for open-sourced, or proof of patent violation?

[FB and the continuous fault in Data breach](https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4): Leaked info has been verified by matching phone numbers with the ID list in the data set. It was claimed to be reported in 2019 during a vulnerability in August, but the truth? The 533 million records are an entirely different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook address book contacts import feature. Back in 2019, there also was a breach, but FB refused to disclose the underlying reason, and could have had warned us since then.

[Microsoft and its announcement on acquiring Nuance Communication](https://news.microsoft.com/2021/04/12/microsoft-accelerates-industry-cloud-strategy-for-healthcare-with-the-acquisition-of-nuance/) - a leader in speech-to-text for , this collaboration between the two offers the next level of healthcare services. As they agreed: “AI has so far been the top priority in tech, and healthcare is the most critical application that needs to be focused on.”

## What's worth Reading

[Lam Do and the journey to Facebook](https://techiestory.net/post/20-lam-do-rxpulusqto/): Throughout the talk, Lam described how hard it was to remove the roadblocks to grow as a girl who codes. And how gender discrimination doesn't prevent her from being successful.

[Big tech under assault](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/technology/big-tech-power.html): Big giants like Facebook or Amazon did create huge impacts for humans. The bigger the influence, the higher chance of them getting probed. Power comes with suspicion. Are they acting right with what the world has been criticizing?

[Developer deserves more heed](https://css-tricks.com/what-is-developer-experience-dx/): People tend to pay too much attention to the end-user experience, making it hard for developers to do their job. Like UX, DX (Developer Experience) cares about how developers interact and work with products through many aspects, such as platforms, APIs, or frameworks.

## Coming up Next

- [Grokking Webinar #09](https://www.facebook.com/events/492544258774280/): Chat with Data Professionals. #career, #data
- [Cosmos HCMC meetup](https://www.facebook.com/events/187003109925583) - The future of interchain applications. #blockchain, #golang