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Artem Nosenko, a UI/UX designer at Fintech Band, has turned his old photo archive into a tool for historical memory of the destroyed Kakhovka Reservoir. He created a bilingual interactive web project that clearly shows the scale of the ecological disaster on the Dnieper River and allows you to look into the past of places that no longer exist. The project sparked a wave of interest among foreigners and went viral on Reddit despite massive complaints and opposition from Russian bots.

Former military man, now product manager Oleksandr Kucheryavy decided to debunk the myth about IT as an ideal social elevator for veterans. The text is intentionally provocative and pointed — according to the author himself, it is a deliberate «therapeutic shock» designed to dispel illusions even before the first interview. Published with the author’s permission.

After 2022, the IT market has significantly updated and opened up new opportunities for companies. Those who previously focused mainly on development are now expanding their focus on working with demand and growing their customers' businesses. Product quality remains important, but the ability to systematically shape and manage demand plays an increasingly important role. This is becoming the new market standard. When classic sales channels give less predictable results, there is room for new approaches, in particular, for the transition from a service model to more complex ecosystem solutions.

When it comes to multiplayer game services, the modern market resembles a roller coaster, where multi-million dollar projects like Concord fail almost the day after release, while ARC Raiders retains the lion's share of its audience for months. Against this backdrop of turbulence, the development of the Ukrainian game SAND by Hologryph studio looks like a true miracle of survival, as the project went through production hell, war, and team reductions, but has already managed to attract about 300,000 players and earn its first million dollars. Journalists from dev.ua spent several evenings at the helm of sand tramplers and tell us why they love and hate the game at the same time.