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Weekly Platform News: Layout Shifts, Stalled High-Bitrate Videos, Screenshots in Firefox
26.9.2019
In this week's roundup: fighting shifty layouts, some videos might be a bit stalled, and a new way to take screenshots in Firefox.
Let's get into the news!
Identifying the causes of layout shifts during page load
You can now use WebPageTest to capture any layout shifts that occur on your website...
‘Avoid Biased Calculations’ Says Crypto Researcher After Cherry-Picked Chart Debate
8.9.2019
On Friday, crypto analytics site Messari and data analyst Zack Voell shared a controversial chart called “Bitcoin Cash versus Lightning,” which claims to display a comparison of activity for both networks. Voell contended that the Lightning Network was growing at a faster rate than...
Fast Software
3.9.2019
There have been some wonderfully interconnected things about fast software lately.
We talk a lot of performance on the web. We can make things a little faster here and there. We see rises in success metrics with rises in performance. I find those type of charts very satisfying. But perhaps even...
ERC20 Tether Transactions Flip Their Omni Equivalent
29.8.2019
Crypto enthusiasts have noticed that the Ethereum blockchain has come awfully close to reaching capacity due to the added transactions stemming from the Tether (USDT) network. The transaction count since mid-August shows the ERC20 version of tether has surpassed the original version that uses BTC....
What Three Bitcoin Metrics Show
30.7.2019
As bitcoin price is showing some early signs of a possible recovery, let’s take a look at three popular valuation metrics for bitcoin to better understand the current situation in the market.
NVT Ratio
The Network Value to Transactions (NVT) Ratio for Bitcoin is now at 77.4. This is within...
Kik’s Claims About Kin Blockchain ‘Inaccurate,’ Coin Metrics Report Alleges
24.6.2019
Kik has made inaccurate claims about activity on its blockchain to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Coin Metrics report
Ripple Launches New Developer Website, Will Let Devs Access New Tools, Tutorials, And Network Metrics.
17.6.2019
Ripple has launched a website for developers, giving them access to a whole new set of things. The website comes with a fresh outlook and will let developers build innovative apps on the XRP ecosystem. The new community-driven portal, xrpl.org, allows them to access technical documentation and...
Crypto Analytics Firm Coin Metrics Acquires Bletchley Indexes
8.6.2019
Crypto analysis firm Coin Metrics has acquired an index firm and plans to launch cryptocurrency smart beta indexes
Coin Metrics Report Highlights Discrepancies in Ripple’s Escrow System Reporting
17.5.2019
Blockchain analysis company Coin Metrics has found discrepancies in blockchain payments network Ripple’s escrow system reporting
Keen makes it a breeze to build and ship customer-facing metrics
28.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Keen is an analytics tool that makes it wonderfully easy to collect data. But Keen is unique in that it is designed not just to help you look at that data, but to share that data with your own customers! Customer-facing metrics, as it were.
Keen works just the way...
Collective #492
14.2.2019
WebBluetooth * Ludwig * CSS Scroll Snap * instant.page * Intro to Font Metrics * To Grid or to Flex?
Collective #492 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
WDRL — Edition 226: npm6, Postgres 10, Vanity Metrics, Palantir, And Leaning Into The Moment
27.4.2018
Hey,
last week I couldn’t manage to send out a newsletter so here’s everything from the past two weeks. The previous week I spent on a client work week to meet the remote team and while they’re extremely healthy for team work, to make progress with your company but they’re also exhaustive due...