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Fans Are So Hungry For Persona 6 They're Excited About A Placeholder Logo
24.5.2024
We’re all waiting with bated breath for news about Persona 6. We’ve been living in Persona 5’s world for nearly a decade, it’s time for Atlus to give us a new story about teenagers summoning demon versions of their inner selves to fight monsters. But right now, all we know about Persona 6 comes...
2 Bitcoin L2 Projects Secure Investments to Enhance Bitcoin’s Defi Capabilities
7.5.2024
On Tuesday, two Bitcoin-centric layer two (L2) initiatives successfully secured funding from strategic investors. Botanix Labs, a startup focused on developing a decentralized Turing-complete L2 EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine), garnered $11.5 million. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin L2 ZKM attracted...
Galaxy-Backed Gyroscope's 'All-Weather' Decentralized Stablecoin Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet
7.12.2023
Gyroscope's GYD token aims to protect against the risks of holding stablecoins by offering an alternative to centralized and algorithmic designs
Detecting Specific Text Input with HTML and CSS
9.11.2021
Louis Lazaris breaks down some bonafide CSS trickery from Jane. The Pen shows off interactivity where:
You have to press a special combination of keys on a keyboard.
Then type a secret password.
From there, a special message pops …
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Solana-Powered Defi Platform Orca Raises $18 Million — AMM Commands Over $300 Million TVL
23.9.2021
The decentralized exchange (dex) platform Orca has announced the platform has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round with Polychain, Placeholder, and Three Arrows co-leading the funding. The dex platform is a Solana-based project that aims to be the “go-to swap” platform...
DeFi aggregator Zerion snags $8.2M in Series A
8.7.2021
Executives representing investors Mosaic Ventures and Placeholder have joined Zerion’s board of directors as part of the deal
Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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‘Chainlink Killer’ API3 Closes $3M Funding Round With Placeholder and Pantera
12.11.2020
API3, a firm aiming to provide an alternative to oracle service Chainlink, has raised $3 million in a private funding round led by Placeholder
Climate Startup Nori Raises $4M to Solve Carbon Market Double-Spending
24.9.2020
Nori has been funded to build a blockchain-based market for carbon credits that will start by paying farmers to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
Numerai Raises $3M in Another NMR Token Sale With Union Square Ventures, Placeholder
3.6.2020
Numerai has sold an additional $3 million in NMR tokens to a slate of investors led by Union Square Ventures on the strength of its latest product, Erasure
‘Passwordless Login’ Startup Magic Raises $4M From Naval Ravikant, Placeholder
29.5.2020
Ethereum startup Magic just raised $4 million from investors like Naval Ravikant, SV Angel, Placeholder and Volt Capital to make passwords less of a pain
The Many Bad (and Good!) Patterns for Close Buttons
27.5.2020
Manuel Matuzović details 10 bad HTML patterns for a close button. You know, stuff like this:
<a class="close" onclick="close()"×</a
Why is that bad? There is no href there, so it really isn’t a link (close buttons aren’t links). Not to mention the missing href makes this...
Simple Image Placeholders with SVG
27.1.2020
A little open-source utility from Tyler Sticka that returns a data URL of an SVG to use as an image placeholder as needed.
I like the idea of self-running utilities like that, rather than depending on some third-party service, like placekitten or whatever. Not that I'd advocate for feature...
Placeholder Leads $2 Million Seed Round for DeFi Services Provider Zerion
3.12.2019
DeFi services provider Zerion has raised $2 million from Placeholder, Blockchain and others to build out its team
Show Search Button when Search Field is Non-Empty
5.11.2019
I think the :placeholder-shown selector is tremendously cool. It allows you to select the placeholder of an input (<input placeholder="...">) when that placeholder is present. Meaning, the input does not yet have any value. You might think input[value] could do that, or help match on...
Startup Bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Ethereum Raises $2 Million
23.9.2019
Matter Labs is using "mathematical magic" to speed up transactions on ethereum. Now Placeholder VC and others are investing $2 million in the project
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
CSS :placeholder-shown
4.2.2019
One of the first plugins that would hit a new framework in the early days of JavaScript frameworks was a placeholder plugin, which is why we were so excited when HTML5 brought us the placeholder attribute. Then CSS lovers like me were thrilled when the CSS spec allowed us to style placeholders....
Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute
22.6.2018
Eric Bailey takes a hardline position on <input placeholder>.
You might be thinking, as I did: yeah, yeah I know the pitfalls. I'm capable of using placeholder responsibly. But when you look at all the negatives together:
Can’t be automatically translated;
Is oftentimes used in place of...
An Almost Ideal React Image Component
21.6.2018
Yes, this is a React component, but regardless if you care about that part or not, the "ideal image component" part could be of interest. There is a lot to consider with how we put images on web pages these days. This deals with:
Placeholder space (and then flexible responsive styles after...