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Chapter 6: Web Design
29.12.2020
Previously in web history…
After the first websites demonstrate the commercial and aesthetic potential of the web, the media industry floods the web with a surge of new content. Amateur webzines — which define and voice and tone unique to …
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Legal Battle Between Bitmain Co-Founders Appears to End With Micree Zhan Taking Control of the Company
28.12.2020
The long-lasting legal battle between co-founders of China-based Bitmain seems to have seen the light at the end of the tunnel after both parties agreed to reach an agreement. Legal Tussle Between Bitmain Co-Founders Reportedly Ended With a $600 Million Compensation for Jihan Wu According...
The PS4's Spectacular Dreams Game Is Hurting From A Lack Of Players
28.12.2020
When LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule launched the game-as-an-engine PlayStation 4 exclusive Dreams into early access in April 2019, I remember feeling a cautious optimism. The technology behind the game was impressive, letting people make their own music, games, and artwork with its robust...
Why you wouldn’t eat chicken nuggets, and why you shouldn’t trust Big Data
28.12.2020
Do you really know how your data is used and monetized? If you did, you’d probably think twice about giving your personal details away so freely
Responsible, Conditional Loading
25.12.2020
Over on the Polyplane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data, about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce...
The US SEC Fines Shipchain $2 Million for Conducting an Unregistered Token Offering: Company Agrees to Cease Operations
24.12.2020
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a cease and desist order against Shipchain and ordered it to pay a penalty of $2.05 million. Additionally, the regulator has directed Shipchain, a shipping and logistics company, to transfer Ship tokens in the possession or control of...
Camila Russo on Building The Defiant and the Future of DeFi
23.12.2020
The Defiant is required reading about DeFi these days. How did "one more Bloomberg journalist" become a successful media entrepreneur and influencer?
Brave Browser Chief Courts Social Media Rage with COVID-19 Comments
23.12.2020
Brendan Eich. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/ Ensaladilla
The mastermind of the crypto-friendly Brave Browser, Brave (BAT) CEO Brendan Eich, has waded into a fresh controversy that has ignited social media once again – this time taking aim at the United States’ top epidemiologist.
Brave...
The Best Holiday 2020 Gifts for the Nerd Who Has Everything
22.12.2020
Top Pick: The Child Real Moves Plush | $70 | Disney StoreRead more
Welcome to The Great G/O Media Recipe Exchange
21.12.2020
My favorite part of the holiday season, next to family time and watching every Hallmark movie ever created, is the food. My mom and grandma make homemade kremas (think eggnog, but Haitian and much better) and my sisters and I eat dozens of Christmas cookies, while my dad judges us all for forcing...
What Makes CSS Hard To Master
18.12.2020
Tim Severien:
I feel we, the community, have to acknowledge that CSS is easy to get started with and hard to master. Let’s reflect on the language and find out what makes it hard.
Tim’s reasons CSS is hard (in my own words):
You can look at a matching Ruleset, and still not have the whole...
Global Mainstream Media Fills its Boots with Bitcoin News as Prices Rocket
17.12.2020
With bitcoin (BTC) prices finally doing what they have threatened to do for the past few weeks – namely breaking the key USD 20,000 threshold and not stopping there – the mainstream media has once again gone gaga for crypto all over the globe.
Here is how some of the world’s biggest media outlets...
Snowden Reacts to Bitcoin’s New Price Milestone — Whistleblower Tweets ‘One word: Bitcoin’
16.12.2020
The price of bitcoin has just hit a historic milestone in a turbulent year, crossing the $20,000 threshold, refreshing its all-time high, and well-known crypto advocates such as Edward Snowden have been reacting to the news on social media. Snowden Reacts to Bitcoin All-Time Highs The famous...
Chinese State Media Surprises With Forecast of Bitcoin Outshining Gold
15.12.2020
Chinese state-operated media outlets keep adding cryptocurrencies — specifically bitcoin — on their reporting agenda. Lately, they have been replicating bitcoin predictions that are surprising in some way to the crypto community due to the number of mentions on the matter since several...
Investigation traces scam Bitcoin celeb ads to Moscow
15.12.2020
More countries are allegedly involved in a major global Bitcoin ad scam
Representation Matters
15.12.2020
This year I had the pleasure of re-launching The Accessibility Project. I spend a lot of time researching and writing about accessibility and inclusive design, so this felt like the cumulation of a lot of that effort. The site now uses all sorts of cool web features like CSS Grid, @supports,...
The Great Reset Agenda: ‘Bitcoin Is a Decentralized and Rational Strategy to Opt-Out’
15.12.2020
Every single day the conversation about the Great Reset continues to amplify. More recently, mainstream media publications have been publishing rebuttals in response to the many skeptics of this agenda who believe the reboot propaganda is meant to install a new world order. The American broadcaster...
Give Users Control: The Media Session API
14.12.2020
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you need to pause it. Which tab is it? Browsers try to help with that a little bit. You can probably mute the entire system audio. But wouldn’t...
Chinese State Media Keeps Surprising With Bitcoin ‘Outshining’ Gold Prediction
14.12.2020
Internet observers have expressed surprise after the Chinese state-run media outlet CCTV carried some bold predictions about bitcoin (BTC)’s long-term future – and featuring a forecast that BTC fever may apply downward pressure on gold.
CCTV is one of China’s leading, state-operated broadcasters...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Adds Shareable Payment Link Feature – Send Bitcoin Cash to Anyone via Text, Email, and Social Media
10.12.2020
At Bitcoin.com, our team is all about spreading the benefits of peer-to-peer electronic cash and our flagship wallet is a testament to our team’s passion. Bitcoin.com’s noncustodial crypto wallet recently upgraded and now offers a new payment link feature that allows anyone to send...