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Browser Version Release Spectrum
6.2.2020
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and Safari is once a year.
Chrome 80 just dropped, as they say, and we get a video and blog post. What strikes me about releases like this these...
HTTPS is Easy!
5.2.2020
I've been guilty of publicly bemoaning the complexity of HTTPS. In the past, I've purchased SSL certificates from third-party vendors and had trouble installing them. I've had certificates expire and had to scramble to fix them. I've had to poke and prod hosting companies to help me ensure things...
What All These VC Deals and Acquisitions Say About the State of the Crypto Markets
5.2.2020
Three funding announcements and three M&A deals give us a window into understanding what investors in the crypto space are most interested in
Select an Element with a Non-Empty Attribute
5.2.2020
Short answer:
[data-foo]:not([data-foo=""] {
Longer answer (same conclusion, just an explanation on why we might need this):
Say you have an element that you style with a special data-attribute:
<div data-highlight="product"</div
You want to target that element and do special things when...
Craig Wright ‘Abusing’ Privilege to Block 11,000 Documents, Kleiman Lawyers Say
5.2.2020
The filing says Wright has abused attorney-client privilege to withhold documents from the court
Possibly The Easiest Way to Run an SSG
4.2.2020
"Static Site Generator," that is. We'll get to that in a second.
Netlify is a sponsor of this site (thank you very much), and I see Zach Leatherman has gone to work over there now. Very cool. Zach is the creator of Eleventy, an SSG for Node. One thing of the many notable things about Eleventy...
Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Chinese Crypto ASIC Manufacturers to Delay Orders
3.2.2020
Bitcoin mining rig deliveries from China are delayed due to the coronavirus according to a few Chinese manufacturers. Microbt and Ebang sent notices to customers via the firm’s Wechat channels. Sources say Bitmain and Innosilicon are delaying mining device shipments as well. Also read: How...
You Can’t Separate Utility from Security Tokens, Say EU Researchers
3.2.2020
The difference between utility and security tokens is not all as clear as some regulators make out, argue researchers for the Oxford University Law blog
Bitcoin $100K Bullrun Is Here, Say Crypto YouTubers as Price Eyes $10K
1.2.2020
Bitcoin is at the start of the bull cycle which will see it hit at least $80,000, says one crypto YouTuber
Sticky Table of Contents with Scrolling Active States
30.1.2020
Say you have a two-column layout: a main column with content. Say it has a lot of content, with sections that requires scrolling. And let's toss in a sidebar column that is largely empty, such that you can safely put a position: sticky; table of contents over there for all that content in the main...
Coronavirus Controls in China Are Delaying Crypto Miner Deliveries, Firms Say
30.1.2020
MicroBT and Canaan have notified customers they would be delaying ASIC deliveries due to the Chinese government's quarantine of Wuhan following the coronavirus outbreak
Understanding Immutability in JavaScript
30.1.2020
If you haven’t worked with immutability in JavaScript before, you might find it easy to confuse it with assigning a variable to a new value, or reassignment. While it’s possible to reassign variables and values declared using let or var, you'll begin to run into issues when you try that with...
Developers Say Google Play Unfairly Booted Their Bitcoin Rewards Game
29.1.2020
"Bitcoin Blast, a puzzle game which rewards players with BTC, was kicked off the Google Play store with little explanation, said the game's developer
Davos Experts Say Regulation Is the Key to Unlocking Tokenization
22.1.2020
Blockchain industry participants in Davos believe that digital tokens could transform the world of business and art – providing the capacity to “break down an Andy Warhol painting into a million different tokens.”
The industry professionals were speaking at a session entitled “From Token Assets...
Finance Will Fall Behind Without Innovation, Experts at Davos WEF Say
21.1.2020
Mainstream finance faces a losing proposition without technological innovation, experts at Davos WEF explain
positionstack
21.1.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Say you have an address that your user typed in, like
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, USA
and now you need more information about it. Maybe you need the proper country code. Maybe you need the latitude and longitude. Maybe you need the postal code....
Lawsuit Against Ripple May Decide the Fate of XRP but Regulators Have the Final Say
20.1.2020
A prolonged legal battle, which may hold the key to XRP’s future, has been extended again. The class action lawsuit alleges that Ripple issued and sold the coin, one of the largest by market cap, as an unregistered security. The decision on the defendant’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit...
Third-Party Components at Their Best
16.1.2020
I'm a fan of the componentization of the web. I think it's a very nice way to build a website at just about any scale (except, perhaps, the absolute most basic). There are no shortage of opinions about what makes a good component, but say we scope that to third-party for a moment. That...
Cointext CTO Vin Armani Talks Content, Reveals the ‘Real’ Bitcoin in New Video
12.1.2020
Cointext CTO Vin Armani has a lot to say. The multi-faceted content creator, voluntaryist philosopher, and developer in the Bitcoin Cash community crafts thought-provoking crypto content. Whether dissecting the ‘gym friend’ meme in the context of grounded masculinity, or addressing...
US and European Regulators Say Crypto a Priority This Year
12.1.2020
Several regulators in the U.S. and Europe have made cryptocurrency among their top priorities this year. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s compliance office and the European Securities and Markets Authority, in collaboration with other regulators, have outlined their plans to focus...