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Asia’s Love Affair With Blockchain Is Blossoming
28.12.2019
Far away from western eyes, Asian blockchain projects are thriving. A vibrant ecosystem of public and permissioned chains has sprung to life in Asia, aided by government and big business endorsement of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Many of these chains are virtually unknown outside of...
7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties
27.12.2019
I find all seven of these quite clever and useful.
I particularly like using custom properties when you can sneak a variation into a place where you'd normally have to re-declare a whole big chunk of code.
.some-element {
background-color: hsla(
var(--h, 120),
var(--s, 50),
var(--l...
Moving Rainbow Underlines
23.12.2019
I absolutely love the design of the Sandwich site. Among many beautiful features are these headlines with rainbow underlines that move as you scroll. It's not scroll-jacking — it's just a minor design feature that uses scroll position to enact a little movement.
To draw the rainbows...
Hybrid intelligence crypto fund
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 13 December, 2019 “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” - Winston Churchill In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Hybrid AI firm Cindicator launching crypto fund based on hybrid intelligence […]
The post Hybrid...
These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths
22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...
Bitcoin Price: 2 Key Metrics Hint at Big Dip Before Next Bull Market
22.12.2019
Bitcoin price appears set to retest the descending channel support at $6,300 but brighter days for bulls are around the corner
Is Web Design Easier or Harder Than it was 10 Years Ago?
20.12.2019
Is it harder or easier to build a website now than 10 years ago? Has the bar gone up or down? I don't have any data for you, but I can shell out some loosey-goosey opinions.
HTML
HTML5 was the only big HTML change in the last decade, and it wasn't particularly dramatic. It's cool it's the looser...
Win Big with Smart Strategies for Bitcoin Dice
20.12.2019
The present era of millennials is all about the adoption of the best technological solutions and user-friendly pedagogies that have the potential to cater to their requirements in the shortest time and in a budget-friendly manner. This new-age thinking popularized the use of cryptocurrencies...
Bitcoin Price Set to Outshine Gold and Stocks By Big Margin in 2019
20.12.2019
Despite the downtrend in the latter half of 2019, bitcoin is on track to significantly outperform gold and stocks
Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components
19.12.2019
Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I've come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a design system, especially one with a bunch of legacy technical decisions and a lot...
Australia Probes Big Four Bank Accused of 23 Million Money Laundering Breaches
18.12.2019
With stricter new regulations on the horizon for the crypto space around the world, Australians have found that it’s actually their traditional financial institutions that have been breaching well-established anti-money laundering rules and other industry standards this year. Westpac, one...
The JAMstack Landscape
17.12.2019
It's no big secret that Netlify invented the term JAMstack. While it's possible to embrace the JAMstack without using Netlify, it's notable that Netlify is at the very heart of the whole "JAMstack landscape."
What does "JAMstack landscape" even mean? I like the term because it sets the stage that...
Musicians Want to Break Free of Big Tech
16.12.2019
Decentralized platforms are the best means to solve equity problems in creative industries
lite-youtube-embed
13.12.2019
A standard copy-and-paste YouTube embed lands on your page as an <iframe> which loads a big ol' pile of other stuff to play that video. But the UX of it is still essentially an image and a play button. Click the play button and the video plays. You can build essentially the same thing with...
Hybrid intelligence crypto fund
13.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 13 December, 2019 “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” - Winston Churchill In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Hybrid AI firm Cindicator launching crypto fund based on hybrid intelligence […]
The post...
Accusations Pile Up Against ‘Big’ South Korean Exchange
12.12.2019
The storm around an unnamed major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange is continuing to rage – with a senior politician allegedly involved, an ongoing assault/kidnapping case ongoing and now claims of artificially inflated trading volume figures.
As previously reported, the head of a major...
Crypto-Twitter Could Be the Next Big Thing in the Crypto Sphere
12.12.2019
In an interesting observation, the Angel investor and co-founder of Earn, Balaji S. Srinivasan, courted the idea of Crypto-Twitter. The thought was floated by Srinivasan on Twitter, and in response, a number of comments came from his followers – some appreciating the idea while others...
Freak Flags
11.12.2019
I don't see image sprites used that much anymore, but it's still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big idea is combining all the graphics into one and then shifting around the size and background-position to reveal one at...
Blockchain Faces Big Challenges But the Opportunity Is Enormous
10.12.2019
Western economies can lead the world by embracing decentralization and the Internet-of-Value
Bitmain Promises Big Discounts as Founder Wu Returns to Action
10.12.2019
Jihan Wu. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bitcoin.com - Official Channel
Bitmain’s Wu Jihan has made his first address to clients following the conclusion of a bitter power struggle with the company’s former head – and has announced a series of measures aimed at boosting the Bitcoin (BTC)...