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CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify’s On-Demand Builders
8.6.2021
WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site’s most recent posts, with just a specific set of data… in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere made a joke site using that.
At first, the site …
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Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Beyond Triangles
4.6.2021
In part three of our series we’ll look at how to create more interesting shapes with trigonometry, and how to draw them with the Canvas API.
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Here Are the Best Practices for Securely Using API
1.6.2021
API keys are a very useful part of an application programming interface – but misuse or breaches can result in some particular security problems. How do you use API keys in secure ways? First, it helps to understand the role of the API key, which provides for project authentication. That’s...
Here Are the Best Practices for Securely Using API Keys
1.6.2021
API keys are a very useful part of an application programming interface – but misuse or breaches can result in some particular security problems. How do you use API keys in secure ways? First, it helps to understand the role of the API key, which provides for project authentication. That’s...
Serverless Functions: The Secret to Ultra-Productive Front-End Teams
31.5.2021
Modern apps place high demands on front-end developers. Web apps require complex functionality, and the lion’s share of that work is falling to front-end devs:
building modern, accessible user interfaces
creating interactive elements and complex animations
managing complex application...
0x launches DEX liquidity API on Polygon
31.5.2021
Polygon’s decentralized finance footprint continues to grow, with 0x releasing a version of its decentralized exchange liquidity aggregator API on the “Ethereum scaler.”
Understanding the systemic shift from digitization to tokenization of financial services
30.5.2021
Another hurdle financial services and institutions need to address is mainstream digital asset adoption
Rethinking Postgres in a Post-Server World
27.5.2021
Serverless architectures have brought engineering teams a great number of benefits. We get simpler deployments, automatic and infinite scale, better concurrency, and a stateless API surface. It’s hard to imagine going back to the world of managed services, broken local …
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Wrangling Control Over PDFs with the Adobe PDF Embed API
24.5.2021
By our last estimate, there are now more PDFs in the world than atoms in the universe (not verified by outside sources) so chances are, from time to time, you’re going to run into a PDF document or two. Browsers …
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Notion API
20.5.2021
The Public Beta of the Notion API dropped! Woot! Here’s their guide. I’ve been a Notion user and fan for a long time, for both personal and professional team use. They even sponsored a few videos around here a …
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Weatherstack Review: Is This the Best Weather API?
19.5.2021
Looking for a way to share location-based weather reports and forecasts with your website visitors? You’re going to need access to up-to-date, accurate weather data first – and Weatherstack...
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Weatherstack Review: Is This the Best Weather API?
19.5.2021
Looking for a way to share location-based weather reports and forecasts with your website visitors? You’re going to need access to up-to-date, accurate weather data first – and Weatherstack...
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WebPageTest API
3.5.2021
I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, …
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How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
28.4.2021
Click, drag, release: you’ve just selected some text on a webpage — probably to copy and paste it somewhere or to share it. Wouldn’t it be cool if selecting that text revealed some options that make those tasks easier? That’s …
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Blockchain Object Storage Company Filebase Raises $2M, Aims to Incorporate Filecoin and Arweave Networks
26.4.2021
Filebase, a blockchain-based object storage company built on top of the Sia network has revealed the business has closed an initial seed round gathering $2 million from investors. Interest in decentralized storage networks has blossomed in recent months and Filebase expects the growth of global...
Using New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin
23.4.2021
In my previous article, I discussed how I learned to create a decoupled WordPress powered Gatsby site using the Gatsby Source WPGraphQL plugin. The project was done following the ongoing developmental version of WPGraphQL and an excellent tutorial by Henrik …
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Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions
22.4.2021
It sure would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web, at least without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices just to achieve it. Some kind of API that …
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Object.entries
20.4.2021
Navigating and managing data structures is a really important skill for every level of engineer to have and improve upon. Over the years, the JavaScript language has continued to provide more methods for managing data structures, from Object.keys to Object.values and so on. One of my favorites...
Five Top Quality APIs
13.4.2021
It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry...
Intl.NumberFormat
13.4.2021
Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce...