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A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Preparing for Contributions
19.8.2020
I’ve recently found myself reaching for Eleventy (aka 11ty) above all other tools when I want to develop a website. It’s hard to beat a static site generator that provides advanced templating opportunities while otherwise getting out of your way and allowing you to just create.
One...
Nailing the Perfect Contrast Between Light Text and a Background Image
7.8.2020
Have you ever come across a site where light text is sitting on a light background image? If you have, you’ll know how difficult that is to read. A popular way to avoid that is to use a transparent overlay. But this leads to an important question: Just how transparent should that overlay...
Sundays Are the Perfect Time to Buy the Bitcoin Dip, Data Shows
6.8.2020
New data shows Sunday evening is the best time to buy Bitcoin at a ‘discount’
How to Get All Custom Properties on a Page in JavaScript
8.6.2020
We can use JavaScript to get the value of a CSS custom property. Robin wrote up a detailed explanation about this in Get a CSS Custom Property Value with JavaScript. To review, let’s say we’ve declared a single custom property on the HTML element:
html {
--color-accent: #00eb9b;
}
In JavaScript...
Ethereum May Not Be Perfect, but Most DApps Still Like to Run With It
4.6.2020
Security, a viable business model and an active community: why the majority of DApp developers still opt for the Ethereum blockchain
Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution
25.5.2020
I was reading this article by Chris where he talks about block links — you know, like wrapping an entire card element inside an anchor — being a bad idea. It’s bad accessibility because of how it affects screen readers. And it’s bad UX because it prevents simple user tasks, like selecting text.
But...
„Pixel perfect“ by měl být zakázaný výraz
20.5.2020
Nepoužívejme prosím ve webdesignu spojení „pixel perfect“, když mluvíme o kvalitách návrhu nebo kódování webu. Je to výraz zastaralý, nesmyslný a degradující dobré designéry i kodéry
CZ’s Twitter Feed Swayed New CoinMarketCap Ranking That Put Binance on Top
15.5.2020
CoinMarketCap's new exchange ranking gives its new owner Binance a perfect score. The site's CEO said the decision was in part based on the Twitter "presence and feed" of the exchange's CEO
‘Perfect Wedge’ Makes $1M Bitcoin More Likely Than Ever — Raoul Pal
8.5.2020
A move to $40,000 and even higher is now easier than ever, argues the investment CEO who last month warned that “boomers are f*cked.”
Fluid Width Video
11.3.2020
IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web, ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video. There are lots of ways in which video can be displayed on your site. You might be self-hosting the video and presenting it via the HTML5 <video tag. You might...
Responsive Grid Magazine Layout in Just 20 Lines of CSS
25.2.2020
I was recently working on a modern take of the blogroll. The idea was to offer readers a selection of latest posts from those blogs in a magazine-style layout, instead of just popping a list of our favorite blogs in the sidebar.
The easy part was grabbing a list of posts with excerpts from...
CoinJar: A Perfect Partner For Crypto Transactions
23.2.2020
Cryptocurrencies have successfully completed a decade of run in the financial space. What was introduced as a means of payment settlement during the time of the global recession, has now become an unprecedented part of an array of industrial domains. Today, the most renowned names of the business...
CoinJar: A Perfect Partner For Crypto Transactions
23.2.2020
Cryptocurrencies have successfully completed a decade of run in the financial space. What was introduced as a means of payment settlement during the time of the global recession, has now become an unprecedented part of an array of industrial domains. Today, the most renowned names of the business...
Footnote Characters
20.2.2020
They are special superset numbers that are sometimes perfect for footnotes. Here they are:
¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹
I generally prefer to superscript the number myself, like:
<pThis next word<sup1</suphas a footnote.</p
You'd probably add an anchor link around that as well to link to an...
Practice GraphQL Queries With the State of JavaScript API
29.1.2020
Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I've got the perfect API for that: the brand new, fresh-of-the-VS-Code State of JavaScript GraphQL API.
The State of JavaScript survey is an annual survey of...
Paypal Pullout Prompts Pornhub to Add Tether as Payment Option for Its Adult Models
24.1.2020
The porn industry is seen by many as a perfect fit for widespread cryptocurrency usage as it suffers from financial censorship far more than most businesses. When Paypal stopped servicing Pornhub models, the company hinted it might turn to digital currency as an alternative and now this has been...
Bad accessibility equals bad quality
22.1.2020
Here’s a smart post from Manuel Matuzovic where he digs into why accessibility is so important for building websites:
Web accessibility is not just about keyboard users, color contrast or screen readers. Accessibility is a perfect indicator for the quality of a website. Accessibility is strongly...
Utrust- The Perfect Solution For Cryptocurrency Payments
16.1.2020
The world of technology has no limits as the brightest technical minds are in constant search of surprising the world with offerings that are unique, innovative, and useful. The 2008 financial depression led to the emergence of the world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto. Being...
Water.css
11.1.2020
It's notable that Water.css was the #1 clicked thing from Louis Lazaris' Web Tools Weekly in 2019. It's from a 13-year old developer named Felix!
It's just a little bit of CSS you apply to class-free semantic HTML to give it nice basic responsive styles — the perfect kind of thing for a...
Harbor: The Perfect Solution for Success in Alternative Investment Industry
9.1.2020
As the world economy is expanding in heaps and bounds allowing people to enjoy the highest standards of living, the urge to earn more and more profit returns through the widescale financial offerings has grabbed the attention of a major section of the society. In the early days, people deposited...