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Total crypto market capitalization posts new all-time high above $1.9T
1.4.2021
Total crypto market cap briefly surpassed that of Saudi Aramco
Dutch libertarian posts political campaign signs that read 'Bitcoin is the future'
16.3.2021
"I wanted to have something that stood out and showed people that we embraced Bitcoin as a solution for a revolution," said the party chairman
Selling Social Media Posts for $1.5 Million? Blockchain-Certified Tweet Sales Spark NFT Controversy
6.3.2021
The cryptocurrency community is in a tizzy this weekend after the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, tweeted about a new application that allows people to purchase tweets with ethereum. The application is called Valuables and it allows individuals to purchase a digital certificate of the tweet, which...
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIX
6.3.2021
I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest on some podcasts and at some events, so I thought I’d do a quick little round-up here! These Chronicle posts are just that: an opportunity to share some off-site stiff that I’ve …
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Ensuring the correct vertical position of large text
26.2.2021
Tobi Reif notes how the position of custom fonts set at very large font sizes can be super different, even in the same browser across operating systems. The solution? Well, you know how there are certain CSS properties that only …
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Crypto Users Claim Popular Bitcoin Paper Wallet Generator Is Compromised, Millions Allegedly Stolen
25.2.2021
A number of forum posts and tweets say that the website bitcoinpaperwallet.com is compromised and people have said they have lost bitcoin using the paper wallet generator. Three years ago the website domain changed ownership and ever since then losses have been reported on Reddit forums...
You want…
17.2.2021
I’ve been enjoying these little “You want…” style posts. Post titles like that are a little more… forceful for my normal taste, but I like the spirit of sharing a best practice that perhaps isn’t well-known-enough.
Killian started it with
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Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021
16.2.2021
Malte Ubl’s list for:
8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Fluid width images in CSS, not forgetting the height and width attributes
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Cardano approaches a new major upgrade as ADA posts an inspired rally
14.2.2021
Cardano’s Mary upgrade and token gains are poised to compete with Ethereum, while metrics suggest that Ethereum is still king
South Korean Telecoms Giant KT Posts ‘Sevenfold’ Blockchain Profits
10.2.2021
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed down trade in a huge swathe of industries, but some, such as the telecommunications sector – appear to be thriving, with blockchain sales rising for KT, one of South Korea’s biggest mobile carriers.
Per Newsian, KT’s operating profits rose by 2% in the past...
Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
5.2.2021
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.
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Some Typography Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
4.2.2021
Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property — From Manish Goregaokar in 2017. Of many oddities, I found the one where font: medium monospace renders at 13px where font: medium sans-serif renders at 16px particularly weird.
The good line-height — Since
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Ethereum posts new highs as DeFi gas fees top $1,000 on complex protocols
4.2.2021
With Ethereum’s fees rocketing to new highs amid Ether’s rally into new price highs, the fees associated with using some complex DeFi protocols has increased above $1,000
Some Performance Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
3.2.2021
Back/forward cache — I always assumed browsers just do fancy stuff with the back/forward buttons and us developers had very little control. Philip Walton tells us it’s critical that we understand “what makes pages eligible (and ineligible) for bfcache to
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Fallout Mod Pulled After Artist Allegedly Posts "Animated Pedophillic Content"
28.1.2021
We only wrote about the big new Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier last week when it was released! And now we’re writing about it again, because the mod has been “hidden” (basically temporarily removed) from Nexus Mods and pulled from its own website after allegations that one of its artists...
Noise.cash: Social Microblogging App Fueled by Bitcoin Cash Tips Gathers Traction
18.1.2021
For quite some time now, bitcoin cash users have been leveraging the web portal read.cash in order to write blog posts, connect with like-minded individuals, and earn bitcoin cash for providing popular content. Now the creators of read.cash have introduced another application called noise.cash...
The Best Cat Scratching Posts, According To Our Readers
7.1.2021
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Break a forEach Loop with JavaScript
22.12.2020
I’ve written a number of blog posts about JavaScript tricks: Promise tricks, type conversion tricks, spread tricks, and a host of other JavaScript tricks. I recently ran into another JavaScript trick that blew my mind: how to break a forEach loop. To break the forEach loop at any point,...
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...
It’s Always Year Zero
16.12.2020
In the short term, opinions about technology often follow a compressed form of Laver’s Law:
Everything just before me was completely broken.
Everything that comes after me is completely unnecessary.
Everything I use right now is perfectly fine; stop changing things.
We tend to judge things based...