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How the Blockchain Stops Cheaters: Cryptocurrency and Provably Fair Gaming
21.7.2019
Online casinos and betting sites have proliferated since the first of their kind came on the scene in 1994. Thanks to the convenience of playing from home, the allure of winning real money, and a degree of privacy, these popular sites continue to evolve. There have been major problems, though...
Grab a .DEV Domain from Hover! (Sponsored)
19.7.2019
I can say that the biggest and best changes in my professional life came from starting this blog — it was the springboard for conference speaking, open source, and joining Mozilla. I’ve always urged ever developer to have a blog to showcase talent, explore new technology, and to network. What’s...
Using GraphQL Playground with Gatsby
18.7.2019
I’m assuming most of you have already heard about Gatsby, and at least loosely know that it’s basically a static site generator for React sites. It generally runs like this:
Data Sources → Pull data from anywhere.
Build → Generate your website with React and GraphQL.
Deploy → Send the site to...
Micro Frontends
17.7.2019
One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about "micro frontends" — sort of how I first learned about Toast. I didn't understand the source until asking around, which uncovered this article from Cam Jackson.
In this article we'll describe a recent trend of breaking...
Open-Source Platform Lets Users Build Their Own Blockchain in Under 10 Min
8.7.2019
An open-source blockchain platform says the industry is going the same way as the internet: Just like websites, every business now wants their own chain. #SPONSORED
Gram Asia to Sell Gram Tokens at Three Times ICO Price
3.7.2019
The largest Asian holder of Telegram’s Gram token will sell some of them for three times the ICO price on July 10
ZenGo Demonstrates Proof-Of-Concept of a Keyless Wallet for Facebook’s Libra
2.7.2019
ZenGo publishes its open source project, which purports to provide proof-of-concept that its keyless wallet product can support Facebook’s Libra
Huobi to Target Decentralized Finance With New Public Blockchain
2.7.2019
Huobi Group is building a "regulator-friendly" public blockchain specifically designed for use cases within decentralized finance
Ethereum Classic Unveils Ethercluster, An Open-Source Alternative To Infura
2.7.2019
Ethereum Classic announced the release of its latest project titled Ethercluster on 1st July 2019 through its official Twitter handle. The project will be an open-source alternative to Infura for not only Ethereum Classic but also other ETH-based networks, read the tweet. A detailed Medium blog...
Fix Touch Bar Volume Buttons
30.6.2019
The touch bar on MacBooks has been a source of controversy since the beginning. Many mourned the loss of the escape key, while others refused to buy a new laptop to avoid the touch bar completely. I’ve not had many issues with the touch bar but mostly because I don’t really use it. One necessary...
Facebook’s Libra Crypto Code Draws Critiques and Clones
29.6.2019
Would-be coders and eager trolls are digging into the early code for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...
Digital Asset Partners With Amazon AWS Aurora on Smart Contract Language Interoperability
18.6.2019
Blockchain software firm Digital Asset has partnered with Amazon Web Services Aurora to make its open-source smart contract language DAML more interoperable
Algorand, a Dapp Analytics Suite, Goes Open Source
17.6.2019
The Flipside Crypto partnership will provide a free user engagement analytics suite
Source: South American Online Marketplace Working With Facebook on Crypto Project
17.6.2019
Major South American e-commerce platform Mercado Libre has partnered with Facebook on the Libra crypto platform, according to an anonymous executive
Collective #524
13.6.2019
The Layout Instability API * Write HTML Like It's 1999 * JavaScript questions * Pika CDN * The Economics of Open Source
Collective #524 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Microsoft přijde o exkluzivního klienta. CERN chce přejít na open-source
13.6.2019
Microsoft zřejmě přijde o jednoho z nejprestižnějších klientů – ženevský CERN, v jehož útrobách se zrodil jak World Wide Web, tak velký hadronový urychlovač LHC. Pro nejvýznamnější vědeckou instituci v Evropě je totiž Microsoft příliš drahý.
CERN v posledních dvaceti letech používal
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for June 2019
13.6.2019
Our favorite libraries, frameworks, and open-source projects for June 2019
Sale of Telegram’s Token Gram on Exchange Liquid Is Not Official: Source
11.6.2019
Following Liquid’s announcement of a Telegram gram token sale, a source close to Telegram has stated that there is no official relationship between the companies
How to Detect Text in Images
11.6.2019
Images are a great way to communicate without text but oftentimes images are used/abused to spread text within social media and advertisements. Text in images also presents an accessibility issue. The truth is that it’s important, for any number of reasons, to be able to detect text in image...