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Crescent Cash Users Can Now Send Bitcoin Cash Via Text Message
16.5.2019
On May 15, the BCH-based and open source Android wallet Crescent Cash launched a new feature that allows people to send bitcoin cash through a text message. The SMS sending service added to the wallet is due to the latest open source API introduced by the crypto startup Cointext. Also read: Bitcoin...
Staking-as-a-Service Startup Raises $2 Million From DHVC, Plug and Play
15.5.2019
New funding for InfStones, a node operator currently staking over $450 million worth of EOS, will fuel hiring and an expansion into more PoS networks
Digital Asset Finance Firm BitGo Announces Off-Chain Clearance and Settlement Service
14.5.2019
An off-chain clearing and settlement service has been launched by digital asset finance firm BitGo
Coinbase Expands Service to 50 More Countries, Launches USDC Support in 85 Jurisdictions
14.5.2019
Coinbase has expanded their service to 50 more countries and launched USDC support in 85 jurisdictions
Google Fonts is Adding font-display
14.5.2019
Google announced at I/O that their font service will now support the font-display property which resolves a number of web performance issues. If you're hearing cries of joy, that's probably Chris as he punches the air in celebration. … Read article
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How to Send Bitcoin Cash via Text Messages to Anyone With a Mobile Phone
14.5.2019
Cointext allows you to send bitcoin cash (BCH) to anyone with a mobile phone in the regions supported by the service even if you don’t have access to the internet. On a global scale, the availability of cheap devices can help many more people use cryptocurrency for payments via SMS text...
Financial Service Giant BNY Mellon Appoints New Head of Blockchain
14.5.2019
New York global investments giant hires Subhankar Sinha as the company’s new blockchain expert
Netlify Functions for Sending Emails
23.4.2019
Let's say you're rocking a JAMstack-style site (no server-side languages in use), but you want to do something rather dynamic like send an email. Not a problem! That's the whole point of JAMstack. It's not just static hosting. It's that plus doing anything else you wanna do through JavaScript...
Inline SVG… Cached
12.4.2019
I wrote that using inline <svg> icons makes for the best icon system. I still think that's true. It's the easiest possible way to drop an icon onto a page. No network request, perfectly styleable.
But inlining code has some drawbacks, one of which is that it doesn't take advantage...
Awesome Automation and Integration with Buddy
2.4.2019
One of my favorite services for years has been IFTTT (If this then that). Having a service that allows me to trigger a host of functionalities with one simple action is amazing! Posting a picture to Instagram can trigger IFTTT to send a tweet, post to Facebook, email to friends, etc. I’ve...
Privacy Service for XMR-Enabled Bitcoin Transfers Removes Support for US Residents
1.4.2019
XRM.to, which allows users to increase the privacy of their Bitcoin transfers by using Monero as an intermediary currency, has stated it will not be serving U.S. residents for now
Write Your First Service Worker in 5 Minutes
18.3.2019
What is a service worker? A service worker is a little file that will allow you to cache files and other assets on a user’s machine. How is this different from server-side caching? Because the assets are stored on a user’s machine, rather than a server, there is no need to go across...
Build Mobile-Friendly Web Apps with React Native Web
21.2.2019
Over the years, building web applications that are mobile friendly has become easier with the advent of media queries and the introduction of service workers. Using media queries, we could make web
Social Cards as a Service
19.2.2019
I love the idea of programmatically generated images. That power is close at hand these days for us front-end developers, thanks to the concept of headless browsers. Take Puppeteer, the library for controlling headless Chrome. Generating images from URLs is their default use case:
const puppeteer...
Pantera, Coinbase Join $4.5 Million Round for Staking-as-a-Service Startup
31.1.2019
Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures have joined a $4.5 million round for Staked, a firm that helps investors back proof-of-stake cryptos
Background Sync with Service Workers
3.1.2019
Service workers have been having a moment. In March 2018, iOS Safari began including service workers — so all major browsers at this point support offline options. And this is more important than ever — 20% of adults in the United States are without Internet at home, leaving these...
Jetpack
3.1.2019
My favorite way to think about Jetpack is that it's a WordPress plugin that brings a whole heap of features to your site. I've documented the features that we use here on CSS-Tricks, which isn't even all of them (yet).
Some of Jetpack features are essentially connecting it to the powers...
The Software We Pay For
5.12.2018
We did a Web Developer Economics series a few years ago, where we looked at the various costs of being a web developer:
Web Developer Economics: One-Off Software Costs
Web Developer Economics: Hardware Costs
Web Developer Economics: Monthly Service Costs
Web Developer Economics: The Wrapup
I'm...
WDRL — Edition 235: Colorblind, Grid in IE, Service Worker Quota and Extending Native DOM Elements
13.7.2018
Hey,
The web continues to amaze me. With all its variety and different changes to the platform it’s hard to see a straight pattern, if there’s even (just) one. But it’s wonderful to see what is being changed, which features are added to the platform, which ones get deprecated, and how browsers...
Easy Document Signing with the Eversign Chrome Extension
25.6.2018
A while back I wrote about Eversign, an awesome service that allows you and your clients or partners to digitally sign documents online. If you’ve recently bought a house or did any other large purchases or agreements, you know how important the ability to reliably sign documents online is. ...