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Let’s Make a Fancy, but Uncomplicated Page Loader
15.10.2019
It’s pretty common to see a loading state on sites these days, particularly as progressive web apps and reactive sites are on the rise. It’s one way to improve "perceived" performance — that is, making it feel as though the site is loading faster than it actually is.
There’s no shortage of ways...
How to Create a QR Code
15.10.2019
QR codes aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but I quite like them. If I see something I want to remember or check out later, especially when on the road, it’s super easy to take a quick picture — it’s much easier than trying to remember a URL and much faster than typing...
Telegram’s Gram, More Decentralized & Faster Than Any Other Cryptocurrencies
30.9.2019
Telegram’s fifth-generation blockchain cryptocurrency Gram is launched by October 31, 2019. Gram will run on Telegram Open Network (TON). TON Labs is one of the main independent developers of TON. CEO Alexander Filatov and CTO Mitja Goroshevsky, TON Labs, claims it is “more decentralized than...
Wells Fargo’s Stablecoin ‘Faster, Cheaper’ Than SWIFT, Says Exec
20.9.2019
Wells Fargo’s innovation lead says the bank’s new digital cash for internal transfers is faster and more efficient than SWIFT.
A Proof of Concept for Making Sass Faster
17.9.2019
At the start of a new project, Sass compilation happens in the blink of an eye. This feels great, especially when it’s paired with Browsersync, which reloads the stylesheet for us in the browser. But, as the amount of Sass grows, compilation time increases. This is far from ideal.
It can be a real...
Greta Thunberg Joins Satoshi in Questioning Bank Bailouts
12.9.2019
Saving planet Earth is a noble goal with many different dimensions. Climate change needs to be addressed vigorously as our world warms up faster than ever. Economic development needs a higher degree of financial freedom to provide everyone access to opportunities and wealth. A teenager from...
‘Avoid Biased Calculations’ Says Crypto Researcher After Cherry-Picked Chart Debate
8.9.2019
On Friday, crypto analytics site Messari and data analyst Zack Voell shared a controversial chart called “Bitcoin Cash versus Lightning,” which claims to display a comparison of activity for both networks. Voell contended that the Lightning Network was growing at a faster rate than...
Fast Software
3.9.2019
There have been some wonderfully interconnected things about fast software lately.
We talk a lot of performance on the web. We can make things a little faster here and there. We see rises in success metrics with rises in performance. I find those type of charts very satisfying. But perhaps even...
Binance Jersey Partners with Crypto Platform Caspian for Faster Trades
14.8.2019
Fiat-to-crypto platform Binance Jersey is partnering with a crypto platform that provides trading and risk management
UK’s Pensions and Welfare Department Eyes DLT for Faster Payments
13.8.2019
The U.K. Department for Work and Pensions is investigating distributed ledger technology as a way to boost its payments systems
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Build a Chat App Using React Hooks in 100 Lines of Code
15.7.2019
We’ve looked at React Hooks before, around here at CSS-Tricks. I have an article that introduces them as well that illustrates how to use them to create components through functions. Both articles are good high-level overviews about the way they work, but they open up a lot of possibilities...
For Faster Service, Binance Is Accepting Reduced Number Of Confirmations For BTC & ETH Deposits And Withdrawals!
9.7.2019
In a recent report by Binance, it states that Binance is reducing the number of Confirmations needed for deposits and withdrawals on BTC and ETH Networks. To give better support to its clients, Binance has made specific changes following the number of block affirmations required for customer...
Kakao Claims Its New Blockchain Is 15x Faster than Ethereum
9.7.2019
Kakao's blockchain subsidiary GroundX says its recently launched Klaytn blockchain can mine a block in as little as a second
‘Bitcoin Time’ Moving Faster Than ‘Internet Time,’ Says Hashcash Inventor Adam Back
1.7.2019
Adam Back — inventor of the hashcash PoW system — says that “bitcoin time” seems to be running faster than the “internet time” of the early dotcom era
Bitcoin Vs. Litecoin: Both Bitcoin (BTC) & Litecoin (LTC) Are on a Slope; Who Will Revive Faster?
28.6.2019
Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) are on a slope losing value for the last 24 hours. The 2019 targets for Bitcoin and Litecoin lay around 20,000 USD and 200 USD respectively. Bitcoin has become the talk of the town since the coin started growing in a significant manner. In the last two months,...
Basic Attention Token Price Analysis: There Is No Good Possibilities For BAT To Hike Up Faster
10.6.2019
It’s like bearish price trends have created webs around all cryptocurrencies due to which they are unable to move up even if they are making any effort to do so, they are getting declined so fast. This has indeed reached to a ruffling state in the crypto sphere, for those who had already invested...
Self-Host Your Static Assets
5.6.2019
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem...
Bitfinex's LEO Moves Through Crypto Ranks Faster than Binance Coin
5.6.2019
The competition among major exchange tokens is heating up, as UNUS SED LEO (LEO), the recently-issued Bitfinex exchange token, has reached USD 1.5 billion market capitalization in less than two weeks and is inching closer to the top 10 coins by market capitalization as it is already ranked as...
Anypay and Cointext Launch BCH-Powered Remittance Solution for Merchants
5.6.2019
On June 3, crypto startups Anypay and Cointext debuted a global remittance application for independent merchants. The new payment solution utilizes bitcoin cash (BCH) and allows anyone from anywhere to send funds faster and cheaper than traditional remittance platforms. Also read:...