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Economist Jeffrey Tucker: ‘Can You Imagine BTC Price If It Had Scaled?’
1.4.2020
Ethereum and Blockstream’s leaders weighed into a debate sparked by economist Jeffrey Tucker, who claimed the BTC price is lower than it should be due to issues with scaling
[aktualita] Jeden z "otců internetu" Vint Cerf je nakažený COVID-19. Léčím se, napsal na Twitter
31.3.2020
„Měl jsem pozitivní test na COVID-19 a léčím se,“ napsal na Twitteru 76letý informatik, který je pokládán za jednu z klíčových osobností, které utvářely podobu internetu. Vint Cerf je spoluautorem protokolu TCP/IP, na kterém počítačová síť dodnes stojí. Od roku 2005 pracuje pro Google. Cerf...
Bitcoin Ascends on Twitter While Major Altcoins Hit Multi-Year Lows
27.3.2020
Major altcoins find their tweet-counts nearing three-year lows while Bitcoin gobbles up Twitter real-estate
Did You Know the Ordered List Element Has Start and Reversed Attributes?
24.3.2020
I sure didn't! Tomek Sułkowsi shows how we can reverse the numbering of ordered lists with a simple HTML attribute:
<ol reversed<liApple</li<liBanana</li<liPear</li</ol
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And the start attribute can be added to begin the list at a number other...
Emojis as Favicons
24.3.2020
Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG <text element and use that as the favicon.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how...
#NotDying4WallStreet – Twitter Trends Show People Are Fed Up With Wall Street, Banks and Oligarchs
24.3.2020
As the coronavirus outbreak causes havoc to the world economy, the U.S. is trying to prepare for the onslaught of new cases. U.S. politicians crafted shelter-in-place orders in various states and shut down a decent fraction of American industries. Now politicians are penning an enormous bailout...
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
Flexible Repeating SVG Masks
22.3.2020
Tyler Gaw reminds us that mask-image can repeat, resize, and move just like background-image does, which is fun to combine and play with. I could see it being a fun option for an <hr, like Sara is doing.
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‘Buy Bitcoin’ Searches Skyrocket, Exchange Volumes Spike, Crypto Account Signups Swell 83% As Coronavirus Fears Heighten
22.3.2020
Exchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop people are looking to buy bitcoin. During the week of the crypto market massacre that started on March 12, Coinbase broke traffic records and witnessed considerable trade volumes. Similarly...
Mt. Gox Whistleblower Alleges Shadow-Ban on Twitter for Coronavirus Analysis
21.3.2020
As a result of the shadow-ban, only followers of Messari or Selkis can access their content on Twitter
Auto-Archival
20.3.2020
I'm sure most of us have used the ol' Wayback Machine to access some site that's gone offline. I don't actually know how it decides what sites to archive and when, but you can tell it to save pages. There is UI for it right on its homepage.
Also, there is a little trick...
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Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Ripple Boss Brad Garlinghouse Posts Heartfelt Message on Twitter
19.3.2020
The novel Coronavirus has taken the world by storm, claiming almost 9,000 deaths out of the total 221,000 positive cases. What was initially thought to be an epidemic outbreak in China has become a pandemic that has gripped at least 176 countries across the inhabited world. Since the time COVID-19...
Two Canadians Sentenced to Prison Time in US for Bitcoin Theft
18.3.2020
Two men impersonated HitBTC support staff on Twitter, convincing an Oregon resident into allowing access to their email and cryptocurrency exchange accounts
Bitcoin Live: How to Watch the Next Price Run or Crash in Real-Time
18.3.2020
Watching the bitcoin price move can be exhilarating, or at times soul-crushing, depending on the market. The unpredictability makes watching things unfold in real-time compelling, and checking the price via live broadcast is further enriched by commentary from popular traders and influencers. These...
Canadians Get US Jail Time for Stealing 23 Bitcoin in Twitter Scam
18.3.2020
The two scammers used a Twitter account to pose as crypto exchange staff to persuade an Oregon resident to hand over their bitcoin
How Many Women Users Before Crypto Is Not Sexist?
17.3.2020
A recent headline on Micky — an iconoclastic media outlet that focuses on cryptocurrency — read “Crypto Twitterstorm: ‘Creepy sexist trolling’ or just a funny meme?” The article explained, “A post making fun of Blockstream’s Samson Mow has sparked...
Crypto Analyst Accused of Photoshopping Trade Screenshots
16.3.2020
A Twitter sleuth claims to have unearthed evidence that the popular analyst has been significantly altering screenshots illustrating his trade performances
Ethereum Volume Influenced by Twitter Activity, New Data Reveals
15.3.2020
The top 3 currencies show a similar trend where the number of tweets impacts their trading volume, but what about returns?
“weeds of specificity”
13.3.2020
Lara Schenck:
[...] with WordPress child themes, you are all but guaranteed to get into the weeds of specificity, hunting around theme stylesheets that you didn’t author, trying to figure out what existing declaration is preventing you from applying a new style, and then figuring out the least...