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Personal Data Leaks In Crypto Are Inevitable, Here’s What Can Be Done
16.8.2020
The best cryptoassets and their blockchains, such as Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH) are mostly robust against potential attacks, but the wider crypto ecosystem is dependent on much of the web infrastructure that defines legacy systems.
This point came to fore in July’s Ledger database leak,...
Here Comes the Most Bizarre Bull Market Yet
15.8.2020
Social unrest on the one hand, “Degen Finance” on the other. Strap in for a very weird bull run
Here’s Why Decentralized Exchanges Are Growing So Fast Right Now
15.8.2020
Decentralized exchanges boast a monthly volume of only around USD 40m as recently as January 2019. This July they accounted for almost USD 4.5bn.
This is impressive growth, and it looks like many people within the crypto industry believe that decentralized exchanges (DEXes) will continue to grow...
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVIII
15.8.2020
Hey gang! I’ve been fortunate enough to be a guest in a variety of different here, so I thought it was time for another Chronicle post. You know, those special posts where I round up the random goings-on of things I do off of this site.
I joined Ed & Tom over on A Question of Code.
We...
Token Launches From Ethereum to Telegram: Where Do We Go From Here?
12.8.2020
The time has come for policymakers and regulators to provide a workable pathway that allows blockchain tech to develop and grow
Bitcoin Price Keeps Rejecting $12K — Here’s What Can Happen to BTC
11.8.2020
The price of Bitcoin rejected $12,000 for the second time in a mere 10 days. Now, traders discuss where BTC is headed next
Here’s How US-China Tensions Might Benefit Bitcoin
9.8.2020
US-China tensions have increased in recent weeks. The US economy has weakened in parallel, while some analysts speculate that it has also helped to push the price of bitcoin (BTC) to just below USD 12,000.
While the further deterioration of US-China relations could benefit Bitcoin, crypto industry...
Ransomware Attacks Demanding Crypto Are Unfortunately Here to Stay
8.8.2020
Ransomware attacks are increasingly becoming the norm as the world struggles with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic
What does 100% mean in CSS?
7.8.2020
When using percentage values in CSS like this…
.element {
margin-top: 40%;
}
…what does that % value mean here? What is it a percentage of? There’ve been so many times when I’ll be using percentages and something weird happens. I typically shrug, change the value to something else...
Here’s What’s Actually Going on With the SEC and Republic’s STO
7.8.2020
Republic is trying to swap one SEC exemption for another to move its security token from the private to public markets
HTML for Subheadings and Headings
6.8.2020
Let’s say you have a double heading situation going on. A little one on top of a big one. It comes up, I dunno, a billion times a day, I’d say. What HTML do you go for? Dare I say, it depends? But have you considered all the options? And how those options play out semantically...
Warp SVG Online
6.8.2020
The warping is certainly the cool part here. Some fancy math literally transforms the path data to do the warping. But the UX detail work here is just as nice. Scrolling the page zooms in and out via a transform: scale() on the SVG wrapper (clever!). Likewise, holding the spacebar lets you...
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
5.8.2020
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel that shows us big things, like how relative CSS values are resolved. We’ll also see how inheritance fits into the browser’s...
Here is the Best Time of Day to Save on Ethereum Gas Prices
3.8.2020
The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain doesn't sleep, but people do - and this means that the time of day can be used to one's advantage to pay lower transaction fees.
"In order to save on gas prices, the best time is to submit our transaction is the early weekend morning Singapore time and the worst...
Here Are Four Ethereum Scaling Pitches Submitted to Reddit’s Competition
3.8.2020
Entries to the Reddit Scaling Bake-Off are coming in from several layer-two builders
The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site
3.8.2020
The following article captures the process of building the Million Developers microsite for Netlify. This project was built by a few folks and we’ve captured some parts of the process of building it here- focusing mainly on the animation aspects, in case any are helpful to others building...
Here’s Where the Earliest ETH Ever Mined Ended Up 5 Years Later
1.8.2020
Coinfirm details what happened to the first mined Ethereum after the asset's launch in 2015
10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS
31.7.2020
Una doing an amazing job of showing just how (dare I say it?) easy CSS layout has gotten. There is plenty to learn, but what you learn makes sense, and once you have, it’s quite empowering.
The demos are all together here.
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Getting the Most Out of Variable Fonts on Google Fonts
30.7.2020
I have spent the past several years working (alongside a bunch of super talented people) on a font family called Recursive Sans & Mono, and it just launched officially on Google Fonts!
Wanna try it out super fast? Here’s the embed code to use the full Recursive variable font family from Google...
Scammers Are Forging CoinDesk Emails — Here’s How to Protect Yourself
29.7.2020
Scammers are forging CoinDesk newsletters in phishing emails. Here’s how to spot them and protect yourself