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Paypal Acquiring Crypto Security Firm Curv to Expand Digital Asset Initiatives
8.3.2021
Payments giant Paypal has announced that it is acquiring Tel Aviv-based crypto security infrastructure provider Curv. According to Paypal, this acquisition will help the company “expand its initiatives to support cryptocurrencies and digital assets.” The deal is reportedly worth less...
Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
8.3.2021
When I’d go to a conference (when we were able to do such things) and see someone do a presentation on web components, I always thought it was pretty nifty (yes, apparently, I’m from 1950), but it always seemed complicated …
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Altcoins Hold Gains Above Key Support
8.3.2021
Bitcoin price started a downside correction from the USD 51,850 zone. BTC dipped below the USD 50,000 support zone, but the bulls were active above the USD 49,200 zone. It is currently (12:30 UTC) above USD 50,000 and it still might move higher.
Similarly, most major altcoins are trading above...
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIX
6.3.2021
I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest on some podcasts and at some events, so I thought I’d do a quick little round-up here! These Chronicle posts are just that: an opportunity to share some off-site stiff that I’ve …
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A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
5.3.2021
Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows …
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Evolution Finance Teams Up With PAID Network To Support DeFi
5.3.2021
PAID Network has entered into a strategic partnership with Evolution Finance, a portal for DeFi exposure and lending channels. The integration will pave the way for the inclusion of Evolution Finance’s revolutionary lending services into Ignition, a highly-acclaimed IDO Platform designed by PAID...
Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end bundlers
5.3.2021
I really like the kind of tech writing where a fellow developer lays out some specific needs, tries out different tech to fulfill those needs, and documents how it went for them.
That’s exactly what Andrew Walpole did here. …
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Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end bundlers
5.3.2021
I really like the kind of tech writing where a fellow developer lays out some specific needs, tries out different tech to fulfill those needs, and documents how it went for them.
That’s exactly what Andrew Walpole did here. …
The post Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end...
Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, Ditching em Units, and Global Privacy Control
4.3.2021
In this week’s news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get “donut” scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it’s time to ditch pixels in media queries, and a snippet that prevents annoying form validation styling.
Chrome will…
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Bitcoin Stablizes With Insitutional Support, But Volatility Could Hit in March
4.3.2021
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Cryptocurrencies made a strong bounce back as the yield of the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond fell below 1.5% to 1.429% after a week's surge. On Monday, Bitcoin rose to $49,000 and briefly touched $50,000...
Exploring @property and its Animating Powers
4.3.2021
Uh, what’s @property? It’s a new CSS feature! It gives you superpowers. No joke, there is stuff that @property can do that unlocks things in CSS we’ve never been able to do before.
While everything about @property is exciting, …
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How to Develop and Test a Mobile-First Design in 2021
4.3.2021
The internet has connected 4.66 billion people with each other as of October 2020. A total of 59% of the world’s total population. Amazingly, this is not even the surprising part. The stat to look out for is mobile users …
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A Bare-Bones Approach to Versatile and Reusable Skeleton Loaders
3.3.2021
UI components like spinners and skeleton loaders make waiting for a page load less frustrating and might even affect how loading times are perceived when used correctly. They won’t completely prevent users from abandoning the website, but they might encourage …
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Enjin New Solutions 'Bring Scaling to Ethereum, Remove Fees, Support NFTs'
3.3.2021
Source: A screenshot, Instagram/enjin
Ecosystem of blockchain software products Enjin (ENJ) has announced today a set of scaling solutions which they claim "remove gas fees from any blockchain" - the first of which is planned for launch early next month.
According to the team, this...
React Without Build Tools
3.3.2021
Jim Nielsen:
I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.
Refreshing indeed:
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It’s not really the React that’s the hard part …
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How to Animate the Details Element
2.3.2021
Here’s a nice simple demo from Moritz Gießmann on animating the triangle of a <details> element, which is the affordance that tells people this thing can be opened. Animating it, then is another kind of affordance that tells people …
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The Best Font Loading Strategies and How to Execute Them
2.3.2021
Zach Leatherman wrote up a comprehensive list of font loading strategies that have been widely shared in the web development field. I took a look at this list before, but got so scared (and confused), that I decided not to …
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The “Gray Dead Zone” of Gradients
1.3.2021
Erik D. Kennedy notes an interesting phenomenon of color gradients. If you have a gradient between two colors where the line between them in the color space goes through the zero-saturation middle, you get this “gray dead zone” in …
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How to Map Mouse Position in CSS
1.3.2021
Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY.
We could do this in JavaScript. If we did, we could do things like make make an element …
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CSS Border Font
28.2.2021
Every letter in this “font” by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border. That means employing some trickery like border-radius with exotic syntax like border-radius: 100% 100% 0 0 / 37.5% 37.5% 0 0; which …
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