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Thoughts After Looking at the Web Almanac’s Chapter on CSS
13.11.2019
Woah, I didn't see this coming! The HTTP Archive dropped this big "state of the web" report called Web Almanac with guest writers exploring data from 5.8 million websites.
Una Kravetz and Adam Argyle wrote the CSS chapter. The point is to squeeze a digestible amount of insight out of a mountain's...
Report: Canada Exploring Digital Currency to Track People’s Spending Habits
17.10.2019
The Bank of Canada explores CBDC to help fight the direct threat of cryptocurrencies
Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!
8.10.2019
There are so many things you can do with clipping paths. I've been exploring them for quite some time and have come up with different techniques and use cases for them — and I want to share my findings with you! I hope this will spark new ideas for fun things you can do with the CSS clip-path...
An Explanation of How the Intersection Observer Watches
24.9.2019
There have been several excellent articles exploring how to use this API, including choices from authors such as Phil Hawksworth, Preethi, and Mateusz Rybczonek, just to name a few. But I’m aiming to do something a bit different here. I had an opportunity earlier in the year to present the VueJS...
‘PlayDapp’ Exploring the Global Market with Blockchain-Based Games
20.9.2019
PlayDapp Limited held a press conference at El Tower Marigold Hall in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, with major executives in attendance, during, which it announced its strategies for promoting its next-generation blockchain game service platform, PlayDapp. “We will pioneer new markets and bring a...
Reverse Lookups with JavaScript
28.8.2019
I’ve always loved exploring regular expressions because they’re one of those skills that’s never taught in school — you need to pick them up on the fly, messing up and fixing them along the way. Regex’s are incredibly powerful, and one power they have are referred...
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support to Its Blockchain Keystore
15.8.2019
On August 13, Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate, published the company’s new Blockchain Keystore SDK for developers and the latest release supports Bitcoin Core (BTC). The version follows Samsung’s previous Keystore release which only supported ETH and the ERC20...
Bitcoin Mining Industry’s Exponential Growth Just Won’t Stop
11.8.2019
A decade ago when Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed the Bitcoin network, the security behind the protocol was guarded by only a few miners. These days, mining the SHA-256 algorithm has become a thriving industry that hasn’t stopped growing. Also Read: Exploring the SLP Token Universe Built on...
Coinbase Exploring Eight New Assets in Bid to Expand Market Access
5.8.2019
Coinbase announced it is exploring support for eight new cryptos, and ultimately wants to support a vast majority of digital assets globally
Exploring the SLP Token Universe Built on the Bitcoin Cash Chain
29.7.2019
Since last August, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) has become a prevalent application within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. So far there’s been thousands of SLP tokens created, a number of which have been very popular and used regularly. Tokens have been issued by governments like Liberland...
Fidelity International Is Exploring Blockchain Through Crypto Testing
9.7.2019
Fidelity International, the renowned provider of investment services, has begun exploring blockchain as well as the way customers perceive digital currencies. This endeavor has been undertaken by the company’s Asian and European branches where they have introduced the latest trading simulator...
Exploring Sets and Maps in JavaScript
3.7.2019
Let’s take a look into two new constructs that were introduced in the JavaScript ES6 specification:
Set - The Set object allows you to store unique values of any type
Goldman Sachs Hints At Exploring Its Own Crypto Much Like J.P. Morgan
29.6.2019
The crypto space is an exciting industry that’s presently driving in interests from across industry verticals. The latest entity to have expressed its interest to venture into this space is one of the most prominent American MNC banks, Goldman Sachs. David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs,...
It’s pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site generator
21.3.2019
Little confession here: when I first saw Netlify CMS at a glance, I thought: cool, maybe I'll try that someday when I'm exploring CMSs for a new project. Then as I looked at it with fresh eyes: I can already use this! It's a true CMS in that it adds a content management UI on top of any static site...
How I Built a GPS-Powered Weather Clock With My Old iPhone 4
17.1.2019
My first smartphone was an iPhone 4s. I remember the excitement of exploring its capabilities at a time when it was the coolest thing around. Eventually, of course, I replaced it with a newer model and the old iPhone, still in mint condition, gathered dust for two years. What a waste!
But was...
The Most Hearted of 2018
4.1.2019
We've released the Most Hearted Pens, Posts, and Collections on CodePen for 2018! Just absolutely incredible work on here — it's well worth exploring.
Remember CodePen has a three-tiered hearting system, so while the number next to the heart reflects the number of users who hearted the item...
Understanding The Underlying Processes of JavaScript’s Closures And Scope Chain
5.7.2018
When developers start exploring the JavaScript programming language, the concept of Scope and Closures can be expected to be a hurdle to their progress. The reason behind this behavior is the compl
Just a Couple’a Fun Typography Links
22.5.2018
Marcin Wichary made an incredible demo exploring "segmented type" as in, the kind you might see on a display like a microwave, but scaling up in complexity from there.
"Datalegreya is a typeface which can interweave data curves with text."
Airbnb commissions their own new font, Cereal (complete...
Ideas for Proximity Feedback with Progressive Hover Effects
2.5.2018
We're exploring a progressive hover effect which triggers not just when we are hovering an element but progressively, when we come close to it.
Ideas for Proximity Feedback with Progressive Hover Effects was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops