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WTF is a Static API
15.5.2020
Just like there is a movement to make more websites (and more of websites) from pre-rendered static files (Jamstack), so to might we consider moving content-based APIs to be static. Sean C Davis:
A static API is simply a collection of flat JSON files that live on a content delivery...
ShapeShift’s Erik Voorhees on How the Best Regulation for Bitcoin Is Just Math
15.5.2020
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Pseudo-elements in the Web Animations API
14.5.2020
To use the Web Animations API (e.g. el.animate()) you need a reference to a DOM element to target. So, how do you use it on pseudo-elements, which don’t really offer a direct reference? Dan Wilson covers a (newish?) part of the API itself:
const logo...
This Week in Crypto: A Data Perspective
13.5.2020
Powered by In this new format, IntoTheBlock will be looking at key weekly developments in the crypto space from aContinue Reading
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Ongoing Improvements to Combat Volume Inflation
13.5.2020
Hi CoinMarketCap users, Over the past few weeks, we have been actively soliciting and reviewing feedback from our community (suchContinue Reading
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Why does writing matter in remote work?
12.5.2020
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they’ll tell you it’s been valuable to them. Maybe it’s opened doors. Maybe it’s got them a job. Maybe it’s got them a conference invite. Maybe they just like the thrill of knowing people have read and responded to...
How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
12.5.2020
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Ultimately the trick boils down to figuring out how far you’ve scrolled on the page and changing the title to show it, like:
document.title = `${percent}% ${post.title}`
Knut’s trick assumes React and installing an additional library. I’m sure...
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
12.5.2020
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with font-size usage, but they are just functions, so they can be used anywhere you’d use a number, like a length.
Sometimes pretty basic usage...
Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
11.5.2020
This is a hell of a series by Stephanie Eckles. It’s a real pleasure watching CSS evolve and solve problems in clear and elegant ways.
Just today I ran across this little jab at CSS in a StackOverflow answer from 2013.
This particular jab was about CSS lacking a way to pause between...
A Crypto Trader’s View on Managing Risk
11.5.2020
As we all know, cryptocurrency is the most volatile market in the world, at least for the last few years.Continue Reading
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Charles Hoskinson on the Power of Crypto, Working From Home, and Mongolian Hunting Falcons
10.5.2020
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Charles Hoskinson on the Power of Crypto, Working From Home, and Mongolian Hunting Falcons
9.5.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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Chromium lands Flexbox gap
9.5.2020
I mentioned this the other day via Michelle Barker’s coverage, but here I’ll link to the official announcement. The main thing is that we’ll be getting gap with flexbox, which means:
.flex-parent {
display: flex;
gap: 1rem;
}
.flex-child {
flex: 1;
}
That’s excellent...
prerender.js
9.5.2020
This is another player in the game of rendering the page of the link that you’re about to click on before you click it. It’s like getting a decent performance boost for extremely little effort.
Instant.page is another one, and I’ve been sufficiently convinced by its methodology...
An In-Depth Look at CoinMarketCap’s Newly Improved Liquidity Score for Finding Best Crypto Exchanges
8.5.2020
CoinMarketCap first launched the Liquidity Metric in November 2019 to help users find the best crypto exchanges, by calculating andContinue Reading
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A Basic Guide to Using Liquidity to Find The Best Crypto Exchanges
8.5.2020
CoinMarketCap just made several important upgrades to the Liquidity Metric, which launched not long ago at the November 2019 TheContinue Reading
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Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout
8.5.2020
Michelle Barker notes that it’s been a heck of a week for us CSS layout nerds.
Firefox has long had the best DevTools for CSS Grid, but Chrome is about to catch up and go one bit better by visualizing grid line numbers and names.
Firefox supports gap for display: flex, which is great,...
Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS
7.5.2020
The accessibility trick is using <input type="range"> and wrestling it into shape with CSS rather than giving up and re-building it with divs or whatever and later forget about accessibility.
The most clever example uses an angled linear-gradient background making the input look like...
Crypto Price Oracles Are About to Become “Unstoppable”
7.5.2020
A Chainlink node operator has moved its data to a new "unstoppable" domain on the Ethereum blockchain
Chainlink (LINK), Tezos (XTZ) — Key Levels to Watch as BTC Consolidates
5.5.2020
Tezos and Chainlink having been the top performers in altcoins as Bitcoin consolidates at $9,000