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Bitcoin Miner Canaan’s IPO Nets Just $90M After Losing Banking Partner
21.11.2019
Canaan completes $90M IPO without major backer Credit Suisse
Techniques for a Newspaper Layout with CSS Grid and Border Lines Between Elements
20.11.2019
I recently had to craft a newspaper-like design that featured multiple row and column spans with divider lines in between them. Take a look at the mockup graphic here and see if it makes you sweat at all. If you’re like me, you have been around a while and know just how difficult this would have...
Variations on Theme: Reinventing Type on the Web
20.11.2019
If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, really really like them. So while I am super excited about how well Tristan is doing with his hydrotherapy —we’re walking 50% further than he...
Build your own React
20.11.2019
Wowza! Rodrigo Pombo’s article about how to build React from scratch is fantastic, not only because it’s well written, but because of the outstanding interaction design: each line in the code examples ge highlighted and explored in further detail as you scroll down the page.
This makes it super...
Restrictions Worldwide Show Why It’s Vital to Be Your Own Bank
20.11.2019
As capital controls and banking restrictions continue to affect various populations worldwide, standing in the way of individuals and their hard-earned savings, some are looking to safer options and even cryptocurrencies. Lebanon, Zimbabwe, and India are just a few of the countries to deal with...
JAMstack, Fugu, and Houdini
19.11.2019
What has me really excited about building websites recently is the fact that we, as front-end developers, have the power to do so much more. Only a few years ago, I would need a whole team of developers to accomplish what can now be done with just a few amazing tools.
Although...
Oh, the Places JavaScript Will Go
19.11.2019
I tend to be pretty vocal about the problems client-side JavaScript cause from a performance perspective. We're shipping more JavaScript than ever to our user's devices and the result is increasingly brittle and resource-intensive experiences. It's... not great.
But that doesn't mean I don't like...
serpstack
19.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Is it your job to keep an eye on your company's search engine placement? Or your clients? Or are you building a tool to do just that? Manually Googling stuff isn't going to scale particularly well there. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hit an API and it would return...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
DAI Is Moving Beyond Ether, But DeFi Isn’t Decentralized Just Yet
19.11.2019
MakerDAO may be diversifying the assets it works with, but it has a long way to go to decentralize the power to make key decisions
Researcher Breaks Mimblewimble, Deanonymizing 96% of Grin Transactions
18.11.2019
The Mimblewimble privacy technology used by cryptocurrencies such as Beam and Grin is broken. That’s the claim of researcher Ivan Bogatyy who has published a report documenting his findings. In it, he reveals how he was able to deanonymize 96% of all Grin transactions just by running a node...
Researcher Breaks Grin’s ‘Privacy’ Spending Just $60 Per Week
18.11.2019
A researcher was able to uncover 96% transactions of Mimblewimble’s privacy-centric coin Grin using $60 per week on AWS
Is Blockchain-powered Medicine Just What the Doctor Ordered?
17.11.2019
Just about every major business area you care to name – from the financial sector to the food industry – seems to have invested big in fintech and decentralized technology. But many medical professionals still want to keep blockchain at arm’s length. Why is that?
“Healthcare professionals...
Bitcoin.com Wallet App Marks Over Five Million Wallets Created
14.11.2019
The Bitcoin.com Wallet has now achieved a major milestone with over 5 million wallets created since the app launched just a little over two years ago. An upcoming version of the digital wallet app will add SLP token support and additional features. Also Read: Video: Bitcoin Cash Lets You Buy Equity...
Venezuela President Maduro Is Not Pro-Crypto, He Just Likes Petro
13.11.2019
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is not as pro-crypto as he seems. He just wants to seize the opportunity to promote Petro and deal with hyperinflation
Just Launched: New Liquidity Metric To Combat “Volume Inflation” Problem
12.11.2019
Launch announcement includes improved pricing algorithm and several new products to empower users in the cryptocurrency space We just made a series of very important announcements at our inaugural conference in Singapore! With these announcements, we aim to continue raising […]
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Pac-Man… in CSS!
11.11.2019
You all know famous Pac-Man video game, right? The game is fun and building an animated Pac-Man character in HTML and CSS is just as fun! I’ll show you how to create one while leveraging the powers of the clip-path property.
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Animated Pac-Man by Maks Akymenko (@maximakymenko)
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Did South Korea Just 'Sentence Blockchain Gaming to Death'?
11.11.2019
South Korean gaming industry representatives say that the government may have doomed blockchain gaming to oblivion – after a regulator banned Infinity Star, a game that makes use of Ethereum ERC 721 Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Late last week, the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC)...
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Trading Volume Just Hit Another All-Time High
9.11.2019
The daily trading volume of Bakkt monthly Bitcoin futures has hit a new all-time high on Friday
Two-Value Display Syntax (and Sometimes Three)
8.11.2019
You know the single-value syntax: .thing { display: block; }. The value "block" being a single value. There are lots of single values for display. For example, inline-flex, which is like flex in that it becomse a flex container, but behaves like an inline-level element rather than a block-level...