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Motion Paths – Past, Present and Future
6.12.2019
Cassie Evans has a great intro to motion paths. That is, being able to animate an element along a path. Not just up/down/left/right, but whatever curvy/wiggly/weird path you want.
It's an interesting subject because there are so many different technologies helping to do it over time. SMIL...
Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL
6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL.
Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...
CryptoBridge Closes Down and Waves Relaunches, DEXs Face Tough Times
6.12.2019
CryptoBridge DEX is closing down in a hurry, forcing customers to complete KYC procedures within just two weeks to get their money back. Should other exchanges be worried?
Auto Layout lands in Figma
5.12.2019
Here’s a fresh update to my favorite design tool that is thoroughly exciting: Auto layout! That means we can make frames that resize based on the size of the content within it. That's particularly useful for buttons in a design system where you want to drop a button on the page and then keep...
ChromaWay Doubles Down on Gaming With Antler Interactive Acquistion
5.12.2019
ChromaWay will add Antler's game catalog to its own Chromia blockchain with the acquisition
Circle Co-Founder Sean Neville Steps Down as Co-CEO
5.12.2019
Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle, is stepping down as co-CEO six years after founding the crypto trading and payments startup with Jeremy Allaire
The Darknet Just Had One of Its Wildest Months Yet
3.12.2019
Darknet marketplaces exist on a constant knife edge, never more than an exit scam, LE bust, or DDoS away from going down. Even by their usual frenetic standards, though, November was quite a month for DNMs, with high drama and intrigue aplenty. Despite a number of marketplaces disappearing off...
Waves DEX Shuts Down and Relaunches as Hybrid Cryptocurrency Exchange
2.12.2019
Decentralized crypto trading platform Waves DEX shut down to transition to a new, hybrid exchange
CryptoBridge Decentralized Exchange Shuts Down Citing Regulations, Markets
2.12.2019
Decentralized exchange CryptoBridge shuts down due to purported market conditions and regulatory pressure
CryptoBridge Shuts Down, Vertcoin Falls Victim of a 51% Attack Again
2.12.2019
The last month of 2019 has started with bad news for two relatively small projects in the Cryptoverse: a crypto exchange, CryptoBridge, ranked 187th, is shutting down, while a coin, ranked 235th, Vertcoin (VTC), experienced another 51% attack.
CryptoBridge announced on its website that they'll...
‘In Small Steps’ China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rates
1.12.2019
Careful not to rush too much with stimulus, the Chinese government nevertheless realizes that its behemoth economy is invariably slowing down. New loan interest rate cuts have been announced recently to encourage bank lending and borrowing in the private sector. With a brewing liquidity crisis...
The Jim Bell System Revisited
1.12.2019
Let me re-emphasize that I have neither the knowledge nor the will to implement this system. I certainly don’t like the State, but I would rather concentrate my energies on constructive rather than destructive solutions. That said, I still think governments everywhere are going to be staring...
iOS 13 Broke the Classic Pure CSS Parallax Technique
27.11.2019
I know. You hate parallax. You know what we should hate more? When things that used to work on the web stop working without any clear warning or idea why.
Way back in 2014, Keith Clark blogged an exceptionally clever CSS trick where you essentially use a CSS transform to scale an element down...
Ripple-Backed Omni Rentals to Shut Down by Late 2019: Report
26.11.2019
Ripple-backed Omni Rentals will reportedly shut down its services and send 10 of its engineers to Coinbase
Ripple-Backed Rental Firm Omni Shutting Down With Coinbase Snapping Up Dev Team: Report
26.11.2019
Digital rentals marketplace Omni is shutting up shop, with Coinbase agreeing a deal to take on its engineers
Unregistered ICO Issuer Gladius Shuts Down 9 Months After SEC Settlement
25.11.2019
Gladius Network plans to shut down nine months after settling charges with the SEC, saying it no longer has the funding to continue operating
Bitcoin Will Come Down to $4,500 Price Point, Says Crypto Expert Tony Vays
25.11.2019
Bitcoin is falling rapidly, and the nightmares of 2018 seem to be coming back again. While the apex crypto was priced at about $13,800 in the last week of July, it has steadily come down to less than $6,800 as of date. This is despite several crypto proponents and experts claiming that Bitcoin will...
The New Good Ol’ Days
22.11.2019
Eighteen years into this game, I love to reminisce back to the good ol’ days of the early to mid-2000s when there was an explosion of creativity on the web. It felt fresh and unbridled, with boundaries expected to be pushed at every turn, and they were. This was mainly down to one thing, the thing...
Market Update: Cryptos Shed Billions in Rapid Sell-Off
22.11.2019
Digital currency prices have been dropping in value this week and on November 21 the entire cryptoconomy fell below $200 billion. At the moment, most cryptocurrencies are down between 4-12% in the last 24 hours and 10-25% over the last seven days. Traders are currently pondering what will happen...
BTC–The King Steps Down the Throne, as it Slips Recklessly Below $7,000
22.11.2019
The king of cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin slips below $8,000 and even below $7,000 on Coinbase BTC price marks the fresh decrease below $8,000 and $7,000 after almost 6 months of the moderate bull trend Bitcoin records the new 90-day low as it breaks in despair BTC price, unable to maintain the peak...