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Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
6.1.2020
Our own Robin Rendle:
[...] folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything...
BTC’s Hashrate Touches 120 Exahash, But the Price Has Not Followed
3.1.2020
On January 1, the BTC network hashrate touched an all-time high at close to 120 exahash per second (EH/s). Despite the crypto market lull and lower BTC prices, the 2020 milestone happened just before the blockchain’s 11th anniversary. BTC’s curious jump in hashrate has the cryptosphere...
User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays
27.12.2019
Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With calmer markets this holiday season, the crypto ecosystem has been operating relatively smoothly, with few exceptions. The fiat world, however, saw some glitches...
The Origin Story of Container Queries
16.12.2019
Container queries don’t exist today but a lot of web developers have been arguing in their favor lately. At first, the idea sounds relatively simple: whereas media queries allow us to make style changes based on the width of the browser, container queries would allow us to make style updates when...
China’s Inflation Hits a Record 4.5% as Beijing Prepares to Test Digital Yuan
12.12.2019
China has been confronted with multiple economic and financial problems this year amidst an ongoing trade war with the United States. Authorities in Beijing have been trying to overcome the challenges with administrative measures in what has become a market economy over the years. Inflation of...
The Coolest Jobs in Crypto
10.12.2019
Meme Lord. Street artist. Unique startup founder. Feeder of the hungry. There’s no end to the amount of cool jobs in crypto, and new uses for decentralized, peer-to-peer cash are limited only by the bounds of one’s imagination. Whether finding new and innovative solutions...
Market Shrugs Off Maker's Problems
10.12.2019
Maker (MKR), the native token of MakerDAO, remains largely unmoved by the market, despite a potential major loophole in MakerDAO was exposed, prompting a swift reaction from the foundation.
In the face of yesterday’s potentially bad news, followed by a quick response from the Maker Foundation,...
One of Defi’s Greatest Problems Might Have Just Been Solved
25.11.2019
What’s the greatest challenge facing the decentralized finance ecosystem? Improving user experience? Onboarding the unbanked? Actually, the biggest problem defi has faced up until now has lain deeper than that. It resides at the base layer, where one of the longest-running afflictions...
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...
Diana Smith’s Pure CSS Artwork “Lace”
8.11.2019
Diana is at it again with her absolutely unbelievable CSS paintings. This latest one is called Lace. Past paintings are Francine, Vignes, and Zigario.
She wrote for us last year if you'd like a little insight into her thinking.
Andy Baio looked at the painting in a variety of older...
Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
7.11.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout:
Assuming all of your customers...
Cash Runs Dry at ATMs as Protests Escalate in Chile
26.10.2019
There’s a lot of unrest in Chile right now as the country has seen massive protests against government manipulation and an escalation of financial problems. Local reports detail a few banking establishments have been burned after customers started having issues withdrawing cash from ATMs....
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
20.10.2019
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the risk of double spending. Some of its features, however, like the characteristic irreversibility of blockchain transactions, have created certain challenges for...
How to Trade Crypto in Person Safely
20.10.2019
With mainstream exchanges becoming progressively cumbersome due to privacy invasive policy and regulation, some crypto traders are switching to more private, face-to-face trading. While this route isn’t for everyone, and comes with unique risks, it does offer a very real solution to many...
Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale
17.10.2019
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically anything that came after Ethereum) promised even greater optimizations. In the event, these networks have run into the same difficulties as Bitcoin, with...
Turkish Government Freezes Over 3 Million Bank Accounts
5.10.2019
Hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals with tax obligations to the Turkish state have received foreclosure notices this week informing them about their frozen bank accounts. The government of Turkey, which is struggling with financial and economic problems under geopolitical pressure...
Automated (and Guided!) Accessibility Audits with axe Pro
3.10.2019
It's important to know there are tools for automated accessibility testing of websites. They are a vital part in helping make sure your website is usable for everyone, which is both a noble goal and damn good for business. Automated tests won't catch every potential accessibility issue, but they...
A Codebase and a Community
27.9.2019
I woke up one morning and realized that I had it all wrong. I discovered that code and design are unable to solve every problem on a design systems team, even if many problems can be solved by coding and designing in a dark room all day. Wait, huh? How on earth does that make any sense? Well...
5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe
16.9.2019
Scott Jehl has written this wonderful piece about how 5G is on the horizon and how it could cause problems for users. But first, he starts by talking about the overwhelming positive news about it:
[...] as it matures 5G is predicted to improve network speeds dramatically. Carriers are predicting...
Learning on the fly
16.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 16 September, 2019 Learn through guidance “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller Welcome back, CMC family! We are now in the second half of September. Time really flies […]
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