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Thou Art Our Beloved, Oh Bitcoin! $12,000 Is Just The Beginning
26.6.2019
The world was at the throat of Bitcoin and other crypto companies when the markets crashed in 2018. From around $20,000 apiece in December 2017, Bitcoin fell to around $3,400 in January 2019. In just a year, several cryptocurrencies lost about 90% of their price value, and this attracted severe...
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans
25.6.2019
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is "snarky" or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to "feature" or "bury" comments. It's old but it still works fine in...
How to Find a Bitcoin Cash Meetup Near You
24.6.2019
Cryptocurrency community meetups are a great way to learn about merchant adoption in your local area, talk to like-minded people and just have some fun. Here’s how you can easily find a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) meetup near you. Also Read: Chess.com Lets You Pay for Membership With Bitcoin Cash...
Staking Isn’t Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn’t Be
22.6.2019
Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt
Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two
21.6.2019
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture> element with <source media=""> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting reply from Michael Gale:
What about folks who love...
Checkout the Last Public Revision with Mercurial
19.6.2019
I’ve always preferred git over Mercurial (hg) because the feature branch workflow makes organizing code and working off of master very easy. You don’t get that with vanilla mercurial — instead, commits can just sort of apply on top of each other, without much organization....
Peaceful Warrior Lets You Buy Jewelry With Bitcoin Cash
19.6.2019
Do you want to show off your support for cryptocurrency and look good doing it? Peaceful Warrior lets you buy jewelry that will do just that, and you can also pay for all items in the store with bitcoin cash, of course. Also Read: How to Invest in Cryptocurrency Without Worrying About Volatility...
Bitcoin.com Just Rebranded – Check out Our New Look
17.6.2019
You may have noticed that Bitcoin.com is looking a little different. We’re excited to unveil our new look after six months of hard work. Our domain has a long history, and as a company we’ve grown a great deal. After consideration of the crypto future ahead of us all, we decided...
What Makes Slovenia a Cryptocurrency Adoption Leader – Bitcoin.com Mini-Documentary
16.6.2019
Slovenia has a population of just 2 million but contains more retail locations accepting bitcoin cash payments than the entire United States. What makes this small country such a cryptocurrency adoption leader? Watch the following video to find out. Also Read: How to Exchange Your Amazon Gift Cards...
Components, yo.
14.6.2019
I see VuePress just went 1.0. Explained simply, it's a static site generator based on Vue. But of course, you work in Vue, which means you work in components.
All the modern JavaScript frameworks are component-based. Even when they disagree with each other about specific things (like how Svelte...
Review: The Corazon Trezor by Gray Is Made of Titanium
14.6.2019
Hardware wallets don’t have to look beautiful – they just have to work. The Corazon by Gray is a silver titanium device that happens to delivers on both counts. USB hardware has never looked or felt so good in your hand. All that brushed metal and angular chic comes at a price though...
Jack Dorsey's Crypto Team Just Got its First Member
13.6.2019
Jack Dorsey. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Ted
Payments company Square, co-founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, just hired the first member of its cryptocurrency-focused division, Square Crypto.
Steve Lee. Steve Lee, an angel investor, startup advisor, and former product director...
Electroneum Price Analysis: It seems it was just one-day happiness yesterday!
12.6.2019
After reaching 3 million users already, ETN is also tweeting every minute update of the CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit happening right now in London. In fact, the summit also recorded the CEO, Richard Els, about the adoption in Crypto, which they are naming it as unbanked! They are working...
Using Cypress to Write Tests for a React Application
12.6.2019
End-to-end tests are written to assert the flow of an application from start to finish. Instead of handling the tests yourself — you know, manually clicking all over the application — you can write a test that runs as you build the application. That’s what we call continuous integration and it’s...
Tether Price Analysis: New $150 million USDT to be printed or just another hype?
12.6.2019
Price volatility of cryptocurrencies is not something that is regarded as a savory reputation, and this is why investors favor stable coins. The stability they bring in is what balances your portfolio in difficult and unpredictable situations. With various complicated scenarios, humdrum prices...
Binance Just Tested a New Way to Pump a Coin
10.6.2019
Source: iStock/Andrey-Kobylko
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance just added a new way to pump the price of a coin to its arsenal. Now, coins skyrocket not only after the usual listing announcements, initial exchange offerings or moving on the Binance blockchain. The news that the first coin...
Bitcoin’s Price Is Just $300 Away From a Short-Term Bear Reversal
10.6.2019
Bitcoin's bulls need to keep prices above key support at $7,432 to avert a short-term bearish reversal
Closures and Currying in Javascript
6.6.2019
What are Closures?
If you write code in Javascript it's quite likely you have come across the term closure, which is a useful yet often confusing concept. But just what is a c
A Course About CSS Layout and Animations
6.6.2019
Christina Gorton just released a new course called CSS Layout and Animations as a part of Design+Code, which is a $9/month. That includes a ton of video training on everything from stuff like this to React to Sketch to iOS development... and beyond!
Christina approaches the course with my favorite...
Movin’ Modals Along a Path
4.6.2019
Modals always be just appearin'. You might see one once in a while that slides in from one of the edges, or uses some kind of scale/opacity thing to appear from "above" or "below." But we can get weirder than that. Why not have them come in on an offset-path?
Just a swoopy arc is kinda fun.
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