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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...
Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles
2.12.2019
Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.
So you do a little research and find...
The Power (and Fun) of Scope with CSS Custom Properties
27.11.2019
You’re probably already at least a little familiar with CSS variables. If not, here’s a two-second overview: they are really called custom properties, you set them in declaration blocks like --size: 1em and use them as values like font-size: var(--size);, they differ from preprocessor variables...
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...
Gaming Might Spur Crypto Adoption, But People Need Fun Games First
26.11.2019
While gaming might become another great way to spur crypto adoption, people won’t play games just because they come with crypto, says an investor.
Arianna Simpson, the founder of an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Autonomous Partners, tweeted that games are much more...
Here Are Some Fun Things to Do With Bitcoin Cash
21.11.2019
The best use for any currency would be to spend it on things you need or even better, enjoy. And spending has to be easy and inexpensive too. Bitcoin cash has these characteristics and brings them to the digital money world. They have been acknowledged by crypto users who appreciate fast and...
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.
See the Pen
Animated Pac-Man by Maks Akymenko (@maximakymenko)
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The Trick to Animating the Dot on the Letter “i”
4.11.2019
Here’s the trick: by combining the Turkish letter "ı" and the period "." we can create something that looks like the letter "i," but is made from two separate elements. This opens us up to some fun options to style or animate the dot of the letter independently from the stalk. Worried about...
Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!
8.10.2019
There are so many things you can do with clipping paths. I've been exploring them for quite some time and have come up with different techniques and use cases for them — and I want to share my findings with you! I hope this will spark new ideas for fun things you can do with the CSS clip-path...
Ghost Buttons with Directional Awareness in CSS
13.9.2019
It would surprise me if you'd never come across a ghost button 👻. You know the ones: they have a transparent background that fills with a solid color on hover. Smashing Magazine has a whole article going into the idea. In this article, we’re going to build a ghost button, but that will...
Fun Ways to Use Your Cryptocurrencies
10.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have been around for quite a while now, but it was really in 2017 when it got the attention of many. It was in this year when the value of Bitcoin reached over 20,000 US dollars, and this is why many people and businesses started to use it. Apart from Bitcoin, many...
Should a website work without JavaScript?
2.9.2019
The JS Party podcast just had a fun episode where they debated this classic question by splitting into two groups of two. Each group was assigned a "side" of this debate, and then let loose to debate it. I don't think anybody can listen to a show like this and not be totally flooded with thoughts!...
Going Buildless
27.8.2019
I'm in a long distance relationship. That means I’m on a plane to England every few weeks, and every time I'm on that plane, I think about how nice it would be to read some Reddit posts. What I could do is find a Reddit app that lets me cache posts for offline (I’m sure there is one out there),...
Staggered CSS Transitions
14.8.2019
Let's say you wanted to move an element on :hover for a fun visual effect.
@media (hover: hover) {
.list--item {
transition: 0.1s;
transform: translateY(10px);
}
.list--item:hover,
.list--item:focus {
transform: translateY(0);
}
}
Cool cool. But what if you had several list...
Moving Text on a Curved Path
9.8.2019
There was a fun article in The New York Times the other day describing the fancy way Elizabeth Warren and her staff let people take a selfie with Warren. But... the pictures aren't actually selfies because they are taken by someone else. The article has his hilarious line of text that wiggles by...
Collective #535
25.7.2019
Multi-column manipulation * Guide to BigInt * Rooki * Fast Software, the Best Software * Index fun
Collective #535 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Building a Conference Schedule with CSS Grid
24.6.2019
It’s hard to beat the feeling of finding a perfect use for a new technology. You can read every handy primer under the sun and ooh-and-ahh at flashy demos, but the first time you use it on your own project… that’s when things really click.
I gained a new appreciation for CSS Grid when building...
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...
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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The Crypto Fun Side: Collection of 20 Memes and Jokes
11.5.2019
Although news of hacks are hardly fun, the crypto community is well-known for taking everything in stride and having a few jokes at their own expense. Even if the market somehow collapsed, you could bet you’d see loads of jokes about it, even from people who were painfully hit by it, as this...