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The Guide to Understanding Crypto: How Cryptocurrency Works [Part 1]
6.8.2019
Introducing The Crypto Demystified Series Welcome to your guide on cryptocurrency! If you’re new to the world of cryptocurrencies and are looking to learn more about them without the complicated jargon, you’ve come to the right place. You might have […]
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Can you nest @media and @support queries?
5.8.2019
Yes, you can, and it doesn't really matter in what order. A CSS preprocessor is not required. It works in regular CSS.
This works:
@supports(--a: b) {
@media (min-width: 1px) {
body {
background: red;
}
}
}
And so does this, the reverse nesting of the above:
@media (min-width:...
The Real Dark Web
5.8.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Charlie Owen that everyone in the web design industry isn’t using the latest and greatest technology. And that’s okay! Charlie writes:
Most web developers are working on very "boring" teams. They're producing workhorse products that serve the organisation needs....
Giant Backed Terra's Strategy Works, Says Stablecoin Co-Founder
1.8.2019
The goal of Terra, a South Korea-based stablecoin project aimed at mass adoption, is to become the largest payments network in Asia in the next three years, Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terra, told Cryptonews.com.
To accomplish its goal, Terra, which is backed by South Korea’s internet giant Kakao...
How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking
25.7.2019
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score.
It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused...
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 MakerDAO Works – The Stablecoin Explainer
30.5.2019
The most popular decentralized finance application on ethereum, MakerDAO, was built to keep a stablecoin's price stable. Under the hood, it's quite complex, featuring two separate tokens, a lending system and even a voting process. Here's how it works
How to Create a Bitcoin Cash Treasure Hunt
27.5.2019
Creating a treasure hunt is a great way to introduce newcomers to the concept of cryptocurrency and to its actual application. It will teach them some of the basics like how a wallet works and give the finders their first few coins. Also Read: Massive Growth by P2P Exchange and AT&T Accepting...
Using Jetpack to Accelerate WordPress Development
16.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
[Geoff:] I've built a fair number of WordPress sites in my day. It's been my go-to since the 2.x-ish days because it works for any site, big or small. That's the sort of solution and flexibility you like to have as a freelancer.
Boy, I wish I had Jetpack available...
All About mailto: Links
22.3.2019
You can make a garden variety anchor link (<a>) open up a new email. Let's take a little journey into this feature. It's pretty easy to use, but as with anything web, there are lots of things to consider.
The basic functionality
<a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com">Email...
It’s pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site generator
21.3.2019
Little confession here: when I first saw Netlify CMS at a glance, I thought: cool, maybe I'll try that someday when I'm exploring CMSs for a new project. Then as I looked at it with fresh eyes: I can already use this! It's a true CMS in that it adds a content management UI on top of any static site...
Blurred Borders in CSS
20.3.2019
Say we want to target an element and just visually blur the border of it. There is no simple, single built-in web platform feature we can reach for. But we can get it done with a little CSS trickery.
Here's what we're after:
The desired result.
Let's see how we can code this effect, how we...
Using Local with Flywheel
19.3.2019
Have you seen Local by Flywheel? It's a native app for helping set up local WordPress developer environments. I absolutely love it and use it to do all my local WordPress development work. It brings a lovingly designed GUI to highly technical tasks in a way that I think works very well. Plus...
Keen makes it a breeze to build and ship customer-facing metrics
28.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Keen is an analytics tool that makes it wonderfully easy to collect data. But Keen is unique in that it is designed not just to help you look at that data, but to share that data with your own customers! Customer-facing metrics, as it were.
Keen works just the way...
Collective #494
21.2.2019
Codecrumbs * How @supports Works * Iconsvg * Lunar Popup * Amino * How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web
Collective #494 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
How @supports Works
18.2.2019
CSS has a neat feature that allows us to test if the browser supports a particular property or property:value combination before applying a block of styles — like how a @media query matches when, say, the width of the browser window is narrower than some specified size and then the CSS within...
Revisiting the abbr element
7.2.2019
An irresistible HTML element deep dive from Ire Aderinokun, this time on the <abbr title=""> element for abbreviations. You can kinda just use it (JUI) and it works fine, but if you're hoping to make a tooltip for them (which works on touchscreens as well), then it's much more complicated....
More Like position: tricky;
4.2.2019
I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it's not used that much...
SVG Filter Effects: Poster Image Effect with <feComponentTransfer>
29.1.2019
Learn how feComponentTransfer works and how you can posterize images with this powerful SVG filter primitive.
SVG Filter Effects: Poster Image Effect with <feComponentTransfer> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops
SVG Filter Effects: Outline Text with <feMorphology>
22.1.2019
In this second part of our SVG Filter series you'll learn all about the feMorphology filter, how it works and how you can use it to create interesting effects.
SVG Filter Effects: Outline Text with <feMorphology> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops