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Croatian Post Now Offers Crypto Exchange Service at 55 Branches
12.12.2019
Croatian Post, the biggest provider of postal services in the Republic of Croatia, is now offering a cryptocurrency exchange service at 55 post offices throughout the country. Currently, five cryptocurrencies are supported. This follows a successful implementation and positive results of a pilot...
Weekly Platform News: Upgrading Navigations to HTTPS, Sale of .org Domains, New Browser Engine
5.12.2019
In this week's roundup: DuckDuckGo gets smarter encryption, a fight over the sale of dot org domains, and a new browser engine is in the works.
Let's get into the news!
DuckDuckGo upgrades and open-sources its encryption
DuckDuckGo has open-sourced its “Smarter Encryption” technology that enables...
serpstack
19.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Is it your job to keep an eye on your company's search engine placement? Or your clients? Or are you building a tool to do just that? Manually Googling stuff isn't going to scale particularly well there. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hit an API and it would return...
Real-Time Google Search Results API with serpstack (Sponsored)
19.11.2019
In my early web days, I was interested in scraping and collecting data based on the results of Google searches. Scraping Google was easier in those days but now Google search results are so dynamic that you can’t rely on getting the same HTML or data structure back. Add in CAPTCHAs, rate...
Ethereum Classic Reveals Results of Use Satisfaction Survey of November 2019
9.11.2019
Serving the global crypto space with its reliable open-source, public, blockchain-oriented computing platform, the Ethereum Classic recently shared the results of its Ethereum Classic Use Satisfaction Survey with its community. The strategic survey comprised of 8 questions concerning Ethereum...
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...
Ethereum (ETH) Embarks Moderate Recovery; Intraday Trading might Bring Good Results
4.10.2019
Ethereum (ETH) price recovers from intraday loss. The expectation of profitable closing strengthens. Ethereum is following Ripple (XRP) today. Both the coins began with a loss and now are moving towards recovery. The currency has a high prospect of giving flourishing results in the future. If...
Zimbabwe Bans Popular Mobile Money Services From Paying out Fiat Cash
3.10.2019
Zimbabwe is once again showing the need to take away from politicians the power to control normal people’s money. The government there is now trying to cope with the results of mismanaging the economy by preventing citizens from using their fiat currency as they see fit. Also Read: Bittrex...
Easy Google Search Result API with Zenserp (Sponsored)
25.9.2019
No matter how much experience I gain in this industry, one task I continue to fail at is building an accurate, flexible, and maintainable scraper for site search. As soon as sites change their HTML structure, my scrape is borked. When looking to build my own search results page, I looked around...
Filtering Data Client-Side: Comparing CSS, jQuery, and React
24.9.2019
Say you have a list of 100 names:
<ul>
<li>Randy Hilpert</li>
<li>Peggie Jacobi</li>
<li>Ethelyn Nolan Sr.</li>
<!-- and then some -->
</ul>
...or file names, or phone numbers, or whatever. And you want to filter them...
The Changing Shape of Crypto Funding in 2019
19.9.2019
2019 was meant to be the year of the IEO. Or was it the STO? Whatever the case, it’s had its share of both, with mixed results. While the number of successfully completed token sales and the number of IEO launchpads has increased significantly, secondary market demand has been underwhelming....
Stellar Intraday Trading could bring Positive Results; XLM Hovers Around $0.058
17.9.2019
The market opened with a downtrend today. Just after a few hours, there was a slight improvement in the coins’ prices. We are expecting that by the day’s end, the speculative upsurge would also take place. Stellar (XLM) is on the same path. The currency started with a loss and is reflecting...
Bitcoin QR Code Generators: Search Results Dominated by Scammers
15.9.2019
Bitcoin or the cryptocurrency space, in general, has been through a lot over the past couple of years. Followed by an epic bull run in 2017, the price of Bitcoin has consistently slumped last year, which has somewhat rebounded in 2019, rising back above $10,000 per BTC. And now, more reasons...
Ripple Price Recovery Bring It to $0.26; Intraday Trading Seems to Give Great Results
8.9.2019
Ripple (XRP) is back to $0.26 in the crypto market. The uptrend in the market is indicating a price rally. The last month of the third quarter has opened new opportunities for the coin to recover from the recent losses. Ripple (XRP) along with many other coins were seen suffering in the first...
Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with GraphQL
23.8.2019
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that is very empowering for front-end developers. As the GraphQL site explains it, you describe your data, ask for what you want, and get predictable results.
If you haven’t worked with it before, GraphQL might be a little confusing to grok at first glance....
New Coinbase Listing Candidates Show Mixed Results
6.8.2019
What was once known as one of the most sure-fire ways to make money in the crypto space, once again proved to be a risky activity as the so-called “the Coinbase listing effect” wanes.
After the popular exchange on Monday announced that it is “exploring the addition” of eight new digital assets...
Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
2.8.2019
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned...
Making a Realistic Glass Effect with SVG
1.8.2019
I’m in love with SVG. Sure, the code can look dense and difficult at first, but you’ll see the beauty in the results when you get to know it. The bonus is that those results are in code, so it can be hooked up to a CMS. Your designers can rest easy knowing they don't have to reproduce an effect...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
Micro Frontends
17.7.2019
One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about "micro frontends" — sort of how I first learned about Toast. I didn't understand the source until asking around, which uncovered this article from Cam Jackson.
In this article we'll describe a recent trend of breaking...