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ZenGo Demonstrates Proof-Of-Concept of a Keyless Wallet for Facebook’s Libra
2.7.2019
ZenGo publishes its open source project, which purports to provide proof-of-concept that its keyless wallet product can support Facebook’s Libra
Confronting Bitcoin Network Issues Using Nakamoto Consensus and a Mining Parliament
1.7.2019
On June 28, Bitcoin Cash proponent Javier Gonzalez announced the launch of an interesting protocol called the Bitcoin Mining Parliament (BMP). The theory behind BMP is backed by the concept of Nakamoto Consensus where “miners are the executive power of Bitcoin” and “any needed...
Rhode Island Solicits Proposals for Blockchain Solutions in Government
14.6.2019
The Rhode Island state government is seeking proofs-of-concept proposals for blockchain tech in state government
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
Lightning Network Pioneer Releases New Code for Bitcoin Scaling Concept
5.6.2019
Co-author of the lightning network white paper Tadge Dryja has released new code for a proposed scaling solution he's been working on for a year
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...
‘Blockchain Is Really Democratizing a Lot of Things,’ Interview With Marta Piekarska, Director of Hyperledger’s Ecosystem
21.5.2019
“In terms of general blockchain space, I think the biggest challenge today is lack of objective experts.” An interview with Marta Piekarska, director of Hyperledger’s ecosystem
Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project
14.5.2019
Creating CSS-based animations and transitions can be a challenge. They can be complex and time-consuming. Need to move forward with a project with little time to tweak the perfect transition? Consider a third-party CSS animation library with ready-to-go animations waiting to be used. Yet, you might...
New ECMAScript Modules in Node v12
9.5.2019
If you’re familiar with popular JavaScript frontend frameworks like React, Angular, etc, then the concept of ECMAScript won’t be entirely new to you. ES Modules have the import and
Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
Creating Reusable Base Classes in TypeScript with a Real-Life Example
18.4.2019
Hey CSS-Tricksters! Bryan Hughes was kind enough to take a concept from an existing post he published on converting to TypeScript and take it a few couple steps further in this post to elaborate on creating reusable base classes. While this post doesn’t require reading the other one, it’s certainly...
8 Little Videos About the Firefox Shape Path Editor
7.3.2019
It sometimes takes a quick 35 seconds for a concept to really sink in. Mikael Ainalem delivers that here, in the case that you haven't quite grokked the concepts behind path-based CSS properties like clip-path and shape-outside.
Here are two of my favorites. The first demonstrates animating text...
Social Cards as a Service
19.2.2019
I love the idea of programmatically generated images. That power is close at hand these days for us front-end developers, thanks to the concept of headless browsers. Take Puppeteer, the library for controlling headless Chrome. Generating images from URLs is their default use case:
const puppeteer...
What Hooks Mean for Vue
4.2.2019
Not to be confused with Lifecycle Hooks, Hooks were introduced in React in v16.7.0-alpha, and a proof of concept was released for Vue a few days after. Even though it was proposed by React, it’s actually an important composition mechanism that has benefits across JavaScript framework ecosystems,...
Nobody is quite wrong.
17.12.2018
There are two opposing views on using non-polyfillable new web features that I find are both equally common in our industry:
Websites don't need to look the same in every browser. The concept of progressive enhancement helps with that. There are tools, even native language features, that help with...
Bridging the Gap Between CSS and JavaScript: CSS-in-JS
3.12.2018
In this article, we’re going to dig into the concept of CSS-in-JS. If you’re already acquainted with this concept, you might still enjoy a stroll through the philosophy of that approach, and you might be even more interested in the next article.
Web development is very interdisciplinary. We’re used...
5 Ways to Convert React Class Components to Functional Components w/ React Hooks
19.11.2018
In the latest alpha release of React, a new concept was introduced, it is called Hooks. Hooks were introduced to React to solve many problems as explained in the
CBP: Our ‘Live Fire’ Blockchain Test Is Entering the Proof-of-Concept Phase
24.8.2018
U. S. Customs and Border Protection will begin its live testing of a shipment tracking system on a blockchain after Labor Day
Did you know that style and script tags can be set to display: block?
25.7.2018
The other night, Amit Patel mentioned that you can set script tags in HTML to display: block with CSS and then edit that code inline with the contentEditable attribute. This means that you can then see it all update live in the browser as you type. Shortly after, Marius Gundersen replied that...
Understanding The Underlying Processes of JavaScript’s Closures And Scope Chain
5.7.2018
When developers start exploring the JavaScript programming language, the concept of Scope and Closures can be expected to be a hurdle to their progress. The reason behind this behavior is the compl