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RBI Governor Discusses Crypto and Central Bank Digital Currency
5.12.2019
The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, spoke about cryptocurrency during a press conference on Thursday. He also talked about the prospect of an RBI-issued digital currency, when the time will be right for issuing one, and his view on private digital currencies. Also...
Revamping the Traditional PPV TV Subscription Model With Blockchain
27.11.2019
As Netflix, Disney+ and others continue to prove their dominance over the streaming market, a decentralized solution could become a contender
The Typed Object Model
20.11.2019
I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). If you haven't come across it yet you would be forgiven as it's pretty new. It falls under the CSS Houdini suite of API's and on the surface...
Zilliqa Gives $5 Million Donation Fund to Oxford Organization With a View to Increase Gender Diversity in Blockchain Niche
1.11.2019
Singapore-based blockchain firm, Zilliqa, has made an announcement concerning its donation of 5 million USD to the Oxford Women in Computer Science Society. The crucial group lends necessary support to the women who belong to the computer science arena. With the flowing funds from Zilliqa,...
Contrarian View: Why Bitcoin Price May Dump After 2020 Halving
24.10.2019
Data shows that Bitcoin’s 2020 halving could lead to a short-term drop in price, followed by consolidation before a significant price rise
More Nations Join the Club of Crypto-Friendly Jurisdictions
14.10.2019
Regulatory barriers are a major concern for businesses working with decentralized assets. Not all governments, however, are putting obstacles in front of crypto companies. In fact the number taking a crypto-friendly stance is in fact increasing. Also read: Ukraine in a Rush to Legalize...
Preloading Pages Just Before They are Needed
27.9.2019
The typical journey for a person browsing a website: view a page, click a link, browser loads new page. That's assuming no funny business like a Single Page App, which still follows that journey, but the browser doesn't load a new page — the client fakes it for the sake of a snappier...
An Explanation of How the Intersection Observer Watches
24.9.2019
There have been several excellent articles exploring how to use this API, including choices from authors such as Phil Hawksworth, Preethi, and Mateusz Rybczonek, just to name a few. But I’m aiming to do something a bit different here. I had an opportunity earlier in the year to present the VueJS...
Tax Strategies For Cryptocurrency Investors To Legally Minimize Taxes
12.9.2019
Many cryptocurrency investors and taxpayers view the tax system as a drain on their wealth. They often say, if it wasn’t for taxes, I would have more funds to accelerate the growth of my portfolio and build wealth for my […]
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Agorism and Bitcoin: Free People Don’t Ask Maxine Waters for Permission
30.8.2019
Anti-agorism Congressional Representative Maxine Waters still has misgivings about Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency, even after meeting with Swiss government officials to discuss the tech last week. The sustained reservations echo the message of July’s open letter from...
Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop
26.8.2019
A popover is a transient view that shows up on top of a content on the screen when a user clicks on a control button or within a defined area. For example, clicking on an info icon on a specific list item to get the item details. Typically, a popover includes an arrow pointing to the location from...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
Po kolouškovi další masakr: Auto Googlu srazilo zajíce, zvíře teď létá na Street View
19.7.2019
Před deseti lety se stala velmi závažná událost. Jedno ze snímacích vozidel Googlu srazilo při snímání do služby Street View malého koloucha. Tento masakr byl přitom zveřejněn v mapách Googlu. Ačkoli bylo nebohé zvíře autem Googlu svaleno na zem, neutrpělo žádné závažné zranění a po nehodě
Get Peak WordPress Performance with Jetpack
18.7.2019
The irony of web performance is that the average page weight of a site continues to go up year after year, despite us being more aware of the problem and having more tools at our disposal to fight it than ever.
To paraphrase Seinfeld, "we know how to fight page weight issues; we just don't use...
Weekly Platform News: HTML Inspection in Search Console, Global Scope of Scripts, Babel env Adds defaults Query
11.7.2019
In this week's look around the world of web platform news, Google Search Console makes it easier to view crawled markup, we learn that custom properties aren't computing hogs, variables defined at the top-level in JavaScript are global to other page scripts, and Babel env now supports the defaults...
Bitcoin Price Drops $2K in 24 Hours But Bull View Still Intact
11.7.2019
Bitcoin dropped around $2,000 in the last 24 hours, but the outlook isn't as gloomy as you might think
Tips for rolling your own lazy loading
1.7.2019
You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.
Lazy loading is a popular technique for gradually requesting images as they come into view, rather than all at once after the HTML of the page...
Blockmodo Lets You Create a Snapshot Cryptocurrency Price Widget
17.6.2019
Cryptocurrency prices never stop moving, as the market exists in a constant state of flux. There are instances, though, when it’s useful to be able to hit the pause button and view the price of a cryptocurrency at a fixed point in time. For such occasions, Blockmodo’s snapshot widgets...
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...
Bitcoin 24 hr Analysis; Just When it Hit $9000 Mark- The Newest High
31.5.2019
Dadiani Syndicate is instructed to purchase 25% of total Bitcoin (BTC) supply. The upsurge in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is likely to be expected. Bitcoin (BTC) is facing a huge price drop in the cryptocurrency market. Yesterday, the coin touched its highest of 2019, but soon got caught up in...