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iPad Who? For Under $200, You Should Buy an Android Tablet
22.2.2021
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Getting Deep into Shadows
22.2.2021
Let’s talk shadows in web design. Shadows add texture, perspective, and emphasize the dimensions of objects. In web design, using light and shadow can add physical realism and can be used to make rich, tactile interfaces.
Take the landing page …
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I Finally Tried a Standing Desk, and Maybe You Should Too
22.2.2021
Flexispot EC9 Standing Desk | $260 | Amazon | Clip CouponRead more
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
22.2.2021
One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first …
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Ruin All Your Friendships With Overcooked! All You Can Eat for $35
22.2.2021
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Trader’s Lesson: Why You Shouldn’t Keep Large Amounts of Crypto in MetaMask
22.2.2021
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io
While most of the crypto world was enjoying new all-time highs this past weekend, popular crypto trader under the Twitter pseudonym notsofast went through a personal crypto nightmare as his Metamask hot wallet was compromised in a security breach. Even...
Skybridge Capital Founder Predicts $100K Bitcoin Price This Year Due to ‘Heavy Demand’ and Diminishing Supply
22.2.2021
The founder of asset management firm Skybridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci, has predicted that the price of bitcoin will reach $100,000 before the year-end simply due to supply and demand. “You don’t have a lot of supply out there and very heavy demand,” he said. His firm...
The Bitcoin Lightning Network Grows Even If You’ve Forgotten About It
21.2.2021
Source: Adobe/Евгений Вершинин
You may be forgiven for forgetting about the Lightning Network (LN). The layer-two scaling solution that aims to help Bitcoin (BTC) manage a much higher workload, has been seemingly consigned to the sidelines by the ascent of bitcoin as a store of value...
Crypto Earning vs. Savings Accounts: How You Can Get Up to 17% Annually Holding Digital Assets
20.2.2021
The mainstream has caught a whiff of the gains cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum have seen, but many people are not aware of the passive income crypto users are getting as well. While financial incumbents are giving people with savings accounts a measly 0.35% to 0.60%, digital currencies...
Clipping Scrollable Areas On The inline-start Side
19.2.2021
On a default left-to-right web page, “hanging” an element off the right side of the page (e.g. position: absolute; right: -100px;) triggers a horizontal scrollbar that scrolls as far as needed to make that whole element visible. But if …
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The Best Streaming Services, According To Our Readers
19.2.2021
Top Pick: Hulu | $6/Month After Free 1-Month TrialRead more
You’ve got the power? Legacy banks aim high with new crypto offerings
19.2.2021
Is the crypto custody market becoming too big for established banks to ignore?
Three Ways to Blob with CSS and SVG
19.2.2021
Blobs are the smooth, random, jelly-like shapes that have a whimsical quality and are just plain fun. They can be used as illustration elements and background effects on the web.
So, how are they made? Just crack open an illustration …
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Use CSS Variables instead of React Context
19.2.2021
Turns out you can use several different libraries to pass color information around components. Or, you could use custom properties, built right into CSS, have no decline in your own developer experience, and deliver a faster experience to your users. …
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
19.2.2021
The weekend is for angling the monitor away from prying eyes while you attempt to use the power of gem-matching to get snarky anime women to agree to participate in group sex. That, or maybe playing Animal Crossing. Read more
Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager
18.2.2021
I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale. Through these experiences, I’ve done my share of learning, and made some mistakes along that way that were important lessons for me. I want to share those with …
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Recipe websites, data modeling, and user experience
18.2.2021
Simeon Griggs with some nice UX ideas for a recipe website:
No math. Swap between units and adjust servings on-the-fly.
Offer alternative ingredients.
Re-list the ingredient amounts when they’re referenced in the instructions.
I totally agree, especially on that last …
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You Can Finally Import Your Owned Levels Into Hitman 3 On PC
18.2.2021
Hitman 3 PC players who own Hitman 1 or 2 can finally import their owned levels for free, developer IO Interactive announced today.Read more
Let’s Create a Custom Audio Player
18.2.2021
HTML has a built-in native audio player interface that we get simply using the <audio> element. Point it to a sound file and that’s all there is to it. We even get to specify multiple files for better browser support, …
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Barebones CSS for Fluid Images
18.2.2021
Zach takes a look at some fundamental HTML+CSS usage for fluid, responsive images. Most of it, I’d say, is what you’d expect, but things get weird when srcset gets involved.
I poked my way through, and in addition to the …
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