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designMode
1.10.2019
Every once in a while I stumble upon an API or browser setting that I can’t believe ever existed. Such examples can be seen in the numerous String.prototype properties such as bold, italics, and even blink, which wrap given string text in their representative HTML tags. Bizarre. It...
[aktualita] ČNB rozjíždí vlastní API odpovídající PSD2, zakázku vyhrál český fintech Wultra
30.9.2019
Česká národní banka (ČNB) poskytuje bankovní služby státu a veřejným institucím a musí tak řešit směrnici PSD2 podobně, jako běžné komerční finanční a bankovní instituce. ČNB proto vypsala veřejnou zakázku na dodání a instalaci API odpovídající směrnici PSD2. Vyhrát se jí podařilo českému...
StrongSalt Raises $3M in Seed Round to Develop Encryption Platform-as-a-Service
26.9.2019
Advisory firm Valley Capital Partners has invested $3 million into encryption platform-as-a-service StrongSalt
Data Privacy Startup StrongSalt Raises $3 Million for Encrypted API Service
26.9.2019
StrongSalt aims to bring standardized encryption techniques to the blockchain and will showcase its API product later this year
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...
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...
Ownera Joins Amazon on Hackathon to Launch Digital Securities API
23.9.2019
An emerging digital securities network, Ownera combined with Amazon. It will release digital securities API with the help of HyperLedger Fabric blockchain service managed by Amazon. According to recent research, Hyperledger Fabric is a winner for enterprise blockchain projects. Ownera stated that...
weatherstack: an Amazing Weather API (Sponsored)
18.9.2019
One of my first tasks each day is checking the weather; it’s a necessity for knowing what my children and I should wear, if I’m going to need to water the lawn or need to shovel snow, and if I can take meetings out on my patio. It’s also been one of my worst web […]
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The Best (GraphQL) API is One You Write
30.8.2019
Listen, I am no GraphQL expert but I do enjoy working with it. The way it exposes data to me as a front-end developer is pretty cool. It's like a menu of available data and I can ask for whatever I want. That's a massive improvement over REST and highly empowering for me as a front-end developer...
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....
Weekly Platform News: Improving UX on Slow Connections, a Tip for Writing Alt Text and a Polyfill for the HTML loading attribute
23.8.2019
In this week's roundup, how to determine a slow connection, what we should put into alt text for images, and a new polyfill for the HTML loading attribute, plus more.
Detecting users on slow connections
Algolia is using the Network Information API (see the API’s Chrome status page) to detect users...
Collective #542
22.8.2019
GoPablo * useAuth * WebAssembly Interface Types * NuxtPress * The Native File System API
Collective #542 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Ernst and Young to Collaborate with Open Banking Nigeria to Create API Standards
20.8.2019
The world of banking has changed dramatically over the course of the past decade or so, and the biggest reason behind those changes is modern technology. Modern technology has created systems and platforms that have made banking a lot easier both for customers as well as for those who work at...
Kraken Users’ Report Difficulties With Connecting to Site and API
13.8.2019
Kraken has warned the public that it is receiving reports of clients having issues connecting to the site and API
Binance KYC Breach — Did It Happen, and If So, Who’s to Blame?
10.8.2019
Hacker demands 300 Bitcoin from Binance in lieu of alleged stolen KYC data
Coinbase Exploring Eight New Assets in Bid to Expand Market Access
5.8.2019
Coinbase announced it is exploring support for eight new cryptos, and ultimately wants to support a vast majority of digital assets globally
then on Objects
5.8.2019
Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API, Cache API, and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add a then method to any object to make it Promise-like!...
Fetching Data in React using React Async
1.8.2019
You’re probably used to fetching data in React using axios or fetch. The usual method of handling data fetching is to:
Make the API call.
Update state using the response if all goes as planned.
Or, in cases where errors are encountered, an error message is displayed to the user.
There will always...
A More Accessible Portals Demo
31.7.2019
The point of the <portal> element (behind a flag in Chrome Canary) is that you can preload another whole page (like <iframe>), but then have APIs to animate it to the current page. So "Single Page App"-like functionality (SPA), but natively. I think that's pretty cool. I'm a fan...
Creating Dynamic Routes in a Nuxt Application
30.7.2019
In this post, we’ll be using an ecommerce store demo I built and deployed to Netlify to show how we can make dynamic routes for incoming data. It’s a fairly common use-case: you get data from an API, and you either don’t know exactly what that data might be, there’s a lot of it, or it might change....