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Libra an ‘Important Catalytic Event,’ Says Swedish Central Bank Chief
15.10.2019
The head of Sweden’s Riksbank says Facebook’s Libra is shaking central banks globally into action
Turkey Throws Another Wrench Into the USD’s Works and Joins Russian Swift
11.10.2019
The dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of trade wars, sanctions...
Russia Regulates Digital Rights, Advances Other Crypto-Related Bills
4.10.2019
After much deliberation in the past months and years, Moscow has recently taken important steps toward regulating the crypto space. These are part of the efforts to open the way for the development of the Russian digital economy. The country, heavily dependent on energy exports and hurt by Western...
Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web
4.10.2019
Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:
PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.
It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via...
Get Total Address Information with Geocode API (Sponsored)
4.10.2019
Getting address information is vitally important. Whether shipping a package, tailoring a user experience to location, or using that data to help localize language on a website, getting location information wrong can lose a sale or brake feature. Let’s take a look at an API I recently found...
Automated (and Guided!) Accessibility Audits with axe Pro
3.10.2019
It's important to know there are tools for automated accessibility testing of websites. They are a vital part in helping make sure your website is usable for everyone, which is both a noble goal and damn good for business. Automated tests won't catch every potential accessibility issue, but they...
Crafting Stylised Mouse Trails With OGL
24.9.2019
How to make a WebGL mouse trail, and other important life tips...
Crafting Stylised Mouse Trails With OGL was written by Nathan Gordon and published on Codrops
Crypto and Blockchain Adoption Grows: 5 Important Developments Sept. 2–8
9.9.2019
Here are five recent examples of how crypto and blockchain are making their way into traditional institutions and firms
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines
4.9.2019
Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. Furthermore, maintenance can be a nightmare, especially when features are added or business logic...
Ponder it through
27.8.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 August, 2019 Think "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." – Albert Einstein Day 2 of the week. Happy Tuesday! I hope the […]
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The Most Important Aspect of Bitcoin Is the Separation of Money and State
19.8.2019
Many cryptocurrency supporters believe the technology allows for the separation of money and state in a manner that’s never been seen before. Governments inflict two forms of robbery against nonviolent citizens by forcing them to pay taxes while also stealing from them silently through...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
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...
Five of the Most Important Use Cases for Cryptocurrency
28.7.2019
Crypto assets have come a long way since Bitcoin. What started out as a P2P payment system has spawned an array of use cases that extend far beyond the original designation of cryptocurrency. While the primary function of crypto assets such as ETH and BTC is a matter of some debate, what’s...
Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
22.7.2019
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking...
Deutsche Bank Collapse Could Crash Global Financial Markets
21.7.2019
German financial services giant Deutsche Bank AG is one of the largest and most important economic institutions in the world. Mainly due to self-imposed scandals, the bank is now having to taking drastic measures to stay afloat. Investors everywhere should note that if such a critical piece of...
Improving Video Accessibility with WebVTT
17.7.2019
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
- Tim Berners-Lee
Accessibility is an important element of web development, and with the ever-growing prevalence of video content, the necessity for captioned content is growing...
Top ICO of 2017, Polkadot, to Start Important Experiment
17.7.2019
A highly anticipated blockchain and one of the top 10 ICO's of 2017 Polkadot Network has announced its “canary network”, Kusama – an experimental version of Polkadot, with real economic conditions, for developers to experiment in and test out a Polkadot-like environment.
Polkadot is a blockchain...
Money and Democracy: Why You Never Get to Vote on the Most Important Part of Society
10.7.2019
It’s very odd that citizens never get to vote or have any say in regard to society’s money, even though it’s one of the most important aspects of everyday life. In fact, in developed countries, most central banks are institutions that are privatized from political interference...
Developing a robust font loading strategy for CSS-Tricks
10.7.2019
Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you're reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects.
Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of...