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LINE Corporation & Theta Network to Launch Video App for Asia Expansion
1.10.2020
Highly-acclaimed subsidiary brand of South Korea’s NAVER Corporation, LINE Corporation of Japan has announced the launch of an innovative video application named ‘THETA.tv for LINE’ in collaboration with Theta Network. The mobile-friendly service will be fueled by Theta’s protocol architecture...
Coinbase Has Drawn a Line in the Sand for Its Activist Employees
29.9.2020
Is Brian Armstrong right to eschew corporate activism for a focus on the "mission"?
Linearly Scale font-size with CSS clamp() Based on the Viewport
25.9.2020
Responsive typography has been tried in the past with a slew of methods such as media queries and CSS calc().
Here, we’re going to explore a different way to linearly scale text between a set of minimum and maximum sizes as the viewport’s width increases, with the intent of making its behavior...
Web Technologies and Syntax
24.9.2020
JavaScript has a (newish) feature called optional chaining. Say I have code like:
const name = Data.person.name;
If person happens to not exist on Data, I’m going to get a hard, show-stopping error. With optional chaining, I can write:
const name = Data.person?.name;
Now if person...
Messaging Giant LINE Launches Token Reward Program
23.9.2020
Messaging app company LINK has started a rewards program where people can get LINK tokens by using its remittance and investment mobile apps
DeFi platform bZX sees new $8M hack from one misplaced line of code
14.9.2020
bZX made all the right moves, but it wasn’t enough
How to Get Handwriting Animation With Irregular SVG Strokes
11.9.2020
I wanted to do a handwriting animation for calligraphy fonts — the kind where the words animate like they are being written by an invisible pen. Because calligraphy fonts have uneven stroke widths (they actually aren’t even strokes in terms of SVG), it was near impossible to do this sort of thing...
AVIF has landed
8.9.2020
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake’s blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web technology being ahead of the game for once, we can already take advantage of it.
This will be easier if you’ve abstracted your...
Working with JavaScript Media Queries
7.9.2020
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of media queries? Maybe something in a CSS file that looks like this:
body {
background-color: plum;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
body {
background-color: tomato;
}
}
CSS media queries are a core ingredient in any responsive...
Bitcoin Dominance Slides Losing 10% in the Last 100 Days
6.9.2020
Bitcoin’s Dominance Index has slid 10% from a high of 67% on May 10, to a low of 57% today. Despite the defi market shakeout, ethereum still captures 10% of the aggregate market capitalization of $330 billion. There’s been a number of changes in the top ten line up of coins, as bitcoin...
Using @property for CSS Custom Properties
3.9.2020
Una Kravetz digs into how Chrome now allows you to declare CSS custom properties directly from CSS with more information than just a string.
So rather than something like this:
html {
--stop: 50%;
}
…can be declared with more details like this:
@property --stop {
syntax:...
Excluding Emojis From Transparent Text Clipping
2.9.2020
CSS-Tricks has this pretty cool way of styling hovered links. By default, the text is a fairly common blue. But hover of the links, and they’re filled with a linear gradient.
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Pretty neat, right? And the trick isn’t all that complicated. On hover…
give the link a linear...
Copy the Browser’s Native Focus Styles
28.8.2020
Remy documented this the other day. Firefox supports a Highlight keyword and both Chrome and Safari support a -webkit-focus-ring-color keyword. So if you, for example, have removed focus from something and want to put it back in the same style as the browser default, or want to apply a focus style...
LINE expands blockchain and crypto product portfolio with two new additions
27.8.2020
Japanese messaging giant LINE will ease the development of blockchain services and digital asset management through its two new products
LINE Launches Digital Asset Wallet and Blockchain Development Platform
27.8.2020
Messaging giant LINE has launched a blockchain platform where developers can issue tokens and run decentralized applications, and a wallet that helps users manage digital assets
Link Token Enjoys Japanese Post-Listing Success, Says Chat App Line
26.8.2020
Chat app giant Line says that its link token (LN) has exceeded 100 million yen (around USD 941,000) worth of transaction volumes on its crypto exchange – just six days after it began trading the coin.
According to Hedge Guide, Line – which has some 81 million monthly active users per its...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Turn Red, Eye Last Line of Defense
26.8.2020
In the past few hours, bitcoin price followed a bearish path below the USD 11,650 and USD 11,550 support levels. BTC even tested the USD 11,100 region and it is currently (08:30 UTC) consolidating losses. The next major support is near USD 11,000, below which the price might decline heavily towards...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
You’d use...
What I Learned by Fixing One Line of CSS in an Open Source Project
14.8.2020
I was browsing the Svelte docs on my iPhone and came across a blaring UI bug. The notch in the in the REPL knob was totally out of whack. I’m always looking to contribute to open source, and I thought this would be a quick and easy fix. Turns out, there was a lot more to it than just changing...
How One Line of Code Destroyed Yam DeFi
13.8.2020
A single mistake cost them everything