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New Binance-Backed DeFi Site Lets You Earn Yield on Bitcoin, Other Non-Ethereum Assets
18.9.2020
Kava Labs has launched its first application: a yield-generating decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for bitcoin and other non-Ethereum assets
Enforcing performance budgets with webpack
18.9.2020
As you probably know, a single monolithic JavaScript bundle — once a best practice — is no longer the way to go for modern web applications. Research has shown that larger bundles increase memory usage and CPU costs, especially on mid-range and low-end mobile devices.
webpack has a lot of features...
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
18.9.2020
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason:
Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority...
Changing Emoji Skin Tones Programmatically
17.9.2020
So, you know how many emoji have different skin tones? Emoji skin tones are extremely popular, especially over text and on social media. The raised black fist emoji (✊🏿) was voted “The Most 2020 Emoji” by Emojipedia’s World Emoji Awards.
Each tone is a modifier and many emoji...
‘You Are Not Anonymous on Tor’ – Study Shows Privacy Network Offers Superficial Anonymity
17.9.2020
Privacy advocates are growing leery of the Tor network these days, as recently published research has shown a great number of network’s exit relays are compromised. Furthermore, on September 15, the Hacker Factor Blog published a new Tor report that shows IP addresses being uncovered....
Weaved Webs
17.9.2020
There is a bit of an irony with Jamstack.
The concept is simple: you put pre-rendered, static files on web hosting (a CDN) designed to do that well. That’s it. If you need to do more, anything you do from there is done with client-side JavaScript, which is likely talking to serverless...
You can now send email right from your Ethereum address
16.9.2020
Sign your email with a private key, just like in the good old days
Lessons Learned from Sixty Days of Re-Animating Zombies with Hand-Coded CSS
16.9.2020
I’ll be linking to individual Pens as I discuss the lessons I learned, but if you’d like to get a sense of the entire project, check out 60 days of Animation on Undead Institute. I started this project to end on August 1st, 2020, coinciding with the publication of a book I wrote featuring...
Inclusive Design 24
16.9.2020
Totally free.
No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel – see the entire playlist for the event.
Quite the lineup.
I’ve got a couple of other accessibility links burning a hole in my pocket as well:
Matt Stobbs:...
Editing HTML Like A Boss In VS Code
16.9.2020
Here’s a seven minute video from Caleb Porzio that focuses on some of Emmet‘s HTML editing features. You might think of Emmet as that thing that expands abbreviations like table.stats>tr*3>td*3 into glorious, expanded, and perfect HTML. But Emmet has other HTML editing trickery...
Bullish Activity for Bitcoin & Under the Hood of the SushiSwap Saga: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
16.9.2020
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Chapter 4: Search
15.9.2020
Previously in web history…
After an influx of rapid browser development following the creation of the web, Mosaic becomes the popular choice. Recognizing the commercial potential of the web, a team at O’Reilly builds GNN, the first commercial website. With something to browse with,...
What is the Value of Browser Diversity?
15.9.2020
In 2018, Rachel Nabors made the point that browser diversity is similar to biological ecosystem diversity. There are literal advantages to more diversity. That article was before the Edge engines were shut, and now the big shakeups at Mozilla have the topic of browser diversity on people’s...
Virtual Event Registrations with Wufoo Forms
15.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
We’ve seen many events shift from in-person to online this year. That may have required a huge change to how you collect attendee registrations in the past, but with a paid Wufoo account and Zoom — along with a sprinkle of Zapier — it’s easier than ever to...
Form design
15.9.2020
A very digestable guide from Geri Reid on building forms. Not the code, but the design and UX principles that should guide the code.
Working on a design system for a bank has taught [me] a lot about forms. I’ve watched testing in our labs. I’ve worked alongside experts from specialist...
Winamp Skin Museum
15.9.2020
65,000 skins, they say. That’s extraordinary, especially considering how creative and well done many of them are. MySpace was an even bigger creative explosion of customization.
What’s the next product that will inspire this kind of user ownership through theming? Allowing...
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
14.9.2020
Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin:
[…] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as...
Interaction Media Features and Their Potential (for Incorrect Assumptions)
14.9.2020
The Media Queries Level 4 Interaction Media Features — pointer, hover, any-pointer and any-hover — are meant to allow sites to implement different styles and functionality (either CSS-specific interactivity like :hover, or JavaScript behaviors, when queried using window.matchMedia), depending...
Why DeFi Isn’t Always As Decentralized As You Might Think
13.9.2020
With the word ‘decentralized’ in its name, you’d think that DeFi (decentralized finance) would be pretty decentralized. If a platform claims to be DeFi, this should mean that it isn’t under the control of any single party or entity, and that it operates as a function of a large and dispersed number...
Read Me!
12.9.2020
A fancy experiential essay from the team at Readymag, which is a tool for building… fancy experiential essays, about fancy experiential essays:
With all the technology addressing readability issues, it’s still design basics that distinguish a readable text from one that isn’t. Here are some...