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Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together
22.7.2020
You can truncate a single line of text with an ellipsis (…) fairly easily with text-overflow and a few friends. But, as you might expect, that truncation happens at the end of the line of text. What if you want to truncate content in the middle?
Leonardo Faria details good use cases for this...
Americans Are Googling ‘Bitcoin’ in the Middle of the Night
17.7.2020
1 AM Eastern time is the most popular time in the US to search the biggest word in crypto
What It’s Really Like to Live on Bitcoin in the Middle East
14.7.2020
The story of a Syrian migrant in Iraq shows how bitcoin can work as intended – as a global currency that transcends borders
The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
25.6.2020
This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page in thirds, covering up the middle-third of that image, and a new image would form because the illustration was designed to perfectly line...
Bitcoin.com Exchange Announces Listing of New Digital Asset BUY by Burency
19.6.2020
Bitcoin.com Exchange is thrilled to announce the upcoming listing of a new digital asset on the 20th of August 2020 at 10:00 UTC. BUY by Burency is a new cryptocurrency that aims to increase cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption in the Middle East. BUY will be listed with BTC and BCH trading...
The Truth About Bitcoin and Hezbollah in Lebanon
17.6.2020
Will Hezbollah in Lebanon use bitcoin? The data suggests terror activity is uncommon despite surging crypto popularity across the Middle East
Leading Middle East Telecoms Firm Zain Joins Hedera Governing Council
15.6.2020
Major telecoms provider Zain has joined the governing council for distributed ledger platform Hedera Hashgraph
How Bitcoin Fits Into Lebanon’s Banking Crisis
5.6.2020
Lebanon's crisis has been raging for years, but the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and a global downturn has made stable financial services even more urgent
Bitmain’s Feuding Co-Founders Are Fracturing the Firm and Staff Are Caught in the Middle
4.6.2020
Staff at bitcoin miner manufacturer Bitmain are being forced to choose between its two co-founders as a long-running feud over control of the firm worsens
Iran Issues License for Nation’s Biggest Bitcoin Mining Operation
5.5.2020
A Turkish firm has been granted a license to operate a data center with up to 6,000 bitcoin mining machines
Bitcoin in Emerging Markets: The Middle East
4.5.2020
Regions with weak states and educated diasporas are seeing a rising demand for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and decentralized applications
Samsung-Backed DLT Firms Launch Blockchain Think Tank for MEASEA Region
28.4.2020
The group will promote the adoption of business solutions using blockchain technology integrated with artificial intelligence
How to Make Repeating Border Images
16.3.2020
I just saw this cool little site from Max Bittker: broider. You design an image on a 9-slice grid (except the middle part) and it will produce an image for you to use with border-image along with the CSS to copy and paste.
Check out my little design:
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The areas of the image...
Despite Bitcoin Price Dips, Crypto Is a Safe Haven in the Middle East
13.3.2020
Bitcoin fell 40 percent this week from coronavirus shocks, but it's still seen as a safe haven in the Middle East
Data-driven Jamstack with Sourcebit
28.2.2020
Think of building sites with Gatsby as an hourglass shape.
Gatsby itself is right in the middle. The wide funnel at the top represents the fact that Gatsby can take in data from all sorts of sources. The data could be in markdown files, from a headless CMS or some other API, from a hosted database...
Dubai Gov’t to Launch KYC Blockchain Consortium in Q1 2020
19.2.2020
Dubai government to launch a KYC blockchain consortium in collaboration with six banks in Q1 2020
How Bitcoin Is Used to Promote Human Rights: Stories From Activists and Refugees
17.2.2020
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim to discuss how cultural context shapes the way people view bitcoin, including stories from the Middle East
Report: Middle East and Africa’s Blockchain Spending to Surge 400% by 2023
14.2.2020
Governments across the Middle East and Africa to increase blockchain spending by 400% in four years, a new IDC report says
UAE Health Ministry Debuts Blockchain Platform for Medical Data
2.2.2020
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention has launched a blockchain platform for managing healthcare data
Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Buys Into Blockchain Trading Platform Vakt
28.1.2020
Saudi Aramco joins Shell, BP, Chevron and others in using Vakt’s blockchain-based oil trading platform