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Want to Write a Hover Effect With Inline CSS? Use CSS Variables.
26.3.2021
The other day I was working on a blog where each post has a custom color attached to it for a little dose of personality. The author gets to pick that color in the CMS when they’re writing the post. …
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Stratis’ InterFlux Protocol Adds Support for Ethereum, Hyperledger, DEXs & DeFi
26.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform Stratis’ support to private and public blockchain solutions, Ethereum and Hyperledger, opens the ecosystem to mainstream adoption by businesses. London, United Kingdom – Stratis is developed to help make blockchain services...
Interactive Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
25.3.2021
In my last article, we saw that web components aren’t as scary as they seem. We looked at a super simple setup and made a zombie dating service profile, complete with a custom <zombie-profile> element. We reused the element …
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Building a Full-Stack Geo-Distributed Serverless App with Macrometa, GatsbyJS, & GitHub Pages
25.3.2021
In this article, we walk through building out a full-stack real-time and completely serverless application that allows you to create polls! All of the app’s static bits (HTML, CSS, JS, & Media) will be hosted and globally distributed via the …
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Takes on State
24.3.2021
React is actually a bit of an outlier with state management. While it has first-class tools like useState and Context, you’re more own your own for reactive global state. Here’s David Ceddia with “React State Management Libraries and How …
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Welcome to the Juungle: A Bitcoin Cash NFT Market That Allows Anyone Buy and Sell Unique SLP Collectibles
24.3.2021
Non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles have been seeing relentless demand and publicity these days. While the Ethereum network has been the dominant force in this space, a great number of alternative blockchains have been introducing NFT support. In recent weeks, Bitcoin Cash proponents have been...
Ethereum derivatives lean bullish even as ETH price sits at a key support
24.3.2021
Ethereum price is trading near a critical support level but derivatives data suggests pro traders expect more downside in the short term
Creating Custom Form Controls with ElementInternals
24.3.2021
Ever since the dawn of time, humanity has dreamed of having more control over form elements. OK, I might be overselling it a tiny bit, but creating or customizing form components has been a holy grail of front-end web development …
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Unmarshal Raises $2.6M USD From Industry Heavyweights to Build Multi-Chain Data Indexing Protocol
24.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Unmarshal is proud to announce that the seed and private sale funding rounds have been successfully closed with strong investment support from Industry bigwigs. A total of $2.6m was raised in the seed and private rounds. With the fresh capital introduced, Unmarshal will focus...
Maps Scroll Wheel Fix
24.3.2021
This blog post by Steve Fenton came across my feeds the other day. I’d never heard of HERE maps before, but apparently they are embeddable somehow, like Google Maps. The problem is that you zoom and and out of HERE …
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Imagining native skip links
23.3.2021
I love it when standards evolve from something that a bunch of developers are already doing, and making it easier and foolproof. Kitty Giraudel is onto that here with skip links, something that every website should probably have, and that …
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Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties
23.3.2021
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid layout holds the “tiles” that go from a filled background color to …
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Streaming tokens surge as Bitcoin price drops to the $54,000 support
22.3.2021
Tokens related to gaming, video and music streaming rallied to new highs even as Bitcoin price pulled back to the $54,000 support
500 MW by 2025: Bitcoin Miner Greenidge and It’s Wholly-Owned Power Plant to Be Listed on Nasdaq
22.3.2021
On Monday, the New York-based company Greenidge Generation Holdings revealed the business aims to be the first publicly-listed mining operation with a wholly-owned power plant. Greenidge expects to be publicly listed on Nasdaq via a merger with the firm Support.com. Greenidge Bitcoin Mining...
It’s always the stacking context.
22.3.2021
In “What the heck, z-index??,” Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you’ve got an element in a layer group A in Photoshop that …
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An Event Apart Spring Summit 2021
22.3.2021
Hey, look at that, An Event Apart is back with a new event taking place online from April 19-21. That’s three jam-packed days of absolute gems from a stellar lineup of speakers!
Guess what? I’m going to be there, …
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Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
22.3.2021
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn’t used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try first. And taking the “try it and see what happens” approach …
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Consolidate above Support, Altcoins Remain Attractive
22.3.2021
Bitcoin price failed to gain strength above the key USD 60,000 resistance zone and corrected lower. BTC traded below the USD 58,000 support, but it is currently (05:30 UTC) holding the USD 57,000 support. To start a fresh increase, the price must surpass USD 58,000 and USD 58,500.
Similarly, most...
Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG
19.3.2021
AVIF has been getting a lot of tech press, but Jon Sneyers is hot on JPEG XL (which makes sense as he’s the “chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc group in the JPEG Committee”). According to Jon’s comparison, JPEG …
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Platform News: Prefers Contrast, MathML, :is(), and CSS Background Initial Values
19.3.2021
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits, inconsistent initial values for CSS Backgrounds properties can lead to unwanted — but sorta neat — patterns.
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