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Cloudinary Fetch with Eleventy (Respecting Local Development)
4.12.2020
This is about a wildly specific combination of technologies — Eleventy, the static site generator, with pages with images on them that you ultimately want hosted by Cloudinary — but I just wanna document it as it sounds like a decent amount of people run into this situation.
The deal:
Cloudinary...
Demon’s Souls Was Filled With Rubber Duckies During Development
3.12.2020
Just like the PlayStation 3 original, the Demon’s Souls remake on PlayStation 5 is a moody, atmospheric game with very little in the way of brightness or joy. But that wasn’t always the case.Read more
Case study: making Core Defense a solo dev success
3.12.2020
A guest post with advice galore!
Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries
2.12.2020
It’s sounding more and more likely that we’re actually going to get real container queries. Google is prototyping a syntax idea from David Baron and refined by Miriam Suzanne. Apparently, there has already been some prototyping done for a switch() syntax which is like container queries...
Eth2 dev talks about challenges and lessons learned ahead of mainnet launch
30.11.2020
Despite some “unanticipated consequences,” the testnets were instrumental in stress-testing Eth2
Hash War: Mystery Miner’s Empty Block Attack Makes ABC’s New Blockchain Almost Unusable
28.11.2020
According to various reports, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain has been under ‘attack’ for a number of consecutive days now. The mystery miner has been mining a great number of sequential blocks, but almost all of them have been empty. The miner who calls himself...
Bitcoin Developer John Newbery Launches Open-Source Dev Fund Supported By HRF, Square
24.11.2020
Veteran Bitcoin developer John Newbery just launched a new, independent organization for funding Bitcoin's open source developer community
ConsenSys Acquires Blockchain Developer Toolmaker Truffle Suite
17.11.2020
ConsenSys is adding dapp development platform Truffle Suite back to its lineup of wholly-owned Ethereum tools
Logical layout enhancements with flow-relative shorthands
16.11.2020
Admission: I’ve never worked on a website that was in anything other than English. I have worked on websites that were translated by other teams, but I didn’t have much to do with it. I do, however, spend a lot of time thinking in terms of block-level and inline-level elements....
The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
10.11.2020
For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we’re heading in that direction.
When building components for a website, you don’t always know how that component will be used. Maybe it will be render as wide as the browser window is. Maybe two of them...
Ex-Microsoft Dev Gets 9 Years in Prison Over $10M Theft Involving Bitcoin Mixing
10.11.2020
The former Microsoft software engineer was sentenced Monday for an elaborate criminal scheme involving bitcoin and digital gift cards
More on content-visibility
28.10.2020
Back in August 2020, when the content-visiblity property in CSS trickled its way into Chrome browsers, Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin wrote about it and we covered it. The weirdest part is that to get the performance value out of it, you pair it with contain-intrinsic-size on these big chunks...
Ethereum Dev Virgil Griffith’s Attorney Files Motion to Dismiss Charges of Aiding North Korea
26.10.2020
The motion, filed by Brian Klein, claims the indictment of Griffith doesn't "specify any alleged overt facts," and contains no actual allegation of fact
ConsenSys and Protocol Labs team up to integrate Filecoin into Ethereum's dev tools
21.10.2020
Filecoin’s devs, miners, and even users will have a chance to access ConsenSys' Ethereum-native tools
Announcing the 2020 State of CSS Survey
20.10.2020
Last year’s State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There’s the quick adoption of features, like calc() and CSS custom properties. There’s also the overwhelming opinion that CSS is fun to write even as we see a growing reliance on CSS-in JS. We also saw some predictable...
Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract to launch this week: ConsenSys dev
20.10.2020
An Ethereum 2.0 developer predicts the protocol’s deposit contract will be released in a matter of days, and that ETH 2.0 staking will go live this year
Many yield farmers lost more than they bargained for when they trusted this DeFi dev
5.10.2020
Some UniCats users saw their entire token balances drained due to a malicious contract
Australian dev aims to bring Cardano payments to Shopify stores
1.10.2020
Shopify stores could soon allow users to pay for products with Cardano tokens with a new app that removes any payment intermediaries
Make Your Own Dev Tool
29.9.2020
Amber Wilson on making bookmarklets to help yo-self. She shows off one that injects an accessibility script — I like this approach, as it means you don’t have to maintain the bookmarklet, just the script it links to). Another example runs some code contained right in the link. The result...
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Docker Container as a Dev Environment
24.9.2020
Sarcasm disclaimer: This article is mostly sarcasm. I do not think that I actually speak for Dylan Thomas and I would never encourage you to foist a light theme on people who don’t want it. No matter how wrong they may be.
When Dylan Thomas penned the words, “Do not go gentle into that good...