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Clearview AI Lawyer Tor Ekeland Says Your Face Is Public Property
6.3.2020
Tor Ekeland made a career of defending hackers. Now he's defending a hacker's trove: a company with three billion images in its database
Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
3.3.2020
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
There are four different techniques we can use to do this. Let’s look at those while being mindful of important things, like accessibility, performance,...
Ireland Seizes Bitcoin Stash Worth $56M But Can’t Sell for 7 Years
20.2.2020
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized 6,000 BTC from a Dublin resident who was accused of growing cannabis on property located in the Wicklow Mountain region. The police found around €450,000 of marijuana plants but the €52 million ($56.1M) of BTC was the biggest...
Toward Responsive Elements
12.2.2020
Hot news from Brian Kardell, regarding what we've been referring to as "container queries", the most hotly requested feature in CSS:
There does seem to be some general agreement on at least one part of what I am going to call instead "Responsive Design for Components" and that is that flipping...
Helping Browsers Optimize With The CSS Contain Property
10.2.2020
There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance.
Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors....
Set Type on a Circle… with offset-path
28.1.2020
Here's some legit CSS trickery from yuanchuan. There is this CSS property offset-path. Once upon a time, it was called motion-path and then it was renamed. I sort of rolled my eyes at the time, because the property is so obviously for animating things along a path. But you don't have to use it...
What does “revert” do in CSS?
28.1.2020
Miriam Suzanne has a Mozilla Developer video on the subject. The revert value is fairly new, supported in Firefox and Safari, but not yet in Chrome-world. We've already got a couple of related keywords that work on any property which are meant to help control inheritance and reset values....
Liechtenstein Regulators Approve Ethereum-Based Real Estate Fund
23.1.2020
The fund enables investors to gain exposure to a global real estate portfolio through a ERC-20 security token
Chrysler Building Owner Sells Stake in Zurich Property for ERC-20 Tokens and Cash
16.1.2020
Property firm RFR Holdings accepted a 20 percent stake of the purchasing price in digital securities based on ethereum tech
Dish Network Files Patent For Blockchain-Based Anti-Piracy System
13.1.2020
The satellite TV firm's newly published patent application details a means to combat online piracy using blockchain
Re-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS
11.1.2020
The text logo has a slash cut through the text. You set two copies on top of one another, cropping both of them with the clip-path property.
What's interesting to me is how many cool design effects require multiple copies of an element to do something cool. To get the extra copy, at least with...
How to Stack Elements in CSS
6.1.2020
If you want to create fantastic and unique visual experiences on the web, you will eventually need two elements to overlap or exist in the same place. You may even just need them to be positioned near or next to each other. Let's go over two different ways to accomplish this, one with the position...
Regulatory Roundup: China Blockchain ETF, France New Crypto Rules, Tokens Like Money in Russia
31.12.2019
In this roundup, we cover Russia’s supreme court recognizing tokens as assets like money and property, France’s new crypto regulatory framework, and several industry developments in China, including a blockchain ETF filing. We also cover Japan’s world conference for decentralized...
Russia’s Supreme Court Recognizes Tokens as Assets Like Money and Property
26.12.2019
A phenomenon like bitcoin can gain recognition, including regulatory, in many different and often unexpected ways. Governments that hesitate to accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender, sometimes validate their existence indirectly and even acknowledge they can be used for payments. Taxing crypto...
Now You See It
16.12.2019
I recently accepted a teaching position at a local college here in SoCal where I'll be spouting off whatever I know (or more likely don't know!) about HTML and CSS. It's suffice to say I was all ears (well, actually eyes) when Rachel Andrew recently published a post on teaching CSS.
The display...
Circle Warns Poloniex US Customer Assets May Be Sent to the Government
5.12.2019
As part of its release of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, Circle may begin charging fees to Poloniex US customers. And the company warns that any unclaimed digital assets, those in dormant accounts, may be sent to state governments, consistent with relevant regulations for abandoned property....
Bitcoin ATMs Installed at 5 Major Malls in the US
28.11.2019
After installing a bitcoin ATM at Miami International Airport, Bitstop installed cryptocurrency ATMs at five major malls in multiple U.S. states. The malls are operated by Simon Property Group, the biggest shopping mall operator in the country. Customers can buy bitcoin while doing their Black...
Attorney Fees Stack up as Craig Wright Fights Court Order
28.11.2019
During the last week, court documents stemming from the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit show that the Kleiman estate is now pursuing roughly $658,581 for attorney fees and expenses. Additionally, self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has filed a motion to fight the sanctions imposed on half...
UK Law Panel Defines Crypto Assets as Property
18.11.2019
A panel of senior British judges and lawyers has moved to clarify the legal status of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts