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New Bitcoin Quest Contest Gives People a Chance to Locate Crypto Seeds Hidden in Pictures
9.1.2021
There’s an online-sleuthing contest starting on January 21st called “Bitcoin Quest,” where individuals can leverage their crypto-analytical skills to hunt for mnemonic bitcoin seed phrases hidden in artwork. Winners who drain the artwork’s crypto holdings will be able to...
Painters Tape and Fault Tolerance
9.1.2021
Snipping the top bit of Nicholas C. Zakas’s Top of the Month newsletter (go sign up!), with permission.
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape …
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Traders Can Now Bet on ‘Bitcoin $300K’ as Options Keep Pace With Rising Price
8.1.2021
It supersedes the $200,000 option on Deribit as the maximum one can wager
`aspect-ratio` is going to deprecate FitVids
8.1.2021
Jen was just tweetin’ about how the latest Safari Technical Preview has aspect-ratio. Looks like Chrome and Firefox both have it behind a flag, so with Safari joining the party, we’ll all have it soon.
I played with it …
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Svelte and Spring Animations
8.1.2021
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time, springs allow us to move things using spring physics, which gives the …
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The rise of crypto: Bitcoin sets landmarks but alts can go independent
8.1.2021
Unfounded hype? This time around, investors have begun to realize the value proposition of Bitcoin and Ether
As Bitcoin rises above $41K, can Coinbase keep up with the rally?
8.1.2021
Major crypto exchange Coinbase appears to be operating smoothly even as Bitcoin sets a new price high above $41,000
The EURST Stablecoin Set the Path That Major Central Banks Now Want to Follow
8.1.2021
From Asia to Europe, major central banks all around the world are expected to announce their own digital currencies soon. This is vindication that stablecoins like EURST are on the right path forward, and they can serve to show how national economies should reinvent themselves following the current...
Creating CSS APIs without JavaScript With the datasette-css-properties plugin
8.1.2021
Simon Willison has a project called Datasette, an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. I’m not sure I’m qualified to explain it, but it’s like a tool to make handling data easier and doing more — …
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Can Bitcoin Just Keep Going Up?
7.1.2021
With bitcoin (briefly) passing $40,000 for the first time, the question becomes: Can it keep going or is a reset necessary?
Investors can now trade Bitcoin futures without an expiry date
7.1.2021
EQUOS has introduced a Bitcoin perpetual futures contract, possibly setting the stage for wider professional adoption of digital assets
Theming and Theme Switching with React and styled-components
7.1.2021
I recently had a project with a requirement to support theming on the website. It was a bit of a strange requirement, as the application is mostly used by a handful of administrators. An even bigger surprise was that they …
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Win a Copy of Zell Liew’s Learn JavaScript Course
7.1.2021
Zell Liew is giving away 10 free copies of his Learn JavaScript course, and entering the giveaway is pretty easy: sign up for his newsletter. I’ve personally subscribed for some time now and all I get is as occasional …
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FinCEN's wallet rule is open for another day of comments because 'government officials can’t count to 15'
6.1.2021
The website accepting comments on the proposed FinCEN rule shows crypto users have until Jan. 7, not Jan. 4 as the regulator claimed
Styling Code In and Out of Blocks
6.1.2021
There is a <code> tag in HTML. I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta. It is an inline-by-default element that denotes any sort of code. It has default (user agent) styles …
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Whack-a-Mole: The CSS Edition
6.1.2021
We’ve seen the checkbox hack and how it can be used to build a complete state machine in CSS. Today, we’ll take that line of thought a step further and build a simple game of Whack-A-Mole, where the player needs …
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Some Recent Videos About Websites That Are Pretty Good
5.1.2021
Here’s a little hodgepodge of videos I’ve recently bookmarked (and watched). I couldn’t decide if each one of them should be a separate blog post or if I should do this combined list post thing. If I had a lot …
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Most Important Crypto Regulation Yet? Banks Can Treat Public Blockchains Like SWIFT and ACH
5.1.2021
A new interpretive letter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency paves the way for stablecoins and public blockchains to be fully integrated in the financial infrastructure
Who said you can't spend crypto? Redditor sells free Moon tokens to pay rent
5.1.2021
This Reddit user has found a unique way to make ends meet during the pandemic
Top US Banking Regulator: Banks Are Authorized to Use Public Blockchains and Stablecoins for Payment Activities
5.1.2021
The top banking regulator in the U.S. has announced that national banks and savings associations in the country can use public blockchains and stablecoins for payment activities. Experts say this is good for bitcoin and its importance should not be understated. Banks Can Use Public Blockchains...