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It’s All In the Head: Managing the Document Head of a React Powered Site With React Helmet
30.10.2019
The document head might not be the most glamorous part of a website, but what goes into it is arguably just as important to the success of your website as its user interface. This is, after all, where you tell search engines about your website and integrate it with third-party applications like...
Day in day out
29.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 29 October, 2019 Consistency “Consistency is what matters the most in triggering something important to your life.” – Abdul Rauf Tuesday. Day 2 of the week. You might not be feeling it today, so […]
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Fed Research Considers Negative Interest Rates Effective Policy Tool
20.10.2019
A research paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows how negative interest rates could become an important policy tool for fighting future economic downturns. The paper examines the market response to the introduction of negative interest rates by five major central banks....
JAMstack Tools and The Spectrum of Classification
17.10.2019
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts.
I think those classifications are handy, and help conversations along. But there is a point...
Bitcoin ATM in Miami Airport Raises Questions About Traveling With Crypto
17.10.2019
Miami based bitcoin ATM maker Bitstop has recently installed Miami International Airport’s first crypto ATM, according to a press release issued October 15. The installation adds to the 106 machines the company has already placed across the U.S. Further, it raises important questions about...
Firefox Kiosk Mode
16.10.2019
As someone who loves the HTML and web APIs, I want to see them used in all different types of devices and mediums. Being that I work for the amazing Mozilla Corporation, seeing Firefox and the gecko web engine thrive in those spaces is important to me. Firefox was recently featured in the Firefox...
CoinEx Chain Elects New Node Partners
16.10.2019
Hosted by CoinEx Chain Foundation, “CoinEx Chain Global Nodes Election Launch Conference” was successfully held in Shenzhen on Oct 16. The conference marked the official launch of CoinEx Chain’s nodes election. More than 500 blockchain practitioners, including investors, KOLs, technical...
Libra an ‘Important Catalytic Event,’ Says Swedish Central Bank Chief
15.10.2019
The head of Sweden’s Riksbank says Facebook’s Libra is shaking central banks globally into action
Turkey Throws Another Wrench Into the USD’s Works and Joins Russian Swift
11.10.2019
The dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of trade wars, sanctions...
Russia Regulates Digital Rights, Advances Other Crypto-Related Bills
4.10.2019
After much deliberation in the past months and years, Moscow has recently taken important steps toward regulating the crypto space. These are part of the efforts to open the way for the development of the Russian digital economy. The country, heavily dependent on energy exports and hurt by Western...
Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web
4.10.2019
Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:
PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.
It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via...
Get Total Address Information with Geocode API (Sponsored)
4.10.2019
Getting address information is vitally important. Whether shipping a package, tailoring a user experience to location, or using that data to help localize language on a website, getting location information wrong can lose a sale or brake feature. Let’s take a look at an API I recently found...
Automated (and Guided!) Accessibility Audits with axe Pro
3.10.2019
It's important to know there are tools for automated accessibility testing of websites. They are a vital part in helping make sure your website is usable for everyone, which is both a noble goal and damn good for business. Automated tests won't catch every potential accessibility issue, but they...
Crafting Stylised Mouse Trails With OGL
24.9.2019
How to make a WebGL mouse trail, and other important life tips...
Crafting Stylised Mouse Trails With OGL was written by Nathan Gordon and published on Codrops
Crypto and Blockchain Adoption Grows: 5 Important Developments Sept. 2–8
9.9.2019
Here are five recent examples of how crypto and blockchain are making their way into traditional institutions and firms
Model-Based Testing in React with State Machines
4.9.2019
Testing applications is crucially important to ensuring that the code is error-free and the logic requirements are met. However, writing tests manually is tedious and prone to human bias and error. Furthermore, maintenance can be a nightmare, especially when features are added or business logic...
Ponder it through
27.8.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 27 August, 2019 Think "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." – Albert Einstein Day 2 of the week. Happy Tuesday! I hope the […]
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The Most Important Aspect of Bitcoin Is the Separation of Money and State
19.8.2019
Many cryptocurrency supporters believe the technology allows for the separation of money and state in a manner that’s never been seen before. Governments inflict two forms of robbery against nonviolent citizens by forcing them to pay taxes while also stealing from them silently through...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...