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The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...
Contextual Utility Classes for Color with Custom Properties
14.8.2019
In CSS, we have the ability to access currentColor which is tremendously useful. Sadly, we do not have access to anything like currentBackgroundColor, and the color-mod() function is still a ways away.
With that said, I am sure I am not alone when I say I'd like to style some links based on...
Ad Watchdog Warns Crypto Companies Not to Mislead the Public
14.8.2019
UK advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), sent a signal to all crypto companies not to overhype crypto and to clearly indicate all risks to the consumers.
Following a newspaper ad for the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX from January 2019, the ASA received four...
The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
14.8.2019
Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn't belong in CSS, it belongs in CSS, a thing that already exists and that browsers are optimized to use. Separation of concerns. Anything else is a laughable misstep, a sign of not learning from...
Final Decisions on Two BTC ETFs in October May Not Be Final After All
13.8.2019
It seems that the crypto industry's struggle to finally have a Bitcoin ETF (exchange-traded fund) approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may not end with final decisions on two ETFs in October even if they are negative.
The SEC confirmed yesterday that it once again delayed...
In Search of a Stack That Monitors the Quality and Complexity of CSS
12.8.2019
Many developers write about how to maintain a CSS codebase, yet not a lot of them write about how they measure the quality of that codebase. Sure, we have excellent linters like StyleLint and CSSLint, but they only help at preventing mistakes at a micro level. Using a wrong color notation, adding...
Cardano Price Analysis: Cardano’s (ADA) Yesterday’s Gain May Not Help the Coin to Recover
9.8.2019
Cardano couldn’t show any huge change over the last 24 hours. With four significant swings, the coin could make the growth of only 0.85%. Though, the coin reached 0.053262 USD near 13:30 UTC, it could not be sustained for long. Here is an analysis of the ADA coin’s movement against USD over...
FedNow — US Federal Reserve Payment Tool a Threat to Banks, Not Crypto
8.8.2019
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s new real-time payments service likely isn’t going to substitute crypto, although it does play the same ambitious card
Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design
8.8.2019
It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s a difference between actually knowing how to prepare a delicious meal and hoping for the best as you throw a few ingredients in a pot. Just like web development, you might know the ingredients—<span>, background-color, .heading-1—but...
Monero Price Analysis: XMR Will Not Be Able to Rise Up Soon
8.8.2019
The condition of the crypto market sphere is currently running at its worst with no sign of positive hopes for altcoin like Monero. Most of the altcoins like XMR coin are more prone to decline down at a fast pace than to hold on to their value in the upward trend. Even if it is …
The post...
Using Immer for React State Management
7.8.2019
We make use of state to keep track of application data. States change as users interact with an application. When this happens, we need to update the state that is displayed to the user, and we do this using React’s setState.
Since states are not meant to be updated directly (because React’s state...
Binance’s CZ: Like It or Not, Facebook’s Libra Coin Is Poised for Mass Adoption
7.8.2019
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao shares his thoughts on Facebook’s Libra and says Brexit is bullish for crypto in a wide-ranging interview
Using Your Domain with a Netlify-Hosted Site
6.8.2019
Netlify has their own docs for Custom Domains, so if you're looking for horse's mouth technical docs on this stuff, that should be treated as the source of truth. But I'd like to take a crack at it from a slightly different angle, where we look at where you are and what you wanna do, and the point...
Can you nest @media and @support queries?
5.8.2019
Yes, you can, and it doesn't really matter in what order. A CSS preprocessor is not required. It works in regular CSS.
This works:
@supports(--a: b) {
@media (min-width: 1px) {
body {
background: red;
}
}
}
And so does this, the reverse nesting of the above:
@media (min-width:...
then on Objects
5.8.2019
Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API, Cache API, and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add a then method to any object to make it Promise-like!...
Even Fed Is Not Happy with the Current Payments System
5.8.2019
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, NBC News
As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects are already forcing banking incumbents to work more efficiently, the Federal Reserve, the central bank in the U.S., is reportedly “seriously considering” to develop a new...
Nexo Launches a Debit Card That Lets You Not Spend Your Crypto
2.8.2019
Arrington XRP Capital-backed financial startup Nexo unveiled a crypto card that lets users “spend the value of their crypto without actually spending it."
Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
2.8.2019
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned...
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Let's turn to...
Register Now for An Event Apart 2019 in Chicago
1.8.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
An Event Apart juuuuust wrapped up its Washington D.C. event yesterday. We hope we got to see you at the event but if not, perhaps we'll see you at the next one happening Aug. 28-28 in Chicago.
Why would you go, you might ask? It's three days of experts imparting their...