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Coinbase and Binance Get~One Million Visits Per Day
12.5.2019
It seems that the popularity of Coinbase and Binance, two of the widely used digital currency exchanges, is steadily reaching a new height. As per a recent statistical data, both these crypto exchanges are experiencing close to one million visits each day on their individual websites. This data...
As The World Gears Up to Celebrate International Mother’s Day, Bitcoin (BTC) Demonstrates Itself as Mother of All Coins
11.5.2019
Bitcoin price is surging exceptionally well in the cryptomarket leaving no traces of doubts in the mind of investors until now. This market scenario leads to Bitcoin being a market leader and a forerunner when taken into consideration the space of the cryptomarket where there are a considerable...
Bitcoin (BTC) Price has a Cushy Movement Crossing the Value $6700 from $6500 in a Single Day
11.5.2019
Bitcoin price is moving in full inducement after the $6000 landmark; it was just with today’s daybreak that the light broke through all the resistances and crossed a $6500 price level. Important to highlight, within a few hours of Bitcoin value crossing $6500, it was priced at above $6700 leaving...
The Impact of Team Collaboration and Communication on Projects
9.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
The CSS-Tricks team was cracking up the other day when Miranda introduced us to something called "swoop and poop." That was a new term for most of us, but tell me if you've ever experienced this for yourself.
The idea is that someone in an organization — usually...
Getting To Know The MutationObserver API
8.5.2019
MutationObserver watches the DOM, specifically the places you tell it to, like:
document.querySelector('#watch-this');
...and it can tell you (trigger a callback) when stuff happens — like when a child is added, removed, changed, or a number of other things.
I used it just the other day...
10 Awesome Things from MS Build Day 1
7.5.2019
Microsoft Build is packed with gazillion announcements, fun activities, people and it's so much to fit into one article. I won't be doing justice to the event by trying to fit everything that happe
A CSS Golfing Exercise
6.5.2019
Code golfing is a type of programming where the goal is to accomplish a task using as few bytes as possible. CSSBattle is a code golfing battleground where players complete to recreate target images using CSS and HTML.
The rules are fairly simple:
No external resources (sorry, no <img...
Earth day, API’s and sunshine.
1.5.2019
Cassie Evans showcases some really nifty web design ideas and explores using the API provided by the company her team over at Clearleft recently hired to cover their building's roof with solar panels. Cassie outlines her journey designing a webpage that uses the API to populate some light data...
Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
A Website is a Car and Not a Book
15.4.2019
I’ve been wondering for a good long while why it feels like web design and development isn’t respected as much as native app development= and why the front-end role in many organizations is seen as a nice-to-have rather than a vital part of the business. Why is it so hard to see that this gig...
While solving for collaboration, we built a product that our own teams love and use everyday!
11.4.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Flock is a messaging and collaboration tool built for both designers and developers. With close-to-zero setup, it brings together all your team’s conversations, appointments, and files in one place, helping you spend more time on what you are best at — building...
Under-Engineered Toggles
10.4.2019
Toggles. Switches. Whatever you want to call them, they've been with us for some time and have been a dominant a staple for many form interfaces. They're even baked right into many CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
It's easy to think of them in binary terms: on and off. Off...
Testing for Visual Regressions with Percy
8.4.2019
It’s a Herculean task to test
Yet Another JavaScript Framework
1.4.2019
On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser bug tracker. A developer had noticed an issue with Mozilla's nightly build. The report noted that a 14-day weather forecast widget typically featured on a German website had all of a sudden broken and disappeared. Nothing...
Jetpack Gutenberg Blocks
28.3.2019
I remember when Gutenberg was released into core, because I was at WordCamp US that day. A number of months have gone by now, so I imagine more and more of us on WordPress sites have dipped our toes into it. I just wrote about our first foray here on CSS-Tricks and using Gutenberg to power...
A Gutenburg-Powered Newsletter
28.3.2019
I like Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. I'm not oblivious to all the conversation around accessibility, UX, and readiness, but I know how hard it is to ship software and I'm glad WordPress got it out the door. Now it can evolve for the better.
I see a lot of benefit to block-based editors. Some...
Life After Trading: Cryptocurrencies In Everyday Life
15.3.2019
Part 3 of 3 in the Digital Gold on the Blockchain series From the CMC editorial desk: Continuing where we left off in the second post, we explore the potential of cryptocurrencies in day-to-day life. Cryptocurrencies were launched into the […]
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Stackbit
12.3.2019
This is not a sponsored post. I requested a beta access for this site called Stackbit a while back, got my invite the other day, and thought it was a darn fine idea that's relevant to us web nerds — particularly those of us who spin up a lot of JAMstack sites.
I'm a big fan of the whole idea...
WorldWideWeb
27.2.2019
For the 30th anniversary of the web, CERN brought nine web nerds together to recreate the very first web browser — Or a working replication of it anyway, as you use it from your web browser, inception style.
Well done, Mark Boulton, John Allsopp, Kimberly Blessing, Jeremy Keith, Remy Sharp...
CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors
21.2.2019
As you may know, the recent updates and additions to CSS are extremely powerful. From Flexbox to Grid, and — what we’re concerned about here — Custom Properties (aka CSS variables), all of which make robust and dynamic layouts and interfaces easier than ever while opening up many other...