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Cash Games Adds Dozens of New Options for You to Play
20.11.2019
Online gaming is a big global industry and one that had a major role in the early adoption of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin.com has long offered a platform for players to use their digital assets on classic games and recently it greatly expanded the scope of options available. Also Read: Bitcoin.com...
Variations on Theme: Reinventing Type on the Web
20.11.2019
If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, really really like them. So while I am super excited about how well Tristan is doing with his hydrotherapy —we’re walking 50% further than he...
Why Tokenized Projects Are Building on Bitcoin
20.11.2019
Bitcoin is something you hodl. Ethereum is something you build on. At least that has long been the official narrative, with projects favoring dedicated smart contract networks over Bitcoin for spinning out dapps and second layer solutions. Like all crypto narratives, however, this one has started...
Dogecoin (DOGE) Makes a Loss of 7% in One Day
19.11.2019
Dogecoin has been through three major price swings over the last 24 hours, and it has made an overall loss of almost 7%. The range of the swings has been in the range between 0.00263 USD and 0.00242 USD. Dogecoin Price Analysis Dogecoin opened the day at 0.00263649 USD, and over the next 13 hours...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
The Department of Useless Images
18.11.2019
Gerry McGovern:
The Web is smothering in useless images. These clichéd, stock images communicate absolutely nothing of value, interest or use. They are one of the worst forms of digital pollution because they take up space on the page, forcing more useful content out of sight. They also slow down...
Stellar (XLM) Fails to Fetch Big; Loses 0.28% in One Day
18.11.2019
Stellar loses 0.28% in the last 24 hours It may have a short stint of bullish period ahead Next Resistance is likely to fall at $0.0728 Stellar has made some exceptional moves over the last 24 hours, and in the pursuit of an overall hike, it witnessed three major price shifts. However, it has made...
Bakkt’s Cash-Settled BTC Futures Could Make Bitcoin More Mainstream: Jennifer Ilkiw
15.11.2019
As you may have heard, earlier this week, CoinMarketCap held its first ever conference — The Capital — in Singapore. One of the event’s keynote speakers was Jennifer Ilkiw — vice president of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Asia Pacific.  ICE — […]
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An Early Look at the Vue 3 Composition API in the Wild
13.11.2019
I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the future.
Until now, when we were creating a new component we were using Options API. That API forced us to separate the component’s code by options...
EOS Creator Block.One to Vote for Block Producers With 9.5% of Coins
13.11.2019
The firm behind EOS, Block.One, announced that it will now use its 9.5% of EOS tokens to vote for block producers
Michael Arrington Backstage at The Capital: ‘Bitcoin Is Money and Nothing Else Is’
13.11.2019
Michael Arrington, founder and former editor of TechCrunch, as well as partner at Arrington XRP Capital, spoke to The Capital backstage after a relatively heated panel discussion. During the panel — the last one of day one — he called […]
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Making an Audio Waveform Visualizer with Vanilla JavaScript
12.11.2019
As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing user interfaces. But sometimes, I step on a technical landmine.
A few years ago, as the design director of wsj.com, I was helping to re-design...
When to Use SVG vs. When to Use Canvas
12.11.2019
SVG and canvas are both technologies that can draw stuff in web browsers, so they are worth comparing and understanding when one is more suitable than the other. Even a light understanding of them makes the choice of choosing one over the other pretty clear.
A little flat-color icon? That's...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
NEO Forwards the Recovery Process by Gaining 2.58% in One Day
12.11.2019
Amidst the rising trend, NEO gained 2.58% in the last one day The current price trend exhibits that the next resistance is expected to be faced at $11.50 NEO has gained 2.58% in the last one day, and it has been through three major price variations in this period. The three swings have been...
Jailed Deepdotweb Admin Denies Earning $15M From Darknet Links
12.11.2019
In an interview from prison, one of Deepdotweb’s operators has disputed the $15 million allegedly made from “illegal” referral links, claiming “There was no such amount.” Currently on remand in France, Israeli citizen Tal Prihar stands accused of directing visitors...
Pac-Man… in CSS!
11.11.2019
You all know famous Pac-Man video game, right? The game is fun and building an animated Pac-Man character in HTML and CSS is just as fun! I’ll show you how to create one while leveraging the powers of the clip-path property.
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Animated Pac-Man by Maks Akymenko (@maximakymenko)
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Disabled buttons suck
11.11.2019
In this oldie but goodie, Hampus Sethfors digs into why disabled buttons are troubling for usability reasons and he details one example where this was pretty annoying for him. The same has happened to me recently where I clicked a button that looked like a secondary button and... nothing happened....
Diana Smith’s Pure CSS Artwork “Lace”
8.11.2019
Diana is at it again with her absolutely unbelievable CSS paintings. This latest one is called Lace. Past paintings are Francine, Vignes, and Zigario.
She wrote for us last year if you'd like a little insight into her thinking.
Andy Baio looked at the painting in a variety of older...
Bitcoin Price Diary: Long Bitcoin, Bullish on Altcoins – XLM, VET, ONE
8.11.2019
Traders are shifting their efforts to numerous altcoins as Bitcoin continues to trade in a tightening sideways range