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Svelte for the Experienced React Dev
21.5.2021
This post is an accelerated introduction to Svelte from the point of view of someone with solid experience with React. I’ll provide a quick introduction, and then shift focus to things like state management and DOM interoperability, among other things. …
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Indian Government to Set up Panel of Experts to Take a Fresh Look at Regulating Cryptocurrencies: Report
20.5.2021
The Indian government is reportedly looking to form a new “panel of experts” to focus on ways to regulate the cryptocurrency industry in the country. “There is a view within the government that the recommendations made by Subhash Garg are dated and a fresh look is needed at use...
Bitcoin Drops Below $40K, Crypto Economy Down 17%, Markets Lost $250 Billion Last Week
19.5.2021
On Wednesday, cryptocurrency markets continue to drop lower in value, as the entire crypto-economy has plunged 17% below the $2 trillion mark and now rests at $1.801 trillion. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, touched a high of $40,770 per unit at 4:48 a.m....
Qtum price rallies 160% as the project's focus on DeFi pays off
7.5.2021
QTUM price hit a 3-year high above $35 as the team's focus on DeFi and staking attracts new users
16px or Larger Text Prevents iOS Form Zoom
4.5.2021
This was a great “Today I Learned” for me from Josh W. Comeau. If the font-size of an <input> is 16px or larger, Safari on iOS will focus into the input normally. But as soon as the font-size is …
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Fed’s Vice Chair for Supervision Calls on Bank Regulators to Pay More Attention to Cryptocurrency
4.5.2021
The Federal Reserve’s top supervisory official has called on bank regulators to pay more attention to cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. His comments followed a number of major banks announcing that they will be offering products based on cryptocurrencies, particularly bitcoin, to their...
Eliminating five top compatibility pain points on the web
23.4.2021
Robert Nyman and Philip Jägenstedt:
Google is working with other browser vendors and industry partners to fix the top five browser compatibility pain points for web developers. The areas of focus are CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, position: sticky, 
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BitMEX Confirms Expansion Plans, Focus On Derivatives Remains
22.4.2021
Building on its earlier announcement of expansion plans, crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has unveiled it is broadening its offer with five new business segments: spot, brokerage, custody, information products, and academy. The company will also seek additional licenses in a number...
Smartlands Platform Launch: Tokenizing the Real Economy in Europe With a First-Mover Advantage
19.4.2021
In April, Smartlands will launch an alternative investment platform for buying and selling tokenized shares of real-world assets. The platform, built on the Stellar open-source network, will first focus on issuing security tokens that represent a suite of high-yield real estate listings based...
Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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Five Top Quality APIs
13.4.2021
It’s easy to think about creating beautiful UIs for presenting data when you don’t consider the effort that goes into gathering and serving the data itself. Here’s the thing — thanks to apilayer, you can focus on your UIs and not the pain of API creation. No need to worry...
Focus on NFTs and interoperability pushes Icon (ICX), Ark and Axie Infinity higher
31.3.2021
Projects focused on NFTs and cross-chain transactions continue to undergo explosive rallies as investors sharpen their focus on the sector
UK authorities to focus on stablecoin regulations to prevent monopolies
30.3.2021
British regulators have identified the stablecoin market as their primary assignment amid efforts to create a legal framework for virtual currencies in the country
Central Banks Focus On Financial Inclusion As Cryptos Get Traction
25.3.2021
Central banks are seemingly looking to steal the show from decentralized cryptocurrencies as they are also aiming to increase financial inclusion by issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
China
"We still have a lot of remote areas, or poor areas, and in those areas people...
Unmarshal Raises $2.6M USD From Industry Heavyweights to Build Multi-Chain Data Indexing Protocol
24.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Unmarshal is proud to announce that the seed and private sale funding rounds have been successfully closed with strong investment support from Industry bigwigs. A total of $2.6m was raised in the seed and private rounds. With the fresh capital introduced, Unmarshal will focus...
Solana DeFi hackathon winners focus on DEX order books, interoperability
17.3.2021
A recent Solana hackathon generated unique ideas leveraging the blockchain's architecture
Not Only Institutional Investors Focus On Bitcoin Now - Goldman Sachs
8.3.2021
US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs sees rising demand for bitcoin (BTC) not only among institutional investors, but also in the private wealth management industry.
“I think it's pretty fair to say that all of our institutional client discussion is really focused around bitcoin. Where...
Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, Ditching em Units, and Global Privacy Control
4.3.2021
In this week’s news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get “donut” scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it’s time to ditch pixels in media queries, and a snippet that prevents annoying form validation styling.
Chrome will…
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Focus on DeFi ‘fairness’ benefits Holochain, Orion Protocol and Dodo
26.2.2021
Building real-world solutions that address scalability, data privacy and high Ethereum fees are adding value to Holochain, Orion Protocol and Dodo
How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu
25.2.2021
I recently started working on a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a client with my team. We’re using React with client-side routing via React Router, and one of the first elements that we made was the main menu. Menus …
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