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Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2019

22.11.2019
Ire Aderinokun has made another round-up summary of some things that piqued her attention during this year’s Chrome Dev Summit and there’s a lot of exciting news! There’s the :is selector (which Geoff wrote about a while back) as well as logical properties, updates to standard form elements,...

Does It Take a Lot of Luck in Playing Online Games?

22.11.2019
It’s tempting to sort online games into separate categories marked “luck” and “skill” but the truth is that most of the games that we think go under the “pure luck” category often require a good amount of skill and vice versa. For instance, chess is often used as an example of skill, but it might...

Getting Started with GraphQL

20.11.2019
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...

‘Lost Coins’ Study Estimates BTC’s True Supply

19.11.2019
Many people like the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto introduced a capped supply of 21 million coins when he created the Bitcoin protocol. However, there’s been a lot of speculation aimed at guessing the number of ‘lost coins’ that will never be spent. On November 19, the digital...

The Best Cocktail in Town

18.11.2019
I admit I've held in a lot of pent-up frustration about the direction web development has taken the past few years. There is the complexity. It requires a steep learning curve. It focuses more on more configuration than it does development. That's not exactly great news for folks like me...

Generation QE: How Central Banks Create Money From Thin Air

11.11.2019
This year the public has seen a lot of the expansive monetary policy taking place with 37 central banks participating in monetary easing. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand the methods central banks like the Federal Reserve use to increase the money supply and never take the time...

How to Start With Bitcoin at No Cost

10.11.2019
Getting into the Bitcoin world is by default easy and it doesn’t have to cost you anything. All you need to do to get started is to install a cryptocurrency wallet and load it with some digital cash. The growing crypto community, always enthusiastic about accepting new members, has done a...

JavaScript waitForTime

6.11.2019
I write a lot of tests for new features within Firefox DevTools. We have hundreds of “mochitests” which open the browser and perform synthetic actions like clicking, typing, and other user actions. I’ve previously written about waitForever which essentially halts following actions...

Cash Runs Dry at ATMs as Protests Escalate in Chile

26.10.2019
There’s a lot of unrest in Chile right now as the country has seen massive protests against government manipulation and an escalation of financial problems. Local reports detail a few banking establishments have been burned after customers started having issues withdrawing cash from ATMs....

What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte

23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...

Workflow Considerations for Using an Image Management Service

16.10.2019
There are all these sites out there that want to help you with your images. They do things like optimize your images and help you serve them performantly. That's a very good thing. By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them...

6 Monitoring Websites That Help Track Bitcoin Cash Data

12.10.2019
When it comes to cryptocurrency networks and markets, there’s a lot to keep track of. Thankfully there’s also now a bunch of dedicated bitcoin cash (BCH) data websites that provide easy to comprehend visual representations of network statistics and market indicators. Also read: Slovenia...

Wufoo Cracks the Code for Forms So You Don’t Have To

8.10.2019
There was a lot of buzz about forms last week when Jason Grisby pointed to a missing pattern attribute on Chipotle's order form that could have been used to help-through millions of dollars in orders. Adrian Roselli followed that up with the common mistake of forgetting for and id attributes...

Using GitHub Template Repos to Jump-Start Static Site Projects

4.10.2019
If you’re getting started with static site generators, did you know you can use GitHub template repositories to quickly start new projects and reduce your setup time? Most static site generators make installation easy, but each project still requires configuration after installation. When...

There’s just no way around it

4.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 4 October, 2019 “A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” – Ralph Lauren Consolidation Over the last 24 hours, total market capitalization dipped back down again from ~$221.5 billion to ~$218.5 billion, with […] The post...

There’s just no way around it

4.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 4 October, 2019 Hard work “A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” – Ralph Lauren We are done with week 1 of October! How did it all go for you all? ???? […] The post There’s just no way around it appeared first...

There’s just no way around it

Without Disobedience, Bitcoin Is No Better Than Gold

27.9.2019
With the launch of Bakkt’s bitcoin futures market and Binance’s revamped U.S. exchange, there’s been a lot of talk in the space about institutionalization and traditional money flowing into crypto. It’s almost as if some believe that Bitcoin can’t scale as a purely...

Thinking in React Hooks

25.9.2019
Amelia Wattenberger has written this wonderful and interactive piece about React Hooks and details how they can clean up code and remove all those troubling lifecycle events: React introduced hooks one year ago, and they've been a game-changer for a lot of developers. There are tons of how-to...

Ellipal’s Titan Hardware Wallet Is Airgapped and Easy to Use

24.9.2019
There’s a lot of hardware wallets out there vying for your hard-earned satoshis. Minimalist USB sticks; credit card-shaped devices with monochrome screens; Bluetooth-enabled gadgets. The Ellipal Titan is a new offering that packs a lot into its $169 price tag. But there’s one thing...