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Trying the New WSL 2. It's Fast! (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
2.7.2019
Windows Subsystem for Linux is the tool that was released by Microsoft to get a full UNIX system inside of Windows. Microsoft has put in some good initiatives for developers after purchasing GitHub
How to Pay Employees or Get Paid With Bitcoin
29.6.2019
Paying or getting paid with digital coins is the norm in the cryptocurrency sector. Participants in many other industries, however, may also be tempted to take advantage of the benefits offered by decentralized currencies. In the case of bitcoin cash (BCH), that means fast, secure and low-cost...
Limited Time Taco Bell Hotel Reservations Sell Out In Two Minutes
28.6.2019
Over the years, plenty of the leading brands in the world have started initiatives that are meant to create much greater levels of interaction with the customers. However, when it comes to consumer-facing businesses like fast food restaurants, then it is a far more important tactic and one that...
How to Invest in Cryptocurrency Without Worrying About Volatility
18.6.2019
Seeing the value of your portfolio fluctuating can keep you up at night or push you to sell when prices are low, especially in a fast moving market like cryptocurrency. Luckily, there are ways to mitigate that. Also Read: Bitcoin Cash Development Fund Receives Massive Support Use Dollar Cost...
Cashless-Bound: Japan's Transport, e-Commerce Partnership on the Fast Track
11.6.2019
Japan’s transport and e-commerce heavyweights drive cashless payments
Greenpages.cash Will Help You Find Merchants Accepting Bitcoin Cash
6.6.2019
Cryptocurrency needs places where you can spend it. Bitcoin cash, with its low-cost and fast transactions, is a good option for merchants and buyers. A platform called Greenpages.cash helps you find stores that will readily accept your BCH. Also read: New Browser Extension Enhances BCH Addresses...
Self-Host Your Static Assets
5.6.2019
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem...
PR: Blucon Launches BCH Transportation Card
31.5.2019
Blucon is excited to announce the launch of their transportation card that supports BCH. The system will work by integrating the EXO-Platform, to allow the instant conversion of cryptocurrency into spendable cash. Blucon has leveraged on its existing business relationships between cryptocurrency...
Non-Relational Databases and Supporting Mixed Workloads
30.5.2019
Suppose that you’re building an e-commerce platform and as part of the exercise, you need to come up with a new data architecture for inventory management. You need to support fast, transactional w
Code as Documentation: New Strategies with CSS Grid
24.5.2019
I work for Supercool, a fast-moving design agency that makes custom built sites for arts clients, powered by the off-the-shelf system, Craft CMS; it's high-spec graphic design with relatively demanding typography and art direction. Over the past few months we’ve been moving to CSS grid. We’re...
Blockstream CSO Samson Mow Says Bitcoin Wasn’t Meant To Be Fast, As It Had To Be Reliable
22.5.2019
Bitcoin has been one of the most popular debate topics since its inception in 2019. The world has been divided by various opinions of the ultimate cryptocurrency. However, Samson Mow’s recent comments of Bitcoin has triggered another controversy. During a television interview, Mow said that...
How I Use CleanMyMac X
21.5.2019
[Chris]: I'm a lifelong Mac user. Ever since our family upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Apple Macintosh Performa 636 (CD) when I was in middle school, I've never owned or worked on anything other than a Mac. I'm pretty dedicated to running a clean, fast, optimized, safe, and organized machine....
How to Travel the World With Bitcoin Cash
19.5.2019
Traveling is on everyone’s minds as summer approaches and crypto enthusiasts are no exception. But for anyone thinking of a holiday trip, travel arrangements can be arduous. Crypto payments can make your life easier in that regard, particularly with bitcoin cash, which is a fast and cheap...
Weekly Platform News: Feature Policy, Signed Exchanges, iOS browsers
10.5.2019
👋 Hey folks! This is the first edition of a new weekly update we'll be posting that covers timely news at the intersection of development standards and the tools that make them available on the web. We often talk about the pace of change in our industry. It's fast and touches everything...
Using Parcel as a Bundler for React Applications
25.4.2019
You may already be familiar with webpack for asset management on projects. However, there’s another cool tool out there called Parcel, which is comparable to webpack in that it helps with hassle-free asset bundling. Where Parcel really shines is that it requires zero configuration to get up...
Firebase: Get Your Apps Off the Ground Blazing Fast
9.4.2019
Google has invested heavily to make Firebase a full-featured application platform for web. It's dirt cheap to use. It's reliable. It saves up to 50% of yo
Building a Custom Sitemap for Your Gatsby.js Site
3.4.2019
Building static sites with React.js using Gatsby.js seem to be more and more a topic of debate when you require an easy to deploy setup, blazing fast speed and smooth developer experience. Gatsby h
The 10 Things We Built on Twitch in March
1.4.2019
This year feels like it's on moving too fast! March is done and it was an eventful month for us here at Scotch.
We've gotten the following done:
Scotch home page redesign launch
Sublime Text 3.2 Is Out! Git Integrated and Still Blazing Fast
14.3.2019
Sublime Text has a special place in my heart. It's the editor that made me love editors. Before that it was Notepad++ or Coda and trying to get files onto a server using FTP. Those were the days! W
Application Holotypes
13.3.2019
It's entirely too common to make broad-sweeping statements about all websites. Jason Miller:
We often make generalizations about applications we see in the wild, both anecdotal and statistical: "Single-Page Applications are slower than multipage" or "apps with low TTI loaded fast". However,...