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As 'Apathy Towards Privacy' Prevails, This Firm Says It Can Track Monero
1.9.2020
While claims that US crypto intelligence firm CipherTrace can track transactions in monero (XMR), the most popular privacy coin, was met with skepticism, other analysts warned about "user apathy towards privacy."
Yesterday, CipherTrace announced what it calls as the world’s first...
How to Make a Media Query-less Card Component
1.9.2020
Fun fact: it’s possible to create responsive components without any media queries at all. Certainly, if we had container queries, those would be very useful for responsive design at the component level. But we don’t. Still, with or without container queries, we can do things to make our components...
Come to Web Unleashed!
1.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Web Unleashed is a fun conference. I’ve been a number of times. I’m sure you won’t be surprised that it’s online this year, like most events.
And, hey, it’s coming up and will take place over three days, October 5-7, 2020. I’d really...
Ground Rules for Web Animations
31.8.2020
Animations can make a site stand out. Or, they can just as easily kill the experience. When working with web animations, there are a few things that could go wrong like adding animations that serve no purpose, setting durations that are  too long or too quick, or not using right type...
The Most Confusing Crypto Terms and What Can Be Done to Clarify Them
30.8.2020
Cryptocurrency is a domain of jargon. ‘Blockchains,’ ‘full nodes,’ ‘miners,’ ‘nonces,’ ‘side-chains’: these are only a few of the terms in crypto that are known to cause confusion and disagreement.
Not only does the ambiguity of vocab undermine the ability of people within crypto to communicate...
YFI price soars to $38.8K hitting $1B market cap — can it go higher?
30.8.2020
Yearn.finance’s YFI token achieved a new record high at $38,883, as its market capitalization surpassed $1 billion
Lysander Spooner: Natural Law – The Science of Justice
30.8.2020
The science of mine and thine – the science of justice – is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Section I. It is the science which alone can tell any man what he...
Number Scrubbing
29.8.2020
If you use <input type="number">, some browsers give you an input that has UI for incrementing the number, like up/down arrows (often called “spinners”).
That’s a bit helpful sometimes. But people have certainly explored fancier ways of updating that number....
a11y is web accessibility
29.8.2020
Eric Bailey eviscerates the notion that the term “a11y” isn’t accessible. It’s a hot take that I’ve had myself, embarrassingly enough.
I never see people asking why WWI is written out the way it is, either. Won’t people confuse that with the first Wonder Woman movie?...
a11y is web accessibility
29.8.2020
Eric Bailey eviscerates the notion that the term “a11y” isn’t accessible. It’s a hot take that I’ve had myself, embarrassingly enough.
I never see people asking why WWI is written out the way it is, either. Won’t people confuse that with the first Wonder Woman movie?...
Here’s How I Solved a Weird Bug Using Tried and True Debugging Strategies
28.8.2020
Remember the last time you dealt with a UI-related bug that left you scratching your head for hours? Maybe the issue was happening at random, or occurring under specific circumstances (device, OS, browser, user action), or was just hidden in one of the many front-end technologies that are part...
Copy the Browser’s Native Focus Styles
28.8.2020
Remy documented this the other day. Firefox supports a Highlight keyword and both Chrome and Safari support a -webkit-focus-ring-color keyword. So if you, for example, have removed focus from something and want to put it back in the same style as the browser default, or want to apply a focus style...
Deeper DX
27.8.2020
Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff that we recently covered. Sure, sure, documentation, CLIs, good demos. But there are much harder questions to answer that are part of the real DX. Shawn lists...
Going Jamstack with React, Serverless, and Airtable
27.8.2020
The best way to learn is to build. Let’s learn about this hot new buzzword, Jamstack, by building a site with React, Netlify (Serverless) Functions, and Airtable. One of the ingredients of Jamstack is static hosting, but that doesn’t mean everything on the site has to be static. In fact, we’re...
A Complete Walkthrough of GraphQL APIs with React and FaunaDB
27.8.2020
As a web developer, there is an interesting bit of back and forth that always comes along with setting up a new application. Even using a full stack web framework like Ruby on Rails can be non-trivial to set up and deploy, especially if it’s your first time doing so in a while.
Personally I have...
NYSE Can Allow Firms to Raise Funding Through Direct Listings, Says SEC
27.8.2020
The New York Stock Exchange may now allow some companies to raise capital via direct listings rather than IPOs
A Bit on CI/CD
27.8.2020
I’d say “website” fits better than “mobile app” but I like this framing from Max Lynch:
Every production mobile app ultimately has a set of recurring tasks around integration, testing, deployment, and long term maintenance. These tasks often must be automated across...
Why you should hire a front-end developer
26.8.2020
Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…
“A front-end developer is the best person to champion accessibility best practices in product teams.”
“80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end.”
“A front-end developer takes pressure...
Morphing SVG With react-spring
26.8.2020
I’ve been intrigued by the morphing effect ever since I was a little kid. There’s something about a shape-shifting animation that always captures my attention. The first time I saw morphing left me wondering “ Wow, how did they do that?” Since then, I’ve created demos and written an article about...
What’s New In DevTools (Chrome 86)
26.8.2020
It wasn’t that long ago that Umar Hansa published a look at the most interesting new features in Chrome DevTools released in 2020. In fact, it was just earlier this month!
But in that short amount of time, Chrome has a few new tricks up its sleeve. One of the features Umar covered was...