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Coinbase Now Lets You Access DApps on Your Desktop Browsers
22.8.2019
As per the official announcement by Coinbase, users will now be able to access their DApps (decentralized applications) on their desktop browsers hassle-freely. It has been made possible through Coinbase Wallet’s WalletLink service. As described in the blog post, WalletLink will act as the secure...
New Flexa Tech Will Let You Spend Bitcoin From Other Apps Too
21.8.2019
Mobile wallets and other apps will soon be able to plug into Flexa's payment rails and offer crypto payments to retailers
You Can Now Earn Bitcoin Rewards for Postmates Purchases
21.8.2019
Postmates has become the latest partner for Lolli's bitcoin rewards service
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
You Can Now Purchase DAI on Crypto.com at its True Value at Zero Fees
21.8.2019
The payment and crypto platform- Crypto.com has announced today about the listing of the USD-pegged stablecoin- Dai (DAI) to its native application. The pre-existing coin and altcoins include- Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple’s XRP, TrueUSD (TUSD), PAXOS (PAX), Crypto.com’s native...
Getting Netlify Large Media Going
20.8.2019
I just did this the other day so I figured I'd blog it up. There is a thing called Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Here's the entire point of it: it keeps large files out of your repo directly. Say you have 500MB of images on your site and they kinda need to be in the repo so you can work with...
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
20.8.2019
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider the history of computing, this type of abstraction isn’t...
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
20.8.2019
Milica Mihajlija:
Adding rel=preconnect to a <link> informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you'd like the process to start as soon as possible. Resources will load more quickly because the setup process has already been completed...
Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
19.8.2019
Let's say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something.
You'd probably be tracking the X location of the element, increasing or decreasing it in a time loop and — when the element reached the maximum or minimum value —...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
IRS Revoking Passports Shows How Government Erodes Everything We Hold Dear
17.8.2019
If you have outstanding tax debt, the IRS may now want to take your passport. For U.S. crypto holders still waiting on promised IRS guidelines for filing — especially those overseas who may have missed these warning memos — the over 400,000 agency notifications issued since February...
Draggin’ and Droppin’ in React
16.8.2019
The React ecosystem offers us a lot of libraries that all are focused on the interaction of drag and drop. We have react-dnd, react-beautiful-dnd, react-drag-n-drop and many more, but some of them require quite a lot of work to build even a simple drag and drop demo, and some do not provide...
This Crypto Asset Doesn’t Exist Yet, But Soon You’ll Be Able to Stake It
16.8.2019
Perlin's PERL cryptocurrency looks to make shipping easier, but could also democratize the proof-of-stake model
These Portfolio Tracking Tools Will Also Prepare Your Crypto Taxes
16.8.2019
Tax season is months away, which is why you need to start preparing for it now. Leave everything to the last minute and you’ll only end up cursing your procrastination. Organize your cryptocurrency activity in advance and you’ll breeze through tax deadline day without so much...
Weekly Platform News: HTML Loading Attribute, the Main ARIA Specifications, and Moving from iFrame to Shadow DOM
15.8.2019
In this week's roundup of platform news, Chrome introduces a new attribute for loading, accessibility specifications for web developers, and the BBC moves visualizations to the Shadow DOM.
Chrome ships the loading attribute
The HTML loading attribute for lazy-loading images and iframes is...
The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...
What to Do if You Just Got a Crypto Tax Letter from the IRS
15.8.2019
Have you just woken up to find a letter from America’s top tax authority, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in your mailbox, asking you to pay tax on your crypto earnings… and come to the sad realization that you’re not having a nightmare?
Scores of American cryptocurrency traders have received...
Staggered CSS Transitions
14.8.2019
Let's say you wanted to move an element on :hover for a fun visual effect.
@media (hover: hover) {
.list--item {
transition: 0.1s;
transform: translateY(10px);
}
.list--item:hover,
.list--item:focus {
transform: translateY(0);
}
}
Cool cool. But what if you had several list...
Anti-Corruption Group Proves Crypto’s True Power: You Can’t Confiscate Math
14.8.2019
Last week in Russia, state agents tore apart the offices of FBK, a privately funded anti-corruption foundation, freezing group assets and more than 100 bank accounts. Officials are using suspicion of money laundering as justification for targeting the largely bitcoin-funded group, possibly in a...