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Collective #620
28.8.2020
What is the Small Web? * ztext.js * Umami * The Thing With Leading in CSS * A Tapestry of Tools
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A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Preparing for Contributions
19.8.2020
I’ve recently found myself reaching for Eleventy (aka 11ty) above all other tools when I want to develop a website. It’s hard to beat a static site generator that provides advanced templating opportunities while otherwise getting out of your way and allowing you to just create.
One...
Lumi Wallet Web Widget: Cryptocurrency Exchange on Your Website
7.8.2020
Good news for those who want to upgrade their website with functional tools and features – on August 5st, Lumi Wallet Technologies launched its app web widget. Now everyone can easily embed a “mini digital wallet” into the body of their website. The Lumi Wallet Widget is a useful...
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
5.8.2020
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel that shows us big things, like how relative CSS values are resolved. We’ll also see how inheritance fits into the browser’s...
Expanding the Future (of Dev Tooling) with AI
5.8.2020
Codota wants their tools to (at least!) double developer productivity. My vision is that we can do that not only by getting more developers using these tools, but in expanding where and how these tools learn themselves. The better the tools can *learn from us* what we're doing, the better *we...
P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Adds Crypto Surveillance Tools From Elliptic
28.7.2020
Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards
WordPress.com Growth Summit
23.7.2020
I’m speaking at The Official WordPress.com Growth Summit coming up in August. “Learn how to build and grow your site, from start to scale”, as they say. Lovely, thick, diverse set of speakers. It’s a little bit outside my normal spheres which makes...
Reactive jQuery for Spaghetti-fied Legacy Codebases (or When You Can’t Have Nice Things)
22.7.2020
I can hear you crying out now: “Why on Earth would you want to use jQuery when there are much better tools available? Madness! What sort of maniac are you?” These are reasonable questions, and I’ll answer them with a little bit of context.
In my current job, I am responsible for the care...
CoolBitX and Elliptic Team Up to Offer Crypto Firms Compliance Tools
21.7.2020
The two companies will provide a package of their respective solutions to crypto firms such as exchanges needing to stay in compliance with regulators
5 Most Common Developer Portfolio Mistakes (Sponsored)
20.7.2020
A portfolio site is one of the best marketing and sales tools you as a web developer have in your arsenal. And if it’s set up right, it’ll save you a bunch of time having to:  Chase down new clients,  Spend time convincing them to work with you, Answer questions about your experience as...
The Twitter Hack Fiasco: Compromised Internal Tool, Paid Insiders, Direct Message Fears
17.7.2020
On Wednesday, a large number of Twitter accounts were compromised and the hackers used the accounts to tweet about a bitcoin doubling scam. According to multiple reports, a Twitter employee was paid to give the hackers an internal tool that let them leverage high-profile social media accounts....
FreeBitcoins.com is Open Again With Three Helpful Tools for New and Old Cryptocurrency Users
16.7.2020
“FreeBitcoins.com” is proud to announce that they are now open. FreeBitcoins.com was initially registered in 2010 when Bitcoin was trading for under 25 cents. FreeBitcoins goal is to be helpful not only for new 2020 users but also for 2010 Bitcoiners. FreeBitcoins.com/faucet –...
US Army Requests Information on Tools to Track Cryptocurrency Transactions
14.7.2020
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army have requested information on web-based cryptocurrency tracking tools. The tools must enable U.S. government agencies worldwide to conduct in-depth investigations into the source of crypto transactions and provide multi-currency analysis from bitcoin...
World Bank Investigates Smart Contracts as Financial Tools, With Mixed Results
13.7.2020
The World Bank has looked at the benefits of smart contracts and found the blockchain instruments to be a "limited" financial tool
My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site
13.7.2020
As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging...
Alchemy Aims to Transform Blockchain Development with New Build Tools
9.7.2020
New dev tools promise to make blockchain development open to more engineers, as well as faster and more efficient
Settling down in a Jamstack world
3.7.2020
One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it’s just a philosophy. It’s not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it. To me, the only real requirement is that it’s based on static (CDN-backed) hosting. You can use whatever tooling you like. Those tools, though...
Some Performance Links
3.7.2020
Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.
Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer
Puppeteer is an Node library for spinning up a copy of Chrome “headlessly” (i.e. no UI) and controlling it. People use it...
The IRS Wants to Know More About Privacy-Enhancing Crypto Coins, Tools
2.7.2020
America's tax collector is laying the groundwork for a possible assault on privacy-enhancing cryptocurrency technologies
Institutionalize Crypto: Big Four Analytics Tools May Lure in Traditional Investors
30.6.2020
Big Four firms introduce data analytics tools to help manage crypto and digital assets for institutional clients