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Going Buildless
27.8.2019
I'm in a long distance relationship. That means I’m on a plane to England every few weeks, and every time I'm on that plane, I think about how nice it would be to read some Reddit posts. What I could do is find a Reddit app that lets me cache posts for offline (I’m sure there is one out there),...
Web3’s Gavin Wood Launches Kusama Network to Test Polkadot Protocol
23.8.2019
The Web3 Foundation launched a live experimental version of the Polkadot network on Friday. Here's what Kusama will be testing
Crypto Asset NYM to Fuel Test of Tokenized Facebook Login Alternative
21.8.2019
Privacy-focused Nym Technologies plans to launch a testnet this fall. Its identity system masks identifying user data across blockchains
Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
2.8.2019
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
$1 Million Raised by Streak AI Technologies in Latest Funding Round
25.6.2019
India has become one of the more important hotbeds of tech-based startups in Asia and a large variety of startups have been established in the past few years. Many of them have gone on to become highly successful companies and many more are now coming up through the ranks. One of those is Streak...
Bitmain Technologies Revives Its IPO Plans After the Bitcoin Price Surge
24.6.2019
Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world-renowned Beijing-based company that manufactures bitcoin mining chips, has renewed its plans to go for an IPO (short for Initial Public Offering) as Bitcoin experiences a price surge. The crypto enthusiasts are already aware of the fact that the number 1 digital...
Bitmain Launches Low-Cost Special Edition Antminer S9
18.6.2019
On Monday, June 17, the Chinese mining rig manufacturer Bitmain Technologies announced the launch of a low-cost miner called the Antminer S9 version SE. The new 16 terahash per second (16TH/s) S9 SE is $350 per unit and the launch celebrates the company’s most popular product, the original...
Report: Number of Blockchain Patent Filings Outstrips Other Technologies
13.6.2019
The number of blockchain patent filings far outpaces those for other technologies such as quantum computing, according to a recent report
Former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Announces New Blockchain Startup
5.6.2019
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is dipping his feet back into the crypto industry as he wants to help Japan become a powerhouse within the blockchain economy. The former CEO of the now-defunct exchange told the media on June 5 about his new venture called Tristan Technologies. Also read: Mt...
Huawei’s Plight To Help Samsung Gain Larger Market Share
27.5.2019
Huawei Technologies has become the centerpiece in the rising dispute between the US and China. With Huawei becoming the second largest seller of smartphones globally, the issues facing the company have taken on a more serious turn. Huawei was initially founded in 1987, following which it expanded...
Updated Version Of Cake Wallet Launched With Updated Features For Monero (XMR)
16.5.2019
Cake technologies LLP has announced on 14th May Wednesday through a Tweet about the launch of an updated version of cake wallet. The wallet is ready to use and can be downloaded as it is live from yesterday. The company has implemented some significant changes and has given a fresh new look to...
$135b Tech Investments by 2030 to be Discussed at the Saudi Emerging Technologies Forum
16.5.2019
AI to contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030 AI to dramatically boost the GDP of KSA, UAE and Egypt by 2030 AI is going to be a big game changer in the global economy, and much of the value potential is up for grabs. A PwC 2018 report estimated that …
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Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million to Anonymize Crypto Apps
13.5.2019
This startup is betting tokens can help incentivize privacy infrastructure across the internet
Ex-SoFI CEO’s Startup Closes $1 Billion Credit Line on a Blockchain
10.5.2019
Figure Technologies, founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, has closed a $1 billion “uncommitted” line of credit on a blockchain
Split
2.5.2019
Jeremy on the divide between the core languages of the web, and all the tooling that exists to produce code in those languages:
On the one hand, you’ve got the raw materials of the web: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is what users will ultimately interact with.
On the other hand, you’ve got...
Naming things to improve accessibility
2.5.2019
I like the this wrap-up statement from Hidde de Vries:
In modern browsers, our markup becomes an accessibility tree that ultimately informs what our interface looks like to assistive technologies. It doesn’t matter as much whether you’ve written this markup:
in a .html file
in Twig, Handlebars...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
Advanced Tooling for Web Components
22.3.2019
Over the course of the last four articles in this five-part series, we’ve taken a broad look at the technologies that make up the Web Components standards. First, we looked at how to create HTML templates that could be consumed at a later time. Second, we dove into creating our own custom element....
Crafting Reusable HTML Templates
19.3.2019
In our last article, we discussed the Web Components specifications (custom elements, shadow DOM, and HTML templates) at a high-level. In this article, and the three to follow, we will put these technologies to the test and examine them in greater detail and see how we can use them in production...