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Bidirectional Horizontal Rules in CSS
25.10.2019
Say you have a <blockquote> and the design calls for a thick border along the left side. Well, you might not necessarily mean left side, but actually mean on the side of the start of the text.
That's exactly what CSS logical properties are meant to address, and Hussein Al Hammad has a nice...
Bitcoin Core Dev: Anti-51% Attack Measures Always Imply Centralization
8.10.2019
Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell criticizes the “attractive mystery” that fear of a 51% attack on Bitcoin entails
Hidden Lightning Network Bug Allowed Spending of ‘Fake’ Bitcoins
28.9.2019
A bug discovered in the Lightning Network in June, which allowed lightning bitcoins not backed by actual bitcoins to be spent, has officially been addressed in a new dev full disclosure report released on Friday. The problem has reportedly been remedied, but the security oversight casts doubts...
Spanish Facebook Rival Taringa Is Sold to Smart Contract Dev RSK
27.9.2019
Subsidiary of smart contract developer RSK buys Latin America’s Facebook rival Taringa
Google’s Quantum Computer Breakthrough Not a Risk to Bitcoin, Says Dev
25.9.2019
Cost alone keeps Bitcoin safe from quantum advances, says developer Peter Todd
Zap Dev: Use Lightning Network to Buy Bitcoin — Avoid Coinbase, BitPay
20.9.2019
Bitcoin wallet unveils instant buying feature linking bank accounts in a direct snub to BitPay
Web Developer Search History
18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...
Ethereum Dev Firm ConsenSys Now a Premier Member of Hyperledger
11.9.2019
Ethereum-focused development firm ConsenSys becomes a premier member of blockchain development project Hyperledger
“Off The Main Thread”
10.9.2019
JavaScript is what they call "single-threaded." As Brian Barbour puts it:
This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.
We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on elements or entire sites. If we give JavaScript lots of jobs and it gets...
15 of the World’s Most Promising Tokenised Protocols Come Together for a Combined Dev Con, “Diffusion” in Berlin Fall ’19, to Build an Alternative Web
7.9.2019
● 350 developers will apply to test their skills to hack using 25m+ lines of open source code over a 2 day period for thousands in prizes ● Hack teams will be drawn from some of the worlds largest corporations, technical universities, leading dev shops, and the crypto scenes best indie github...
Blockchain Dev’s Platform Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
4.9.2019
Software giant Oracle has listed blockchain developer Hydrogen’s finance platform
Bitcoin Cash Can’t Mine Blocks Bigger Than 2MB, Lead Dev Suggests
3.9.2019
Bitcoin Cash might not even be able to cope with big blocks
Binance Launches Dev Education and Collaboration Platform Binance X
29.8.2019
Major crypto exchange Binance introduces its new developer-focused platform, Binance X
Bitcoin Dev Reveals Multisig UI Teaser for Hardware Wallets, Full Nodes
29.8.2019
A Bitcoin educator has unveiled an alpha user interface for Bitcoin hardware wallet and full node multisignature protection
India’s Kerala Blockchain Academy Partners with R3 for Dev Education
28.8.2019
Indian government initiative Kerala Blockchain Academy partners with R3 to expand blockchain developer training
Square Crypto Hires Blockstream Co-Founder, Open Source Bitcoin Dev
20.8.2019
Square Crypto announce hiring of Blockstream co-founder
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...
Ethereum Classic Name Change Would Get Other Cryptos ‘Rekt,’ Says Dev
12.8.2019
Ethereum Classic Labs’ Stevan Lohja says that many top cryptos would be “rekt” by Ethereum Classic if it removed “Ethereum” from its name
How to Become a Blockchain Developer
7.8.2019
Skilled blockchain developers are a scarce commodity, as precious as the bitcoins that reside on the distributed ledgers they maintain. Teach yourself one of the major blockchain programming languages and you’ll be set for life, though like anything worth having, this achievement won’t...