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Let’s Create a Lightweight Native Event Bus in JavaScript
11.12.2020
An event bus is a design pattern (and while we’ll be talking about JavaScript here, it’s a design pattern in any language) that can be used to simplify communications between different components. It can also be thought of as publish/subscribe or pubsub.
The idea is that components can listen...
EURST Stablecoin – The Cost of Answering the Call of the Economic Times
9.12.2020
The technological developments brought about by the invention of blockchain, bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies are rapidly transforming the financial landscape with the nascent industry failing to fit any conventional classification to become an asset class of its own. Stablecoins Are the Solution...
Very Extremely Practical CSS Art
9.12.2020
I’ve always enjoyed the CSS art people create, but I’ve never ventured into it much myself. I’m familiar with many of the tricks involved, but still find it surprising every time: the way people are able to make such fluid and beautiful images out of little boxes. I always end...
How To Avoid Burnout And Finish Any Open-World Game
8.12.2020
Do you ever feel like there are too many open-world games, and too many of them take up too much time? Just consider some offerings from this year alone. There’s Ghost of Tsushima, the gorgeous samurai action game, which can take you more than 60 hours to check off every objective. Ubisoft released...
Nimera Swap Offers DeFi Exchange Platform With Low Fees and Support for Any Blockchain
8.12.2020
The Defi revolution has brought about a new world of opportunities for crypto investors, but major improvements are still needed in the current ecosystem. For example, the most popular coin swapping service today is dependent on ethererum and its ridiculously high gas prices. Nimera Swap offers...
Volatile Bitcoin Not a True Store of Value Just Yet, Says Fidelity Digital Assets Head
5.12.2020
Fidelity Digital Assets president Tom Jessop says that bitcoin is not a true store of value just yet because the digital asset is still too volatile, Reuters reported. However, investors are optimistic bitcoin will attain this status. “We use the word ‘potential store of value’...
How To Make Short Work Of Any Enemy In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
4.12.2020
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t a difficult game. If you venture at all off the beaten path, you’ll quickly accrue enough experience and gain enough Power levels to become an unstoppable Viking tank. Still, some boss fights—and other high-level enemies, like zealots—can be a pain. That is, unless...
ConsenSys Acquires any.sender; Infura Alpha Released
4.12.2020
Leading and highly trusted blockchain-powered software technology firm, ConsenSys has announced the acquisition of any.sender, a potential non-custodial API that manages the transaction infrastructure for the developers. The team at ConsenSys is elated to integrate the Infura ecosystem,...
How to Make an Area Chart With CSS
2.12.2020
You might know a few ways to create charts with pure CSS. Some of them are covered here on CSS-Tricks, and many others can be found on CodePen, but I haven’t seen many examples of “area charts” (imagine a line chart with the bottom area filled in), particularly any in HTML and CSS alone. In this...
Any Place Is Where I Want To Be When I’m Listening To FTL: Faster Than Light’s Otherworldly Tunes
2.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today it’s time to jump through hyperspace with the whiz-bang chiptune-y goodness of the soundtrack to 2012’s strategy roguelike masterpiece FTL: Faster Than Light.Read more
ECB Chief Christine Lagarde Downplays Bitcoin’s Risks to Financial Stability, Troubled by Stablecoins
1.12.2020
ECB President Christine Lagarde downplays any risks bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could pose to financial stability and monetary sovereignty. In contrast, she sees stablecoins, such as Facebook-backed libra, as posing “serious risks.” Christine Lagarde, Bitcoin,...
A Complete State Machine Made With HTML Checkboxes and CSS
27.11.2020
State machines are typically expressed on the web in JavaScript and often through the popular XState library. But the concept of a state machine is adaptable to just about any language, including, amazingly, HTML and CSS. In this article, we’re going to do exactly that. I recently built a website...
Ethereum Price Breaches a 30-Month Resistance; $1000 Any Soon?
24.11.2020
Ethereum Price: An Overview Ethereum breaks 2-and-a-half-year long resistance as it crosses above $500 & $600 with a steep bullish candlewick on the 3-day chart against the greenback. Moreover, it was until two days back when a clear uptrend was seen, but the ETH price was still below $600....
How to Work With WordPress Block Patterns
12.11.2020
Just a little post I wrote up over at The Events Calendar blog. The idea is that a set of blocks can be grouped together in WordPress, then registered in a register_block_pattern() function that makes the group available to use as a “block pattern” in any page or post.
Block patterns...
The ‘Undo Button’ Wallet Tool Gives Users the Ability to Reverse Ethereum Transactions
12.11.2020
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, the blockchain firm Kirobo launched a tool that allows users to reverse ethereum transactions. Similarly to the replace-by-fee (RBF) protocol leveraged by bitcoin users, ethereum transactions can be reversed as well with Kirobo’s “Undo Button”...
My WordPress Comments Wishlist
12.11.2020
A built-in commenting system is one of the reasons people reach for WordPress (and often stay there long-term). While I do think having a comment system is compelling (and as big of a fan of building on WordPress as I am), I find the comments system on WordPress quite crusty. It needs some love!...
Argentinian Central Bank to Lift Freeze on Bank Fee Increases: Sets the Ceiling for Future Hikes at 9%
8.11.2020
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic says starting in January 2021, financial institutions will be able to increase the fees or commission they levy for services rendered. In its November 5 update, which effectively ends the February 19 freeze on any fee hikes, the central bank says such...
Additive Animations in CSS
3.11.2020
Daniel C. Wilson explains how with CSS @keyframe animations, when multiple of them are applied to an element, they do both work. But if any properties are repeated, only the last one works. They override each other. I’ve seen this limitation overcome by applying keyframes to nested elements...
Ethereum Adoption by the Numbers: Flipside Crypto
3.11.2020
Average of the past 21 days. 1. 30.5K New Contracts Are Created Daily Any developer can deploy a new smartContinue Reading
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$100 Million Accelerator Fund from Binance Now Supports PARSIQ, a Reverse-Oracle Blockchain Platform
3.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. PARSIQ is a working platform that makes blockchain events consumable and blockchain data actionable. It allows users—both individuals, companies, enterprises—to monitor any events across different blockchains in real-time and at scale and connect those events to...