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The BTC-Colonial Pipeline FUD Gives A Lesson On Bitcoin Security
8.6.2021
There is an abundance of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) the Cryptoverse is fighting to debunk today - after millions of USD in bitcoin (BTC) was allegedly seized, used as ransom in the US Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in early May. One of these flames being put out today is that Bitcoin...
Powers On… Why Bernie Madoff should be a powerful lesson to stock and crypto memecoin investors
11.5.2021
I should know, I helped chase down $1 billion of his fraudulently-obtained cash
The Walking Dead Turned a Beautiful Episode Into a Brutal Lesson
15.3.2021
Admittedly, the primary portion of The Walking Dead’s educational plan is telling its students that in the case of a zombie apocalypse, almost everyone will turn into killers if not monsters (literal or figurative). And after a quiet, languid, enjoyable story focused on getting to know more about...
Trader’s Lesson: Why You Shouldn’t Keep Large Amounts of Crypto in MetaMask
22.2.2021
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io
While most of the crypto world was enjoying new all-time highs this past weekend, popular crypto trader under the Twitter pseudonym notsofast went through a personal crypto nightmare as his Metamask hot wallet was compromised in a security breach. Even...
South Africa learns a hard crypto lesson amid fast growing demand
9.2.2021
South African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major scams and booming markets
‘Expensive lesson’: 75 Eth2 validators slashed for introducing potential chain split bug
5.2.2021
A company providing nodes for Eth2 stakers was penalized for breaking safety protocols in the pursuit of higher performance
First Mover: Bitcoin Newbies Get Volatility Lesson as Old Pros Lament FUD
22.1.2021
A mixture of bearish price-chart patterns and ill-understood news items combined to cause bitcoin's biggest price plunge since March, in a demonstration to market newcomers of the cryptocurrency's notorious volatility.
Old is Solid; New Gets Talked About
15.12.2020
When Chris asked me to write about “one thing I learned about building websites this year” I admit my brain immediately went through a list of techniques and CSS properties I started using this year. But then I paused. Other people can write about that much better than I can....
Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time
3.12.2020
Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that...
First Mover: Bitcoin Surges to New 2020 High as Harvest Debacle Provides Costly DeFi Lesson
27.10.2020
This week's $24M exploit of DeFi platform Harvest shows risks as real as rewards in open-beta crypto markets, where investor protection is minimal
VCs Learned Bitcoin & ICO Lesson The Hard Way - Marc van der Chijs
15.10.2020
Source: Adobe/jan_S
Many venture capitalists (VCs) learned the hard way that just hodling bitcoin (BTC) would have been a better strategy than trying to outperform it, Marc van der Chijs, entrepreneur, crypto-focused venture capitalist, said in an interview with Cryptonews.com. However, according...
PHP is A-OK for Templating
4.2.2020
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built templating engine.
But first, a very brief PHP history lesson
The...
Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components
19.12.2019
Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I've come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a design system, especially one with a bunch of legacy technical decisions and a lot...
Bitcoin Life Lesson: User Claims Forgetting ‘Brain Wallet’ Worth $13M
26.11.2019
Bitcoin worth $13 million allegedly locked after passphrase failure
Creating Apple's Website with Bootstrap 4
8.8.2018
In this step-by-step video lesson we will recreate Apple's iconic home page using Bootstrap 4 from scratch
Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
3.7.2018
The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best development techniques happen right out in the open, on blogs and in forums, evolving as they’re passed around and improved. I thought it might be fun (and fascinating) to actually follow this...
Hacker, Hack Thyself
2.6.2017
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default, even if there are