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Today in Crypto: Digital Surge Saved from Bankruptcy Following FTX Collapse, Circle Blames US SEC for Failed Merger, Celsius Mulling Issuance of a New Token
25.1.2023
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.__________...
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Rare Neopets Item Worth Millions Gets Saved By Players After Accident
19.1.2023
Most of us like to think that we’re good people. But if you picked up something worth millions in your local currency, it’s pretty unlikely that you’d give it back to its owner. Yet that’s exactly what one Neopets player did when they found a Wand of the Darkest Faerie.Read more
Some Links About CSS Gradients
2.11.2022
Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients …
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Maple Finance CEO: Separating risk from lending saved DeFi from market crash
29.9.2022
DeFi crypto lending has operated as intended through the crypto winter because transparency kept it in line and business activities were siloed, according to Maple Finance’s Sid Powell
Frankfurt’s Euro Sculpture Is Saved by New Sponsor CAIZ Development
28.9.2022
PRESS RELEASE. The preservation of the Euro sculpture in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, has been in danger in recent months as no sponsors were willing to provide the required financing. At the same time, the costs of maintaining the sculpture have risen considerably, mainly due to increased levels...
Uniswap Censors 253 Crypto Addresses Blacklisted for Crime, Sanction Associations
20.8.2022
According to a recently published report, the decentralized exchange (dex) Uniswap has blocked roughly 253 cryptocurrency addresses allegedly tied to crimes or government sanctions. The information was discovered by the software developer Banteg who analyzed and saved the shared logs from...
Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter
21.7.2022
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know …
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FTX CEO: Some Smaller Exchanges Are ‘Too Far Gone,’ ‘Insolvent,’ and Unlikely to Be ‘Saved’
29.6.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, the Founder of the crypto trading platform FTX, has warned that more crypto exchange failures “are coming,” and has stated: “There are some third-tier exchanges that are already secretly insolvent.”...
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Digital Denarius: How a crypto revolution could have saved the Roman Empire
30.1.2022
As Venezuela and Iran find themselves caught up in the cryptocurrency revolution, could this have saved the Roman Empire from crumbling into infighting and crippling inflation?
Adventure Games Saved My Life (Well, My Afternoon)
25.11.2021
Warning: this headline is possibly a slight exaggeration. But adventure games certainly saved my afternoon, and some enormous embarrassment. Because earlier this week, I found myself locked in my bathroom, with no sensible means of rescue. Then immediately fell back on 40 years of adventure gaming...
Returnal Players Found A Way To Save Scum In Latest Patch
1.11.2021
Housemarque finally took some pity on players of its difficult sci-fi shooter Returnal last week, and added a suspend feature in update 2.0. Now players have found a way to turn it into a full-on save scumming exploit.Read more
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
29.10.2021
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather than leaving it to the browser — as long as you do it right. Deep dive!
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You Can Finally (Finally!) Suspend Your Returnal Runs
26.10.2021
It only took 179 real-world cycles, but Returnal, history’s glossiest Blue Öyster Cult music video, will finally let you close the game without erasing your progress. Developer Housemarque revealed the news of a “suspend game” option—easily the most-requested feature among fans—in a video detailing...
Far Cry 6's Autosave Bug Keeps Killing Players Repeatedly
13.10.2021
Arkane’s recent and well-regarded immersive sim isn’t the only death loop of the fall. Thanks to a rare autosave bug in Far Cry 6 that spawns players milliseconds before a death, some players have found themselves stuck in an unbreakable feedback loop, with no apparent way to break the cycle.Read...
jq for JSON
27.8.2021
I old enough to remember when we thought XML was going to change the programming world…then JSON saved us from that hell. Parsing and querying JSON data is fundamental task we’ve all coded for, but sometimes I just want to get some data locally with minimal fuss. I just learned of...
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently III
26.8.2021
The perfect link — Rian Rietveld defines them: “When you click on them, they take you somewhere else.” Not much code in here (we’ve got that), just a lot of practical accessibility advice. For example, the alt text
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How blockchain could have saved the Library of Alexandria
15.8.2021
In an effort to save the future of the Library of Alexandria, blockchain technology could help preserve records and archive systems
Could You Build a Better Way to Wiki? Free TON Launches Contest With Over $80,000 in Crypto
15.7.2021
Free TON, a decentralized international community of developers and enthusiasts, have launched a brand-new contest to rework the Wikipedia Governance model, and there are thousands of dollars worth of rewards on offer. Freecyclopedia Wikipedia currently boasts over twenty-one million individual...
Secret Nintendo Café In Tokyo Is Home To Relics Saved From The Company's Incinerator
7.7.2021
Former Nintendo employee Toru Hashimoto has for years been running a secret diner in Tokyo that, alongside housing rare items from Nintendo’s past, has also served as an industry hangout for some of the biggest names in Japanese video game development.Read more
Links on Typography
7.5.2021
These are a few great links about typography that have been burning a hole in my saved bookmarks folder that I'm just now getting around to sharing. There's good stuff in there, from how to choose typefaces for app design to ideas for how to fix the concept of font sizing in CSS.
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