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How BlackRock Ended Up on Both Sides of the Bailout, Feat. Meltem Demirors
26.3.2020
As BlackRock gets appointed to oversee bailouts to companies including BlackRock, how do we make an insane moment lead to good?
Both Kik and SEC Seek Summary Judgement in $100 Mln ICO Case
24.3.2020
Both Kik and the SEC appear confident they will win a summary judgment, with each party claiming to possess “undisputed evidence” supporting their claims
Bearish ‘Death Cross’ Price Patterns Loom for Both Bitcoin and US Stocks
23.3.2020
Bitcoin, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones are staring at bearish chart patterns as coronavirus jitters across the markets fail to subside
Liquid Gold vs Digital Gold: Why Bitcoin Beats Oil in the Current Climate
23.3.2020
Extreme volatility. Sudden loss of value. A purported store of value. An economic hedge. An alternative to gold. On the face of it, bitcoin and oil have a lot in common. Both markets have been buffeted by the covid-19 economic downturn, but while bitcoin has stabilized, oil keeps plummeting. What...
Bitcoin, Gold May Both Hit $1K in Race to the Bottom — Peter Brandt
17.3.2020
Gold and Bitcoin may both end up trying to stay out of three figures, one trader warns in a grim new forecast
How to Track, Get and Set the Best Transaction Fees with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash
14.3.2020
Once set up with a bitcoin or bitcoin cash wallet and some coins, using and sending them is pretty easy. Part of this process involves paying a transaction fee, which is a small amount of coin included in a transaction incentivizing miners to work the tx into a block. Both BTC and BCH transactions...
Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
10.3.2020
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I've always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases where both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) are used. That said, I’ve learned a few things along the...
I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next
9.3.2020
This talk by Marcin Wichary is — beyond both enthusiastic and outstanding — all about the complexity of UI design, typography, and the lengths his team at Figma has gone to make sure that doing something as simple as selecting a font from a dropdown does what you expect it to.
I’d recommend this...
Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land
9.3.2020
Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overlays — both with the same RGB values for the background-color — on top of an image. Something like this:
<img src='myImage.jpg'/>
<div...
Record Breaking Interest – Observing the Predictive Power of Bitcoin Futures Over BTC Spot Prices
29.2.2020
Bitcoin futures providers have been seeing a lot of action during the last two weeks as cryptocurrency markets have been extremely volatile. Data shows there’s been significant open interest on both retail and institutional bitcoin derivatives exchanges and Skew research noted bitcoin options...
Digital Remittances Reach Record High of $96 Billion, Fees Charged by Traditional Providers Open Door for Cryptocurrencies
14.2.2020
In a globalized world where labor follows capital, the remittance industry has been growing constantly in both volume and users. Traditional providers like banks and money transfer companies have been charging high fees for their services which creates opportunities for alternative digital...
Why JavaScript is Eating HTML
13.2.2020
Web development is always changing. One trend in particular has become very popular lately, and it fundamentally goes against the conventional wisdom about how a web page should be made. It is exciting for some but frustrating for others, and the reasons for both are difficult to explain.
A...
Coinbase Margin Trading Now Live for Coinbase Pro Users
13.2.2020
Coinbase has launched margin trading for users of its cryptocurrency trading platform, Coinbase Pro. Both individual and institutional investors in selected regions now have access to Coinbase margin trading. The company plans to expand access to more regions and provide more types of collateral...
Ethereum vs Tron: Comparing Data, Defi and Stablecoins from Both Chains After Viral Tweet
9.2.2020
On February 7, Cold Card and Opendime creator, Rodolfo Novak (also known as NVK), tweeted a picture of himself with Tron founder Justin Sun and Blockstream’s CEO Adam Back. Novak said “Ethereum was over” and the three had a plan to move Tron to Liquid, a network that leverages...
Awesome Forward & Reverse Geocoding API: positionstack (Sponsored)
6.2.2020
One awesome web functionality we take for granted is geolocation. Based on geolocation data, we can get someone to their destination, provide them suggestions based on their location, and so on. One downside of native geolocation, especially in the browser, is that it’s limited in both input...
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack
4.2.2020
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.
Using Vue, Nuxt, axios and Netlify, it's...
Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast
31.1.2020
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort...
Woodworking SVG (and Other Real Life Encounters)
27.1.2020
Eric Meyer does his woodworking math in SVG.
I’ve been hand-coding SVG schematics to figure out how thing should go together, and as a by-product, guide me in both material buying and wood cutting.
This might sound hugely bespoke and artisanally overdone, but they’re not that complicated, and...
Bundling JavaScript for Performance: Best Practices
24.1.2020
Performance advice from David Calhoun on how many scripts to load on a page for best performance:
[...] some of your vendor dependencies probably change slower than others. react and react-dom probably change the slowest, and their versions are always paired together, so they...
Build a dynamic JAMstack app with GatsbyJS and FaunaDB
23.1.2020
In this article, we explain the difference between single-page apps (SPAs) and static sites, and how we can bring the advantages of both worlds together in a dynamic JAMstack app using GatsbyJS and FaunaDB. We will build an application that pulls in some data from FaunaDB during build time...