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Libra Hearings, Day 2: 'I Don’t Think You Should Launch Libra at All'
17.7.2019
David Marcus. U.S. lawmakers held another day of heated questioning over Facebook's plans together with at least another 27 partners to launch the Libra project.
This time, David Marcus, co-creator of Libra, head of their Calibra wallet, was answering questions before the U.S. House Financial...
Exclusive Interview With Jaynti Kanani, Co-founder and CEO of Matic Network
17.7.2019
Jaynti Kanani is the Co-founder and CEO of Matic Network which was established in October 2017. He kick-started his career as a Senior Software Engineer in Persistent Systems in 2011. He has an incredible experience in leading the data science team at Housing.com, a promising real estate startup...
Finally… A Post on Finally in Promises
16.7.2019
“When does finally fire in a JavaScript promise?” This is a question I was asked in a recent workshop and I thought I’d write up a little post to clear up any confusion.
The answer is, to quote Snape:
...always.
The basic structure is like this:
try {
// I’ll try to execute some code...
So, you think you’ve got project management nailed down
16.7.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Who needs a project manager? You're an organized person who can keep track of your own work, right?
Wrong.
Well, wrong if you're part of a team. The thing about being self-organized is that it's related to project management but not synonymous with it. Case in point:...
Managing Multiple Backgrounds with Custom Properties
15.7.2019
One cool thing about CSS custom properties is that they can be a part of a value. Let's say you're using multiple backgrounds to pull off a a design. Each background will have its own color, image, repeat, position, etc. It can be verbose!
You have four images:
body {
background-position:
...
Bitcoin Cash Merchant Adoption Grows and Exchange Supports BCH in the Weekly Video Update
15.7.2019
Businesses around the world continue to adopt bitcoin cash as a payment method and an exchange adds support for trading BCH. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update hosted by Roger Ver on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel. Also Read: Win 2019 Rugby World...
Top 5 Bitcoin Cashback Rewards Apps You Can Use to Earn Bitcoin
14.7.2019
Cashback rewards have been made popular by credit card companies seeking to attract new customers for their cards. Fortunately, for cryptocurrency users, there are also bitcoin cashback reward platforms that pay shoppers small rebates in bitcoin when making purchases with supported merchants....
Position Sticky and Table Headers
13.7.2019
You can't position: sticky; a <thead>. Nor a <tr>. But you can sticky a <th>, which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol' <table>. This is tricky stuff, because if you didn't know this weird quirk, it would be hard to blame you. It makes way more...
Win 2019 Rugby World Cup Tickets When You Play at Games.Bitcoin.com
12.7.2019
Are you a cryptocurrency user and rugby fan who’s always dreamed of going to the World Cup? Here’s your chance to win tickets to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, including flights and accommodation, in an exclusive competition at Games.Bitcoin.com. Also Read: Bitcoin Cash ETP Lists...
Weekly Platform News: HTML Inspection in Search Console, Global Scope of Scripts, Babel env Adds defaults Query
11.7.2019
In this week's look around the world of web platform news, Google Search Console makes it easier to view crawled markup, we learn that custom properties aren't computing hogs, variables defined at the top-level in JavaScript are global to other page scripts, and Babel env now supports the defaults...
Frontend Masters: The New, Complete Intro to React Course… Now with Hooks!
11.7.2019
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Much more than an intro, you’ll build a real-world app with the latest features in React including 🎣 hooks, effects, context, and portals.
We also have a complete React learning path for you to explore React even deeper!
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Revive: A Free Tool that Analyzes Your Traffic and Finds the Content You Should Update
11.7.2019
I started Scotch as a web development tutorial blog. Over the years, I've learned far more than I expected. It was no longer just about web development
A New Kind of Token Sale Puts You Next to Harvard Endowment
11.7.2019
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bloomberg Technology
This Thursday marks a new stage for crypto investors as first-of-its-kind digital token offering gives retail investors access to opportunities previously available to investors such as Harvard University only.
This has become possible...
VS Code Screencast Mode
10.7.2019
VS Code has many great tools hidden deep within its settings. One of those tools is screencast mode.
Screencast mode will display keyboard presses.
You can
Introducing Netlify Analytics
10.7.2019
You work a while on a side project. You think it's pretty cool! You decide to release it into the world. And then… it goes well. Or it doesn’t go well. Wait, is that right? You forgot to add analytics — it just didn’t cross your mind at the time. Now you’re pretty curious how many people have...
Money and Democracy: Why You Never Get to Vote on the Most Important Part of Society
10.7.2019
It’s very odd that citizens never get to vote or have any say in regard to society’s money, even though it’s one of the most important aspects of everyday life. In fact, in developed countries, most central banks are institutions that are privatized from political interference...
Developing a robust font loading strategy for CSS-Tricks
10.7.2019
Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you're reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects.
Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of...
IndieWeb and Webmentions
9.7.2019
The IndieWeb is a thing! They've got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it:
Proponents of the IndieWeb offer a fairly straightforward analysis of our current social-media crisis. They frame it in terms of a single question: Who owns the servers? The bulk...
Top 10 Dapps on Ethereum
9.7.2019
If you follow the news of Blockchain and Ethereum, you probably heard of CryptoKitties. CryptoKitties is an Ethereum Dapp where players can buy, sell and breed virtual kitties. Rare kitties can sell for more than 100,000 USD, and when the […]
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Animating with Clip-Path
9.7.2019
clip-path is one of those CSS properties we generally know is there but might not reach for often for whatever reason. It’s a little intimidating in the sense that it feels like math class because it requires working with geometric shapes, each with different values that draw certain shapes...