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Layoutit Grid: Learning CSS Grid Visually With a Generator
15.10.2020
Layoutit Grid is an interactive open source CSS Grid generator. It lets you draw your designs and see the code as you go. You can interact with the code, add or remove track lines and drag them around to change the sizing — and you get to see the CSS and HTML change in real time!
Add some tracks...
How to Create a Realistic Motion Blur with CSS Transitions
14.10.2020
Before we delve into making a realistic motion blur in CSS, it’s worth doing a quick dive into what motion blur is, so we can have a better idea of what we’re trying to reproduce.
Have you ever taken a photo of something moving quickly, especially under low light, and it turned into a blurry...
Bitcoin’s Macro Boost & Ethereum’s Optimism : A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
14.10.2020
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Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)
14.10.2020
A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase
If This New Tech Works, You Won’t Need 32 Ether to Earn Staking Rewards
14.10.2020
Ethereum startup Blox is introducing shared staking pools, allowing users to aggregate their ether holdings to participate in Eth 2.0
Let’s Create Our Own Authentication API with Nodejs and GraphQL
13.10.2020
Authentication is one of the most challenging tasks for developers just starting with GraphQL. There are a lot of technical considerations, including what ORM would be easy to set up, how to generate secure tokens and hash passwords, and even what HTTP library to use and how to use it. 
In...
Netlify Edge Handlers
13.10.2020
Some very cool news from Netlify: Edge Handlers are in Early Access (request it here). I think these couple of lines of code do a great job in explaining what an Edge Handler is:
export function onRequest(event) {
console.log(`Incoming request for ${event.request.url}`);
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Run Gulp as You Open a VS Code Project
13.10.2020
When I open my local project for this very site, there is a 100% chance that I need to run this command before anything else: gulp. I set that up fresh less than a year ago so I’m on the latest-and-greatest stuff and have my workflow just how I like it. I did a few more tweaks a few months...
How to Recreate the Ripple Effect of Material Design Buttons
12.10.2020
When I first discovered Material Design, I was particularly inspired by its button component. It uses a ripple effect to give users feedback in a simple, elegant way.
How does this effect work? Material Design’s buttons don’t just sport a neat ripple animation, but the animation also...
Buying Bitcoin Locally vs Online: Which Bitcoin of America Method is Best for You?
10.10.2020
With a second stimulus check due, now is the time to start thinking of your financial future, with the opportunity to buy bitcoin at a time when many people are predicting its continued rise in its value. You may have already seen a Bitcoin of America ATM in a local store and been impressed...
Animating Number Counters
9.10.2020
Number animation, as in, imagine a number changing from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, then 3 to 4, etc. over a specified time. Like a counter, except controlled by the same kind of animation that we use for other design animation on the web. This could be useful when designing something like a dashboard,...
Looking for a Job in Crypto? Here Are 5 Skills You Need
9.10.2020
In job interviews at crypto-oriented companies, “the first thing that you’ll hear is: How does Bitcoin work?”
Balancing on a pivot with Flexbox
8.10.2020
Let me show you a way I recently discovered to center a bunch of elements around what I call the pivot. I promise you that funky HTML is out of the question and you won’t need to know any bleeding-edge CSS to get the job done.
I’m big on word games, so I recently re-imagined the main menu...
Should You Invest in Cryptocurrency Today?
8.10.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
If you’re a crypto buff, you must have noticed that all cryptocurrencies have suffered a big blow in March this year. However, Bitcoin’s volatility has been on the low for almost two years now. The world’s most...
The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers
7.10.2020
This is an extended version of my essay “When front-end means full-stack” which was published in the wonderful Increment magazine put out by Stripe. It’s also something of an evolution of a couple other of my essays, “The Great Divide” and “Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.”
The post...
Bitcoin Stays Resilient, While Ethereum & Aave Prepare for Upgrades : A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
7.10.2020
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You can now pay for 400,000 Viator tourism experiences with crypto
7.10.2020
Tripadvisor experience marketplace Viator has partnered with ShareRing to facilitate payments and store travelers sensitive information
Looking at AWS Amplify
7.10.2020
AWS Amplify is a collection of tools from AWS to help you build applications.
Allow me to set the stage here to try to make that as clear as I know how. I have a friend (true story) who wants to build an app centered around physical training. His wife is a physical trainer, and they think perhaps...
Using JavaScript to Adjust Saturation and Brightness of RGB Colors
6.10.2020
Lately I’ve been taking a look into designing with color (or “colour” as we spell it where I’m from in New Zealand). Looking at Adam Wathan and Steve Schroger’s advice on the subject, we find that we’re going to need more than just five nice looking hex codes from a color palette...
Wolf.bet Is a Provably Fair Gambling Casino Supporting Multiple Cryptocurrencies
6.10.2020
Have you been looking for an online gaming platform you can trust with your digital assets and that won’t bother you with cumbersome identification procedures? Wolf.bet is a 100% provably fair gambling casino supporting multiple cryptocurrencies, without KYC and a great lineup of additional...