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Queue Jumping in Netlify
18.8.2020
Cutting to the chase: if you’re on a Business or Enterprise team on Netlify, you can click a build to make it run next in a queue. For example, if you have a really time-sensitive thing (e.g. a bug fix going to production), it can jump ahead of some random development branch building....
[aktualita] Další zájemce o TikTok: část čínské sociální sítě chce koupit Oracle
18.8.2020
Americká softwarová firma Oracle je dalším zájemcem o koupi části sociální videoslužby TikTok. Píše to deník Financial Times, podle kterého společnost Larryho Ellisona vede předběžná jednání s čínským vlastníkem TikToku, firmou ByteDance. Oracle má podle deníku zájem o koupi aktiv TikToku v USA...
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVIII
15.8.2020
Hey gang! I’ve been fortunate enough to be a guest in a variety of different here, so I thought it was time for another Chronicle post. You know, those special posts where I round up the random goings-on of things I do off of this site.
I joined Ed & Tom over on A Question of Code.
We...
Crypto Data Site CoinMarketCap Has Gone Offline
13.8.2020
The website for popular price aggregator CoinMarketCap appears to be down with all data and news feeds currently inaccessible
[aktualita] ČTÚ vypsal veřejnou konzultaci k využívání pásma 26 GHz určeného pro 5G sítě
12.8.2020
Český telekomunikační úřad (ČTÚ) se chystá zpřístupnit první část tzv. milimetrových vln pro 5G sítě. Vypsal veřejnou konzultaci k návrhu části plánu využití rádiového spektra pro pásmo 26 GHz (konkrétně 24,25–27,5 GHz). Toto pásmo je celosvětově určeno k poskytování bezdrátových širokopásmových...
Halfmoon: A Bootstrap Alternative with Dark Mode Built In
11.8.2020
I recently launched the first production version of Halfmoon, a front-end framework that I have been building for the last few months. This is a short introductory post about what the framework is, and why I decided to build it.
The elevator pitch
Halfmoon is a front-end framework with a...
System UIcons
11.8.2020
This is a great collection of icons by Corey Ginnivan that’s both free and with no attribution required when you use them. The style is super simple. Each icon looks like older versions of the icons from macOS to me because they’re cute but not too cute.
Also? The icon picker UI is slick and looks...
zerodivs.com
10.8.2020
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn’s A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don’t need extra HTML elements to draw shapes — you can draw as many shapes as you want on a single element. There is even a stacking order...
[aktualita] Do ČR dorazí ministr zahraničí USA. Bude tlačit na zákaz Huawei a „čisté sítě“
10.8.2020
Do České republiky tento týden na oficiální návštěvu zavítá americký ministr zahraničí Mike Pompeo. Ten měl původně dorazit na druhý ročník bezpečnostní 5G konference, kterou mělo Česko po loňském úspěchu opět pořádat. Akce ale byla zrušena kvůli situaci kolem koronaviru. 5G má nicméně...
Nailing the Perfect Contrast Between Light Text and a Background Image
7.8.2020
Have you ever come across a site where light text is sitting on a light background image? If you have, you’ll know how difficult that is to read. A popular way to avoid that is to use a transparent overlay. But this leads to an important question: Just how transparent should that overlay...
German Authorities Confiscate $30 Million in Bitcoin From Pirate Movie Site
7.8.2020
German authorities, with the help of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have confiscated about $30 million in bitcoin from an operator of a pirate movie website. An unspecified amount of bitcoin cash was also seized. Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Seized The German state of Saxony’s...
German Police Seize $30M in Crypto From Streaming Site Operator
6.8.2020
One of the main operators of the now-shuttered streaming site movie2k.to has forfeited over $30 million worth of crypto to German police
The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site
3.8.2020
The following article captures the process of building the Million Developers microsite for Netlify. This project was built by a few folks and we’ve captured some parts of the process of building it here- focusing mainly on the animation aspects, in case any are helpful to others building...
style9: build-time CSS-in-JS
29.7.2020
In April of last year, Facebook revealed its big new redesign. An ambitious project, it was a rebuild of a large site with a massive amount of users. To accomplish this, they used several technologies they have created and open-sourced, such as React, GraphQL, Relay, and a new CSS-in-JS library...
Swipe Visa Card Adds Crypto Travel Booking Site’s AVA Token
24.7.2020
Travala.com’s native token AVA will now be added to the Swipe wallet service and Visa card platform — making it spendable at 60 million merchants worldwide
WordPress.com Growth Summit
23.7.2020
I’m speaking at The Official WordPress.com Growth Summit coming up in August. “Learn how to build and grow your site, from start to scale”, as they say. Lovely, thick, diverse set of speakers. It’s a little bit outside my normal spheres which makes...
Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
23.7.2020
I’d bet grid-template-columns is used about 10× more than grid-template-rows, but maybe everyone has just been missing out. Eric Meyer chucks a bunch of row lines onto his main site layout grid like this:
grid-template-rows: repeat(7, min-content) 1fr repeat(3, min-content);
That way, if...
WordPress-Powered Landing Pages on a Totally Different Site via Cloudflare Workers
22.7.2020
What if you have some content on one site and want to display that content on another site? We can do this in the browser no problem. We can fetch it, and plunk it onto the page.
Ajax, right? Ugh. Now we’re in client-side rendered site territory, which isn’t great for performance...
Telecom Argentina S.A Hit by Major Ransomware Attack, Criminals Demand $7.5M Worth of Monero
21.7.2020
Telecom Argentina S.A has been hit by a ransomware attack and the cyber-criminals are demanding $7.5 million paid in the privacy coin monero. The Spanish language site, elperiodista.com quotes anonymous employees stating that the attack started last Wednesday. Initially thought to be a small...
Creating a Gatsby Site with WordPress Data
20.7.2020
In my previous article last week, I mentioned creating a partially ported WordPress-Gatsby site. This article is a continuation with a step-by-step walkthrough under the hood.
Gatsby, a React-based framework for static sites, is attracting attention not only from JavaScript developers but also from...