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Using Immer for React State Management
7.8.2019
We make use of state to keep track of application data. States change as users interact with an application. When this happens, we need to update the state that is displayed to the user, and we do this using React’s setState.
Since states are not meant to be updated directly (because React’s state...
Indian Tax Authority Sends Probing Questions to Crypto Owners – Experts Weigh In
7.8.2019
As the Indian government deliberates on the country’s crypto policy, the tax authority continues to send out letters with lengthy, probing questions to crypto owners. News.Bitcoin.com talked to industry experts to find out the implications of these letters, what people can do when receiving...
More Cities and Regions Accepting Coins for Taxes, Services
6.8.2019
Cryptocurrency payments, as convenient as they can be, are still something most governments are trying to wrap their heads around and regulate. Local authorities, however, being closer to the citizens they are called upon to serve, are often quicker to adopt novelties that make their lives and...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can We Expect another June-Like Price Rally of Bitcoin (BTC) in August?
6.8.2019
Bitcoin (BTC) has travelled all the way from 3500 USD to 13,800 USD in these 8 months of 2019. The target price of 15,000 USD needs another price rally soon. Bitcoin, the king of all coins, has made a roller coaster ride this year until now. Right after the crypto winter, Bitcoin was being traded...
SSCCE
6.8.2019
You know what a "reduced test case" is, right? We've talked about it here. I imagine the concept is useful in many walks of life, but in the world of front-end development, you can think of it like:
A reduced test case is a demo/example page you create which reproduces the problem you are having...
Using Your Domain with a Netlify-Hosted Site
6.8.2019
Netlify has their own docs for Custom Domains, so if you're looking for horse's mouth technical docs on this stuff, that should be treated as the source of truth. But I'd like to take a crack at it from a slightly different angle, where we look at where you are and what you wanna do, and the point...
NEO Price Analysis: NEO Surges by 2% as per intraday movement, can it rise further?
6.8.2019
NEO started with a trading price of around $11.90 yesterday. Barring a couple of falls, the coin still managed to reach as high as $12.60 on the same day at 10:54 UTC. However, it could not maintain its efficiency at the said level and started showing signs of a declining trend. It led to...
Israeli BTC Investors Can’t Pay Taxes as Banks Refuse Deposit
6.8.2019
Bitcoin investors in Israel are unable to pay their taxes because banks do not accept deposits deriving from crypto trading
H. Peirce: 'Regulators Can Create a Healthy Environment for Crypto'
5.8.2019
This is a speech by Hester M. Peirce, pro-crypto commissionaire at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), given at the SUSS Convergence Forum: Inclusive Blockchain, Finance, and Emerging Technologies in Singapore on July 30.
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Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross...
Can you nest @media and @support queries?
5.8.2019
Yes, you can, and it doesn't really matter in what order. A CSS preprocessor is not required. It works in regular CSS.
This works:
@supports(--a: b) {
@media (min-width: 1px) {
body {
background: red;
}
}
}
And so does this, the reverse nesting of the above:
@media (min-width:...
then on Objects
5.8.2019
Promises were a revelation in JavaScript development, allowing us to enjoy async processing and avoid callback hell. Many new APIs like Battery API, Cache API, and others use the promise API. One fact you may not know is that you can add a then method to any object to make it Promise-like!...
The Modern Era of Free Range Slaves: How Bitcoin Breaks the Mold
3.8.2019
In a string of recent Tweets, 2020 Libertarian presidential candidate and fugitive from the law John McAfee has been talking about slavery. Urging people to “wake up” and assuring them that neither compliance with the status quo, nor stacks of riches, can set them free. Indeed, when...
Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
2.8.2019
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned...
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Let's turn to...
You Can Now Tip On Twitter with Brave’s Basic Attention Token
1.8.2019
Tweeters can tip content using Brave’s Basic Attention Token, adding to its micro-tipping services
Making a Realistic Glass Effect with SVG
1.8.2019
I’m in love with SVG. Sure, the code can look dense and difficult at first, but you’ll see the beauty in the results when you get to know it. The bonus is that those results are in code, so it can be hooked up to a CMS. Your designers can rest easy knowing they don't have to reproduce an effect...
Pre-Register for Bitcoin.com’s New Crypto Exchange to Win Bitcoin Cash Prizes
1.8.2019
Over the last few years, Bitcoin.com has striven to make digital assets more accessible to everyone in the world. In June we launched our peer-to-peer bitcoin cash marketplace Local.Bitcoin.com and this September we’re launching our very own exchange with over 50 trading pairs. Today...
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Can We Still Expect another June Like Bitcoin Rally before this Year Ends?
1.8.2019
Bitcoin shows significant volatility in the market since April. The coin is likely to trade around 15,000 USD to 20,000 USD by the end of 2019. Bitcoin, the father of all crypt coins, have been through a roller-coaster ride in this year. In the initial few months of 2019, the coin maintained...
Investors Can Now Trade Ether and British Pounds on the Same Blockchain
1.8.2019
LAB577, a team of ex-Royal Bank of Scotland engineers, has built a system for settling crypto and fiat trades on R3's Corda Network
A More Accessible Portals Demo
31.7.2019
The point of the <portal> element (behind a flag in Chrome Canary) is that you can preload another whole page (like <iframe>), but then have APIs to animate it to the current page. So "Single Page App"-like functionality (SPA), but natively. I think that's pretty cool. I'm a fan...