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Logical Assignment Operators
10.9.2020
I love JavaScript, it’s my favorite programming language, but I love dipping into other languages because they offer a new perspective on coding paradigms. There’ve been syntax additions to JavaScript that I’ve seen I found interesting (think ?? in optional chaining) and now...
Modifying Specific Letters with CSS and JavaScript
10.9.2020
Changing specific characters can be a challenge in CSS. Often, we’re forced to implement our desired changes one-by-one in HTML, perhaps using the span element. But, in a few specific cases, a CSS-focused solution may still be possible. In this article, we’ll start by looking at some CSS-first...
Fiat Devaluation Drives Retail Bitcoin Transfers in Africa 56% in a Year: Report
10.9.2020
Monthly cryptocurrency transfers to and from Africa under $10,000 soared more than 56% from a year ago to reach $316 million in June, according to new research by U.S. crypto analytics firm Chainalysis. Altogether, $8 billion worth of crypto was received into the continent and $8.1 billion sent...
For Fun: We’re Holding a Memecoin Contest, and You’re Invited!
10.9.2020
We’ve seen the rise and fall of DeFi meme coins over the past few months — YAM, PASTA, SUSHI —Continue Reading
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Setting up and Customizing the Ant Design System in a Nuxt App
9.9.2020
I don’t typically work with UI libraries because they can be cumbersome and hard to override, which can contribute to a bloated. However, Ant Design has recently gained some some of my affection because it’s easy to use, has extensible defaults, and features a delicate design.
Nuxt and...
Chinese Tech Giants to ‘Do Battle’ for Blockchain Talent + More News
9.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
A Chinese blockchain talent acquisition battle has begun, with heavyweight tech giants like Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba in direct...
Crypto exchange volume data is becoming more reliable — but it’s still far from perfect
9.9.2020
There has been a threefold improvement in the quality of data on crypto rankings site CoinMarketCap, according to a new report, but wash trading remains a thorny issue
How CSS Perspective Works
9.9.2020
As someone who loves creating CSS animations, one of the more powerful tools I use is perspective. While the perspective property is not capable of 3D effects all by itself (since basic shapes can’t have depth), you can use the transform property to move and rotate objects in a 3D space (with...
Key Insights Behind the Market-Wide Crash: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
9.9.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s publicContinue Reading
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AVIF has landed
8.9.2020
Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake’s blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing. But thanks to web technology being ahead of the game for once, we can already take advantage of it.
This will be easier if you’ve abstracted your...
One Action, Multiple Terminal Windows Running Stuff
8.9.2020
Many development environments require running things in a terminal window. npm run start, or whatever. I know my biggest project requires me to be running a big fancy Docker-based thing in one terminal, Ruby on Rails in another, and webpack in another. I’ve worked on other projects that...
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
8.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new features are packed into the release, but a few really stand out.
Take donations with a new block
The first...
Menu Reveal By Page Rotate Animation
8.9.2020
There are many different approaches to menus on websites. Some menus are persistent, always in view and display all the options. Other menus are hidden by design and need to be opened to view the options. And there are even additional approaches on how hidden menus reveal their menu items. Some...
Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela Beat China & US in Crypto Adoption + More News
8.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Ukraine, Russia, and Venezuela have taken three top spots in the Global Crypto Adoption Index, announced by Chainalysis today. "While trading...
Bitcoin ‘plankton’ wallets hit record — plus 4 more bullish BTC charts
8.9.2020
Both big and small hodlers are amassing BTC, statistics confirm, a trend which has only accelerated as the United States prints more dollars
Schiff buys more Bitcoin: But there's a twist
7.9.2020
It all goes horribly wrong for Peter Schiff, as Twitter rejects his advice in favor of his college freshman son’s wisdom
All the Ways to Make a Web Component
7.9.2020
This is a neat page that compares a ton of different libraries with web components. One of the things I learned after posting “A Bit on Web Components Libraries” is that the web platform APIs were designed for libraries to be built around them. Interesting, right?
This page makes...
Import Non-ESM libraries in ES Modules, with Client-Side Vanilla JS
7.9.2020
We’re living through a weird era where there are tons of JavaScript libraries that were meant to be used as <script> tags that expose available globals. AND there are tons of JavaScript libraries that are meant to be used through module loaders. AND there are tons of JavaScript...
Top-tier Crypto Exchanges Increased Their Market Share + More News
7.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
In August, trading volumes on top-tier (or lower risk) crypto exchanges increased by 58% to USD 529bn, according to CryptoCompare,...
Working with JavaScript Media Queries
7.9.2020
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of media queries? Maybe something in a CSS file that looks like this:
body {
background-color: plum;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
body {
background-color: tomato;
}
}
CSS media queries are a core ingredient in any responsive...