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Blockchain Firm Partners With Cannabis Data App to Create Research Project
15.11.2019
The Measure Protocol and Broccoli have partnered in order to create a blockchain-based research project regarding cannabis usage
Iranian Grid Explains Electrical Costs Will Fluctuate for Bitcoin Miners
15.11.2019
Throughout the course of 2019, Iran’s government and the country’s energy officials have been creating new guidelines for bitcoin miners setting up data facilities in the oil-rich nation. On Wednesday, Mostafa Rajabi, a spokesperson for Iran’s Energy Ministry, described a...
Data Provider Messari Closes $4 Million Funding Round
13.11.2019
Messari's funding round was led by Uncork Capital and joined by Coinbase Ventures and Balaji Srinivasan, among others
Thoughts After Looking at the Web Almanac’s Chapter on CSS
13.11.2019
Woah, I didn't see this coming! The HTTP Archive dropped this big "state of the web" report called Web Almanac with guest writers exploring data from 5.8 million websites.
Una Kravetz and Adam Argyle wrote the CSS chapter. The point is to squeeze a digestible amount of insight out of a mountain's...
An Early Look at the Vue 3 Composition API in the Wild
13.11.2019
I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the future.
Until now, when we were creating a new component we were using Options API. That API forced us to separate the component’s code by options...
CoinMarketCap is Providing Exchanges Data to Crypto Investors on Liquidity
12.11.2019
Leading crypto data site CoinMarketCap has introduced a new metric to get crypto liquidity data after comparing the exchanges and token pairs. On November 12, 2019, the Capital announced the news in an Inaugural Conference of CoinMarketCap in Singapore. Now, the metric tool is available on...
Making an Audio Waveform Visualizer with Vanilla JavaScript
12.11.2019
As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing user interfaces. But sometimes, I step on a technical landmine.
A few years ago, as the design director of wsj.com, I was helping to re-design...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
Google Signs Cloud Computing and Healthcare Data Deal With Ascension
12.11.2019
Google’s cloud computing business has managed to sign its biggest cloud computing contract with Ascension to date. Both companies operate 150 hospitals and more than 50 senior citizen homes across the United States. In addition to cloud computing, Ascension is also going to move a bulk of analytics...
China Digital Currency ‘Not Seeking Full Data Control’ — Central Bank
12.11.2019
China says digital currency won’t oust cash
CoinMarketCap Now Provides Crypto Investors With Data on Liquidity
12.11.2019
CoinMarketCap launches reporting on crypto liquidity data, aiming to escape wash trading in volume reporting
Pac-Man… in CSS!
11.11.2019
You all know famous Pac-Man video game, right? The game is fun and building an animated Pac-Man character in HTML and CSS is just as fun! I’ll show you how to create one while leveraging the powers of the clip-path property.
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Animated Pac-Man by Maks Akymenko (@maximakymenko)
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Crypto-Based Commerce Spikes 65% in 7 Months
9.11.2019
Commerce fueled by cryptocurrencies has once again started to grow. Data collected by blockchain forensics company Chainalysis shows a significant increase of volume in the first half of the year. The positive change coincided with the remarkable market recovery that followed last year’s...
Skleněné úložiště Silica uchová data po několik staletí. Vyrobil ho Microsoft
8.11.2019
Microsoft představil svůj Project Silica, který by měl vyřešit problém dlouhodobého ukládání dat. Používá k tomu křemenné sklo (velmi čistý oxid křemičitý ve skelném stavu, vyrobený z čistého křemene) a umělou inteligenci.
Technologie byla vytvořena ve spolupráci s University of Southampton
Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
7.11.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout:
Assuming all of your customers...
Query JSON documents in the Terminal with GROQ
7.11.2019
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is a query language (like SQL, but different) which...
Meet Flowee the Hub: A Feature-Rich Bitcoin Cash Validator
7.11.2019
Bitcoin Cash development has been growing wildly over the last year between third party services and infrastructure. Since the inception of BCH, there’s been a number of full node clients that not only distribute important binary data but offer a variety of different features as well....
David Marcus Says Calibra Is Considering Audits to Prove Data Protections
7.11.2019
David Marcus said that Facebook and Calibra have built strong protections from one another in regard to personal data sharing, and is seeking an auditor to prove it
Leading Japanese Firms Partner on Security Token Research
7.11.2019
MUFG launched a 22-member research consortium of security issuers, broker dealers and tech companies to set standards for security token management
Netlify CMS Open Authoring
6.11.2019
I like the term "Git-backed CMS." That term works for an emerging style of CMS that looks and behaves much like any other CMS, with a fascinating twist: it doesn't actually store any data for you. These CMSs are connected to a Git repo where the data lives in flat files (e.g. Markdown). You teach...