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This a16z Alum Is Launching a VC Fund Focused on Platforms You Can ‘Own’
14.7.2020
An Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) alum is launching a new venture firm focused on building a crypto-powered "ownership economy."
Binance Coin Gains 17% on Bitcoin in July but Can ‘IEO Season’ Happen?
14.7.2020
The price of Binance Coin has gained almost 20% on Bitcoin in July and this spells bullish for the price of the exchange’s IEO tokens
Three CSS Alternatives to JavaScript Navigation
14.7.2020
Hey quick! You’ve gotta create the navigation for the site and you start working on the mobile behavior. What pattern do you choose? If you’re like most folks, it’s probably the “hamburger” menu that, when clicked, uses a little JavaScript to expand a vertical list of navigation links.
But that’s...
Open Prioritization
14.7.2020
Like Kickstarter, but for Web Platform Features.
That’s about the quickest way to sum up Open Prioritization from Igalia. Igalia is an independent company that works on browsers. They literally commit to all the different open source browsers to implement (and fix) features that we all use....
Hodlers Can Donate Crypto to Charity to Minimize Tax Payments
14.7.2020
Donating crypto means it won’t be taxed, say The Giving Block and TAXbit, which published a guide to facilitate such donations
Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS
14.7.2020
I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them...
BIS Unsure if 'Global Stablecoins' Can Help Cross-border Payments
13.7.2020
Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the BIS. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) agrees that leading financial nations badly need to make cross-border payment progress – but is still unsure if that the answer will be found in global stablecoin projects.
In a new report to the G20 entitled...
My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site
13.7.2020
As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging...
Introducing Headless WordPress with Gatsby Cloud (Live Preview, Incremental Builds, and more!)
13.7.2020
The Gatsby team shipped an update to its source plugin for WordPress, graduating it to a beta release. The new version brings a new set of features to Gatsby’s headless WordPress configuration, which brings together WPGraphQL and WPGatsby to power a Gatsby front-end that pulls in data from...
Version Control Can Help the Media Win Back Reader Trust
13.7.2020
By committing content to a blockchain, news outlets can reassure readers that what they are reading is what the outlet originally published, says our columnist
Lazy Loaded Prefill Embeds
13.7.2020
Lemme sum this up:
CodePen has Embedded Pens. Build a Pen on CodePen, embed it on any other site.
We also offer Prefill Embeds, which remove that first step. With Prefill Embeds, the Pen doesn’t need to exist on CodePen at all. You pass in the code and settings you want to appear in...
Lazy Load IFRAMEs
13.7.2020
We’ve known for a decade that lazy loading resources like JavaScript, CSS, and especially images is a massive performance win for web pages. At first we used tricks and JavaScript to do the lazy loading, but more recently native image lazy loading has debuted in browsers. Did you know that...
You Can’t Fight Outrage Culture With More Outrage, Feat. Michael Krieger
10.7.2020
For a decade, Liberty Blitzkrieg has been an essential alternative financial and cultural voice. Here’s why it’s ending
Blockchain Tech Can Verify Credentials, But Beware Credentialism
10.7.2020
Blockchain-based credentials can make getting back to work and school easier post-COVID. But we must resist the urge to put every life achievement on a blockchain
Fueling the Cannabis Industry: US Crypto Lending Service Files for Regulated Token Sale
10.7.2020
Chicago-based lending firm Ceres recently filed for a request to conduct a Reg. A sale in order to get approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ceres wants to launch a token that will be used for garnering equity, while the company also wants to launch a coin that can...
A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
8.7.2020
Julia Evans:
I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transition.
An awful lot of the JavaScript on sites (that aren’t otherwise entirely constructed from JavaScript) is click the thing...
What DeFi Can Learn From ‘InFi’
8.7.2020
By studying informal financial cooperation, including lending circles, blockchain developers can uncover new opportunities, says our columnist
Displaying the Current Step with CSS Counters
8.7.2020
Say you have five buttons. Each button is a step. If you click on the fourth button, you’re on step 4 of 5, and you want to display that.
This kind of counting and displaying could be hard-coded, but that’s no fun. JavaScript could do this job as well. But CSS? Hmmmm. Can it? CSS...
SEC’s Cryptomom Peirce Believes US Capital Markets Can ‘Transform People’s Lives’
7.7.2020
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to see new crypto projects get a fair shake at U.S. capital markets
Twitter Users Can Now Send Crypto to Each Other With Torus
7.7.2020
A private key management startup, Torus, enables social media users to send crypto using Twitter and GitHub handles