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Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
9.6.2022
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:
The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my
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Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!
8.6.2022
QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out …
Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless...
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
7.6.2022
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One …
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even...
Kim Dotcom Says ‘US Is Beyond Bankrupt,’ Digital Entrepreneur Predicts a ‘Controlled Demolition of Global Markets’
6.6.2022
On June 5, 2022, the entrepreneur and activist known as Kim Dotcom published a post on Twitter and said it “may be the most important thread” he ever makes concerning a major global collapse. In the thread, Dotcom specifically highlights the American economy and he claims...
Avalanche Co-Founder Emin Gün Sirer Discusses Macro Conditions and AVAX Sliding in Value
5.6.2022
The price of Avalanche has slid significantly since the crypto asset’s all-time high as the token has dropped 83% in value since then. In a recent interview published on May 31, Avalanche co-founder, Emin Gün Sirer, discussed how bear market conditions have impacted cryptocurrencies...
A Newly Published Book Claims to Tell the ‘Real Story Behind Mysterious Bitcoin Creator’
5.6.2022
During the last 13 years, a great number of individuals have claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin, but no single person has been able to prove this to the greater crypto community. At the end of August 2019, a marketing and public relations (PR) agency published a press release that featured a...
US Regulator: Investors Reported Losing Over $1 Billion in Crypto to Scams Since 2021
5.6.2022
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in cryptocurrency to scams since the beginning of last year. FTC Says Scammers Stole Over $1 Billion in Crypto The U.S. Federal Trade Commission published a “Data...
Please Give Me Some Space
3.6.2022
There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course.
We could do it directly in HTML:
<pWe go from one line...<br<brdown a couple more.</p
But that’s …
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Terra Whistleblower Publishes Alleged Chat Log Between Do Kwon and Network Validators
2.6.2022
Over two weeks after the Terra LUNA and UST fallout, a whistleblower dubbed “Fatman” published an alleged chat log between the project’s co-founder Do Kwon, Terra validators, and infrastructure providers from the Terra blockchain community. If the chat log is legitimate, Fatman...
How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0
1.6.2022
Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of …
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SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
1.6.2022
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs):
Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.”
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SPAs, Shared Element Transitions,...
Study Shows the United States Is Home to 41% of the NFT Companies Worldwide
27.5.2022
According to a study called “A World of NFT Adoption” published by nftclub.com, the United States has the most non-fungible token (NFT) company headquarters in the world. While the U.S. captures more than 41% of the NFT companies worldwide, the second largest number of NFT startup...
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
27.5.2022
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as …
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Beautify GitHub Profile
26.5.2022
It wasn’t long ago that Nick Sypteras showed us how to make custom badges for a GitHub repo. Well, Reza Shakeri put Beautify GitHub Profile together and it’s a huuuuuuge repo of different badges that pulls lots of examples …
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Cool CSS Hover Effects That Use Background Clipping, Masks, and 3D
26.5.2022
We’ve walked through a series of posts now about interesting approaches to CSS hover effects. We started with a bunch of examples that use CSS background properties, then moved on to the text-shadow property where we technically didn’t use …
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Customizing Color Fonts on the Web
26.5.2022
Myles C. Maxfield on the WebKit Blog published a nifty how-to for color fonts. It comes on the heels of what Ollie wrote up here on CSS-Tricks the other day, and while they cover a lot of common …
Customizing Color Fonts on the Web originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
A Perfect Table of Contents With HTML + CSS
25.5.2022
Earlier this year, I self-published an ebook called Understanding JavaScript Promises (free for download). Even though I didn’t have any intention of turning it into a print book, enough people reached out inquiring about a print version that …
A Perfect Table of Contents With HTML...
Mastering SVG’s stroke-miterlimit Attribute
24.5.2022
So, SVG has this stroke-miterlimit presentation attribute. You’ve probably seen it when exporting an SVG from a graphic editor program, or perhaps you find out you could remove it without noticing any change to the visual appearance.
After a good …
Mastering SVG’s stroke-miterlimit...
First Look At The CSS object-view-box Property
23.5.2022
Ahmad Shadeed — doing what he always does so well — provides an early look at the object-view-box property, something he describes as a native way to crop an image in the browser with CSS.
The use case? Well, …
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Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own?
23.5.2022
As the author of a library called AgnosticUI, I’m always on the lookout for new components. And recently, I decided to dig in and start work on a new dialog (aka modal) component. That’s something many devs like to …
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own? originally published...