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Using CSS Masks to Create Jagged Edges
12.5.2020
I was working on a project that had this neat jagged edge along the bottom of a banner image.
Looking sharp… in more ways than one.
It’s something that made me think for a second and I learned something in the process! I thought I’d write up how I approached it so you can use it on your...
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
12.5.2020
I’m a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes you take on this debt on purpose because you have to, but when you don’t, please don’t ;).
Let’s say you need...
Dealing With Stale Props and States in React’s Functional Components
12.5.2020
There’s one aspect of JavaScript that always has me pulling my hair: closures. I work with React a lot, and the overlap there is that they can sometimes be the cause of stale props and state. We’ll get into exactly what that means, but the trouble is that the data we use to build our UI can...
min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
12.5.2020
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with font-size usage, but they are just functions, so they can be used anywhere you’d use a number, like a length.
Sometimes pretty basic usage...
Genesis Mining’s Marco Streng: 'You Can't Just Switch Miners On and Off'
11.5.2020
The Cointelegraph Bitcoin Halving live party continues with a deep dive into how the mining industry is affected by the sudden, but very predictable revenue shock
Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Protect Individual Privacy?
11.5.2020
Top crypto industry and policy experts debated the privacy ramifications of state-issued virtual currencies during the first day of Consensus
Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
11.5.2020
This is a hell of a series by Stephanie Eckles. It’s a real pleasure watching CSS evolve and solve problems in clear and elegant ways.
Just today I ran across this little jab at CSS in a StackOverflow answer from 2013.
This particular jab was about CSS lacking a way to pause between...
“I Can’t Wait to Throw Up Less Bitcoin”, Says Bitcoin Cartoon Hero
8.5.2020
Bitcoin from cartoon series “Bitcoin and Friends” shared his feelings about the upcoming halving and bullish view of his own future
Market Wrap: Interest in Bitcoin Rises as Prices Near $10K, but Can It Continue?
8.5.2020
Casual investors are hearing about bitcoin more often while professionals are taking advantage of a growing derivatives market
Let’s Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property
8.5.2020
Compared to the past, modern browsers have become really efficient at rendering the tangled web of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code a typical webpage provides. It takes a mere milliseconds to render the code we give it into something people can use.
What could we, as front-end developers, do...
Former UFC Champion ‘Can't Sit On Sidelines Any Longer’ — Buys Bitcoin
8.5.2020
Eddie Alvarez has been convinced to buy into Bitcoin by fellow former MMA champion Ben Askren, saying that he “can’t sit on the sidelines any longer.”
Loopring DEX Quickly Fixes Major Bug Before It Can Be Exploited
7.5.2020
A security vulnerability on decentralized exchange, Loopring, was identified and quickly patched before it could be exploited
Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes
7.5.2020
MDX is a killer feature for things like blogs, slide decks and component documentation. It allows you to write Markdown without worrying about HTML elements, their formatting and placement while sprinkling in the magic of custom React components when necessary.
Let’s harness that magic and look...
Static Hoisting
6.5.2020
The other day in “Static or not?” I said:
[…] serving HTML from a CDN is some feat.
What I meant is that serving resources like images, CSS, and JavaScript from a CDN is fairly straightforward. The industry at large has been doing that for many years. An asset with a URL can...
Game Developers Can Implement Cryptocurrency Alternative to Ad Revenue
6.5.2020
Independent game developers can now easily implement a blockchain-based revenue stream into Unity games, which incentivizes players and removes the need for in-game advertising
Bitcoin Can Boost Portfolio Returns, Even if Bought at All-Time High: Bitwise Study
6.5.2020
Bitwise found that bitcoin acts as a useful counterweight to a traditional portfolio if managed in the right way
Former Bank of China President Says Digital Yuan Can Replace Cash
6.5.2020
A former President of China’s central bank says the digital yuan will be able to eventually replace cash if four key conditions are met
Bitcoin.com Wallet Users Can Now Purchase More Than $10K Worth of Cryptocurrency
5.5.2020
During the end of March, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the newly updated Bitcoin.com Wallet that features a number of new services like digital currency price tracking. The lightning-fast, noncustodial wallet allows people to store BTC and BCH, but also provides people with the ability to purchase...
Angular + Jamstack! (Free Webinar)
5.5.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s easy to think that working with Jamstack means working with some specific set of technologies. That’s how it’s traditionally been packaged for us. Think LAMP stack, where Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP are explicit tools and languages. or MEAN...
Warren Buffett Expects Market Doom That Can Take Down Bitcoin With It
5.5.2020
Warren Buffett has no intention of spending Berkshire’s $137 billion cash pile and, if stocks plummet, Bitcoin may see another significant correction