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For The Streamer From The Last Of Us Bunny Meme, Virality Led To Death Threats Over Things She Never Did
4.2.2021
If Emme “Negaoryx” Montgomery’s chat moderator hadn’t gotten up to use the bathroom, 6 million people would not have seen what happened next. During a stream last week, a viewer asked Montgomery, “What color is your thong today?” Usually, Montgomery doesn’t acknowledge those sorts of messages....
Confessions of a Web Developer XVIII
2.2.2021
It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Sometimes you need to get out of the cult and stop drinking the Kool-Aid to see an organization for what it is. My childhood...
Halving & Burns on BitGesell – the Optimal Combination for Scarcity and Value in the Crypto Age
1.2.2021
BitGesell represents a deflationary cryptocurrency that closely resembles bitcoin, but comes along with a few design changes. Its value proposition stems from Silvio Gesell’s financial market philosophy, who imagined monetary units that lose their value over time through demurrage. To keep...
Elon Musk, Bitcoin and the Reddit raiders: 6 things to watch for BTC price this week
1.2.2021
A casual vote of confidence from the world's richest man excites pundits but fails to produce a BTC price pump — could that be about to change?
Charge All the Things With This $19 Mophie Powerstation and Accessory Bundle
31.1.2021
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Privacy-Centric Messaging App Signal Experiments With Stellar-Based Mobilecoin Project
28.1.2021
One of the most popular privacy-centric messaging applications Signal has seen explosive growth during the last two months over things like the Whatsapp acquisition and the recent Big Tech censorship. According to a number of reports, the company has been experimenting with monetization and more...
Davos Watch: 'Don't Take Things For Granted For The Next Decades'
26.1.2021
François Villeroy de Galhau. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/CNBC International TV
With the pandemic triggering intensified economic and financial stimulus by governments across the world, regulators and banks consider they fulfilled their mission of ensuring liquidity to the markets, but...
Two things may result in a Bitcoin blow-off top, says on-chain analyst
26.1.2021
Prominent Bitcoin analyst, David Puell, says there are two things that could cause Bitcoin to top out in the future
JavaScript Wake Lock API
25.1.2021
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers...
'Spectacular bust' for stocks: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
25.1.2021
Equities markets may have just weeks before a major reset, one analyst warns amid claims that institutional Bitcoin interest is faltering
useStateInCustomProperties
21.1.2021
In my recent “Custom Properties as State” post, one of the things I mentioned was that theoretically, UI libraries, like React and Vue, could automatically map the state they manage over to CSS Custom Properties so we could use that state …
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On Type Patterns and Style Guides
19.1.2021
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
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AnimXYZ
18.1.2021
There are quite a few CSS animation libraries. They tend to be a pile of class names that you can apply as needed like “bounce” or “slide-right” and it’ll… do those things. They tend to be pretty opinionated with …
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Bitcoin meets Biden: 5 things to watch for BTC price this week
18.1.2021
The week in which the U.S. presidency changes sees limp stocks and a rangebound Bitcoin, but what could provide a fresh shake-up?
Flash’s Web Tech Legacy
11.1.2021
Tiffany B. Brown on how Flash paved the way for some things we might think of as fairly modern web technologies:
Flash wasn’t just good for playing multimedia. It was also good for manipulating it. Using ActionScript, you could pan
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BTC price eyes 30% correction: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
11.1.2021
A strengthening dollar combines with profit-taking by miners to create a "short-term bearish" environment for Bitcoin
Painters Tape and Fault Tolerance
9.1.2021
Snipping the top bit of Nicholas C. Zakas’s Top of the Month newsletter (go sign up!), with permission.
One of my favorite things in the world is painters tape (also called masking tape). It seems like something silly: some tape …
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Svelte and Spring Animations
8.1.2021
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time, springs allow us to move things using spring physics, which gives the …
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A Conversation with One of Bitcoin Cash’s Most Prolific Developers
8.1.2021
Calin Culianu is the #1 contributor to the Electron Cash project. Also, he contributes to BCHN, and has created the Fulcrum server. Definitely a Bitcoin Cash hero in my book. I picked his brain a bit about all things Bitcoin Cash, and got some juicy answers. Calin likes to talk, so let’s...
Make Your Own Tools
4.1.2021
Spencer Miskoviak on the Wealthfront blog:
By creating custom DevTools specific to an app, they can operate at an even higher abstraction to handle things like user interactions, or debugging tracking events. While this requires building and maintaining the
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