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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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All-time highs meet altseason: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
4.1.2021
Bitcoin preserves $30,000 so far but a mammoth rise in Ether and a market dominance drop sets the tone for an altcoin surge
Houdini.how
1.1.2021
Nice site from Google (and guest contributors) with a bunch of fun demos of what Houdini can do. Plus a write-up from Una. These are all Paint API demos. Houdini is technically a group of seven things that are all …
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The Best Things We Paid Real Money for in 2020
31.12.2020
For better or for worse, in many ways, 2020 was defined by capitalism, a system unprepared to provide as many hospital beds as there are sick people during a pandemic. Or PPE gear to health care workers exposed to those sick people. Or even face masks to those ordinary people just trying to shop...
Altseason and $30K in sight: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin as 2020 ends
28.12.2020
A Christmas full of cheer for hodlers tops out above $28,000, amid warnings that Bitcoin is already in regulators' crosshairs for 2021
clipPath vs. mask
27.12.2020
These things are so similar, I find it hard to keep them straight. This is a nice little explanation from viewBox (what a cool name and URL, I hope they keep it up).
The big thing is that clipPath (the element in SVG, as well as clip-path in CSS) is vector and when it is applied, whatever you...
The worst things on the internet in 2020
24.12.2020
Look, even without COVID, 2020 was going to be garbage. It was an election year, for fuck’s sake, so a glut of unhinged political punditry was destined to clog up our social media feeds and needle our glazed eyeballs. In keeping with tradition, it all turned out to be even worse than we could have...
2020 Roundup of Web Research
22.12.2020
It’s December! Lots of things are published this time of year, like developer advent calendars and organizations reflecting on the past year. We have even our own end-of-year series where we asked folks what they learned in 2020. But we also see lots of research come out around this time....
Stimulus checks meet BTC all-time highs: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
21.12.2020
A vote on $600 payments to Americans combines with bank buybacks as one analyst says that institutional buying could mean the Bitcoin bull run "never stops."