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CSS in 3D: Learning to Think in Cubes Instead of Boxes
23.10.2020
My path to learning CSS was a little unorthodox. I didn’t start as a front-end developer. I was a Java developer. In fact, my earliest recollections of CSS were picking colors for things in Visual Studio.
It wasn’t until later that I got to tackle and find my love for the front end....
People Problems
16.10.2020
Just the other day, Jeremy Keith wrote that problems with performance work isn’t only a matter of optimization and fixing code, but also tackling people problems:
It struck me that there’s a continuum of performance challenges. On one end of the continuum, you’ve got technical issues. These can...
3 reasons Bitcoin price got rejected at $11,500 — and what comes next
15.10.2020
The price of Bitcoin rejected $11,500 in a swift price drop alongside rising shorts on BitMEX and slumping U.S. stocks
Things just got MESSy for potential Ethereum Classic 51% attackers
12.10.2020
Ethereum Classic is using an idea Vitalik Buterin had in 2014 to help fend off 51% attackers
With the rise of NFTs, 'pay to win' games have got mightily expensive
6.10.2020
It's one thing to "win at all costs," but what if that cost is half a million dollars?
How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned
5.10.2020
The need for position: sticky was around for years before it was implemented natively, and I can boast that I implemented it with JavaScript and scroll events for ages. Eventually we got position: sticky, and it works well from a visual perspective, but I wondered how can we determine when...
Nova
21.9.2020
Nova is a new (vehemently macOS-only) code editor from Panic, the folks behind Coda. It’s like “Coda 3” except this was such a major re-write that they gave it a whole new name.
I played with some of the betas as they were building it. I got a little discount as it went live, so...
Early Bitcoiner got into the space due to his lack of Blackjack skills
18.9.2020
Bitcoin losses hurt more as the price goes up
Huawei Cloud’s blockchain service just got its first major update in two years
17.9.2020
They’re entering the enterprise blockchain arena as part of a push towards empowering commercial applications
Inclusive Design 24
16.9.2020
Totally free.
No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel – see the entire playlist for the event.
Quite the lineup.
I’ve got a couple of other accessibility links burning a hole in my pocket as well:
Matt Stobbs:...
State-by-state licensing for crypto and payments firms in the US just got much easier
15.9.2020
New money transmitter licensing promises to roll 40 states into a single exam and license
Defi Trader Pockets $250k From Bug Exploit, Hints at Possible Exit Scam by $SYFI Devs
10.9.2020
An anonymous Defi trader says he gained almost $250 000 after inadvertently exploiting a rebase bug embedded in the $SYFI Defi token. The trader, who insists he had no prior knowledge about the bug, got this reward after staking an initial investment of 0.5 ETH or about $175 at current prices. In...
Defi’s Raw Deal: Sushiswap Creator Transfers Multi-Sig Control to FTX CEO
6.9.2020
After a number of individuals from the crypto community accused the anonymous developer Chef Nomi of exit scamming, the developer transferred the project over to Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the trading platform FTX. On Saturday, September 5, the decentralized finance (defi) community got upset...
Stock Trader Dave Portnoy Dives Into Bitcoin, Only to Panic-Sell After Chainlink Plunges
22.8.2020
High profile stock trader Dave Portnoy has panic sold his bitcoin one week after he got into cryptocurrency. He cited the falling price of chainlink, another of his crypto investments, as the main reason. Dave Portnoy Got in and Out of Crypto in One Week American trader and founder of Barstool...
Offering Options for mailto: and tel: Links
21.8.2020
I generally like mailto: links. But I feel like I can smell a mailto: link without even inspecting or clicking it, like some kind of incredibly useless superpower. I know that if I’ve got my default mail client set, clicking that link will do what I want it to do, and if I want, I...
Markets.Bitcoin.Com Holds Fort as Coinmarketcap Temporarily Goes Offline
14.8.2020
Coinmarketcap (CMC) temporarily went offline Thursday, August 13 and normal service only resumed some hours later, but not before inconveniencing a number of regular users. Crypto investors accustomed to CMC’s service scrambled to find reliable alternative sources of fresh market data. During...
Defi Implosion: YAM Token Market Cap Plummets to Near Zero After Founder Claims He ‘Failed’
13.8.2020
Yield farmers excited about the recent decentralized finance (defi) project, Yam Finance, got a rude awakening after the token’s value plummeted in value to near zero. Yam Finance developers discovered a major flaw in the rebasing contract and at 4 a.m. ET, cofounder Brock Elmore tweeted that...
Fusing With Whales: Cashfusion Privacy Mixing Expands Allowing 10x Bigger Coins
12.8.2020
On August 11, 2020, the Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball announced that Cashfusion tiers have been expanded to allow 10x bigger coins to be fused. The announcement got the Bitcoin Cash community excited to “fuse with whales,” as the increase has been upped from 0.82 BCH to...
Bitcoin Just Got USD 250m Endorsement From Major US Company
11.8.2020
Source: Adobe/Prostock-studio
US-based major business intelligence company MicroStrategy said it has purchased BTC 21,454 at an aggregate price of USD 250m, inclusive of fees and expenses.
“Our investment in Bitcoin is part of our new capital allocation strategy, which seeks to maximize long-term...
zerodivs.com
10.8.2020
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn’s A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don’t need extra HTML elements to draw shapes — you can draw as many shapes as you want on a single element. There is even a stacking order...