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Performance Links
24.3.2020
I've had a number of browser tabs open to articles all related to web performance and gosh darn it if blogging them is a way for me get some closure. They are all good!
Manuel Matuzovic, Why 543 KB keep me up at night:
Yes, I know, it depends. 543 KB aren't always bad, but on that specific page...
Alipay Patents Reveal More Details About China's Forthcoming CBDC
24.3.2020
A series of patents published by Alipay give more details of how China’s CBDC will work
"What You Said" (Mar. 23), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
24.3.2020
Hey CoinMarketCap fam! Welcome back to another week’s edition of “What You Said”! Here you will see fun polls conductedContinue Reading
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Different Favicon for Development
24.3.2020
I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to make some local change, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, and just not see the change, only to discover you were looking at the production...
CSS :nth-of-class selector
23.3.2020
That's not a thing.
But it kinda is!
Bram covers how frustrating .bar:nth-child(2) is. It's not "select the second element of class .bar." It's "select the second element if it also has the class .bar." The good news? There is a real selector that does the former:
:nth-child(2 of .bar) { }
Safari...
Matic Lets Us Scale More than Loom Network: Ethereum-Based VR Platform
23.3.2020
The Somnium Space team hopes the transition will allow it to achieve scalability and provide a superior user experience
CoinDeal Token – a Wide Range of Earning Possibilities
23.3.2020
Launched in the second quarter of 2019, CDL Token is a rapidly growing project, which has more and more to offer for its users. From the very beginning, CDL was not supposed to be an ordinary token. The goal was to create a functional cryptocurrency which would enable the users of the CoinDeal...
Japan’s Favorite Tipple Sake to Get Blockchain Makeover + More News
23.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
EY Japan, one of the country’s “big four” accountancy firms, says it will debut a blockchain-powered traceability...
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
CSS Can Influence Screenreaders
23.3.2020
Ben Myers covers some clear examples of where CSS totally changes what some screen readers announce. For example, some screenreader will see text-transform: uppercase; on a button label that says "Add" and read it like an abbreviation, "A.D.D."
These cases of CSS messing with our screenreader...
Coronavirus Bailouts: US Banking Watchdogs Waive Hundreds of Regulations, Red Tape, Financial Oversight
23.3.2020
In 2019, cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses saw more regulation than any year prior. G20 finance ministers, central bank governors, and regulators cracked down hard on the bitcoin industry. However, during the covid-19 scare, U.S. authorities have been dropping regulations on a whim, making...
More Monday Carnage? US Futures Plummet, Bitcoin Price Below $6K
23.3.2020
Bitcoin investors fear a price drop below $5,400 would bring BTC back to the 2020 low seen on March 12
Will Dogecoin Create One More Buying Opportunity?
23.3.2020
While all the mammoth economies of the world have collapsed, the crypto market is on a ventilator too. It has been more than a week since Coronavirus pushed the majority of the markets off the cliff, and the disease is still not appearing to see any end. In that case, even though some of the …
Flexible Repeating SVG Masks
22.3.2020
Tyler Gaw reminds us that mask-image can repeat, resize, and move just like background-image does, which is fun to combine and play with. I could see it being a fun option for an <hr, like Sara is doing.
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Chinese Censorship, Falling Prices, Illegal Mining & More: Bad Crypto News of the Week
21.3.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News
Auto-Archival
20.3.2020
I'm sure most of us have used the ol' Wayback Machine to access some site that's gone offline. I don't actually know how it decides what sites to archive and when, but you can tell it to save pages. There is UI for it right on its homepage.
Also, there is a little trick...
Typing...
Client-Side Image Editing on Mobile
20.3.2020
Michael Scharnagl:
Ever wanted to easily convert an image to a grayscale image on your phone? I do sometimes, and that's why I build a demo using the Web Share Target API to achieve exactly that.
For this I used the Service Worker way to handle the data. Once the data is received on the client,...
MakerDAO Raises USD 2m in MKR Debt Auction + More News
20.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Stablecoin news
USD 2 million in DAI has been raised in the MakerDAO MKR debt auction. The debt auction was launched with a goal...
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
CSS2JS
20.3.2020
To add inline styles on an element in JSX, you have to do it in this object syntax, like:
<div style={{
fontSize: 16,
marginBottom: "1rem"
}}Content
</div
That might look a little weird to us folks who are so used to the CSS syntax, where it is font-size (not fontSize), margin-bottom...