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Fluid Width Video
11.3.2020
IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web, ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video. There are lots of ways in which video can be displayed on your site. You might be self-hosting the video and presenting it via the HTML5 <video tag. You might...
How to Pay With Crypto on Amazon Marketplace
11.3.2020
Amazon dominates the world of e-commerce. Once nothing more than an online bookstore, Amazon has grown into a titan ofContinue Reading
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Europe’s New AML Rules Made Crypto More Attractive to Institutions, Says Boerse Stuttgart Exec
10.3.2020
Europe's fifth anti-money laundering directive seems to have increased institutional interest in crypto, says Ulli Spankowski, Boerse Stuttgart's chief digital officer
The 35 Most Influential Bitcoiners Dominating Crypto Twitter by Follower Count
10.3.2020
Twitter has become home to cryptocurrency influencers who use it for evangelism, spreading news, shilling coins, and shaming certain projects. Of course, the more followers a crypto thought leader has on Twitter, the greater their reach and influence. The following is a look at the top crypto...
Block Links Are a Pain (and Maybe Just a Bad Idea)
10.3.2020
As we noted in our complete guide, you can put an <a href=""> link around whatever chunks of HTML you like. Let's call that a "block link." Like you are wanting to link up an entire "Card" of content because it makes a big clickable target.
<a href="/article/"<!-- display: block;...
USD Coin and Tether Issuers Expand Their Services + More News
10.3.2020
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.
Stablecoins news
Major crypto financial services firm behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, Circle, has released a new set...
Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
10.3.2020
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I've always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases where both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) are used. That said, I’ve learned a few things along the...
Make Yourself a Little API With Netlify Functions
10.3.2020
Here's an example of a nice little use case for cloud functions. Glitch has this great package of friendly words. Say you wanted to randomly generate "happy-elephant" or "walking-tree", and you need to do that on your website in JavaScript. Well, this package is pretty big (~200 KB), necessarily...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for March 2020
10.3.2020
New JavaScript tools from the Facebook developers team, an excellent Electron starter kit. and more in our web dev resources compilation for March!
Bitcoin and Altcoins At Risk of More Losses
10.3.2020
Recently, we saw a significant drop in bitcoin price from well above the USD 8,550 support. BTC/USD declined more than 10% and it even settled below the USD 8,000 level. The price is currently (09:00 UTC) consolidating losses and it remains at a risk of more losses below USD 7,800 and...
Regulatory Roundup: French Court Considers Bitcoin Money, Cryptocurrencies Legitimized in South Korea, Australia, India
10.3.2020
The cryptocurrency sector worldwide saw several historic regulatory events last week. In this roundup, we cover a landmark bitcoin ruling by a French court, South Korea’s first crypto bill, an Australian court’s ruling, Germany’s announcement, and a recent FATF meeting where more...
Negative Margins
9.3.2020
PPK digs into the subject, which he found woefully undercovered in web tech documentation. Our entry doesn't mention them at all, which I'll aim to fix.
Agree on this situation:
This is by far the most common use case for negative margins. You give a container a padding so that its contents have...
I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next
9.3.2020
This talk by Marcin Wichary is — beyond both enthusiastic and outstanding — all about the complexity of UI design, typography, and the lengths his team at Figma has gone to make sure that doing something as simple as selecting a font from a dropdown does what you expect it to.
I’d recommend this...
Market Update: Plustoken BTC Moves, Crypto Prices Dive, Coronavirus Cripples Global Markets
9.3.2020
Cryptocurrency markets lost more than $30 billion in the last 24 hours as digital asset prices have been slashed alongside traditional stock and commodity markets. Further, crypto proponents have spied Plustoken bitcoins on the move again and speculators assume that 13,000 BTC ($102M) might have...
UK Regulator Warns It Will Get Tough with Crypto AML + More News
9.3.2020
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.
Regulation News
A British financial regulator has hinted that its cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML) policing will go above...
Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land
9.3.2020
Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overlays — both with the same RGB values for the background-color — on top of an image. Something like this:
<img src='myImage.jpg'/>
<div...
Use a:visited in your CSS stylesheet
9.3.2020
Evert Pot:
Unfortunately, when setting a new color (e.g. a { color: #44F }) the ‘purple visited link’ feature also gets disabled. I think this is a shame, as there’s so many instances where you’re going through a list of links and want to see what you’ve seen before.
The 2 examples I ran into...
"What You Said" (Mar. 9), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
9.3.2020
Hello CoinMarketCap fam! Welcome back to this week’s edition of “What You Said,” where fun polls are conducted for ourContinue Reading
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Geoff’s Redesign Posts
9.3.2020
I love it when people redesign "in the open" and write about it. I'd just like to shout out to our own Geoff who has been doing this for 3 months now. He started in late December last year. He's been sharing stuff like his dev tooling choices, considering performance, considering accessibility...
Tamil Guide: Cryptocurrency Meaning and How to Buy Bitcoin in India — Interview With Giottus
8.3.2020
After the supreme court verdict striking down the RBI ban, more people in India are interested in cryptocurrencies. News.Bitcoin.com interviewed Arjun Vijay, COO of crypto exchange Giottus, about the basics of cryptocurrencies in Tamil, focusing on the largest cryptocurrency — bitcoin....