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Play2Earn: How Blockchain Can Power a Paradigm Shift in Building Game Economies
27.6.2020
“We’d like to further empower our community by allowing them to earn a token that allows them to govern the ecosystem in the future, making decisions like what content to add within the universe, what tech upgrades should be focused on, and what to do with funds generated by the game’s...
FTX Is Building Lots of Sophisticated Markets Few Traders Use
24.6.2020
FTX has launched eight unique index futures and volatility markets in less than 12 months. But few traders use these markets
Let’s Make a Multi-Thumb Slider That Calculates The Width Between Thumbs
23.6.2020
HTML has an <input type="range">, which is, you could argue, the simplest type of proportion slider. Wherever the thumb of that slider ends up could represent a proportion of whatever is before and whatever is after it (using the value and max attributes). Getting fancier, it’s possible...
Patternico
20.6.2020
I remember searching for tutorials for making seamless patterns in Photoshop¹ all the time back in the day.
It’s fun to see this little website for building repeating patterns as its one job. It does everything you’d expect: pick a background, drag some decorations onto it and position...
Building a hexagonal grid using CSS grid
18.6.2020
I think of grids as arrangements of rectangles with vertical and horizontal lines running through. And they are, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still do clever things in how we place things on those grids and what we do with the elements afterwards.
In this demo by Jesse Breneman,...
Building Empires: Biggest Crypto Exchanges Push for Global Presence
12.6.2020
Crypto exchanges such as OKEx, Binance, Huobi, Kraken and Bitmex outline the key challenges they face in pushing to establish global operations
Algorand and Blockstack Are Building a Multi-Chain Smart Contract Language
10.6.2020
Clarity, a new open-source programming language, promises to deliver less buggy smart contracts
Bullishness Building in Bitcoin Options Market, Data Suggests
5.6.2020
Option traders look to be placing bets for a continued upward move in bitcoin
A Primer on Display Advertising for Web Designers
4.6.2020
A lot of websites (this one included) rely on advertising as an important revenue source. Those ad placements directly impact the interfaces we build and interact with every day. Building layouts with ads in them is a dance of handling them in fluid environments, and also balancing the need...
Japan’s Biggest Banks Are Talking About Building a Digital Payments System
4.6.2020
The banks will be joined by representatives from big business and the government to lay out how to create shared digital payments system
UK Government Seizes $185 Million From Dormant Bank Accounts for Crisis Relief
1.6.2020
The UK government is seizing funds in dormant bank accounts worth approximately $185 million to fund its coronavirus relief efforts. So far, 30 banks have been voluntarily transferring money from dormant accounts to the government, including HSBC, Barclays, Clydesdale, Credit Agricole, Danske...
Global CSS options with custom properties
30.5.2020
With a preprocessor, like Sass, building a logical “do this or don’t” setting is fairly straightforward:
$option: false;
@mixin doThing {
@if $option {
do-thing: yep;
}
}
.el {
@include doThing;
}
Can we do that in native CSS with custom properties? Mark Otto shows...
Building Your First Serverless Service With AWS Lambda Functions
29.5.2020
Many developers are at least marginally familiar with AWS Lambda functions. They’re reasonably straightforward to set up, but the vast AWS landscape can make it hard to see the big picture. With so many different pieces it can be daunting, and frustratingly hard to see how they fit seamlessly into...
Jamstack News!
29.5.2020
I totally forgot that the Jamstack Conf was this week but thankfully they’ve already published the talks on the Jamstack YouTube channel. I’m really looking forward to sitting down with these over a coffee while I also check out Netlify’s other big release today: Build Plugins.
These are plugins...
How to Crypto in Coronavirus Times, With the Help of the CoinMarketCap App
29.5.2020
If you’ve joined the crypto community for more than a week, you might have realized that building, holding and educatingContinue Reading
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Legendary Cryptographer on Building the First Blockchain in The '90s
20.5.2020
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a legendary cryptographer cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, discussed building the first blockchain
How to Build a Chrome Extension
19.5.2020
I made a Chrome extension this weekend because I found I was doing the same task over and over and wanted to automate it. Plus, I’m a nerd during a pandemic, so I spend my weird pent-up energy building things. I’ve made five Chrome extensions with that energy, yet I still find it hard...
Japan’s Top Credit Card Issuer Building Blockchain Payment System
18.5.2020
JCB’s partner in the venture, TECHFUND, offers services to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technologies for startups
Study: Communication and Education Are Key To Building Trust in Crypto
12.5.2020
A study revealed that three out of four people surveyed among two million respondents are not familiar with cryptos and blockchain technology
Accepting Payments (including Recurring Payments) on WordPress.com
12.5.2020
I’m a fan of building websites with the least amount of technical debt and things you have to be responsible for as possible for what you wanna do. Sometimes you take on this debt on purpose because you have to, but when you don’t, please don’t ;).
Let’s say you need...