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WooCommerce on Mobile
22.12.2020
Whether you use the eCommerce features on WordPress.com or use WooCommerce on your self-hosted WordPress site (like we do), you can use the WooCommerce mobile app. That’s right WooCommerce has native apps for iOS and Android. They’ve just released some nice upgrades to both, making them...
Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line
21.12.2020
Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes. And if they’re downloading extra bytes, the site not only takes that much more time to load, but users are using more data, both of which can be resolved, at least...
What’s Old is New
18.12.2020
This year, I learned a lot about how “old” tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style development has been both a learning experience, while also a nostalgic one. It’s been amazing to see how you can power plain...
Bitcoin Fund Debuts on Canada’s Biggest Stock Exchange
17.12.2020
CI Global Asset Management has begun to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada. The fund’s initial public offering managed to raise $72 million and units commenced trading in both U.S. dollars and Canadian dollars. CI Global Fund Begins Trading CI Global Asset Management has made...
Quontic Bank Launches Bitcoin Rewards Checking Account With Debit Card for US Customers
16.12.2020
Quontic Bank is launching a bitcoin rewards checking account with a debit card. Customers can earn 1.5% back in bitcoin on their debit card purchases. “Bitcoin is gaining massive momentum both as a digital currency, an asset class, and as a store of wealth,” the CEO of the bank said....
Unconventional Stock Image Sources
10.12.2020
This year, I learned that there is a wide world of free stock imagery available beyond Unsplash and Pexels. You see, I’ve been working on designing WordPress themes this year, and all images need to be compatible with the GPL. Unsplash and Pexels both have free and open licenses, but unfortunately...
‘Absolutely Inevitable’: Standard Chartered Bank CEO Sees Widespread Cryptocurrency Adoption
9.12.2020
Standard Chartered Bank CEO Bill Winters sees the adoption of digital currencies as “absolutely inevitable.” He says there is a role for both private digital currencies and state-backed ones. His bank subsequently announces that it is launching a crypto custody service, supporting...
Crypto Mining Crisis in Abkhazia Worsens After Power Substation Caught Fire
9.12.2020
The crypto mining crisis in Abkhazia is closely reaching its boiling point following the burnout of a power substation amid the refusal of both illegal and legal crypto miners to slow down their operations in the state. Crypto Mining Crisis Abkhazia Keeps Worsening Sputnik Abkhazia has reported...
A Pakistani Provincial Government Passes Crypto-Friendly Draft Resolution
4.12.2020
In Pakistan, a provincial government has passed a draft resolution on December 2, 2020, that demands the federal government to take steps towards legalizing both cryptocurrencies and crypto-mining activities. A Crypto-Friendly Draft Resolution Approval Sets a Precedent in Pakistan The Provincial...
2020 Year in Review
4.12.2020
Looking back on an entire year of one’s professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively, for surviving...
BioWare Studio Head, Dragon Age Producer Both Leave Studio
3.12.2020
Casey Hudson is leaving BioWare, again. Read more
Chinese State-Run Media Believe BTC Price Surge Is Just ‘Hype’ While Praising Blockchain
3.12.2020
Two Chinese state-run media outlets have published a brief news item urging citizens to focus more on blockchain technology than on the “hype” of the recent surging Bitcoin prices across the board. China’s Government to Focus on Blockchain Both Sina and Xinhuanet have stated that...
How to Add Text in Borders Using Basic HTML Elements
1.12.2020
Some HTML elements come with preset designs, like the inconveniently small squares of <input type="checkbox"> elements, the limited-color bars of <meter> elements, and the “something about them bothers me” arrows of the <details> elements. We can style them to match...
Bitcoin’s Carnivore Cult Is Both Stupid and Correct
27.11.2020
Do Bitcoin fans gravitate toward steak so often because they view themselves as cowboys, or because they’re just health-conscious?
Quppy Users Are Offered a Referral Program
19.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Quppy services can now be referred for an attractive direct cashback. The Quppy digital financial solution is launching its first referral program. Quppy current and new users are now provided with their unique referral links to share among their communities. The Quppy referral...
Knife-edge Biden-Trump Showdown Has Crypto Backers on Both Sides
5.11.2020
As American voters face a nervous wait to see if Democratic candidate Joe Biden can edge out President Donald Trump in the recent United States election, it appears that some big crypto community players may be watching the vote counts with more trepidation than others – with Bakkt's parent and...
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
4.11.2020
Here’s a fun page coming from secretGeek.net. You don’t normally think “fun” with brutalist minimalism but the CSS trickery that makes it work on this page is certainly that.
The HTML is literally displayed on the page as tags. So, in a sense, the HTML is both the page...
Additive Animations in CSS
3.11.2020
Daniel C. Wilson explains how with CSS @keyframe animations, when multiple of them are applied to an element, they do both work. But if any properties are repeated, only the last one works. They override each other. I’ve seen this limitation overcome by applying keyframes to nested elements...
$100 Million Accelerator Fund from Binance Now Supports PARSIQ, a Reverse-Oracle Blockchain Platform
3.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. PARSIQ is a working platform that makes blockchain events consumable and blockchain data actionable. It allows users—both individuals, companies, enterprises—to monitor any events across different blockchains in real-time and at scale and connect those events to...
Crypto Startup Avanti Receives License To Operate as National Bank in Wyoming
30.10.2020
Crypto startup Avanti Financial Group has been granted a license to offer banking services by the Wyoming State Banking Board. The license, or bank charter, means Avanti can now operate as a conventional bank – but one with a twist, capable of holding both crypto and dollars. It plans...