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Listen to your web pages
16.2.2020
A clever idea from Tom Hicks combining MutationObserver (which can "observe" changes to elements like when their attributes, text, or children change) and the Web Audio API for creating sounds. Plop this code into the console on a page where you'd like to listen to essentially any DOM change...
“CSS4” Update
16.2.2020
Since I first chimed in on the CSS4¹ thing, there's been tons of more discussion on it. I'm going to round up my favorite thoughts from others here. There is an overwhelming amount of talk about this, so I'm going to distill it here down as far as I can, hopefully making it easier to follow.
Jen...
Watch Out, Bitcoin, Altcoins Are Turning More and More to Payments
15.2.2020
Altcoins are coming for bitcoin (BTC). Many of them – ethereum (ETH), cardano (ADA), EOS, XRP – were initially conceived more as utility tokens for blockchain platforms than as mediums of payment.
But increasingly, many of them are turning to payments, while an expanding range of third-parties...
Creating a Details Element That Opens But Never Closes
15.2.2020
The <details> and <summary> elements in HTML are useful for making content toggles for bits of text. By default, you see the <summary> element with a toggle triangle (▶︎) next to it. Click that to expand the rest of the text inside the <details> element.
But...
Bitcoin Futures' Open Interest on Bakkt Up 50% in February + More News
14.2.2020
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.
Exchanges news
Bitcoin Futures' Open Interest (OI), the number of open futures contracts and an indicator of amount of capital...
While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better
14.2.2020
One thing that caught my eye on the list of features for Lea Verou's conic-gradient() polyfill was the last item:
Supports double position syntax (two positions for the same color stop, as a shortcut for two consecutive color stops with the same color)
Surprisingly, I recently discovered most...
Bitcoin Strikes above $10,200; the Gaining Spree May Sustain for Some More Days
14.2.2020
Bitcoin has elevated its value by 4.97% in the last week and traded from $9752 to $10,237 Investors may witness a moderate bullish price rally in the short-term, and the next resistance seems likely at $10,400 Bitcoin has managed a bullish week with heavy volatility, and the value against USD...
Brandon Chez: Mysterious CMC Founder Talks About the Flexibility of Crypto and His Lessons Learned
14.2.2020
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Brandon Chez: Mysterious CMC Founder Talks About the Flexibility of Crypto and His Lessons Learned
14.2.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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Brandon Chez: Mysterious CMC Founder Talks About the Flexibility of Crypto and His Lessons Learned
14.2.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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Cosmetics Giant AmorePacific Takes the Blockchain Plunge + More News
13.2.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/amorepacific_us
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.
Adoption news
South Korean cosmetics behemoth AmorePacific has joined the Kakao...
Why JavaScript is Eating HTML
13.2.2020
Web development is always changing. One trend in particular has become very popular lately, and it fundamentally goes against the conventional wisdom about how a web page should be made. It is exciting for some but frustrating for others, and the reasons for both are difficult to explain.
A...
The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries
13.2.2020
This article is full of a bunch of data from Aggelos Arvanitakis. But lemme just focus on his final bit of advice:
Investigate whether a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library can work for your project. Sometimes we tend to prefer writing CSS in JS for the DX (developer experience) it offers, without...
A Headless CMS for You and Your Web Development Agency
13.2.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Storyblok is a headless but component-based CMS with a built-in live-preview. You can use it for building fast and reliable websites and power native apps with your favorite technology.
Let us start with the basics and what a headless CMS is:
A headless content...
Coinbase Margin Trading Now Live for Coinbase Pro Users
13.2.2020
Coinbase has launched margin trading for users of its cryptocurrency trading platform, Coinbase Pro. Both individual and institutional investors in selected regions now have access to Coinbase margin trading. The company plans to expand access to more regions and provide more types of collateral...
2020 Stack
13.2.2020
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack" perhaps had its day as a useful term, but since front-end development touches so many parts of the stack now, it's not a particularly useful term....
3 Cents per kWh – Central Asia’s Cheap Electricity Entices Chinese Bitcoin Miners
12.2.2020
As tensions escalated between the U.S. and Iran in recent months, reports have detailed that Chinese bitcoin miners are looking to set up shop in Central Asia and more specifically in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Last spring, Chinese bitcoin mining operations flocked to Iran for extremely affordable...
USD Coin Issuer Circle Sells Another Business + More News
12.2.2020
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.
M&A news
Voyager Digital Canada, the operator of U.S. digital asset broker Voyager and the Ethos Universal Wallet, said it...
Toward Responsive Elements
12.2.2020
Hot news from Brian Kardell, regarding what we've been referring to as "container queries", the most hotly requested feature in CSS:
There does seem to be some general agreement on at least one part of what I am going to call instead "Responsive Design for Components" and that is that flipping...
Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL
12.2.2020
Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas and others.
For example, the most amazing effects can be created with WebGL, because...