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CSS in 3D: Learning to Think in Cubes Instead of Boxes
23.10.2020
My path to learning CSS was a little unorthodox. I didn’t start as a front-end developer. I was a Java developer. In fact, my earliest recollections of CSS were picking colors for things in Visual Studio.
It wasn’t until later that I got to tackle and find my love for the front end....
Bitcoin Is Better Than Ethereum At These Four Things
18.10.2020
Eric Meltzer is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a cryptoasset fund.
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"Ethereum (ETH) can do everything that Bitcoin (BTC) can do, plus a lot more."
I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things...
Run Gulp as You Open a VS Code Project
13.10.2020
When I open my local project for this very site, there is a 100% chance that I need to run this command before anything else: gulp. I set that up fresh less than a year ago so I’m on the latest-and-greatest stuff and have my workflow just how I like it. I did a few more tweaks a few months...
Things just got MESSy for potential Ethereum Classic 51% attackers
12.10.2020
Ethereum Classic is using an idea Vitalik Buterin had in 2014 to help fend off 51% attackers
Dollar dip meets hash rate boom: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
12.10.2020
Analysts warn that U.S. dollar could return to its 2018 lows as Bitcoin fundamentals steam to new records this week
On the Web Share API
6.10.2020
I think the Web Share API is very cool (here’s our coverage). In a nutshell, it taps into the native sharing features on whatever platform you’re on, if that platform supports it. So essentially…
I like this:
Web Share API activated on iOS
A heck of a lot more than these...
Trump, price dots and COVID-19: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
5.10.2020
Donald Trump boosts markets with improving health prospects, but coronavirus is taking its toll — Bitcoin eyes macro moves
Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)
30.9.2020
Our tools for vertical alignment have gotten a lot better as of late. My early days as a website designer involved laying out 960px wide homepage designs and aligning things horizontally across a page using a 12-column grid. Media queries came along which required a serious mental shift. It solved...
Blockchain technology now powers a privacy-focused security camera
29.9.2020
The new camera from IoTeX reportedly features a private key for access and end-to-end encryption of all data
Trump, tax and hacks: 5 things shaping Bitcoin price action this week
28.9.2020
Bitcoin tests $11,000 on Donald Trump’s tax revelations but KuCoin’s $150 million may yet put a dampener on bulls
Accessible Web Animation: The WCAG on Animation Explained
22.9.2020
It’s true, web animation can be accessible! Sometimes it just takes a little extra effort to make sure that it is. There are strategic things we can do to make sure our animations have a positive impact on accessibility, like planning how they contribute to the overall UX and ease of use of...
IoT Startup Helium Floats New Hardware Device for Mining Its HNT Crypto Tokens
22.9.2020
Helium is hoping a new manufacturing deal with RAK Wireless will help the crypto-powered IoT network expand its reach
Pre-Caching Image with React Suspense
21.9.2020
Suspense is an exciting, upcoming feature of React that will enable developers to easily allow their components to delay rendering until they’re “ready,” leading to a much smoother user experience. “Ready,” in this context, can mean a number of things. For example, your data loading...
HSBC stock hits 25-year low: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
21.9.2020
Bitcoin grapples with $11,000 as money laundering engulfs the banking sector again and coronavirus spoils stocks sentiment
Defi Boom: Bubble Fears Grow as ‘Toxic’ Community Disagrees on Way Forward
15.9.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) space is headed for an implosion unless the divided community leaders step forward with solutions. This is discernible from September 13 Sunday morning tweets by some influential players in the defi space wherein they attack each other. Waves blockchain creator...
Fed, oil and record hash rate: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
14.9.2020
BP says world oil demand peaked in 2019 as central banks make “unconventional” policy the norm — and that’s all good for Bitcoin
One Action, Multiple Terminal Windows Running Stuff
8.9.2020
Many development environments require running things in a terminal window. npm run start, or whatever. I know my biggest project requires me to be running a big fancy Docker-based thing in one terminal, Ruby on Rails in another, and webpack in another. I’ve worked on other projects that...
All the Ways to Make a Web Component
7.9.2020
This is a neat page that compares a ton of different libraries with web components. One of the things I learned after posting “A Bit on Web Components Libraries” is that the web platform APIs were designed for libraries to be built around them. Interesting, right?
This page makes...
Fear, politics and the dollar: 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
7.9.2020
U.S. dollar strength combines with a decision on monetary policy in Europe as a backdrop to fresh fear among Bitcoin investors
3 Things You Should Know Before Staking on Ethereum 2.0
5.9.2020
It wasn’t long ago that the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade went live on an official test network. Developers have been catching mission-critical bugs in the code ever since