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Bitcoin Bulls to Return in August, Cboe suspends Bitcoin Futures Listings
16.3.2019
The crypto industry is as interesting as ever. Fundstrat founder Thomas Lee has predicted that Bitcoin bulls will return in August. Weiss Rating agency stirred debate when it claimed that Stellar has superior technology to Ripple. Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has […]
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Privacy Cryptocurrency Grin Votes to Fund Third Full-Time Developer
14.3.2019
The community behind privacy-focused cryptocurrency Grin has recently decided to fund its third full-time developer
Getting into GraphQL with AWS AppSync
12.3.2019
GraphQL is becoming increasingly popular. The problem is that if you are a front-end developer, you are only half of the way there. GraphQL is not just a client technology. The server also has to be implemented according to the specification. This means that in order to implement GraphQL into your...
The ineffectiveness of lonely icons
11.2.2019
Icons are great and all, but as we've been shown time and time again, they often don't do the job all by themselves. Even if you do a good job with the accessibility part and make sure there is accompanying text there for assistive technology, in an ironic twist, you might be confusing people...
Angular, Autoprefixer, IE11, and CSS Grid Walk into a Bar…
18.1.2019
I am attracted to the idea that you shouldn't care how the code you author ends up in the browser. It's already minified. It's already gzipped. It's already transmogrified (real word!) by things that polyfill it, things that convert it into code that older browsers understand, things that make...
The Elements of UI Engineering
4.1.2019
I really enjoyed this post by Dan Abramov. He defines his work as a UI engineer and I especially like what he writes about his learning experience:
My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. Rather, I learned the most when I struggled to solve a particular UI problem....
Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS
6.11.2018
Bluetooth has been a revelation in wireless technology: wireless mice, headphones, streaming devices, and a variety of home and office environments. It goes without saying that wireless peripherals are so much easier to manage than wired counterparts, especially mice, that I usually have...
WDRL — Edition 247: The Mixed Faces of Technology, of Humans, of Wilderness.
2.11.2018
Hey,
This week shows all the interesting sides of technology: We’re learning about challenges with Service Workers, how to properly build error pages that are not frustrating for users, how too simple implementations by developers can lead to dangerous security loops that could influence politics...
How a Left-for-Dead, $0.22 Crypto Asset Became a Lifeline for Activists
15.10.2018
A tiny cryptocurrency named faircoin is providing an underground economy across the world
Prusa vystřídal Kiwi.com, je nejrychleji rostoucím tech startupem ve střední Evropě
12.10.2018
Letošní žebříček Deloitte CE Technology Fast 50 ovládli Češi, v první pětici dominují hned tři české firmy. V soutěži nejrychleji rostoucích technologických firem ve střední Evropě vyhrál výrobce 3D tiskáren Prusa Research, druhý byl loňský vítěz, vyhledávač letenek Kiwi.com. Páté místo patří...
Early Execs Leave Block.one, the Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Behind EOS
25.9.2018
As Block.one was raising $4 billion from Silicon Valley and Wall Street, a group of executives decided to quit and build a bigger, better blockchain
When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise
23.9.2018
It used to be that downtime was unheard of on blockchain networks. As new protocols and new trade-offs emerge, that's no longer the case
Code as a Weapon: Amir Taaki Wants You to Join the Real Crypto Revolution
8.8.2018
Infamous developer Amir Taaki believes bitcoin's potential is exhausted, but he's not giving up the fight to change the world with cryptocurrency
CSS: A New Kind of JavaScript
19.7.2018
In this wacky and satirical post, Heydon Pickering describes a wild new technology called Cascading Style Sheets that solves a lot of the problems you might bump into when styling things with JavaScript:
A good sign that a technology is not fit for purpose is how much we have to rely on workarounds...
PSA: Yes, Serverless Still Involves Servers.
16.7.2018
You clever dog. You've rooted it out! It turns out when you build things with serverless technology you're still using servers. Pardon the patronizing tone there, I've seen one-too-many hot takes at this point where someone points this fact out and trots away triumphantly.
And yes, because...
Startup Raises $600K to Build Bitcoin Cash Mobile Wallet
29.6.2018
CoinText.io,a blockchain startup developing a way of conducting offline bitcoin cash transactions, closed a $600,000 seed funding round
Block.one Wants to Rewrite the Entire EOS Constitution
28.6.2018
Attempts to sort out the results of hacks and scams have resulted in a constitutional crisis
Blockchain Can Legally Authenticate Evidence, Chinese Judge Rules
28.6.2018
A court in China's Hangzhou city has ruled that evidence authenticated with blockchain technology can be presented in legal disputes
Don’t Use The Placeholder Attribute
22.6.2018
Eric Bailey takes a hardline position on <input placeholder>.
You might be thinking, as I did: yeah, yeah I know the pitfalls. I'm capable of using placeholder responsibly. But when you look at all the negatives together:
Can’t be automatically translated;
Is oftentimes used in place of...
Blockchain’s Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular
8.6.2018
At least five cryptocurrencies have recently been hit with a 51% attack, a vulnerability users used to scoff at