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Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
5.8.2020
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel that shows us big things, like how relative CSS values are resolved. We’ll also see how inheritance fits into the browser’s...
Bitcoin Price Soars on Strong Weekly Close Putting $10.5K Within Reach
27.7.2020
Bitcoin bulls target $10,500 after BTC managed a strong weekly close and rallied to $10,315
Holy Albatross with Widths
24.7.2020
Heydon’s Holy Albatross is a technique to have a row of elements break into a column of elements at a specific width. A specified parent width, not a screen width like a media query would have. So, like a container query (ya know, those things that don’t exist yet that we...
Position Vertical Scrollbars on Opposite Side with CSS
23.7.2020
Fair warning: I can’t say I recommend this in general because it breaks a very strong expectation of where scrollbars are, which are useful for a lots of folks, not to mention, a core accessibility feature for many.
But it is a fascinating CSS trick and the web is a big place with...
Surging Altcoin Ampleforth Sees Strong Volatility
21.7.2020
Source: Adobe/by-studio
The little-known altcoin ampleforth (AMPL) has received more attention in the Cryptoverse after it rallied to become this week’s best-performing coin among the top 50 cryptoassets by market capitalization, while simultaneously seeing extreme volatility both to the upside...
What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek
17.7.2020
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved
Develop, Preview, Test
17.7.2020
Guillermo:
I want to make the case that prioritizing end-to-end (E2E) testing for the critical parts of your app will reduce risk and give you the best return. Further, I’ll show how you can adopt this methodology in mere minutes.
His test is:
Spin up Puppeteer (Headless Chrome)...
Best Defi Interoperability Solutions – Exploring Fusion vs Cosmos vs Polkadot
17.7.2020
After the famous bull market of 2017, the cryptocurrency market experienced a very long and harsh bear market. Whilst this makes for a complicated period for investors, it’s not a complete tragedy; even if prices have been disappointing, fundamentals, on the other hand, have never been...
Making lil’ me
15.7.2020
Cassie Evans made a lovely illustration of herself and then used Greensock to add a flourish of animations to polish it off. Cassie wrote a series of posts about how she did it:
In this post we’ll cover how to get values from the mouse movement and plug them into an animation. This is...
Bitcoin Difficulty Touches All-Time High, 120 Exahash of Hashpower Remains Strong
13.7.2020
The network difficulty for the Bitcoin network spiked over 9.8% on Monday bringing the difficulty to its highest point ever. The record high of 17.35 trillion makes it much harder for bitcoin miners to profit. However, the overall Bitcoin network hashrate has remained consistently above the...
Bitcoin Script and Onchain Contracts: Two High-Level Programming Languages for Bitcoin Cash
11.7.2020
Last May, the software developer and creator of revoke.cash, Rosco Kalis, released Cashscript version 0.4 that included a number of optimizations. Cashscript’s new website highlights the high-level language that “offers a strong abstraction layer over Bitcoin Cash’ native virtual...
DigiByte Holds Complete Support; Faces Strong Resistance at $0.0250
10.7.2020
DigiByte has had an excellent listing in the previous month, wherein the extending presence of DGB coin will lead to greater adoption. DigiByte is now available for trading on Binance, Bololex, OceanEx, CoinDCX, DigiFinex Global, Bilaxy exchange, WazirX, LBank Exchange, Bitcoin.com while it awaits...
Frontity is React for WordPress
9.7.2020
Some developers just prefer working in React. I don’t blame them really, because I like React too. Maybe that’s what they learned first. I’ve been using it long enough there is just some comfort to it. But mostly it is the strong component model that I like. There is just...
A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
8.7.2020
Julia Evans:
I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transition.
An awful lot of the JavaScript on sites (that aren’t otherwise entirely constructed from JavaScript) is click the thing...
Cardano Works Towards Excelling the 3rd Generation Asset Type
29.6.2020
Charles Hoskinson has recently explained what Cardano is and what the difference is between Cardano in comparison to Bitcoin and Ethereum. To simplify and draw a difference between the given three cryptos, Hoskinson, while comparing in common parlance, said that Bitcoin is the first mover in...
The Analytics That Matter
25.6.2020
I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other than nerdy cocktail party fodder. The usage that matters is what users on your site are using, and that can...
Using Custom Property “Stacks” to Tame the Cascade
22.6.2020
Since the inception of CSS in 1994, the cascade and inheritance have defined how we design on the web. Both are powerful features but, as authors, we’ve had very little control over how they interact. Selector specificity and source order provide some minimal “layering” control...
LingoJam
17.6.2020
I’ll sometimes search the web for something like “Small Text Generator” knowing there will be some website that will turn some dumb thing I want to type like:
Uhm hi when is that meeting again?
into something fun like…
ᵁʰᵐ ʰᶦ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵉᵉᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿˀ
Important note about...
CUBE CSS
11.6.2020
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
The most important part of this methodology is the language itself: CSS. It’s key to note its existence in the name because some alternative approaches, such as BEM—which I have enjoyed for many years—can veer very far away from Cascading Style Sheets. I love CSS...
EOS Lacks Steady Traction; Faces Strong Resistance Around $3
11.6.2020
A paper on “Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchain” claimed that the current throughput for EOSIO is only 34 TPS. This paper has reconsidered the meaning of throughput from “what a system can do” to “What a system is doing that can be valued.” The goal behind this...