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A Snippet to See all SVGs in a Sprite
8.10.2019
I think of an SVG sprite as this:
<svg display="none">
<symbol id="icon-one"> ... <symbol>
<symbol id="icon-two"> ... <symbol>
<symbol id="icon-three"> ... <symbol>
</svg>
I was long a fan of that approach for icon systems...
Market Outlook: Leading Cryptocurrencies Attempt to Break Resistance
8.10.2019
Digital currency markets have started to show strong signs of recovery after dropping to new lows last week. On Monday, a number of cryptocurrencies gained between 2-5% over the course of the day. Crypto prices have held steady into the next day and many digital assets will likely test...
West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Pilot May Have Been Breached by a Student
8.10.2019
The West Virginia Secretary of State disclosed a student tampered with the blockchain voting pilot developed by Voatz in 2018
Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!
8.10.2019
There are so many things you can do with clipping paths. I've been exploring them for quite some time and have come up with different techniques and use cases for them — and I want to share my findings with you! I hope this will spark new ideas for fun things you can do with the CSS clip-path...
Wufoo Cracks the Code for Forms So You Don’t Have To
8.10.2019
There was a lot of buzz about forms last week when Jason Grisby pointed to a missing pattern attribute on Chipotle's order form that could have been used to help-through millions of dollars in orders. Adrian Roselli followed that up with the common mistake of forgetting for and id attributes...
How to Detect an Ad Blocker
8.10.2019
One of the unspoken rules of the internet is that most content is “free”… at the cost of webpage being littered with advertisements and trackers. This was’t a big problem in the early internet days but trackers and advertisements have become so intrusive and unapologetically...
NIXT – Nexinter Launches Exchange Offering Using SLP
8.10.2019
Today, NextHash and Bitcoin.com have entered a technical partnership to design and structure the NIXT utility token.
NIXT token is being listed in its fully operational exchange Nexinter on top of Bitcoin Cash, using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework.
The post NIXT – Nexinter...
2019’s Token Sales Have Produced a Handful of Winners
8.10.2019
2019 has proven a challenging year in which to launch a crypto startup, with the most successful tokens recording only modest returns. Investors chasing the sort of double-digit returns that were one commonplace have been mostly frustrated by a markedly more conservative market in which picking...
Here’s How Belarus Pressures Russia to Legalize Cryptocurrencies
7.10.2019
Relations between Belarus and Russia have always been quite complicated. The union the two close allies created has faced all kinds of challenges over its 20 plus years of existence. Now cryptocurrency is becoming a new apple of discord, as Minsk has taken a relatively friendly approach...
Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
7.10.2019
Regardless of your stance on pornography, it would be impossible to deny the massive impact the adult website industry has had on pushing the web forward. From pushing the browser’s video limits to pushing ads through WebSocket so ad blockers don’t detect them, you have to be clever...
Bitfinex Braces for Imminent Lawsuit Alleging Tether Manipulates Crypto Market
7.10.2019
The operators of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the stablecoin Tether are again engaged in public relations crisis management. They have notified users of an imminent lawsuit over market manipulation allegations and are trying to frame it as just a shameless money grab attempt. Also Read:...
Bank Raided, Arrests Made but RBI Still Restricts Withdrawals
6.10.2019
The crisis has elevated at the cooperative bank recently placed under regulatory restrictions by India’s central bank. Multiple branches have been raided and several arrests were made. However, the RBI continues to impose a withdrawal limit, preventing bank customers from accessing their...
McAfee to Launch Decentralized Token Exchange With No Restrictions
6.10.2019
On the heels of launching his crypto platform, McAfee Magic, the former antivirus software tycoon John McAfee plans to launch a distributed exchange on Monday, October 7. ‘McAfeedex’ will run on the Ethereum blockchain and McAfee insists the exchange will have no restrictions. Also...
Turkish Government Freezes Over 3 Million Bank Accounts
5.10.2019
Hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals with tax obligations to the Turkish state have received foreclosure notices this week informing them about their frozen bank accounts. The government of Turkey, which is struggling with financial and economic problems under geopolitical pressure...
Protesters Wield Tools of Freedom as Hong Kong Imposes Dictatorship
5.10.2019
Four months of protests continue in Hong Kong as the world is witnessing the biggest uprising of political dissent in the territory since the 1997 ‘handover’ from Britain to China. Protesters have recently embraced wearing Guy Fawkes masks but on October 3, Hong Kong’s current...
200,000 People Have Signed Ross Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition
4.10.2019
Ross Ulbricht is forced to spend the rest of his life in prison, and October 1 marked the beginning of his seventh year behind bars. Ulbricht has recently authored a letter explaining that he’s “forgotten what freedom actually feels like” and he’s also realized that he lost...
Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web
4.10.2019
Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:
PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.
It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via...
RBI Ban Stops Indian Police From Cashing Out Seized Crypto
4.10.2019
The effects of banking restrictions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have reached an Indian police department. The police sold some cryptocurrencies they seized only to find out that they cannot access the Rs 8.42 crore (~$1.2 million) proceeds due to the current RBI banking ban. Also read:...
Global Law Enforcement Has Auctioned Massive Amounts of Bitcoin
3.10.2019
Last month, the U.K. police auctioned off roughly $300,000 worth of cryptocurrencies after they were confiscated by the country’s Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU). Since 2014, law enforcement agencies worldwide have been auctioning large sums of bitcoin seized during...
Adaptive Photo Layout with Flexbox
3.10.2019
Let’s take a look at a super lightweight way to create a horizontal masonry effect for a set of arbitrarily-sized photos. Throw any set of photos at it, and they will line up edge-to-edge with no gaps anywhere.
The solution is not only lightweight but also quite simple. We’ll be using an unordered...