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Developer reveals 'biggest unsolvable Lightning attack vector'
23.9.2020
Larger payment channels on Bitcoin’s Lightning network could be exploited according to an independent developer
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
14.9.2020
Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin:
[…] you can use another CSS property called content-visibility to apply the needed containment automatically. content-visibility ensures that you get the largest performance gains the browser can provide with minimal effort from you as...
Defi’s Raw Deal: Sushiswap Creator Transfers Multi-Sig Control to FTX CEO
6.9.2020
After a number of individuals from the crypto community accused the anonymous developer Chef Nomi of exit scamming, the developer transferred the project over to Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the trading platform FTX. On Saturday, September 5, the decentralized finance (defi) community got upset...
State of Jamstack 2020: Data Deep Dive
3.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
The Jamstack, a modern approach to building websites and apps, delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience. But how popular is it among developers worldwide, and what do they love and hate about it?
We at Kentico...
Deeper DX
27.8.2020
Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff that we recently covered. Sure, sure, documentation, CLIs, good demos. But there are much harder questions to answer that are part of the real DX. Shawn lists...
A Complete Walkthrough of GraphQL APIs with React and FaunaDB
27.8.2020
As a web developer, there is an interesting bit of back and forth that always comes along with setting up a new application. Even using a full stack web framework like Ruby on Rails can be non-trivial to set up and deploy, especially if it’s your first time doing so in a while.
Personally I have...
Why you should hire a front-end developer
26.8.2020
Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…
“A front-end developer is the best person to champion accessibility best practices in product teams.”
“80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end.”
“A front-end developer takes pressure...
BitMex awards its last developer grant to a Bitcoin scalability solution from MIT
24.8.2020
Can this project provide scalability without sacrificing security?
Privacy Wallet Wars: Wasabi Vulnerabilities Denied by Developer
20.8.2020
OXT Research, the team behind Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Samourai Wallet, has announced that its researchers have identified two potential privacy vulnerabilities in the open-source Wasabi Wallet that could impact the security of CoinJoin transactions carried out through the wallet. This said, zkSNACKs...
Meet a Freelance Cypherpunk Developer in Africa
16.8.2020
Fodé Diop, founder of the Dakar Bitcoin Developers meetup in Senegal speaks with CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen about bitcoin in Africa
Anonymous Developer Deploys Curve Contracts, Forcing Early Launch
14.8.2020
Paying more than $8,000 in fees, an unknown developer has prematurely deployed Curve’s tokens and contracts resulting in an unexpected launch
Fusing With Whales: Cashfusion Privacy Mixing Expands Allowing 10x Bigger Coins
12.8.2020
On August 11, 2020, the Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball announced that Cashfusion tiers have been expanded to allow 10x bigger coins to be fused. The announcement got the Bitcoin Cash community excited to “fuse with whales,” as the increase has been upped from 0.82 BCH to...
Alchemy Goes Public With Developer Platform in Bid to Grow DeFi Ecosystem
11.8.2020
Blockchain infrastructure startup Alchemy just launched its full suite of products to the public, after a two-year closed beta serving teams like MakerDAO and Kyber Network
Grin Price Up Over 11% as Former Developer Tests ASIC Miner
11.8.2020
Former core Grin developer Gary Yu mined $118 worth of GRIN cryptocurrency in less than 24 hours with a Grin ASIC mining device
PSF Token Invokes the First Coin-Age Staking Protocol on Bitcoin Cash
11.8.2020
During the last six months, the Simple Ledger Protocol has grown immensely and there’s been 9,604 SLP tokens created since the infrastructure launched. Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on mistcoin, the mineable SLP token that can be mined with a CPU. Now software developer Chris...
OKCoin Exchange Awards Grant to One of Bitcoin Core’s Most Active Developers
6.8.2020
The grant from OKCoin will allow Bitcoin developer Marco Falke to continue the maintenance work he's done since 2016, like reviewing proposed code changes
OKCoin’s Fourth Developer Grant Recipient Brings Total Grants to Over $500K
6.8.2020
OKCoin developer grants total over $500,000 with the latest grant going to Bitcoin’s most active contributor since 2017
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...
Expanding the Future (of Dev Tooling) with AI
5.8.2020
Codota wants their tools to (at least!) double developer productivity. My vision is that we can do that not only by getting more developers using these tools, but in expanding where and how these tools learn themselves. The better the tools can *learn from us* what we're doing, the better *we...
The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site
3.8.2020
The following article captures the process of building the Million Developers microsite for Netlify. This project was built by a few folks and we’ve captured some parts of the process of building it here- focusing mainly on the animation aspects, in case any are helpful to others building...