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Players Can Now Win an HTC Exodus 1 Phone on Bitcoin Games
28.11.2019
Bitcoin Games is now offering players to win some extra crypto and an HTC Exodus 1 smartphone, just in time for Black Friday. You can participate in the promotion by playing the site’s exclusive Slots, Roulette and Keno games, or any of the recently released slots and you stand a chance...
Product Search and Filters Are a Snap With WooCommerce
26.11.2019
Let's say you visit an e-commerce site because you want to buy the latest banana peeler model. Bananas are hard enough to peel, right? Only a tool will do!
What's the first thing you're going to do on the site? Chances are, it's entering something into the (hopefully) prominent search field....
Localethereum Becomes Localcryptos and Adds BTC Trading
23.11.2019
P2P trading site Localethereum has rebranded to Localcryptos, allowing users to buy and sell both ETH and BTC without KYC. The platform has been providing peer to peer trading services for ethereum since 2017, but in a surprise announcement this week, the website revealed its new home...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #10
20.11.2019
Get some website inspiration with this set of beautiful and modern site designs freshly picked over the past few weeks.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #10 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
‘Lost Coins’ Study Estimates BTC’s True Supply
19.11.2019
Many people like the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto introduced a capped supply of 21 million coins when he created the Bitcoin protocol. However, there’s been a lot of speculation aimed at guessing the number of ‘lost coins’ that will never be spent. On November 19, the digital...
How Do You Remove Unused CSS From a Site?
19.11.2019
Here's what I'd like you to know upfront: this is a hard problem. If you've landed here because you're hoping to be pointed at a tool you can run that tells you exactly what CSS you can delete from your project, well... there are tools out there, but I'm warning you to be very careful with them...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
The Department of Useless Images
18.11.2019
Gerry McGovern:
The Web is smothering in useless images. These clichéd, stock images communicate absolutely nothing of value, interest or use. They are one of the worst forms of digital pollution because they take up space on the page, forcing more useful content out of sight. They also slow down...
Pornhub Suggests Crypto Payments After Paypal Censors Model Payouts
14.11.2019
On November 14, the leading adult video sharing site on the internet, Pornhub, revealed that payment processor Paypal has blocked the company’s live performer payouts. In a blog post written on Thursday, Pornhub recommended alternative payments like writing a check or using the digital...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
[aktualita] ČTÚ připravuje výběrové řízení na celoplošné sítě digitálního rozhlasu
12.11.2019
Na konferenci Innovation Day, kterou pořádají České radiokomunikace, došlo i na stručnou zmínku o dalších plánech s digitálním rozhlasovým vysíláním. Nastínil je Marek Ebert z Českého telekomunikačního úřadu. „Na ministerstvu kultury běží pracovní skupina, která má vyhodnotit vysílání Českého...
Jailed Deepdotweb Admin Denies Earning $15M From Darknet Links
12.11.2019
In an interview from prison, one of Deepdotweb’s operators has disputed the $15 million allegedly made from “illegal” referral links, claiming “There was no such amount.” Currently on remand in France, Israeli citizen Tal Prihar stands accused of directing visitors...
Newly Launched E-commerce Site DMall Allows Payment in Cryptocurrency
5.11.2019
One of the major areas for mainstreaming of cryptocurrency is the online retail market. Though major e-commerce platforms have shied away from allowing payments in cryptocurrency, several small online vendors are accepting digital payments. But Newly Launched e-commerce site allowed to accept...
It’s All In the Head: Managing the Document Head of a React Powered Site With React Helmet
30.10.2019
The document head might not be the most glamorous part of a website, but what goes into it is arguably just as important to the success of your website as its user interface. This is, after all, where you tell search engines about your website and integrate it with third-party applications like...
Learn to Make Your Site Inclusive, by Design
29.10.2019
Accessibility is our job. We hear it all the time. But the truth is that it often takes a back seat to competing priorities, deadlines, and decisions from above. How can we solve that?
That's where An Event Apart comes in. Making sites inclusive by design is just one of the many topics covered over...
Lyn Ulbricht Speaks Out Against Unfair Silk Road Sentencing, Facebook and Government Hypocrisy
25.10.2019
U.S. representative Ann Wagner noted at a recent hearing that child pornographic material has been reported on Facebook more than any other site. Lyn Ulbricht, mother of currently imprisoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, spoke out in a video livestream Wednesday against her son’s unfair...
[aktualita] Český Suntel koupil švýcarský Enkom, který staví sítě pro Swisscom či Huawei
23.10.2019
Česká investiční skupina DRFG nadále rozšiřuje svoji postupně budovanou telekomunikační sekci. Nově se dostává na trh ve Švýcarsku, kde skrze Suntel Group za nespecifikovanou částku koupila podnik Enkom. Ta na trhu působí přes třicet let a mezi zákazníky má švýcarské operátory Swisscom a Sunrise...
Netlify Build Plugins Announcement
22.10.2019
Netlify just dropped a new thing: Build Plugins. (It's in beta, so you have to request access for now.) Here's my crack at explaining it, which is heavily informed from David Well's announcement video.
You might think of Netlify as that service that makes it easy to sling up some static files from...
Options for Hosting Your Own Non-JavaScript-Based Analytics
18.10.2019
There are loads of analytics platforms to help you track visitor and usage data on your sites. Perhaps most notably Google Analytics, which is widely used (including on this site), probably due to it's ease of integration, feature-richness, and the fact that it's free (until you need to jump up...
JAMstack Tools and The Spectrum of Classification
17.10.2019
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts.
I think those classifications are handy, and help conversations along. But there is a point...