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2019 Year in Review
5.12.2019
The beginning of every year starts out with all of us setting ambitious goals — goals being personal and professional. Many of us rarely complete half of those goals, most abandoning them by the end of the year. In January of this year I published my list of goals for the year. Let’s...
Mirror Android Device to Computer
26.11.2019
As I continue my adventure into Android development, pair programming has been a huge help in learning this new platform. When it’s time to build and run the app, relying on the emulator is a fools’ game — the emulator is slow and it’s hard to reliably simulate gestures....
Image Lazy Loading
25.11.2019
Lazy loading images is a practice that’s been popular for a decade and for good reason: images are usually the heaviest downloads on a given webpage and avoiding unloading images that are never seen saves the user bandwidth. There are plugins for lazy loading images in every JavaScript...
Libra Testnet Fails to Impress as New Legislation Looms
25.11.2019
A November 15 blog post by Libra project developers detailing testnet developments has apparently failed to impress government regulators and influential voices in the space alike. CEO of blockchain company R3, David Rutter, commented at a London conference last week that “what they did...
3rd consecutive red day
20.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 19 November, 2019 “Things do not change; we change.” - Henry David Thoreau In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Tassat and Blockfills launching a trade-at-settlement product for Bitcoin the FEMA advisory […]
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3rd consecutive red day
20.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 19 November, 2019 “Things do not change; we change.” - Henry David Thoreau In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Tassat and Blockfills launching a trade-at-settlement product for Bitcoin the FEMA advisory […]
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Getting Started with GraphQL
20.11.2019
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...
Real-Time Google Search Results API with serpstack (Sponsored)
19.11.2019
In my early web days, I was interested in scraping and collecting data based on the results of Google searches. Scraping Google was easier in those days but now Google search results are so dynamic that you can’t rely on getting the same HTML or data structure back. Add in CAPTCHAs, rate...
Hello Fenix!
11.11.2019
Over seven years ago I made the massive career leap to Mozilla. Two years ago I realized a dream of joining the Firefox DevTools team — it’s been a rewarding adventure helping to improve the Firefox DevTools Debugger and other super helpful tools. I’m frightened, excited,...
David Marcus Says Calibra Is Considering Audits to Prove Data Protections
7.11.2019
David Marcus said that Facebook and Calibra have built strong protections from one another in regard to personal data sharing, and is seeking an auditor to prove it
Some Things You Oughta Know When Working with Viewport Units
6.11.2019
David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element's height to 100vh in mobile browsers and then also positioning something on the bottom of that.
Summarized in this graphic:
The trouble is that Chrome isn't taking the address bar (browser chrome) into account when...
JavaScript waitForTime
6.11.2019
I write a lot of tests for new features within Firefox DevTools. We have hundreds of “mochitests” which open the browser and perform synthetic actions like clicking, typing, and other user actions. I’ve previously written about waitForever which essentially halts following actions...
Simple Scraping API with zenscrape (Sponsored)
5.11.2019
So many developers believe that scraping a URL’s content is easy — just a simple curl and you’re done, right? Nope. CAPTCHAs, rate limitations, origin-specific limitations — they make getting content off the web a nightmare. Luckily we now have services like zenscrape which...
5 Easy Ways to Earn Cryptocurrency
4.11.2019
The days of individuals mining popular cryptocurrencies are over. The amount of time and energy required to mine bitcoin is immense and you’d be competing with business with massive mining farms. What you can do, however, is chip away at earning cryptocurrency via a few simple tasks that...
Billion Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit Continues as Craig Wright Breaks Settlement
3.11.2019
In early September, the high-profile court case Kleiman v. Wright looked as though it was coming to an end as the two parties reached a non-binding settlement. Then on October 30, without much notice, Wright explained that he couldn’t finance the settlement and the agreement was broken....
Libra Chief David Marcus Opens Up About Libra’s Potential to Outperform Other Anti Money Laundering Systems
30.10.2019
David Marcus, the spearhead of Facebook’s Libra Project bragged about the social media giant’s highly anticipated stablecoin and its potential to curb money laundering practices in the best possible way in comparison to the current payments systems. The Libra chief shared his views on...
‘Clicks and Bricks’ Strategy to Drive Korean Users to Terra’s Blockchain
29.10.2019
Terra Blockchain's CHAI dapp is rolling out a back-to-basics "clicks and bricks" growth strategy to boost retail adoption in South Korea
Calibra Head David Marcus Touts Libra’s Money Laundering Standards
29.10.2019
Calibra wallet head David Marcus says that Libra’s anti-money laundering compliance will be better than many alternatives
David Těšínský: Marihuanu na Jamajce kouří úplně všichni. Přesto je tam nelegální
29.10.2019
David Těšínský: Marihuanu na Jamajce kouří úplně všichni. Přesto je tam nelegální
What to Expect When Facebook’s Zuckerberg Defends Libra on Capitol Hill
23.10.2019
Here's what you need to know before Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of the House Financial Services Committee on Libra