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Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
7.11.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout:
Assuming all of your customers...
7 Conclusions About the Bitcoin Reformation + 15 More Crypto News
7.11.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.
Adoption news
The Bitcoin ecosystem is maturing in all aspects of its economy, in particular in deposit banking, insurance...
Query JSON documents in the Terminal with GROQ
7.11.2019
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) is a query language (like SQL, but different) which...
Optimizing Images for Users with Slow Network Speeds
7.11.2019
For every website, page load time is a critical factor that can make or break the business. Thanks to the better user experience that comes with a fast-loading webpage, those who focus on page load optimization enjoy better conversion rates, better SEO, better retention, and lower bounce rates.
And...
Zcash Trademark Talks Were About More Than a Logo
7.11.2019
Can an altcoin outgrow its founders? A new agreement between Electric Coin Company and the Zcash Foundation could be a good first step
BTC Miners: No More Basement Rigs, Greater Profits to Come
7.11.2019
As Bitcoin firms add to their arsenal, it seems there’s no stopping the BTC mining industry. But is it still profitable in 2019?
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...
Ethereum Bitcoin bridge
6.11.2019
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What is super() in JavaScript?
6.11.2019
What's happening when you see some JavaScript that calls super()?.In a child class, you use super() to call its parent’s constructor and super.<methodName> to access its parent’s methods. This article will assume at least a little familiarity with the concepts of constructors and child...
Netlify CMS Open Authoring
6.11.2019
I like the term "Git-backed CMS." That term works for an emerging style of CMS that looks and behaves much like any other CMS, with a fascinating twist: it doesn't actually store any data for you. These CMSs are connected to a Git repo where the data lives in flat files (e.g. Markdown). You teach...
China's Digital Fiat to Substitute Paper Money + 12 More Crypto News
6.11.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.
Digital fiats news
China's digital fiat, the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), is designed to substitute existing...
Show Search Button when Search Field is Non-Empty
5.11.2019
I think the :placeholder-shown selector is tremendously cool. It allows you to select the placeholder of an input (<input placeholder="...">) when that placeholder is present. Meaning, the input does not yet have any value. You might think input[value] could do that, or help match on...
Facebook’s Calibra Exec: Libra Is More Like Email Than PayPal
5.11.2019
Libra is an interoperable protocol like email, not a payment service like PayPal, Calibra’s VP of product says
Making a Chart? Try Using Mobx State Tree to Power the Data
5.11.2019
Who loves charts? Everyone, right? There are lots of ways to create them, including a number of libraries. There’s D3.js, Chart.js, amCharts, Highcharts, and Chartist, to name only a few of many, many options.
But we don’t necessary need a chart library to create charts. Take Mobx-state-tree (MST)...
Cryptocurrency Tokens Will Make Online Gambling More Transparent
5.11.2019
The adage “The House always wins” is traditionally used for casinos to suggest that games are rigged to favor the casinos over the players. With the advent of online gambling, the odds have evened out a little bit, but still, the adage is fairly applicable as no one knows how the software running...
Competition Among Ripple, Visa and IBM Heats Up + 16 More Crypto News
5.11.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.
Adoption news
Ripple, Visa and IBM are driving blockchain innovation in cross-border payments, a new study by digital commerce...
Roger Ver Says Bitcoin Cash may be Worth 99,900% More 'Some Day'
5.11.2019
Roger Ver. Roger Ver, the main proponent of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) says he is giving what one day he finds will be worth USD 5,000 in BCH – 99,900% more than its current worth.
On November 4th, Ver came to his Facebook friends with a proposal. Wanting to spread the adoption of BCH, Ver says, he decided...
Stellar Price Skyrockets by More than 19% As its Supply Shrinks by Half
5.11.2019
Yesterday, Stellar Lumens managed to break out from the bearish impact as its price jumped with a hefty boost before closing the day. The sudden and substantial price rise took the coin above $0.081 within an hour only. Notably, exactly before an hour of this price shoot-up, the Stellar Development...
Bitcoin Ban Means India Will Get More Corrupt Under Modi — Tim Draper
5.11.2019
India “going back to old ways” with crypto ban, says Draper
Float Element in the Middle of a Paragraph
4.11.2019
Say you want to have an image (or any other element) visually float left into a paragraph of text. But like... in the middle of the paragraph, not right at the top. It's doable, but it's certainly in the realm of CSS trickery!
One thing you can do is slap the image right in the middle of...