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Building Serverless GraphQL API in Node with Express and Netlify
6.7.2020
I’ve always wanted to build an API, but was scared away by just how complicated things looked. I’d read a lot of tutorials that start with “first, install this library and this library and this library” without explaining why that was important. I’m kind of a Luddite when it comes to these...
China Stocks Boom Bullish for Bitcoin? 5 Things to Watch This Week
6.7.2020
A turbulent mixture of macro, coupled with expectations of a big move in Bitcoin, could spell an interesting week for traders and holders alike
Settling down in a Jamstack world
3.7.2020
One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it’s just a philosophy. It’s not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it. To me, the only real requirement is that it’s based on static (CDN-backed) hosting. You can use whatever tooling you like. Those tools, though...
Iota Enters First Phase to Become ‘Fully Decentralized Network’ by 2021
30.6.2020
Iota Foundation expects to remove network Coordinator and become a “fully decentralized network” by Q1 2021
When Sass and New CSS Features Collide
29.6.2020
Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can also end up interacting with preprocessors, like Sass, in funny ways.
So this is going to be a post about the issues I’ve encountered...
Styling Layout Wrappers In CSS
29.6.2020
Two things that strike me often about the web are how many ways there are to go about the same thing and how many considerations go into even the most seemingly simple things.
Working with wrapper elements is definitely on both those lists. Wrappers (or containers or whatever) are so common...
Facebook, IoTeX, R3 Among New Members of Confidential Computing Consortium
29.6.2020
The Confidential Computing Consortium aims to create systems that sequester sensitive data so it can't be exploited by nefarious actors
Bitcoin Miners Done Selling? 5 Things to Know for BTC Price This Week
29.6.2020
A mixed bag of metrics and influences is testing Bitcoin’s resolve this week, with trajectory undecided as $9,000 wavers
Nonfungible Tokens Could Change the Way We Own Things
28.6.2020
With the ongoing digitalization of the world, NFTs may become a very viable solution for tokenizing ownership and property
Binance-Backed Blockchain Auditing Firm Partners With Hyundai Subsidiary to Track Internet of Things Devices
26.6.2020
Auditing firm CertiK is working with Hyundai subsidiary Hdac to record Internet of Things devices on a blockchain
How to Make localStorage Reactive in Vue
24.6.2020
Reactivity is one of Vue’s greatest features. It is also one of the most mysterious if you don’t know what it’s doing behind the scenes. Like, why does it work with objects and arrays and not with other things, like localStorage?
Let’s answer that that question, and while we’re at it, make...
3 Things to Know About BTC Futures and Crypto Exchange Liquidation Engines
22.6.2020
Some Bitcoin derivatives exchanges profit massively from position liquidations but traders can avoid this by actively managing stop-losses
6 Things Jobless Claims Tell Us About the State of the Real Economy
18.6.2020
Persistent unemployment and fears of further layoffs are the real economic counterpoint to the financial market’s unbridled enthusiasm
Building a hexagonal grid using CSS grid
18.6.2020
I think of grids as arrangements of rectangles with vertical and horizontal lines running through. And they are, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still do clever things in how we place things on those grids and what we do with the elements afterwards.
In this demo by Jesse Breneman,...
What is Developer Experience (DX)?
16.6.2020
Developer Experience¹ is a term² that has one somewhat obvious meaning — the experience of developers — but it eludes definition in the sense that people invoke it at different times for different reasons referring to different things. For instance, our own Sarah Drasner’s current job title...
Stocks, Exchanges and COVID-19: 5 Things to Watch in Bitcoin This Week
15.6.2020
Worries over a second wave of coronavirus are driving stocks down, with Bitcoin circling three-week price lows
10 Things We Learned From Our Crypto Titans
14.6.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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Learn Z-Index Using a Visualization Tool
12.6.2020
There are some neat interactive demos in here from Thiru Manikandan. There are a couple of very tricky things with z-index that never fail to confuse. In addition to things like requiring positioning and source order, the trickiest are the stacking contexts and parent/child relationships. z-index...
Live Casinos: Things You Should Know
12.6.2020
The format of live casino has become quite popular of late. It is different from the conventional setting in a way that here action happens on a real-time basis. The excitement and level of adrenaline are quite insane in betting that is done on live casinos. That said, players who are interested...
Eidoo Burns 28 Million $EDO in Preparation for Governance Token Upgrade on June 18th
11.6.2020
Switzerland, 11th June 2020. Swiss-based crypto platform Eidoo has today burned almost one third (1/3rd) of the total supply of utility token $EDO as they prepare for its June 18th token upgrade, in collaboration with sister company Provable Things. In one of the largest-scale token burns in...