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Advice for Writing a Technical Resume
27.4.2020
Marco Rogers asked a very good question on Twitter:
I talk to a lot of people new to tech from non-traditional backgrounds, e.g. bootcamps or self-taught. I'm looking for good information for those people on how to build out a strong resume when they don't have work experience yet. Advice...
Liquidity Crisis: The Fed Is Sending Billions of Emergency Dollars to USD-Dependent Nations
24.4.2020
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. Federal Reserve has created trillions of dollars in order to keep the central bank’s private partners’ liquidity strong during the economic downturn. These moves have caused a number of sound money advocates and economists to explain...
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...
Building a Scalable CSS Architecture With BEM and Utility Classes
21.4.2020
Maintaining a large-scale CSS project is hard. Over the years, we’ve witnessed different approaches aimed at easing the process of writing scalable CSS. In the end, we all try to meet the following two goals:
Efficiency: we want to reduce the time spent thinking about how things should...
The Contrast Triangle
21.4.2020
Chip Cullen:
Let’s say you’re building a site, and you’re working with a designer. They come to you with some solid designs, and you’re ready to go. You’re also a conscientious front end developer and you like to make sure the sites you build are accessible. The designs you’re working from have...
Chainlink Outperforms Top 20 On Strong Volume
14.4.2020
Decentralized oracle service Chainlink (LINK) is once again seeing strong performance in the market, outperforming all other major cryptoassets over the past week on surging trading volumes across exchanges.
With the broader crypto market seeing negative changes over the past seven days the bullish...
Survey Reflects India's Strong Sentiment Towards Crypto Before and After Ban
2.4.2020
Paxful revealed in a survey that the Indian crypto market has kept growing after the RBI’s ban lifted
Bitcoin Enters Historically Strong Quarter With 3% Price Gain
2.4.2020
Bitcoin has kicked off the historically strong second quarter on a positive note – scoring gains overnight despite losses on Wall Street
CMT Digital Head Says BTC Trading Still Strong Despite Global Conditions
2.4.2020
Bitcoin trading has not changed much lately, even amid global coronavirus fears and market uncertainty
Performant Expandable Animations: Building Keyframes on the Fly
1.4.2020
Animations have come a long way, continuously providing developers with better tools. CSS Animations, in particular, have defined the ground floor to solve the majority of uses cases. However, there are some animations that require a little bit more work.
You probably know that animations should...
Max Stoiber’s Strong Opinion About Margins
31.3.2020
Going with that title instead of the classic developer clickbait version Max used. ;)
We should ban margin from our components.
Don’t use margin?! This thing I’ve been doing my entire career and don’t have any particular problems with?!
Well, that’s not exactly Max’s...
XRP Lags Behind Market Despite Strong Weekly Gains
30.3.2020
XRP, the cryptocurrency affiliated with US-based fintech company Ripple, is among just a handful of digital assets that are trading in the red or are unchanged over the past 24 hours, with the broader crypto market recording strong gains during early Monday trading.
Heavy selling Sunday night added...
‘Overwhelming Evidence’ – Prosecutors File Motion to Dismiss Alleged Onecoin Lawyer’s Appeal
27.3.2020
While Onecoin’s crypto queen Ruja Ignatova remains at large, U.S. resident Mark Scott is trying to get his verdict acquitted after being accused of helping Onecoin leaders, including Ignatova, launder money and commit fraud. Also read: ‘What Bitcoin Did’ – Scanning...
Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
26.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption?
How do new algorithms help?
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important than ever to modern...
Get Static
26.3.2020
In this piece, Eric Meyer argues that performance is more important than ever right now — especially for websites that contain critical information for the public:
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to...
Add Beautiful Images with the Unsplash API
26.3.2020
Perhaps you know Unsplash? I'd wager it's the most popular stock photography site out there for two big reasons:
Every photo on there is pretty darn nice
Every photo is entirely free even for commercial use. You don't have to ask permission or even credit it (although that's appreciated).
Here's...
What Does `playsinline` Mean in Web Video?
18.3.2020
I got myself confused about this the other day, went around searching for an answer and came up empty on finding something clear. The answer actually is quite clear and I feel a little silly for not knowing it.
With it in place, like this:
<video src="..." controls playsinline</video
Mobile...
Using the HTML title attribute
15.3.2020
Steve Faulkner:
User groups not well served by use of the title attribute
• Mobile phone users.• Keyboard only users.• Screen magnifier users.• Screen reader users.• Users with fine motor skill impairments.• Users with cognitive impairments.
Sounds like in 2020, the only useful thing the title...
The CSS Podcast
15.3.2020
From Adam and Una at Google, a podcast just about CSS. I believe I'm contractually obliged to link to that! Just one episode out so far, a shorty about the box model.
Last time I wrote up podcasts I like was 8 years ago most of them are dead now, except the biggies like This American Life and...
A Guide to Handling Browser Events
13.3.2020
In this post, Sarah Chima walks us through how we can work with browser events, such as clicking, using JavaScript. There’s a ton of great info in here! If JavaScript isn’t your strong suit, I think this is the best explanation of event handling that I’ve read in quite some time.
When an event...