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Variable Fonts Link Dump!
21.9.2019
There's been a ton of great stuff flying around about variable fonts lately (our tag has loads of stuff as well). I thought I'd round up all the new stuff I hadn't seen before.
Google fonts has a beta of hosted variable fonts and the announcement demo is on CodePen.
Speaking of Google Fonts...
UX Considerations for Web Sharing
20.9.2019
From trashy clickbait sites to the most august of publications, share buttons have long been ubiquitous across the web. And yet it is arguable that these buttons aren’t needed. All mobile browsers — Firefox, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Opera Mini, UC Browser, Samsung Internet — make it easy to share...
Table with Expando Rows
20.9.2019
"Expando Rows" is a concept where multiple related rows in a <table> are collapsed until you open them. You'd call that "progressive disclosure" in interaction design parlance.
After all these years on CSS-Tricks, I have a little better eye for what the accessibility concerns of...
Coinbase to Experiment With a New Type of Coins + 5 More Crypto News
20.9.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Cryptocurrency exchange news
"To date, we have largely explored support for assets that are already live and available to trade...
XLM Price Reports Escalation of More Than 40% in Last 5 Days
19.9.2019
Stellar is noticed to be organizing Hackathon and workshops around the globe to increase the visibility of XLM in the network. This seems to have an added advantage for the trading price of the coin as well. Considering the fluctuations from the past 5 days, XLM seems to have been gaining attention...
VERDAD is the Most Dangerous Crypto Bill to Face Congress Yet
19.9.2019
The U.S. Congress is considering more than 20 bills on cryptocurrency. One deserves special attention: S.1025, the Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance and Development Act (VERDAD). “Verdad” is Spanish for “truth.” If VERDAD passes, it will be the first time...
Turkey’s National Blockchain Infrastructure Welcomes DLT, Blockchain, BTC, Blockchain-based Gold Trading and Much more!
19.9.2019
Yesterday, during the Strategy 2023 presentation, which took place in Ankara, the Ministry of Industry and Technology shared its blockchain ambition. Soon we may get to see a national blockchain infrastructure in Turkey. Reports say that the country’s government is looking into using...
Weekly Platform News: Emoji String Length, Issues with Rounded Buttons, Bundled Exchanges
19.9.2019
In this week's roundup, the string length of two emojis is not always equal, something to consider before making that rounded button, and we may have a new way to share web apps between devices, even when they are offline.
The JavaScript string length of emoji characters
A single rendered emoji...
Buddy on CSS-Tricks
19.9.2019
Here's a little direct product endorsement for ya: I literally use Buddy for deployment on all my projects.
Buddy isn't just a deployment tool, we'll get to that, but it's something that Buddy does very well and definitely a reason you might look at picking it up yourself if you're looking around...
US SEC Chair: BTC Won’t Be on Major Exchanges Without More Regulation
19.9.2019
U.S. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said that for Bitcoin to be traded on major exchanges it needs stronger regulation
Git Pathspecs and How to Use Them
19.9.2019
When I was looking through the documentation of git commands, I noticed that many of them had an option for <pathspec>. I initially thought that this was just a technical way to say “path,” and assumed that it could only accept directories and filenames. After diving into the rabbit hole...
Automatically compress images on Pull Requests
19.9.2019
Sarah introduced us to GitHub Actions right after it dropped about a year ago. Now they have improved the feature and are touting its CI/CD abilities. Run tests, do deployment, do whatever stuff computers do! It's essentially a YAML file that says run this, then this, then this, etc., with...
DASH Declines by More Than 6% Today, After a Week of Bullish Action
19.9.2019
Dash pairs are live on Coinbase Pro in full-trading mode. Limit, market, and stop orders are also available now. DASH to USD Price Comparison Let’s compare the price of Dash over a period of 25-days. On August 23, it was trading around 94.75 USD. From there, the crypto, today, has declined by...
Russia AGAIN Delays Crypto Decision + 16 More Crypto News
19.9.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
Russia has yet again delayed its decision on forthcoming cryptocurrency legislation. The head of the parliamentary...
Web Developer Search History
18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...
How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage
18.9.2019
Because we know that all people with battery-powered devices are constantly concerned about their battery levels, and that websites are significant consumers of that battery power, we should probably think about this stuff a lot more than we do.
I'd expect the browser itself to be our main ally...
Bitcoin Cash Futures Expected to Open up US Market by Q1 2020
18.9.2019
Futures contracts on bitcoin cash can be available at a CFTC-regulated exchange by the end of this year or the first quarter of 2020. This will allow institutional U.S. investors to trade on a derivative of the cryptocurrency and bring in more trading volume for BCH overall. Also Read: HTC Adds...
A Comparison of Static Form Providers
18.9.2019
Let’s attempt to coin a term here: "Static Form Provider." You bring your HTML <form>, but don’t worry about the back-end processing that makes it work. There are a lot of these services out there!
Static Form Providers do all tasks like validating, storing, sending notifications,...
Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar
18.9.2019
Surprise: scrollbars are complicated, especially cross-browser and cross-platform.
Sometimes they take up space and sometimes they don't. Sometimes that is affected by a setting and sometimes it isn't. Sometimes you can see them and sometimes you can't unless you're actually scrolling. Styling...
Survey: 74% Understand that Crypto is Money + 7 More Crypto Briefs
18.9.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Adoption news
The seventh ING International Survey on new technologies found that general attitudes towards the usefulness...