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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...
Cool Little CSS Grid Tricks for Your Blog
10.6.2020
I discovered CSS about a decade ago while trying to modify the look of a blog I had created. Pretty soon, I was able to code cool things with more mathematical and, therefore, easier-to-understand features like transforms. However, other areas of CSS, such as layout, have remained a constant source...
Analyzing Notion app performance
8.6.2020
Here’s a fantastic case study where Ivan Akulov looks at the rather popular writing app Notion and how the team might improve the performance in a variety of ways; through code splitting, removing unused vendor code, module concatenation, and deferring JavaScript execution. Not so long ago, we made...
Riots and Rising Fundamentals: 5 Things to Watch for Bitcoin This Week
8.6.2020
Strange macro uptrends coincide with middling price action for Bitcoin, but eyes are on $8,000, not $10,000 so far
3 Things Every Crypto Investor Should Know About Trading Bitcoin Futures
7.6.2020
Crypto exchanges are offering more futures and options instruments for investors, but it's crucial to be aware of funding and other fees
The Best Design System Tool is Slack
4.6.2020
There’s a series questions I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. The questions have to do with how design systems work: Where should we document things? Do we make a separate app? Do we use a third-party tool to document our components? How should that tie into Figma or Sketch?...
Behind the Source: Cassie Evans
3.6.2020
I feel like the tech industry takes itself far too seriously sometimes. I get frustrated by all the posturing and gatekeeping – “You’re not a real developer unless you use x framework”, “CSS isn’t a real programming language”.
I think this kind of rhetoric often puts new developers off,...
10 Things to Know Before Buying Your First Bitcoin
1.6.2020
Bitcoin is more prominent than ever. Since its inception in 2009, the cryptocurrency has exploded in popularity, becoming something ofContinue Reading
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Stocks, Safe Havens and Hodlers — 5 Things to Eye in Bitcoin This Week
1.6.2020
Wobbly stocks and oil contrast with booming gold to provide potential upside for Bitcoin, but fundamentals still need to pick up
PureCSS Gaze
28.5.2020
Diana Smith with another mind-bending all HTML & CSS painting.
I love that these occupy a special place on the “Should I draw this in CSS?” curve. Things like simple shapes are definitely on the “yes” side of the curve. Then there’s a large valley where things...
A Guide to the Responsive Images Syntax in HTML
27.5.2020
This guide is about the HTML syntax for responsive images (and a little bit of CSS for good measure). We'll go over srcset and , plus a whole bunch of things to consider to help you get the best performance and design control from your images.
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Look to Design, Not Laws, to Protect Privacy in the Surveillance Age
26.5.2020
In the smart home era, we need to take privacy protection into our own hands, says the co-founder of IoTeX. Privacy laws won't help us
Devising the Cloak of Invisibility in JavaScript
25.5.2020
Steganography. The art of hiding something right under your nose. For as long as humans have been alive, we’ve been trying to hide things — whether it’s our last slice of pizza or the location of a buried treasure. Do you remember the cool invisible lemon ink trick, where we’d write the secret...