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New Stimulus Checks: Barbara Corcoran Slams Mark Cuban’s Expiry Date Idea, Favors Long-Term Relief
5.10.2020
Famous investor and “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran has criticized Mark Cuban’s “use it or lose it” approach to the second round of stimulus checks for Americans. She also shares her thinking on what’s more important than one-time direct payments. Second...
Kelta Cafes: Building a Robust Workplace for Blockchain Enthusiasts
24.9.2020
Blockchain technology has experienced a lot of growth in the last few years. The immutable peer-to-peer distributed ledger system created by Satoshi Nakamoto was given a little chance to survive at the initial stage. Still, many people are now betting on several blockchain projects. The popularity...
The Empty Box
24.9.2020
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Parity Upgrades Polkadot’s Underlying Tech to Make Custom Blockchain Building Easier
23.9.2020
Polkadot developer Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit Substrate 2.0, including 70 composable modules
This Ethereum Startup Is Building a ‘DeFi Firewall’ for Institutional Investors
23.9.2020
How risky do you like it? Wallet shop Trustology is launching a "DeFi Firewall" to help institutional investors dabble in decentralized finance
Nova
21.9.2020
Nova is a new (vehemently macOS-only) code editor from Panic, the folks behind Coda. It’s like “Coda 3” except this was such a major re-write that they gave it a whole new name.
I played with some of the betas as they were building it. I got a little discount as it went live, so...
Form design
15.9.2020
A very digestable guide from Geri Reid on building forms. Not the code, but the design and UX principles that should guide the code.
Working on a design system for a bank has taught [me] a lot about forms. I’ve watched testing in our labs. I’ve worked alongside experts from specialist...
Read Me!
12.9.2020
A fancy experiential essay from the team at Readymag, which is a tool for building… fancy experiential essays, about fancy experiential essays:
With all the technology addressing readability issues, it’s still design basics that distinguish a readable text from one that isn’t. Here are some...
DistX is Taking the Crypto World by Storm
10.9.2020
After selling out their own token sale in just 57 seconds in late August, DistX have been making headlines and attracting a lot of attention. The reason for the hype? Their unique tokenomics offering some of the most interesting and significant rewards to DISTX token holders. DistX is building...
State of Jamstack 2020: Data Deep Dive
3.9.2020
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The Jamstack, a modern approach to building websites and apps, delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience. But how popular is it among developers worldwide, and what do they love and hate about it?
We at Kentico...
Coinbase Building Platform to Help Crypto Startups Launch Tokens, Raise Cash
1.9.2020
The platform will "hand hold" hopeful crowdfunders through the token issuance, custody, development and governance process, according to CEO Brian Armstrong
Building the blockchain community is essential for further developments
29.8.2020
The power of a strong community in scaling blockchain-based projects should not be understated
Going Jamstack with React, Serverless, and Airtable
27.8.2020
The best way to learn is to build. Let’s learn about this hot new buzzword, Jamstack, by building a site with React, Netlify (Serverless) Functions, and Airtable. One of the ingredients of Jamstack is static hosting, but that doesn’t mean everything on the site has to be static. In fact, we’re...
A Bit on CI/CD
27.8.2020
I’d say “website” fits better than “mobile app” but I like this framing from Max Lynch:
Every production mobile app ultimately has a set of recurring tasks around integration, testing, deployment, and long term maintenance. These tasks often must be automated across...
Akon Joins Presidential Campaign of Bitcoin Entrepreneur Brock Pierce as Chief Strategist
26.8.2020
Akon has joined bitcoin entrepreneur Brock Pierce’s 2020 campaign to become the president of the United States. Akon will serve as the chief strategist for the Pierce campaign while building his “futuristic” Akon City in Senegal, Africa, that will be run on the akoin...
BitGo Weighs Building a Sidechain for WBTC as Ethereum Fees Climb
25.8.2020
Digital asset trust company BitGo is in the process of “reaching out” to community partners to build an Ethereum sidechain because of rising fees, according to CTO Ben Chan
Designing a JavaScript Plugin System
25.8.2020
WordPress has plugins. jQuery has plugins. Gatsby, Eleventy, and Vue do, too.
Plugins are a common feature of libraries and frameworks, and for a good reason: they allow developers to add functionality, in a safe, scalable way. This makes the core project more valuable, and it builds a community...
Where Does Logic Go on Jamstack Sites?
24.8.2020
Here’s something I had to get my head wrapped around when I started building Jamstack sites. There are these different stages your site goes through where you can put logic.
Let’s look at a special example so you can see what I mean. Say you’re making a website for a music venue. The most...
A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Building the Site
20.8.2020
In the last article, we learned what goes into planning for a community-driven site. We saw just how many considerations are needed to start accepting user submissions, using what I learned from my experience building Style Stage as an example.
Now that we’ve covered planning, let’s get to some...
Never Build a CSV Importer Again
20.8.2020
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CSV import as a process is broken. Messy customer data, edge cases, encoding formats, error messages, non-technical users: importing data into applications is a huge pain! Ingesting data has been long neglected as a software product experience, leading to customer...