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Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE
22.8.2019
Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them. To hide this fact they...
Navbar Nudging on @keyframers
22.8.2019
I got to be the featured guest over on The Keyframers the other day. We looked at a Dribbble shot by Björgvin Pétur Sigurjónsson and then slowly built it, taking some purposeful detours along the way to discuss various tech.
We start by considering doing it entirely in CSS, then go for some light...
Chainlink Price Analysis: With a Decline of More Than 8% Coin Stooped Toward $2 Support Level
22.8.2019
Chainlink recently listed out some key factors on which the team is working. These include more off-chain jobs with adapters/integrations, going live on additional blockchain environments, greater provable security through data & certification, and the last but not the least, stronger...
Palestinian Civilians Are Using Bitcoin More Than Terrorists
22.8.2019
Terrorists are using bitcoin, but they aren't the only ones. Here's the real story about bitcoin usage in Palestine
The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt
21.8.2019
Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with...
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
Other Ways to SPAs
21.8.2019
That rhymed lolz.
I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:
Build a server-rendered site.
Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page...
Getting Netlify Large Media Going
20.8.2019
I just did this the other day so I figured I'd blog it up. There is a thing called Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Here's the entire point of it: it keeps large files out of your repo directly. Say you have 500MB of images on your site and they kinda need to be in the repo so you can work with...
Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis: BCH Maintains the Bullish Run, the Same Trend to Continue for few more Days.
20.8.2019
BCH’s price was at $316.5 on 15-Aug-19 at 00:30 UTC and the movement were bullish has. On the same day at about 06:15 UTC, there was a very sharp fall, and the price fell to an all-time low of $275. Post the said date the coin has slowly started to rise upwards. There were a …
The post...
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
20.8.2019
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider the history of computing, this type of abstraction isn’t...
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
20.8.2019
Milica Mihajlija:
Adding rel=preconnect to a <link> informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you'd like the process to start as soon as possible. Resources will load more quickly because the setup process has already been completed...
As US Expands Subprime Mortgage Program, Is a New Crisis Looming?
19.8.2019
The Federal Housing Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has recently adopted new guidelines widening the scope of condo purchases eligible for lower down payment loans insured by the government. While that could lead to more members of certain social...
World Bank Sells $33.8 Million More of Its Private Ethereum Blockchain Bonds
19.8.2019
The World Bank raised another $33.8 million by issuing bonds on a blockchain, bringing the total to $108 million
Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
19.8.2019
Let's say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something.
You'd probably be tracking the X location of the element, increasing or decreasing it in a time loop and — when the element reached the maximum or minimum value —...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
Bitcoin’s Price is Up More Than $1K Since Bakkt Futures News
19.8.2019
Bitcoin has gained $1,000 since the Bakkt exchange announced it has the green light to offer bitcoin futures, but key resistance still lies ahead
Fidelity’s Charity Arm Has Received Over $100 Million in Crypto Donations
19.8.2019
Fidelity Charitable reported receiving more than $106 million in crypto donations since accepting bitcoin in 2015
Data URIs
18.8.2019
We’re all familiar with traditional URI protocols like https, http, ftp, and file, but data URIs have become a large part of our online strategy. We can use them to display images, the Mac camera and webcams, and more. But what if we simply want to use a data URI to convey basic data? Typing...
Tron Price Analysis: Tron (TRX) Is back to the red zone and seems like it might drop a little more!
18.8.2019
Did you hear? TRON recently acquired 3.5 million accounts in just 417 days! Well, this might be a moment of celebration for TRON community; however, the performance must be improved too! We are hoping that this might happen soon. Finally! ???? https://t.co/yCpwYVNbOh — Justin...