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Bank of England: No Compromise on Our Principles for Any Future CBDC
12.5.2020
The Bank of England will not budge on its design principles for any future CBDC
CSS Animation Timelines: Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
12.5.2020
If you’re going to build a multi-step CSS animation or transition, you have a particular conundrum. The second step needs a delay that is equal to the duration of the first step. And the third step is equal to the duration of the first two steps, plus any delay in between. It gets more...
Former UFC Champion ‘Can't Sit On Sidelines Any Longer’ — Buys Bitcoin
8.5.2020
Eddie Alvarez has been convinced to buy into Bitcoin by fellow former MMA champion Ben Askren, saying that he “can’t sit on the sidelines any longer.”
Telegram Forces US Investors to Take 72% Refund and Exit Gram Token Project
5.5.2020
Telegram is now forcing U.S investors to immediately exit its TON blockchain project by accepting a 72% refund on their original investment. The encrypted messaging platform’s unexpected volte-face also disqualifies American investors from the loan option, which promised a 110% refund either...
A Complete Guide to CSS Functions
4.5.2020
Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.
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A Book Apart Turning 10
30.4.2020
Early congratulations, A Book Apart! That’s a hell of a milestone. I’m quite sure I’ve read more A Book Apart books than any other tech book publisher.
Katel LeDu runs the ship over there, and she’s given me very special pack of discount codes that will get you my book...
Blockchain Technology: Government Use Cases
29.4.2020
A lot has been said about the possibilities of blockchain technology helping governments and people, but are there any realContinue Reading
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Growth at Any Cost: It’s Time for the Current VC Model to Change
25.4.2020
The winds of change are finally coming to the venture capital business model. What exactly has to adapt?
Anyone Can Host a Crypto Exchange – Tim Draper Backed Startup Launches New WordPress Plugin
22.4.2020
There’s a new plugin available that gives people the ability to launch a cryptocurrency exchange on any WordPress-based website. The project called Wpcryptoexchange is a product created by the Tim Draper-backed startup Draper Goren Holm. With the plugin, anyone can launch a digital currency...
How to Add Lunr Search to your Gatsby Website
22.4.2020
The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular.
Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a few)? Chances are that your first contact was a “Wow!” moment — so many things are automatically set up and ready to use. 
There are some...
Can JavaScript Detect the Browser’s Zoom Level?
21.4.2020
No, not really.
My first guess was that this was intentionally not exposed in browsers because browsers intentionally don’t want us fighting it — or making well-intentioned but bad-outcome decisions based on that info. But I don’t see any evidence of that.
StackOverflow answers paint...
$2,000 a Month: US Lawmakers Propose Basic Income for Americans to Cope With Covid-19 Economy
16.4.2020
Democrats from the House of Representatives have introduced legislation that would pay eligible Americans $2,000 a month until U.S. unemployment numbers return to pre-covid-19 levels. Under the proposal, any American citizen 16-years or older making less than $130K per year would receive monthly...
Anyhedge to Launch Blockchain-Enforced Synthetic Derivatives for Bitcoin Cash
2.4.2020
Developers from the organization General Protocols have announced the launch of a synthetic derivatives platform built on Bitcoin Cash. The project Anyhedge aims to be the first decentralized finance (defi) protocol on any branch of Bitcoin and the platform will launch in cooperation with...
An Annotated Docker Config for Front-End Web Development
2.4.2020
Andrew Welch sings the praises of using Docker containers for local dev environments:
Here are the advantages of Docker for me:
• Each application has exactly the environment it needs to run, including specific versions of any of the plumbing needed to get it to work (PHP, MySQL...
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...
SEC Claims Telegram Injunction Applies to ‘Any Person or Entity’
31.3.2020
The SEC describes Telegram’s request as “legally meritless,” arguing that the ruling unambiguously applies to “any person or entity”
Bitcoin Rallied 80% Without Any Gov’t Bailout: Time to Get Bullish?
29.3.2020
Bitcoin rallied 80% without any government intervention so shouldn’t we be bullish on BTC price right now?
$15 Million Bounty on Maduro: US Charges Venezuelan President With Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking
27.3.2020
The U.S. has charged 14 high-ranking officials of the Venezuelan government, including President Nicolas Maduro, with “narco-terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking and other criminal charges.” The U.S. government is offering rewards of up to $15 million for any information leading...
Auto-Growing Inputs & Textareas
25.3.2020
By default, <input> and <textarea> elements don't change size based on the content they contain. In fact, there isn't any simple HTML or CSS way to make them do that. Kinda funny, as that seems like a reasonable use-case. But of course, there are ways, my friend. There are always...
Emojis as Favicons
24.3.2020
Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG <text element and use that as the favicon.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how...