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Prioritizing
27.5.2019
You're faced with a lot of decisions in everyday work. There are multiple tasks calling for your focus, and you can burn daylight or even burn out trying to decide what comes first. There's a phenomenon called decision fatigue. There have been many studies that you can make poor choices when you're...
Night Mode with Mix Blend Mode: Difference
27.5.2019
Dark mode designs are all the rage right now but here’s an interesting take: Wei Gao has built a night mode on her own site that uses mix-blend-mode: difference to create an effect that looks like this:
Wei explains how she implemented this technique and the edge cases she encountered along...
Hackers Have Looted More Bitcoin Than Satoshi’s Entire Stash
24.5.2019
Ever since cryptocurrencies started gaining value, hackers have targeted exchanges that provide digital asset trading and malicious entities have siphoned billions of dollars worth of bitcoin since 2010. So far, over 1 million of the world’s BTC has been stolen from exchanges and traders...
Code as Documentation: New Strategies with CSS Grid
24.5.2019
I work for Supercool, a fast-moving design agency that makes custom built sites for arts clients, powered by the off-the-shelf system, Craft CMS; it's high-spec graphic design with relatively demanding typography and art direction. Over the past few months we’ve been moving to CSS grid. We’re...
The Power of Serverless v2.0! (Now an Open-Source Gatsby Site Hosted on Netlify)
23.5.2019
I created a website called The Power of Serverless for Front-End Developers over at thepowerofserverless.info a little while back while I was learning about that whole idea. I know a little more now but still have an endless amount to learn. Still, I felt like it was time to revamp that site a bit....
Front-End Documentation, Style Guides and the Rise of MDX
23.5.2019
You can have the best open source project in the world but, if it doesn’t have good documentation, chances are it’ll never take off. In the office, good documentation could save you having to repeatedly answer the same questions. Documentation ensures that people can figure out how things work...
Grayscale Just Brought More Good News For Ethereum Investors
23.5.2019
Grayscale, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency asset management firm, just made another major step towards cryptocurrency adoption. The company announced that shares of its Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) were approved by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for a public trading on OTC Markets.
The...
DATA Ultimatum: CoinMarketCap Requests More Information From Exchanges to Make Market More Transparent
23.5.2019
‘Trust but verify’: All exchanges are required to provide mandatory API data to CoinMarketCap by June 2019 — or get delisted from the service. Will this new scheme cleanse the market from untrustworthy data?
Zuckbucks or Bust: How SEC Rulemaking Hurts Startup Cryptos and Favors Big Tech
23.5.2019
SEC guidance has created a more attractive environment for regulated tech firms like Facebook to offer proprietary cryptoassets integrated into their existing products that can be legally traded on existing crypto-exchanges as non-securities. Meanwhile, the SEC has targeted startup cryptos...
Na dně Středozemního moře roste nový neutrinový teleskop
23.5.2019
Na dně Středozemního moře roste nový neutrinový teleskop
The Browser Can Remember Edited Content
22.5.2019
You can make the text inside any HTML element editable by adding the contenteditable attribute.
<div contenteditable>
Hey, I'm like a textarea kinda now!
</div>
I wouldn't say there are wheelbarrows full of use-cases for that, but it's neat. One possible use might be...
Getting Started with React Testing Library
22.5.2019
I can guess what you are thinking: another React testing library? So many have already been covered here on CSS-Tricks (heck, I’ve already posted one covering Jest and Enzyme) so aren’t there already enough options to go around?
But react-testing-library is not just another testing library. It’s...
$19 Million: Ethereum Foundation to Fund Work on 2.0 Upgrade, Plasma and More
21.5.2019
The Ethereum Foundation issued a blog post today outlining how an estimated $30 million would be spent to further develop the ethereum ecosystem
What Does it Mean to Be “Full Stack”?
21.5.2019
I was asked this recently by a fellow developer who was at the same web tech conference I was at. This developer had met a lot of new people who literally introduced themselves as full-stack developers sort of the way Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration would on The Office, but it was Tony Frank...
How I Use CleanMyMac X
21.5.2019
[Chris]: I'm a lifelong Mac user. Ever since our family upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Apple Macintosh Performa 636 (CD) when I was in middle school, I've never owned or worked on anything other than a Mac. I'm pretty dedicated to running a clean, fast, optimized, safe, and organized machine....
As HSBC Guns for More Market Share, More Tech Jobs To Come Up in China
21.5.2019
HSBC Holdings is one of the largest banking giants in the world and over the course of its history; the bank has always had a strong presence in Asia. However, the lender is not going to rest on its laurels and is looking to further consolidate its presence in the continent by adding as many...
RHOVIT Token is Now Available for Movies, Gameplay, Rewards and Much More!
21.5.2019
Recently, NEM has made an announcement on Twitter about the availability of its platform-based token- RHOVIT. As per the announcement, the users can do so many exciting things with the newly launched token. For instance, the user can watch the latest trailer of movies, can check out gameplay...
Coinbase Expands its Project ‘Earn’ to More Than 100 Countries
21.5.2019
Crypto enthusiasts would already know that the crypto exchange giant, Coinbase had rolled out a project named Coinbase Earn to educate users while earning crypto, in December, last year. Now, the update has come from the exchange itself that Coinbase Earn has reached to more than 100 Countries....
The “Inside” Problem
20.5.2019
So, you're working on a design. You need a full-width container element because the design has a background-color that goes from edge-to-edge horizontally. But the content inside doesn’t necessarily need to be edge-to-edge. You want to:
Limit the width (for large screens)
Pad the edges
Center...
Bitcoin.com’s Market Cap Aggregator Adds More Informative Crypto Data
20.5.2019
A little over a year ago, our web portal launched a new market cap aggregator, Markets.Bitcoin.com, which showcases the top 500 cryptocurrency market valuations. More recently we’ve added some great data to Markets.Bitcoin.com so people can get information on not only the price of their...