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Circle to Close Its Payment App, Focus on New Financial Products
13.6.2019
Circle is shutting down Circle Pay, a fiat money sending service with a social messaging component
Buy From Home Depot and Walmart With Bitcoin Cash Through Alagoria
12.6.2019
Ordering from large retailers doesn’t necessarily have to involve fiat money, even when these merchants have yet to adopt crypto payments. A platform called Alagoria lets you buy items sold by Home Depot and Walmart and you can pay with decentralized currencies such as bitcoin cash. Also...
Nash Prepares To Launch Beta Versions Of its Decentralized Exchange and Mobile Products
12.6.2019
After the relative success of their Chrome extension, Nash is getting ready to unveil their exchange and mobile products
CME’s Bitcoin Futures Hit New Records
11.6.2019
Ever since the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) announced it was ending its bitcoin futures products back in March, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has seen a huge influx of bitcoin derivatives volumes. During the second week of May, CME’s bitcoin futures touched a milestone...
Bitcoin People Directory Lists Crypto-Friendly Merchants
11.6.2019
The number of businesses accepting cryptocurrencies for goods and services has been growing, particularly for P2P coins such as bitcoin cash. Finding places where you can spend your digital cash is easy thanks to platforms such as Bitcoin People. Also read: How to Buy a Cryptocurrency Hardware...
Material Theming: Making Material Your Own!
3.6.2019
The web is a beautiful, expressive medium that’s evolved over time as trends and technology have changed. Moments of delight and flair are what set companies apart from one another. At the same time, today’s top products rely on scalable, component-based design systems to efficiently develop...
The Growing Demand For Chocolates-Producers In A Fix To Meet The Market Needs
28.5.2019
The largest producers of the cocoa bean, Malaysia and Indonesia are forced to import more from South America and Africa to meet the growing demand for chocolates in the Asian countries. Peter Jasman, the chairman of Indonesia’s Cocoa Industry Association, mentions that top producers, like...
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...
Elipay Celebrates the First of 100s of Crypto-Accepting Merchants in Croatia
21.5.2019
On May 20, Eligma showed off its Elipay service, a crypto payment processing system that allows people to pay for products and services with cryptocurrencies at over 300 retailers in the region. The grand opening of Elipay’s Croatian launch started with the first transaction made...
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Eyes Blockchain-Based Products, Needs Regulatory Clarity
21.5.2019
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange wants to introduce blockchain-based products, but needs regulatory clarity according to an executive
American Consumers Feel The Heat Of Trade War, Walmart Raises Prices
17.5.2019
Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese products attracted a retaliatory tariff hike by China on American products. The latest victim of this trade war is the average American consumer as Walmart in a statement said that it would increase prices on the items that are imported from China....
Crypto Platform Says It Launches Two Products to Challenge Banks and Empower Customers
17.5.2019
A crypto platform says it is launching new features and adding a broader range of tokens, with the aim of giving its user base greater financial empowerment #SPONSORED
A New Crypto ETF Has Just Been Filed With the U.S. SEC
10.5.2019
A prospectus for a new bitcoin and ether-based exchange-traded fund has just been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Currently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grisby
3.5.2019
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business case for using them them, too. But perhaps you might be thinking that a PWA isn’t necessary...
Use Artificial Intelligence to Suggest 1-5 Star Ratings
25.4.2019
A handful of products rely on reviews and star-ratings for product feedback. When customers are impressed or dissatisfied about our product, they come back to where it was purchased looking for a w
TheWestTour: Ice, Products, and 2G
26.3.2019
“Do people speak English in Africa?”, “Do high school students have access to smartphones and computers?” These series of challenging questions made me know I was amongst the right crowd and the lo
Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio Code
19.2.2019
TypeScript and Visual Studio Code are two amazing products created by Microsoft, and - surprise surprise- they work amazing together! Let's take a look at how Visual Studio Code makes it a breeze t
Overstock Venture Chief Expects Market for Blockchain Products in 2019
13.12.2018
Overstock's blockchain arm, Medici Ventures, has big plans for 2019, as the e-commerce giant moves towards a February sale
The All Powerful Front-End Developer
5.12.2018
I posted a video of this talk some months back, but it was nearly an hour and a half long. Here's an updated version that I gave at JAMstack_conf that's only 30 minutes:
The gist is that the front-end stack is wildly powerful these days. Our front-end skillset can be expanded to give us power...
Sometimes `sizes` is quite important.
27.7.2018
Paraphrased question from email:
I just read your article Responsive Images: If you’re just changing resolutions, use srcset. In the age of "responsive websites," srcset does not help in certain situations. For example, I have a popular products slider. On mobile, I have one image per slide where...