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DeFi may not be like the ICO boom, but is that a good thing?
22.9.2020
Cameron Winklevoss and Tone Vays disagree on the quality of the DeFi space within the context of previous blockchain booms and busts
Two US Regulators Have Good News For Stablecoins
22.9.2020
After several years of operating in a regulatory grey area, US national banks and federal savings associations are now officially permitted to engage with fiat-backed stablecoins, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has clarified. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
18.9.2020
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason:
Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority...
MicroStrategy makes good on promise to buy another 17K Bitcoin
15.9.2020
MicroStrategy is competing with Grayscale in Bitcoin acquisition race according to Barry Silbert
MicroStrategy and Willy Woo Have Good News For Bitcoin Bulls
15.9.2020
Just as a major US-based giant announced that it might further increase its already large exposure to bitcoin (BTC), popular crypto analyst Willy Woo shared three new charts, which all painted a bullish picture for the number one cryptocurrency.
According to a filing with the US Securities...
Is Being the ‘Saudi Arabia of Money’ Good for America?
13.9.2020
A reading of “How to Diagnose Your Own Dutch Disease,” a look at the problems of America’s dollar trade
Good for Bitcoin? US Senate rejects stimulus without $1,200 checks
11.9.2020
The Senate rejected a skinny $500 billion stimulus package, but for Bitcoin and stocks, it could be a good thing in the medium term
Jetpack 8.9: Take Donations, Capture Email Subscribers, AMP integration, and More
8.9.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Jetpack 8.9 shipped on September 1 and it shows why the plugin continues to be the premier way to take a WordPress site from good to holy smokes! Several new features are packed into the release, but a few really stand out.
Take donations with a new block
The first...
DeFi’s Good, Bad and Ugly
8.9.2020
Have we forgotten the ICO craze and how long it took to revitalize the crypto industry's image?
Nvidia teases a massively improved RTX 3080, but will it be good for mining?
3.9.2020
The performance gains probably won’t be enough to overcome Nvidia’s mining disadvantage
Not good for Bitcoin: US dollar is rebounding from multi-year support
3.9.2020
The U.S. dollar has rebounded from a crucial multi-year support area and the price of Bitcoin and gold are simultaneously rejecting
Ground Rules for Web Animations
31.8.2020
Animations can make a site stand out. Or, they can just as easily kill the experience. When working with web animations, there are a few things that could go wrong like adding animations that serve no purpose, setting durations that are  too long or too quick, or not using right type...
Deeper DX
27.8.2020
Shawn Wang thinks there are deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable, places to go with developer experience (DX) beyond the surface-level stuff that we recently covered. Sure, sure, documentation, CLIs, good demos. But there are much harder questions to answer that are part of the real DX. Shawn lists...
Why you should hire a front-end developer
26.8.2020
Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…
“A front-end developer is the best person to champion accessibility best practices in product teams.”
“80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end.”
“A front-end developer takes pressure...
Morphing SVG With react-spring
26.8.2020
I’ve been intrigued by the morphing effect ever since I was a little kid. There’s something about a shape-shifting animation that always captures my attention. The first time I saw morphing left me wondering “ Wow, how did they do that?” Since then, I’ve created demos and written an article about...
Bitcoin Drop Squeezes Out Weak Derivatives Positions – And That May Be a Good Thing
26.8.2020
Bitcoin’s latest price drop may have a silver lining
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...
Novogratz Says Biden and Harris Good for Country, Bad for Markets
15.8.2020
The upcoming election is a big deal for financial markets
Good Stablecoin Rules in the EU Pave the Way for CBDCs and a Digital Euro
15.8.2020
In the EU, getting laws right on Libra could be the best way to speed up a digital euro from the European Central Bank
That’s Just How I Scroll
14.8.2020
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that’s a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple with your client about “the fold” or whatever, but I don’t think anyone is confused at what a scrollbar is or what...