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Lumi Wallet Web Widget: Cryptocurrency Exchange on Your Website
7.8.2020
Good news for those who want to upgrade their website with functional tools and features – on August 5st, Lumi Wallet Technologies launched its app web widget. Now everyone can easily embed a “mini digital wallet” into the body of their website. The Lumi Wallet Widget is a useful...
The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables
5.8.2020
Lea Verou digging up the CSS trickery classic and applying it to clip the backgrounds of some code blocks:
The main idea is simple: You write your main rule using CSS variables, and then use :nth-of-*() rules to set these variables to something different every N items. If you use enough...
Centralized Money Has ‘Never Been Good’ - US Congressman
4.8.2020
Tom Emmer. Source: Twitter/@MNFarmBureau
US Congressman Tom Emmer caught the attention of many crypto fans when he stated that centralized monetary systems have “never been good, no matter where it’s been tried.”
In a podcast, hosted by co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony Pompliano,...
Teenager, 'Polite' Lad, and 'Very Good Person' - Meet Alleged Twitter Hackers
3.8.2020
From an accused scammer to a "polite" lad, the alleged involvement of some of the young people accused of the major Twitter hack came as a surprise - but not the others.
Three teenagers were accused by the US Department of Justice on Friday in relation to the Twitter hack on July...
A Look at What’s New in Chrome DevTools in 2020
31.7.2020
I’m excited to share some of the newer features in Chrome DevTools with you. There’s a brief introduction below, and then we’ll cover many of the new DevTools features. We’ll also look at what’s happening in some other browsers. I keep up with this stuff, as I create Dev Tips, the largest...
Put to Good Use: Ethereum Racks Up Serious Numbers to Set Benchmarks
26.7.2020
The popularity of DApps, DeFi tokens and their increasing market share of the Ethereum ecosystem as a result of platform’s evolution?
Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
23.7.2020
I’d bet grid-template-columns is used about 10× more than grid-template-rows, but maybe everyone has just been missing out. Eric Meyer chucks a bunch of row lines onto his main site layout grid like this:
grid-template-rows: repeat(7, min-content) 1fr repeat(3, min-content);
That way, if...
Tyler Winklevoss: It’s Good For BTC When The Fed Prints Money
23.7.2020
Bitcoin may ultimately benefit from the U.S. Federal Reserve's actions, says Tyler Winklevoss
Using Flexbox and text ellipsis together
22.7.2020
You can truncate a single line of text with an ellipsis (…) fairly easily with text-overflow and a few friends. But, as you might expect, that truncation happens at the end of the line of text. What if you want to truncate content in the middle?
Leonardo Faria details good use cases for this...
Crypto Long & Short: Why the Twitter Hack Was Good for Bitcoin (and It’s Not the Media Attention)
19.7.2020
Yes, the Twitter hack was basically a giant bitcoin scam. But the fallout is showing the world the strengths of cryptocurrency and decentralization
Money Reimagined: This Isn’t Good for Bitcoin
17.7.2020
This week's Twitter hack won't make it easier for the crypto industry to win friends in Washington D.C., with possible implications for DeFi and more. How we talk about events like this matters
Backdrop Filter effect with CSS
16.7.2020
I love these little posts where some tricky-looking design is solved by a single line of CSS using a little-known property. In this case, the design is a frosted glass effect and the CSS property is backdrop-filter.
The approach? Easy peasy:
.container {
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
}
The...
One Millionaire Really Is Giving Away Bitcoin — But Is That a Good Thing?
15.7.2020
Bill Pulte has been giving away thousands in cash, crypto, and cars for months now, but he could be inadvertently helping scammers
Easy Stock Market Quotes with marketstack (Sponsored)
12.7.2020
The stock market is wild right now, at least in the United States. Between pandemic, political events, and everything else going on, the stock market is one swing after another. There are a host of services that give you stock quotes but I don’t trust them; I feel like they delay information...
A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
8.7.2020
Julia Evans:
I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transition.
An awful lot of the JavaScript on sites (that aren’t otherwise entirely constructed from JavaScript) is click the thing...
Bad & Good News For Binance, Unstoppable Chat + More News
7.7.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
Binance has been told to cease offering crypto derivatives trading in Brazil. Per an official release, the nation’s Securities...
Posters! (for CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid)
6.7.2020
Any time I chat with a fellow web person and CSS-Tricks comes up in conversation, there is a good chance they’ll say: oh yeah, that guide on CSS flexbox, I use that all the time!
Indeed that page, and it’s cousin the CSS grid guide, are among our top trafficked pages. I try to take...
Modern Monetary Theory Is Too Good To Be True
3.7.2020
The Australian government is planning to spend AUD 190 billion (USD 132 billion) to support the economy in response to COVID-19, according to the latest Parliamentary Budget Office estimate.
The total impact of COVID-19 on the government’s net debt, including both revenue impacts (down, because...
Fluid Images in a Variable Proportion Layout
3.7.2020
Creating fluid images when they stand alone in a layout is easy enough nowadays. However, with more sophisticated interfaces we often have to place images inside responsive elements, like this card:
For now, let’s say this image is not semantic content, but only decoration. That’s...
Some Performance Links
3.7.2020
Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.
Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer
Puppeteer is an Node library for spinning up a copy of Chrome “headlessly” (i.e. no UI) and controlling it. People use it...