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Old CSS, new CSS
7.2.2020
I love this post that walks through the development of CSS and HTML — it shows just how far web design has come and how much easier it is for us all now.
Eevee looks at designing websites with tables, the Space Jam website, and how for centuries there was no way to easily inspect changes made to...
French Food Company Looks to IBM’s Blockchain Network for Better Sourcing
6.2.2020
French egg and oil producer, the Avril Group, has joined IBM Food Trust to improve product supply chains
Browser Version Release Spectrum
6.2.2020
Whenever a browser upgrades versions, it's a little marketing event, and rightly so. Looks like for Firefox it's about once a month, Chrome is ~6 weeks, and Safari is once a year.
Chrome 80 just dropped, as they say, and we get a video and blog post. What strikes me about releases like this these...
XMR Continues to Correct Down Today; Yearly Price Chart Looks Optimistic
4.2.2020
Today, XMR has shrugged off the price gains it had managed yesterday. Just like Bitcoin, the coin is yet to find any strong support level to strike a recovery. BTC is trading downwards and may hit the $9200 price mark, while Monero is testing supports near $74. Monero Price Analysis Yesterday,...
Tesla Stock Now Looks Exactly Like Bitcoin at $20K in 2017
4.2.2020
Rampant Tesla stock may soon be in for a Bitcoin-style price retracement like in late 2017, an analyst warns
NetNewsWire and Feedbin
16.1.2020
NetNewsWire is one of the classic RSS apps, debuting in 2002. I was pretty stoked when it went 5.0 and was open-sourced in August 2019! You can snag it right here. (Sorry, Mac only.)
It's super nice, is fast, and looks great. It has just the right features.
But... I thought, at least at first...
Malaysia Looks to Tie Token Offerings to Exchanges
15.1.2020
Malaysia to restrict token offerings to exchanges the day after the US SEC warns against exchange offerings
US Congress Looks at Role of Crypto and Internet in Funding Hate Crimes
15.1.2020
U.S. Congress should not discount the future role of cryptocurrencies in funding acts of domestic extremism, the House Financial Services Committee warns
Snowpack
14.1.2020
Snowpack. Love that name. This is the new thing from the Pika people, who are on to something. It's a bundler alternative, in a sense. It runs over packages you pull from npm to make sure that they are ES module-compatible (native imports).
This is how I digest it. When you write a line of code...
Facebook’s Calibra Looks for Two Marketing Professionals
8.1.2020
Facebook’s Calibra continues expanding the team of professionals working on the project
US State of Virginia Legislature Looks to Blockchain for Elections
6.1.2020
Virginia’s state legislature looks to blockchain technology in a bid to protect voter records and election results
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
6.1.2020
Our own Robin Rendle:
[...] folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything...
New Year, New Job? Let’s Make a Grid-Powered Resume!
1.1.2020
Many popular resume designs are making the most of the available page space by laying sections out in a grid shape. Let’s use CSS Grid to create a layout that looks great when printed and at different screen sizes. That way, we can use the resume online and offline, which might come in handy during...
GoGetSSL
26.12.2019
GoGetSSL is a company that sells SSL certificates. You know, those things that are required to make your site use https://, not http:// which doesn't feel like an optional choice these days with browsers making sites looks scarily insecure without it and search engines telling us is a ranking...
Highlights of the HTTP Archive Web Almanac
23.12.2019
I recently looked at the CSS chapter of the Web Alamanc and had some thoughts. Here, Stefan Judis looks at the whole thing and rounds up the most interesting bits to him. Here are most of them:
20% of sites don't compress their JavaScript.
React is on 5% of sites while jQuery is on 85% of sites....
US SEC Looks to Expand ‘Accredited Investor’ Classification
18.12.2019
U.S. SEC seeks public commentary on expansion of “accredited investor” status to more investors who can prove knowledge
Is HEX a Scam or Just Something that Looks Really, Really Like a Scam?
12.12.2019
Richard Heart. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Richard Heart
"Oh, it looks like a scam, I know that," says Richard Heart, the founder of the controversial new cryptocurrency HEX. Speaking to Tone Vays' Bitcoin Law Review podcast, he admits that, "if you don't look into it, it looks like every...
Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) Momentum Looks Bleak
11.12.2019
Bitcoin Cash is the cryptocurrency that was created by the Fork of Bitcoin; Bitcoin Cash is considered as one of the best Blue Chips of cryptocurrencies. It has a Market Cap of 3.7 Billion and ranks number 5 on CoinMarketCap, just behind BTC, ETH, XRP, and Tether. Bitcoin Cash is traded across...
Ripple’s Revamped Xpring Platform Looks to Boost XRP Development
11.12.2019
Developers using the platform now have a place to manage and monitor transactions
Bitcoin Looks South After Strong Rejection Above $7,600
10.12.2019
Are bitcoin sellers back in control? The cryptocurrency is flashing red after a strong rejection above $7,600