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Market Update: Global Economy Jolts Bitcoin, Overall Crypto Cap Loses $50B
12.3.2020
Cryptocurrency markets are feeling a lot of pressure on Thursday, March 12, as the entire cryptoconomy has lost over $50 billion during the last three days. Digital asset prices dropped to the lowest levels since May 2019. Moreover, on five derivatives exchanges, more than $2.2 billion leveraged...
Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations
12.3.2020
We are always looking to make the web more accessible. Color contrast is just math, so Sass can help cover edge cases that designers might have missed.
The post Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations appeared first on CSS-Tricks
Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
12.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption? (Coming soon)
How do new algorithms help? (Coming soon)
In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of a series where we explain how...
WazirX Brings INR Deposits Back, More and More Tokens to Be Made Available Soon
12.3.2020
India’s leading crypto exchange WazirX announced that INR deposits are back on the platform. To celebrate the comeback, the exchange is giving away 135 WRX tokens, to 3 lucky winners. The announcement was made via a tweet on Thursday. ⚡️ INR deposits & withdrawals are back on WazirX ⚡️...
Panic Attack: Bitcoin Crashes to USD 6,000, Altcoins Bleed More
12.3.2020
The downturn in the crypto market just accelerated.
As of press time on Thursday (10:50 UTC), bitcoin traded at USD 6,000, down more than 15% over the past 24 hours. The move occurred amidst erratic trading in digital assets, with price reaching as low as the USD 5,500 level before recovering.
The...
The FATF Recommendations on Privacy Coins: Why Private People, Businesses and Governments Should Care
12.3.2020
Over the past few months, private crypto assets, commonly known as privacy coins, have been under pressure due toContinue Reading
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As NY Fed Promises More Cash, What Will Christine Lagarde Do?
11.3.2020
Bitcoin prices slid for a fifth straight day, but the bigger news is what the NY Fed and Christine Lagarde's ECB do next
Careful with Nested `display: grid; height: 100%;`
11.3.2020
It's not every day you can feel CSS be slow at something. Reddit user jgbbrd discovered nesting grid containers that all have 100% height can cause many-seconds of rendering delay. Probably not something you'll ever have to worry about, but still, interesting. From the comments:
What a funny...
2 Japanese Business Giants to Offer Crypto Margin Trading + More News
11.3.2020
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Exchanges news
SBI VC Trade, the crypto exchange run by the Japanese financial giant SBI, will follow...
Crypto Scams Pose More Risk Than Payments Fraud, Report Suggests
11.3.2020
Cryptocurrency scams in 2019 were more risky for U.S. residents than fraud involving romance or payments, says the Better Business Bureau
How to Make a Line Chart With CSS
11.3.2020
Line,  bar, and pie charts are the bread and butter of dashboards and are the basic components of any data visualization toolkit. Sure, you can use SVG or a JavaScript chart library like Chart.js or a complex tool like D3 to create those charts, but what if you don't want to load yet another...
Sass !default and themeable design systems
11.3.2020
This is a great blog post from Brad Frost where he walks us through an interesting example. Let’s say we’re making a theme and we have some Sass like this:
.c-text-input {
background-color: $form-background-color;
padding: 10px
}
If the $form-background-color variable isn’t defined then...
Fluid Width Video
11.3.2020
IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web, ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video. There are lots of ways in which video can be displayed on your site. You might be self-hosting the video and presenting it via the HTML5 <video tag. You might...
How to Pay With Crypto on Amazon Marketplace
11.3.2020
Amazon dominates the world of e-commerce. Once nothing more than an online bookstore, Amazon has grown into a titan ofContinue Reading
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Europe’s New AML Rules Made Crypto More Attractive to Institutions, Says Boerse Stuttgart Exec
10.3.2020
Europe's fifth anti-money laundering directive seems to have increased institutional interest in crypto, says Ulli Spankowski, Boerse Stuttgart's chief digital officer
The 35 Most Influential Bitcoiners Dominating Crypto Twitter by Follower Count
10.3.2020
Twitter has become home to cryptocurrency influencers who use it for evangelism, spreading news, shilling coins, and shaming certain projects. Of course, the more followers a crypto thought leader has on Twitter, the greater their reach and influence. The following is a look at the top crypto...
Block Links Are a Pain (and Maybe Just a Bad Idea)
10.3.2020
As we noted in our complete guide, you can put an <a href=""> link around whatever chunks of HTML you like. Let's call that a "block link." Like you are wanting to link up an entire "Card" of content because it makes a big clickable target.
<a href="/article/"<!-- display: block;...
USD Coin and Tether Issuers Expand Their Services + More News
10.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Stablecoins news
Major crypto financial services firm behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, Circle, has released a new set...
Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
10.3.2020
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I've always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases where both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) are used. That said, I’ve learned a few things along the...
Make Yourself a Little API With Netlify Functions
10.3.2020
Here's an example of a nice little use case for cloud functions. Glitch has this great package of friendly words. Say you wanted to randomly generate "happy-elephant" or "walking-tree", and you need to do that on your website in JavaScript. Well, this package is pretty big (~200 KB), necessarily...