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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

20.4.2020
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to

Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast

31.1.2020
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort...

Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL

6.12.2019
As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL. Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...

Getting Started with GraphQL

20.11.2019
GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...

A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer

28.10.2019
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...

Bitcoin’s Big Price Drop Is the Latest in a Long History of Flash Crashes

28.6.2019
On Wednesday, June 26, the price of BTC came close to reaching $14K. One hour later, it had dropped by close to 18%. Such events are known as a flash crash, a moment in time where a rapid-sell off happens and often times a few exchanges become inoperable. Over the last few years, especially when...

Coming Next: Bitcoin Correction and Best Buying Opportunity Since 2015

26.5.2019
___ Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Bitcoin surged to a 2019 high of USD 8,373 on May 16. And on that same...

Brontosaurovi potvrdili jméno až v roce 2015. Práskal ocasem jako bičem

4.5.2019
Brontosaurus, tedy v doslovném překladu „hřmotný ještěr“, patří k nejznámějším a nejpopulárnějším dinosaurům vůbec. Celosvětově je sice populárnější mnohem mladší teropodní dinosaurus tyrannosaurus, například u nás se mu však brontosaurus minimálně vyrovnává. Další články k tématu:Jak se největší...

Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query

30.4.2019
Two years ago, I wrote about prefers-reduced-motion, a media query introduced into Safari 10.1 to help people with vestibular and seizure disorders use the web. The article provided some background about the media query, why it was needed, and how to work with it to avoid creating...

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