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Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
16.5.2019
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts.
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Crypto Spring Brings Strong Profits to Next-Generation and Older Mining Rigs
16.5.2019
Over the last few weeks, cryptocurrency markets have been on a tear accumulating considerable gains following the notorious ‘crypto winter.’ Since the recent price hike this spring, mining digital assets with next-generation miners has allowed participants to secure significant gains...
A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames
15.5.2019
Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they're placed way below the fold.
What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? Lazy-loading...
Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum (ETH) Strong Enough To Withstand Uncle Rates, Gas Generation Strong
15.5.2019
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, posted the current uncle rate vs gas generation analysis on Twitter. He went on to claim that stale blocks per new block infused have come down by five times since inception. Latest Ethereum uncle rate vs gas regression: Uncle rate = 0.033 + 0.0065...
10 Days of React Challenges (Beginner): Show an Alert Based on an Input
10.5.2019
Events make the core of interactivity in JavaScript, from listening to form inputs, scroll events to button clicks. The knowledge of handling events in JavaScript is essential.
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10 React Challenges (Beginner): Show an Alert Based on an Input
10.5.2019
Events make the core of interactivity in JavaScript, from listening to form inputs, scroll events to button clicks. The knowledge of handling events in JavaScript is essential.
CodeP
10 Days of React Challenges (Beginner): Adding Calculator
10.5.2019
Storing data in a front-end application and reusing the stored data throughout the application or app component, is an essential piece of modern front-end applications.
CodePen Final
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Adding Calculator
10.5.2019
Storing data in a front-end application and reusing the stored data throughout the application or app component, is an essential piece of modern front-end applications.
CodePen Final
Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Analysis: Strong Market Sentiments & Community Support Is The USP, Buy For A Good Long Term Return
10.5.2019
The current Dogecoin Vs. USD price is at $0.002500, with a return on investment of 347.49%. Charity named ‘Dogecoin Socks for The Homeless’ is doing great in keeping the crypto in the news. Dogecoin (DOGE) was launched as a cryptocurrency that can be given as incentives for sharing content...
Crypto Adoption Strong in Venezuela Despite Political Chaos
10.5.2019
The political tension in Venezuela has affected local cryptocurrency adoption. While there are roadblocks, many crypto-advocating projects continue to thrive in the country. News.Bitcoin.com takes a deep look at the current situation in Venezuela, crypto adoption efforts and how the recent...
A Few Functional Uses for Intersection Observer to Know When an Element is in View
8.5.2019
You might not know this, but JavaScript has stealthily accumulated quite a number of observers in recent times, and Intersection Observer is a part of that arsenal. Observers are objects that spot something in real-time — like birdwatchers going to their favorite place to sit and wait for the birds...
Microsoft Announces a New "Windows Terminal"
6.5.2019
I am a big fan of Windows (shame shame shame). I’m usually the only Surface in a sea of MacBooks. I love both platforms and work on both. My kitchen laptop is a 2015 MacBook and I’
Currently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grisby
3.5.2019
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business case for using them them, too. But perhaps you might be thinking that a PWA isn’t necessary...
Easily Turn Your Photos into Vectors with Photo Vectorizer
2.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Photo Vectorizer is a simple-to-use Photoshop action that can convert any photo into a vector. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can save tons of time and frustration by turning your photos into vectors. With super sharp results, these vectors are great for...
Netlify Functions for Sending Emails
23.4.2019
Let's say you're rocking a JAMstack-style site (no server-side languages in use), but you want to do something rather dynamic like send an email. Not a problem! That's the whole point of JAMstack. It's not just static hosting. It's that plus doing anything else you wanna do through JavaScript...
Inclusively Hidden
19.4.2019
Scott O'Hara recently published "Inclusively Hidden," a nice walkthrough of the different ways to hide things on the web. Nothing is ever cut and dry when it comes to the web! What complicates this is that hidden begs the question: hidden for whom? Different answers to that have different...
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...
The Power of Named Transitions in Vue
16.4.2019
Vue offers several ways to control how an element or component visually appears when inserted into the DOM. Examples can be fading in, sliding in, or other visual effects. Almost all of this functionality is based around a single component: the transition component.
A simple example of this is with...
The Best React Extension for VS Code
10.4.2019
When working with React, there's lots of code that gets repeated over and over....and over and over again. Eventually, you start to think, "there's got to be a better way". Don't w
Using a Mixin to Take the Math out of Responsive Font Sizes
9.4.2019
Responsive Font Size (RFS) is an engine that automatically calculates and updates the font-size property on elements based on the dimensions of the browser viewport.
If you’re thinking that sounds familiar, that’s because there is a slew of tools out there that offer various approaches for fluid...