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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...
The Government Can’t Stand Decentralized Innovations Like Bitcoin, so It Tries to Ruin Them
10.3.2020
Feeding the homeless, affordable medicine, an easy-to-use gas can design, starting a small business to meet the needs of one’s community — borderless, permissionless P2P electronic payments. These are all simple, practical activities and tools that can be leveraged in decentralized...
I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next
9.3.2020
This talk by Marcin Wichary is — beyond both enthusiastic and outstanding — all about the complexity of UI design, typography, and the lengths his team at Figma has gone to make sure that doing something as simple as selecting a font from a dropdown does what you expect it to.
I’d recommend this...
Lightning Networks Has Yet to Strike Adoption, but Don’t Count It Out
9.3.2020
The Lightning Network was touted as the payment solution to catapult Bitcoin into the realms of mainstream currency. Why hasn’t it happened yet?
Bitcoin Slides Another 10% But Don’t Break Out the $4K Charts Just Yet
8.3.2020
Bitcoin might be dropping this weekend, however mining difficulty is about to set an annual high
Bitcoin Slips Under $9K but Don’t Panic Until This Price Level Breaks
7.3.2020
Bitcoin price loses $9K level in weekend trading
Currying in CSS
6.3.2020
Funny timing on this I was just looking at the website for Utopia (which is a responsive type project which I hate to admit I don't fully understand) and I came across some CSS they show off that looked like this:
:root {
--fluid-max-negative: (1 / var(--fluid-max-ratio)...
Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
5.3.2020
Some commentary from Zack Bloom on the Cloudflare Blog, looking at requests to CDNJS for versions of jQuery.
What we don’t see is a decline in our old versions which come close to the volume of growth of new versions when they’re released. In fact the release of 3.4.1, as popular as it quickly...
How to Set a Default Commit Message
2.3.2020
Having a default commit message is really useful for a number of reasons: It can formalize your commit messages It serves as a good reminder for the information you should add to your commit message, like issue number If you set it to “Drunk AF, don’t accept this” To set a default...
Why is CSS Frustrating?
28.2.2020
Here’s a great thread by Kevin Powell that's making the rounds. He believes so many folks see CSS as a frustrating and annoying language:
That's just as unintuitive as JS starting to count at 0, but since you learned that and accept it, it's fine.
The real issue isn't with CSS. If...
Anthony Pompliano: Don’t Take Tech Advice from Warren Buffett
26.2.2020
Co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital and crypto enthusiast, Anthony Pompliano, defended Bitcoin in an interview with CNN and said that Warren Buffett was not the best person to take technology-related advice from. I spoke to @jchatterleyCNN this AM. Explained why Warren Buffett isn't a great...
Anthony Pompliano: Don’t Take Tech Advice from Warren Buffett
26.2.2020
Co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital and crypto enthusiast, Anthony Pompliano, defended Bitcoin in an interview with CNN and said that Warren Buffett was not the best person to take technology-related advice from. I spoke to @jchatterleyCNN this AM. Explained why Warren Buffett isn't a great...
Finnish Authorities Have $15M in Seized Bitcoin But Don’t Want to Sell It
26.2.2020
The confiscated horde is now worth more than $15 million
Warren Buffett Slates Bitcoin, Denies Owning Crypto Gifted by Justin Sun
24.2.2020
“I don’t have any bitcoin. I don’t own any cryptocurrency, I never will … You can’t do anything with it except sell it to somebody else.” So claimed Warren Buffet in an interview this week on CNBC. Over the course of the two-minute segment, the billionaire...
View Mac Calendar from Command Line
24.2.2020
As someone that loves using UI tools, I do pride myself in learning how to accomplish the same feats from command line. Don’t believe me? Check out my Command Line tutorials section — I guarantee you’ll learn quite a bit. Recently I learned that you can view basic calendars from...
The Internet Is a Luxury Not a Right: 30 Percent of Americans Still Don’t Have it
21.2.2020
Ex-FCC senior staffer Gigi Sohn thinks that broadband connection is a right, not a privilege. But that doesn’t mean that she’s on board with all technological advancements
8 Tips for Getting the Most out of Crypto Telegram
20.2.2020
For news, gossip, FUD, FOMO, charts, bots, and project updates, crypto Telegram is where it’s at. The beating heart of the crypto community resides in Pavel Durov’s encrypted messenger application. Accessing Telegram is easy, but optimizing your experience to get the most out of...
Swiss Savers View Cryptocurrencies as Option, Now That Bank Accounts Don’t Save Them From Inflation
20.2.2020
Cryptocurrencies are gradually becoming a viable alternative for savers in Switzerland, according to a new poll. The Alpine nation’s crypto-friendly business climate and increasing regulatory clarity makes them a relatively easy addition to investors’ portfolios. Many Swiss people...
monica.css
20.2.2020
Monica Dinculescu:
I don’t want every possible padding and margin and colour and flexbox configuration in the world. I just want the ones that I know I end up using in every project. So here is monica.css: my very own CSS framework, which I copy paste at the beginning of every CSS file and take...