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Stellar Lumens (XLM) Price Analysis: Stellar was Down for Two Hours Over Internal Disputes; Bearish Short-term Outlook Ahead
18.5.2019
Doubts have been raised again over Stellar’s over-centralization. The 2019 prediction price goes with 0.30 USD. Stellar (XLM)- a hard fork of Ripple, has recently been dragged to controversy after it had disagreements with Ripple. This disagreement has made the whole system down for two hours....
Banks Fined $1.2 Billion For Forex Discrepancies, “Long Bitcoin, Short The Bankers” Proven Again
17.5.2019
Famous crypto analyst and news editor Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano tweeted on Monday that multiple banks have been fined for approximately $1.2 billion. The tweet comes after reports surfaced stating that four giant banks, RBS, Barclays, Citigroup, and JPMorgan, have been fined by...
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...
Short Term Price Drops, Sudden Or Otherwise, Are Irrelevant Says John McAfee
15.5.2019
Technology leader and crypto influencer John McAfee tweeted on Monday evening that crypto price fluctuations in the short run are irrelevant. He urged investors to never panic in case of sudden price drops and asked them to check prices every two or three months. Do not, under any crcumstances...
Ripple (XRP) Price Analysis: Jake Canfield Compares Ripple with Falling Knives; Short-term Bull Run is Predicted
11.5.2019
MD- Jake Canfield terms Ripple as Falling Knives. A lot depends on the movement of Bitcoin. Target at $0.35. Jake Canfield warns against buying Ripple for the time being. The next movement will rest at 0.35 USD. A famous cryptoanalyst, co-founder of Signal Profits and former US Army veteran, Jake...
Netlify Dev - The Power of Netlify on Your Local Computer
12.4.2019
Netlify is never short on new and exciting features. At JAMstack Conf in New York City, they lived up to the h
Going Full-Time on Scotch.io After 5 Years!
8.4.2019
This post will be short and sweet. No, I'm not going full-time on drinking some alcohol (part-time on that definitely).
After 5 years of being a side project, Scotch.io will be
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods
26.3.2019
Map, reduce, and filter are three very useful array methods in JavaScript that give developers a ton of power in a short amount of space. Let’s jump right into how you can leverage (and remember how to use!) these super handy methods.
Array.map()
Array.map() updates each individual value in...
Announcing Scotch.io Coding Challenges! Weekly Code Tests and Twitch Live Streams!
22.1.2019
Code Challenges are an awesome way to improve your knowledge of web development, build interesting stuff and have fun at the same time.
The Scotch Code Challenges are weekly, short and fun challeng
New ES2018 Features Every JavaScript Developer Should Know
9.1.2019
The ninth edition of the ECMAScript standard, officially known as ECMAScript 2018 (or ES2018 for short), was released in June 2018. Starting with ES2016, new versions of ECMAScript specifications are released yearly rather than every several years and add fewer features than major editions used...
How to Send an iMessage From Command Line
30.12.2018
As somewhat of a recluse, believe me when I say that text messages, instant messenger, and iMessage have relieved me of loads of anxiety and wasted time with short, meaningless voice chat. It’s been a decade since these communication types have become popular so we’ve moved on from...
The Fragmented, But Evolving State of CSS-in-JS
20.12.2018
TLDR: The CSS-in-JS community has converged on a consistent API.
Not so long ago, a Facebook engineer compiled a list of the available CSS-in-JS methodologies. It wasn’t short:
aphrodite, babel-plugin-css-in-js, babel-plugin-pre-style, bloody-react-styled, classy, csjs, css-constructor, css-light...
Build a Video Chat Service with JavaScript, WebRTC, and Okta
11.4.2018
As recently as seven short years ago, building video applications on the web was a massive pain. Remember the days of using Flash and proprietary codecs (which often required licensing)? Y
A (Short) Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols
4.3.2017
Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is great, but it isn't perfect. This article looks at some of the more viable public blockchain alternatives