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How Building in the Open Can Change Our Industry
21.11.2019
I have to admit, I'm a developer who hasn't built a website. When I first read Chris's question, I sat in silence for at least a minute. Which technical topic did I want to discuss? A new library, programming language or best practice? Nothing, in particular, came to mind. Is that because I'm a...
Embracing the Universal Web
21.11.2019
There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it's still rooted in the limitations...
Devs Reveal BCH Cashchannels and Simple Escrow Contracts
20.11.2019
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters have been introduced to two new concepts that allow people to leverage the BCH network in a variety of innovative ways. On November 15, former Bitpay developer Jason Dreyzehner revealed his recurring payments system for BCH called Cashchannels. A few days later,...
The Typed Object Model
20.11.2019
I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). If you haven't come across it yet you would be forgiven as it's pretty new. It falls under the CSS Houdini suite of API's and on the surface...
No, Absolutely Not
19.11.2019
I think the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer isn't in their understanding or familiarity with a particular tech stack, toolchain, or whether they can write flawless code. Instead, it all comes down to this: how they push back against bad ideas.
What I've learned this year...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
TRON Starts Registration Process for the Sun Network Developer Challenge
15.11.2019
TRON has kickstarted the registration process for its highly anticipated project, the SUN Network Developer Challenge. The decentralized platform has urged developers, tech enthusiasts, entities, and organizations exploring the blockchain space to come and participate in the challenge, which...
Developer Demos Smart Card That Produces Bitcoin Cash Signatures
13.11.2019
Software engineer Tobias Ruck has revealed a project he’s been working on that allows a smart card to produce valid BCH signatures. Ruck tweeted about his experiment to the crypto community and Bitcoin Cash proponents showed their excitement about the future of offline payments. Also read:...
Huobi Chain Blockchain Completes Planned Open Source Developer Rollout
12.11.2019
Huobi public blockchain project completes open-source move
The Importance of Supporting a Robust Developer Ecosystem
12.11.2019
How blockchain development communities cultivate the healthy growth of an open-source software platform. View from inside
Ethereum Istanbul Hard Fork Release Date Confirmed By Core Developer
8.11.2019
The Ethereum network’s forthcoming Istanbul hard fork will take place on Dec. 4, according to core developer
What is super() in JavaScript?
6.11.2019
What's happening when you see some JavaScript that calls super()?.In a child class, you use super() to call its parent’s constructor and super.<methodName> to access its parent’s methods. This article will assume at least a little familiarity with the concepts of constructors and child...
Become a Front-End Master in 2020 With These 10 Project Ideas
1.11.2019
This is a little updated cross-post from a quickie article I wrote on DEV. I'm publishing here 'cuz I'm all IndieWeb like that.
I love this post by Simon Holdorf. He's got some ideas for how to level up your skills as a front-end developer next year. Here they are:
Build a movie search app using...
Limechain’s Developer Product Integrates Etherlime with Chainlink for Rapid DApp Development
25.10.2019
Blockchain-based solutions provider Limechain has launched a developer product, “Etherlime Chainlink Shape,” that combines Etherlime and Chainlink to reduce the time taken for developing Decentralized Apps (DApps). Etherlime developed by Limechain is an Ethereum development framework based...
What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte
23.10.2019
There’s been a lot of well-deserved hype around Svelte recently, with the project accumulating over 24,000 GitHub stars. Arguably the simplest JavaScript framework out there, Svelte was written by Rich Harris, the developer behind Rollup. There’s a lot to like about Svelte (performance, built-in...
How Cryptocurrency Developers Can Earn Bitcoin Cash With REST APIs
22.10.2019
A recent video by Chris Troutner, Senior Javascript Developer at Bitcoin.com, points out a problem with anti-profit seeking approaches to crypto development, and how devs can incentivize growth and attract business using REST APIs to earn BHC. Without incentives, Troutner notes, many promising...
Bitcoin.com Acquires Japanese Blockchain Developer 03 Labs
22.10.2019
The deal, which closed recently for an undisclosed sum, will see O3 Labs’ eight-person developer team integrate into Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin Cash Roundup: Adoption Stories and New Developments
19.10.2019
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adoption, development, and participation continue to spread as there’s been a myriad of BCH-related announcements in the last few weeks. Moreover, there’s now over 18 million bitcoin cash in circulation and only three million coins left to mine. Also read: Ethereum...
Burj Khalifa Developer Emaar to Launch Tradeable Reward Token EMR
17.10.2019
Developer of the Burj Khalifa Emaar plans to launch its tradeable reward token EMR in 2019, a new report says
Weekly Platform News: CSS column-span Property, ADA applies to Websites, Auto-generated Image Descriptions
17.10.2019
In this week's roundup: multi-column layouts gain wide support, the ADA means more A11y for retailers, and Google is doing something about all the empty image alt attributes in the wild.
The CSS column-span property will soon be widely supported
The CSS column-span property, which has been...