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Qtum Price Analysis: QTUM Although Has Spiked Up But Its Future Looks Gloomy
10.6.2019
Currently, the condition of the crypto sphere is so miserable that hardly any investors or crypto enthusiasts can see any altcoins being able to retain their values towards bullish ranges. QTUM is although appearing to be different as of now but the persistence of its bullish range it’s...
Ethereum Classic Price Analysis: Ethereum Classic Weekly Wrap Up Looks Decent
8.6.2019
Ethereum Classic gears up for technological upgrades on the network ETC coin’s this week’s performance can be called positive Ethereum Classic is planning to implement the technology upgrade in the platform in the next few days, and this may result in better scalability and performance of...
DARPA-Funded Study Looks at How Crypto Chats Spread on Reddit
6.6.2019
A U.S. Department of Energy science lab has been studying how well three popular cryptos performed in Reddit chats. Here's what they found
Bitcoin Price Looks Poised for Pullback But June Could Revive Rally
31.5.2019
Bitcoin is teasing a short-term bearish reversal at the onset of the historically strong month of June
Alibaba to Launch Massive $20 Billion Listing in Hong Kong as It Looks for More Capital
28.5.2019
When it comes to e-commerce companies, then China’s Alibaba is in a league of its own, and after having become the biggest online retailer and tech company in the world’s second largest economy, it is all set to grow further. However, to fuel that growth, the company has now decided to have...
Night Mode with Mix Blend Mode: Difference
27.5.2019
Dark mode designs are all the rage right now but here’s an interesting take: Wei Gao has built a night mode on her own site that uses mix-blend-mode: difference to create an effect that looks like this:
Wei explains how she implemented this technique and the edge cases she encountered along...
Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
17.5.2019
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it,...
CEO of Burger King’s Parent Company Looks for Long Term Growth in China as Slowdown Hits
16.5.2019
China is the world’s second-largest economy and over the past decade, some of the biggest companies in the world have flocked to the nation in order to meet the insatiable demand for all sort of products and fast food was business certainly one of them. Burger King remains one of the best known...
A Better Approach for Using Purgecss with Tailwind
15.5.2019
Greg Kohn looks at how to use Purgecss — a tool that helps remove unused styles — and Tailwind — a utility-based CSS framework — and why we might want to pair these tools together:
Tailwind, by intention, is aiming to equip you with an arsenal of utility classes...
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...
Naming things to improve accessibility
2.5.2019
I like the this wrap-up statement from Hidde de Vries:
In modern browsers, our markup becomes an accessibility tree that ultimately informs what our interface looks like to assistive technologies. It doesn’t matter as much whether you’ve written this markup:
in a .html file
in Twig, Handlebars...
Who Are Design Systems For?
23.4.2019
Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.
A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization's published their design system publicly and I got a slew of DMs, emails, and Slack messages...
Who has the fastest website in F1?
2.4.2019
Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site:
Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less...
How blockchain will disrupt the communication industry
22.3.2019
From the CMC editorial desk: One of the things we’ve always wanted to explore is what mass adoption of blockchain technology looks like. Here we have some examples of how it will change the face of the communication industry in […]
The post How blockchain will disrupt the communication...
The Process of Implementing A UI Design From Scratch
13.3.2019
This is a fantastic post by Ahmad Shadeed. It digs into the practical construction of a header on a website — the kind of work that many of us regularly do. It looks like it's going to be fairly easy to create the header at first, but it starts to get complicated as considerations for screen...
IE10-Compatible Grid Auto-Placement with Flexbox
18.2.2019
If you work on web applications that support older browsers, and have lusted after CSS Grid from the sidelines like I have, I have some good news: I've discovered a clever CSS-only way to use grid auto-placement in IE10+!
Now, it's not actually CSS Grid, but without looking at the code itself,...
Nested Destructuring
25.12.2018
Destructuring in JavaScript can initially feel confusing but the truth is that destructuring can make your code a bit more logical and straight forward. Destructuring does look a bit more complex when you’re looking for a property several objects deep, so let’s have a look at how to...
DRY State Switching With CSS Variables: Fallbacks and Invalid Values
6.12.2018
This is the second post in a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. The first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies. This post...
DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration
5.12.2018
This is the first post of a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. This first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies. The second...
Stuff you can do with CSS pointer events
27.7.2018
Martijn Cuppens (the same fella with the very weird div!) has some more irresistible CSS trickery. Three of the examples are about making a child element trigger an event on a parent element (almost like the magic that is :focus-within).
Here's how I reasoned it out to myself:
You know how if...