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Application-Specific Links
31.8.2021
You know like https:? That’s a URL Scheme. You’re probably familiar with the concept, thanks to others that come up in front-end development, like mailto:. You can actually make your own, which is pretty cool. There …
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CSS Pseudo Commas
30.8.2021
A bonafide CSS trick if there ever was one! @ShadowShahriar created a CodePen demo that uses pseudo-elements to place commas between list items that are displayed inline, and the result is a natural-looking complete sentence with proper punctuation.
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Crypto Assets: Securities or Commodities? Commissioner Explains How They Are Regulated in US
30.8.2021
A commissioner with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has detailed how crypto assets are regulated in the U.S. and whether they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “There has often been a grossly inaccurate...
24 Hour Double-Digit Crypto Gainers: Ecash Jumps 40%, Tezos Spikes 16%, Arweave Gains 12%
29.8.2021
During the last week, a large quantity of popular crypto assets have consolidated and have even seen some slight losses during the last seven days. However, there’s a slew of crypto coins that have seen significant double-digit gains during the last 24 hours. Ecash, Tezos, Arweave, Bitcoin...
Lukashenko Urges Belarusians to Mine Cryptocurrency Rather Than Pick Strawberries Abroad
29.8.2021
President Alexander Lukashenko has advised workers to stay in their home country instead of emigrating to fill low-paid farming jobs in Poland and Germany. The Belarusian leader pointed to an alternative source of income, noting there’s enough electricity in Belarus to power cryptocurrency...
Developers and Designers Work on a Single Source of Truth with UXPin
27.8.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
There is a conversation that has been percolating for as long as I’ve been in the web design and development industry. It’s centered around the conflict between design tools and development tools. The final …
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AVAX Climbed the Mountain Tops: Is There an Avalanche Coming?
26.8.2021
Avalanche (AVAX) is an open-source platform that supports decentralized applications development in a highly scalable ecosystem. It is among the very first crypto tokens that worked on smart contracts. Avalanche (AVAX) follows a sub-sampled voting protocol that mandates a voting pattern from...
The Zort Platform and Its Native ZORT Coin Look to Revolutionize Crypto Investing
26.8.2021
Right now, there’s renewed global interest in cryptocurrencies as investment vehicles. That has a lot to do with the lengthy bull run the market has seen of late. And the addition of multiple DeFi investing platforms over the past year has helped, too. But for all of the attention...
Detecting Media Query Support in CSS and JavaScript
23.8.2021
You can’t just do @media (prefers-reduced-data: no-preference) alone because, as Kilian Valkhof says:
[…] that would be false if either there was no support (since the browser wouldn’t understand the media query) or if it was supported but the
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“Disambiguating Tailwind”
20.8.2021
I appreciated this bit of nuance from a post on Viget’s blog:
There could be a whole article written about the many flavours of Tailwind, but broadly speaking those flavours are:
1. Stock tailwind, ie. no changes to the
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Seriously, There’s A Frogger Game Show Now?
20.8.2021
Frogger, the 1981 arcade game about one amphibian’s quest to shed light on the insidious evils of the automotive industry, is getting an obstacle-course game show adaptation. NBCUniversal will start airing episodes on its Peacock streaming platform next month, and just released an initial trailer...
Epic Store Adds Self-Publishing, And There’s Still A Loophole For Porn
18.8.2021
Today Epic Games announced its own self-publishing program which enters closed beta. The program will allow developers to publish games on the Epic Store without the assistance of Epic employees so long as it meets several requirements, such as not being porn.Read more
DX, to Whom?
17.8.2021
Dave points to Sarah’s post on Developer Experience (DX) at Netlify. Part of what Sarah did there is lay out what the role means. It’s a three-part thing:
Integrations Engineering (e.g. features)
Developer Experience Engineering (e.g. building integrations
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President of Argentina Open to Adopting Cryptocurrencies as Legal Tender
16.8.2021
Alberto Fernandez, the president of Argentina, stated he is open to the adoption of cryptocurrencies as legal tender in an interview this week. Fernandez said there is a big discussion around the value and use of cryptocurrencies not only in Argentina but also all over the world. However,...
Does Jack Dorsey Support Voluntaryism? Twitter CEO Shares Murray Rothbard’s Book ‘Anatomy of the State’
14.8.2021
Ever since the CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, started appreciating the crypto asset bitcoin, crypto enthusiasts have been following his coattails. However, there are very mixed views about Dorsey because while some people adore him, others are skeptical of his goals as his firm has been...
Coinbase Aims to Be the ‘Amazon’ of Crypto, CEO Says Exchange Wants to List All Legal Crypto Assets
13.8.2021
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase says that it wants to be “the Amazon of assets” and list every legal crypto asset out there. The company has outlined two major long-term trends affecting its business. Coinbase Wants to List All Legal Cryptocurrencies Coinbase revealed...
These 3 metrics suggest there’s still time for another ‘DeFi Summer’
12.8.2021
Soaring token values, a steady inflow of new users and a TVL approaching all-time highs are all signs that the DeFi sector is heating up
Using Web Components in WordPress is Easier Than You Think
12.8.2021
Now that we’ve seen that web components and interactive web components are both easier than you think, let’s take a look at adding them to a content management system, namely WordPress.
There are three major ways we can add them. …
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LoFi-DeFi Fair Launch Is Set to Smash Records
11.8.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The last two weeks saw decentralized finance cryptocurrency startup LOFI-DEFI gain intense social adoption for what is positioned to be the biggest fair launch in DeFi history. Tens of thousands of investors have gathered in its combined international Telegram communities to await...
Wanna see a whiter white?
11.8.2021
Heck of a CSS trick here from Dongsung Kim.
There are hidden HDR videos playing at the corners of this page. When a HDR-capable browser encounters one, it switches to HDR mode. For some reason, CSS backdrop-filter + brightness >100%
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