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Code blocks, but better
2.6.2021
Pedro Duarte made a wishlist for styled code blocks in blog posts and documentation, then hand-rolls a perfect solution for that wishlist. For example, a feature to be able to highlight certain lines or words within the code block. The …
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Marathon’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Will ‘No Longer Filter Transactions’ — Marapool Begins Signaling for Taproot
1.6.2021
On Monday, the publicly-listed enterprise mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings announced the company has adopted the latest codebase offered by Bitcoin Core developers that features Taproot. Marathon is now signaling for Taproot according to the announcement. The North American bitcoin miner...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Experiences This Year’s Largest Epoch Drop, Global Hashrate Slips Lower
31.5.2021
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped this week at block height 685,440 and saw the largest negative drop of the year losing close to 16%. Overall the global hashrate has dropped around 2% since the price fell below the $40k handle. Currently, the mining difficulty is around 21 trillion, and...
To $ or Not to $: Displaying Terminal Code Snippets
27.5.2021
It’s very popular to put a $ on lines that are intended to be a command in code documentation that involves the terminal (i.e. the command line).
Like this:
$ brew install somepackage
The point of that is that it …
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Chinese Miners Block Mainland IP Access as Beijing’s Purge Intensifies
26.5.2021
China’s struggle with Bitcoin (BTC) miners appears set to rumble on, as two Chinese players moved to restrict access from Mainland Chinese IP addresses – and one of the biggest mining hotspots in the country making ominous statements about mining “shutdowns.”
BitDeer, a mining group established...
Realm Closes $2.25M for Seed Investment to Build NFT Powered Microverses
25.5.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Realm, a new NFT microverse platform, has closed its first investment round at $2.25M led by Alphabit with strategic investments from NGC, Genesis Block Ventures, LD Capital, Moonrock, and SL2 amongst other funds. Realm aims to challenge the current NFT platforms by offering creators...
The importance of block sizes, and the rise of off-chain solutions
25.5.2021
A number of blockchain projects have exploded in popularity in recent months, but their block sizes have stayed the same. What’s the answer to this looming scalability crisis?
H&R Block needs clear regulations before dealing with crypto taxes, CEO says
25.5.2021
Ultimately, crypto taxing could be part of the business, H&R Block CEO Jeff Jones added
proxy-www
24.5.2021
I like a good trick. What if… a URL was… a promise… that fetched said URL?
www.codepen.io.then((response) ={
console.log(response);
});
That’s what @justjavac did with JavaScript Proxys. A clever trick, that. Don’t @ me about the practicality. Trick…
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Contrary to Musk's Idea, You Can't Just Increase Block Size, Says Buterin
24.5.2021
There are limits to blockchain scalability in order to not sacrifice decentralization, according to Ethereum (ETH) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and "you can't "just increase the block size by 10x"," as was Tesla's chief Elon Musk recently shared idea.
While Musk recently tweeted...
Mystery Bitcoin Whale from 2010 Disappears, Dormant Address from 2013 Sees Strange Activity
23.5.2021
Toward the latter half of 2020 and during the first quarter of 2021, a mystery miner spent 200 block rewards from 2010 by transferring 10,000 bitcoin during the year. Since the whale’s last 1,000 bitcoin spend on March 23, the patterns of 20 decade-old strings of coinbase rewards...
CSS Hell
21.5.2021
Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them
From Stefánia Péter.
Clever idea for a site! Some of them are little mind-twisters that could bite you, and some of them are honing in on best practices that …
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Block.one to Make Voice NFT-based Amid Non-Fungibles Market Cool Down
19.5.2021
Dan Larimer, former CTO of Block.one, during the announcement of Voice in June 2019. Block.one, the developer of EOSIO, an open-sourced blockchain software, has decided to close its decentralized social media platform Voice to the public for several months to upgrade it from a fungible to...
The Humble `img` Element And Core Web Vitals
18.5.2021
Addy Osmani on images in HTML:
The humble <img> element has gained some superpowers over the years. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can
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Creating Stylesheet Feature Flags With Sass !default
14.5.2021
!default is a Sass flag that indicates conditional assignment to a variable — it assigns a value only if the variable was previously undefined or null. Consider this code snippet:
$variable: 'test' !default;
To the Sass compiler, this line …
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DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition
14.5.2021
Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools:
Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector
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‘Bullish’ Cryptocurrency Exchange to Launch With Backing of Billionaire Investors, Investment Bank Nomura
12.5.2021
A new cryptocurrency exchange called “Bullish” will be launched this year by Bullish Global, a subsidiary of Block.one. It is backed by a number of prominent investors, including Peter Thiel, Alan Howard, Louis Bacon, Richard Li, Mike Novogratz, Christian Angermayer, and investment bank...
Block.one secures funding for $10B EOS-based crypto exchange platform
11.5.2021
The EOS-based Bullish Global crypto exchange platform is expected to go live later in the year
Block.one Secures USD 10B To Compete With Coinbase, Binance & Co
11.5.2021
A new major player might join the vibrant industry of crypto exchanges, as EOS developer Block.one said it aims to launch a new crypto exchange, Bullish Global (BG), this year after they secured USD 10bn in funding.
BG is the new subsidiary of Block.one that has injected in the company USD 100m...
Topframe
10.5.2021
This is extremely fun. Jeff Lindsay has created Topframe, and writes:
Anybody that knows how to mess around with HTML can now mess around with their desktop computing experience. Topframe is an open source tool that lets you
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