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The CSS Podcast
15.3.2020
From Adam and Una at Google, a podcast just about CSS. I believe I'm contractually obliged to link to that! Just one episode out so far, a shorty about the box model.
Last time I wrote up podcasts I like was 8 years ago most of them are dead now, except the biggies like This American Life and...
Has Corona Canceled Crypto? 25 Things That Are (and Are Not!) Affected by the Virus
14.3.2020
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe (and no, it’s not related to Corona beer, if you’re oneContinue Reading
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“weeds of specificity”
13.3.2020
Lara Schenck:
[...] with WordPress child themes, you are all but guaranteed to get into the weeds of specificity, hunting around theme stylesheets that you didn’t author, trying to figure out what existing declaration is preventing you from applying a new style, and then figuring out the least...
From Trolls to Hodlers: Highlights From CMC Founder Brandon Chez’s AMA
13.3.2020
Brandon Chez, the founder and CEO of CoinMarketCap, made a rare public-ish appearance online last week (without a mask andContinue Reading
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A Guide to Handling Browser Events
13.3.2020
In this post, Sarah Chima walks us through how we can work with browser events, such as clicking, using JavaScript. There’s a ton of great info in here! If JavaScript isn’t your strong suit, I think this is the best explanation of event handling that I’ve read in quite some time.
When an event...
Proof-of-Stake Founder Sunny King on Tackling Bitcoin's 'Energy Problem'
13.3.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
12.3.2020
Brent Jackson says CSS utility libraries failed somewhat:
Eventually, you'll need to add one-off styles that just aren't covered by the library you're using, and there isn't always a clear way to extend what you're working with. Without a clear way to handle things like this, developers tend...
The FATF Recommendations on Privacy Coins: Why Private People, Businesses and Governments Should Care
12.3.2020
Over the past few months, private crypto assets, commonly known as privacy coins, have been under pressure due toContinue Reading
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Sass !default and themeable design systems
11.3.2020
This is a great blog post from Brad Frost where he walks us through an interesting example. Let’s say we’re making a theme and we have some Sass like this:
.c-text-input {
background-color: $form-background-color;
padding: 10px
}
If the $form-background-color variable isn’t defined then...
How to Pay With Crypto on Amazon Marketplace
11.3.2020
Amazon dominates the world of e-commerce. Once nothing more than an online bookstore, Amazon has grown into a titan ofContinue Reading
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Negative Margins
9.3.2020
PPK digs into the subject, which he found woefully undercovered in web tech documentation. Our entry doesn't mention them at all, which I'll aim to fix.
Agree on this situation:
This is by far the most common use case for negative margins. You give a container a padding so that its contents have...
Tips for Working Remotely and Enjoying It!
9.3.2020
With the coronavirus spreading and employers telling employees work from home if possible, there are scores of people getting their first taste of working remotely. Depending on your experience and discipline levels, this could be a welcomed change or a complete culture shock. The amount of freedom...
"What You Said" (Mar. 9), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
9.3.2020
Hello CoinMarketCap fam! Welcome back to this week’s edition of “What You Said,” where fun polls are conducted for ourContinue Reading
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What to Use Instead of Number Inputs
6.3.2020
You might reach for <input type="number> when you're, you know, trying to collect a number in a form. But it's got all sorts of issues. For one, sometimes what you want kinda looks like a number, but isn't one (like how a credit card number has spaces), because it's really just a string...
From Trolls to Hodlers: Highlights From CMC Founder Brandon Chez’s AMA
6.3.2020
Brandon Chez, the founder and CEO of CoinMarketCap, made a rare public-ish appearance online last week (without a mask andContinue Reading
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Hex Opacity Table
6.3.2020
We’ve used hex colors for years but 8-digit hexadecimal is still relatively new. While rgba is simple to understand, 8-digit hex is more difficult, as you need to provide a hex representation of a numeric value. The following is a hexadecimal chart of opacity! 100 FF 99 FC 98 FA 97 F7 96...
Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
5.3.2020
Some commentary from Zack Bloom on the Cloudflare Blog, looking at requests to CDNJS for versions of jQuery.
What we don’t see is a decline in our old versions which come close to the volume of growth of new versions when they’re released. In fact the release of 3.4.1, as popular as it quickly...
How I think about solving problems
4.3.2020
Nicholas C. Zakas:
Eventually, I settled on a list of questions I would ask myself for each problem as it arose. I found that asking these questions, in order, helped me make the best decision possible:
1) Is this really a problem?2) Does the problem need to be solved?3) Does the problem need...
Crypto Derivatives, A Short Guide to A Growing Trade (pun intended)
4.3.2020
CoinMarketCap has now expanded its listing to include crypto derivative market data. If you are interested to learn more aboutContinue Reading
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