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How Does VPN Work with BTC Casinos?
21.5.2020
Casinos have always been an extremely popular solution for the people who enjoy gambling, and they’ve been around for centuries now. From the get-go, there were lots of organizations and people who opposed the idea of gambling. Today, many countries completely ban both the physical and virtual...
No, ISIS Does Not Have $300M in a Bitcoin ‘War Chest’
21.5.2020
Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has debunked several high-profile stories about the use of crypto to fund terror groups
CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
15.5.2020
A surprisingly common response when asking people about things they’d fix about anything in CSS, is to improve the handling of viewport units.
One thing that comes up often is how they relate to scrollbars. For example, if an element is sized to 100vw and stretches edge-to-edge, that’s...
Why does writing matter in remote work?
12.5.2020
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they’ll tell you it’s been valuable to them. Maybe it’s opened doors. Maybe it’s got them a job. Maybe it’s got them a conference invite. Maybe they just like the thrill of knowing people have read and responded to...
How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
12.5.2020
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Ultimately the trick boils down to figuring out how far you’ve scrolled on the page and changing the title to show it, like:
document.title = `${percent}% ${post.title}`
Knut’s trick assumes React and installing an additional library. I’m sure...
Market Wrap: Where Does Bitcoin Go After the Halving?
11.5.2020
With the highly anticipated bitcoin halving reducing new mining supply, what are crypto traders thinking about upcoming market behavior?
How Does Halving Work: The Code Behind The Hype
7.5.2020
Did Satoshi Nakamoto make a mistake in the Halving code?
Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus
5.5.2020
Heydon’s <watched-box> is a damn fantastic tool. It’s a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added to the box based on size breakpoints that are calculated with ResizeObserver. It’s like a cleaner version of what Philip...
Creating a Gauge in React
3.5.2020
You should really look at everything Amelia does, but I get extra excited about her interactive blog posts. Her latest about creating a gauge with SVG in React is unreal. Just the stuff about understanding viewBox is amazing and that’s like 10% of it.
Don’t miss her earlier posts like...
Does the Crypto Community Think the Bitcoin Halving is Priced in?
23.4.2020
After several months of halving chatter and anticipation, does Bitcoin's price already reflect the event?
Accessible Font Sizing, Explained
23.4.2020
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an organization that defines standards for web content accessibility, does not specify a minimum font size for the web.
But we know there’s such a thing as text that is too small to be legible, just as text that can be too large to consume. So,...
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...
DeFi Platform Suffers 51% Attack From Its Top Miners — or Does It?
23.4.2020
After fraudulently creating $6.7 million in stablecoins, the attackers failed to liquidate the assets — and now claim the whole thing was a pen test
Coinmama Appoints Unicorn IronSource GM Sagi Bakshi as CEO
21.4.2020
Unicorn startup IronSource’s general manager, Sagi Bakshi, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Coinmama as CEO, saying he believes that the future of money is Bitcoin. Since 2013, Coinmama has been at the forefront of the financial revolution, working to simplify the way the world does crypto....
What Does Grayscale’s GBTC Falling Premium Tell us About Bitcoin Price?
18.4.2020
The premium on Grayscale’s GBTC shares has fallen, what does this say about institutional investor sentiment?
Using CSS to Set Text Inside a Circle
14.4.2020
You want to set some text inside the shape of a circle with HTML and CSS? That’s crazy talk, right?
Not really! Thanks to shape-outside and some pure CSS trickery it is possible to do exactly that.
However, this can be a fiddly layout option. We have to take lots of different things into...
The WebAIM Million—Updated
8.4.2020
This report made a big splash last year. It’s a large chunk of research that shows just how terribly the web does with accessibility. It’s been updated this year and (drumroll…) we got a little worse. I’ll use their blockquote:
The number of errors increased 2.1% between...
CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design
7.4.2020
Ahmad Shadeed digs around the new Facebook’s front-end code.
One that stood out to me:
.element {
inset: 4px 0;
/* Which is equivalent to: top: 4px, bottom: 4px, left: 0, right: 0 */
}
Whaaat? This is the first I’ve heard of the inset property. Ahmad said he saw it working...
Stuck in Self-isolation With Time to Kill? Try Your Luck at a Bitcoin Casino That Does These 4 Things Right
6.4.2020
Since we are forced to remain indoors while the world is fighting an unprecedented crisis, online-based activities seem to be the perfect answer to keep us busy in the meantime. Since they are loosely regulated and adrenaline-pumping, Bitcoin casinos pretty much tick all the boxes in...
Does Blockchain Technology Have a Future in iGaming?
1.4.2020
Blockchain technology hit the mainstream in 2017 when the general public was suddenly made aware of Bitcoin thanks to its rising prices. The main headlines on news websites, front pages of newspapers, and lead stories on the TV news was all about the ever-increasing value of this...