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‘Blockchain Is Really Democratizing a Lot of Things,’ Interview With Marta Piekarska, Director of Hyperledger’s Ecosystem
21.5.2019
“In terms of general blockchain space, I think the biggest challenge today is lack of objective experts.” An interview with Marta Piekarska, director of Hyperledger’s ecosystem
Dutch Bank ABN AMRO Launches Blockchain Inventory Tracking Platform ‘Forcefield’
20.5.2019
Dutch bank ABN AMRO is launching a blockchain-based inventory tracking platform
PR: CoinDeal – Premier League Sponsor Ready for New Challenges in US Market
20.5.2019
Last season in the Premier League brought a huge success for the both teams – Wolves and CoinDeal. The crypto exchange, thanks to this brave marketing step, has guaranteed himself value of £38,091,373 of gross exposure of the brand at the time of broadcasting in the media, gained popularity and...
Bosch on Blockchain and IoT: ‘We Cannot Accept’ Fear as Reaction to Innovation
17.5.2019
Bosch has revealed its ideological view on technologies such as blockchain and IoT, stating that it needs to keep mistrust out of the reaction to new tech
React Starter: Adding Sass to Create React App Applications
17.5.2019
Adding Sass is one of the first things most developers do when starting an application. Writing in plain CSS can be done, but Sas
Using Jetpack to Accelerate WordPress Development
16.5.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
[Geoff:] I've built a fair number of WordPress sites in my day. It's been my go-to since the 2.x-ish days because it works for any site, big or small. That's the sort of solution and flexibility you like to have as a freelancer.
Boy, I wish I had Jetpack available...
Our Value of Money Is Subjective But That Doesn’t Make It Meaningless
14.5.2019
In my last op-ed, I discussed how the value we place on items and goods is subjective based on Carl Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value and how these concepts apply to people’s perception of value with things like fiat, gold, and bitcoin. The post outlined the idea that money cannot...
The Elk Is a Tiny Prototyping Board for Building Blockchain-Connected Devices
14.5.2019
Elk aims to make it easy to connect hardware devices to blockchains and control electronic components or accept payments
Bitcoin History Part 12: When No One Wanted Your BTC
12.5.2019
Today, bitcoin is so precious that its hodlers are prone to locking their keys away inside nuclear bunkers, bank vaults, and military grade hardware wallets. But things weren’t always that way. Back in the early days, bitcoin was deemed so undesirable that you would have struggled to give...
Moving Beyond ‘The Blockchain Is the App’
11.5.2019
Blockchains are useless on their own. For decentralized computing to work, they must intersect with other solutions. writes Intel's Mic Bowman
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXV
10.5.2019
I like to do these little roundups of things going on with myself, this site, and the other sites that are part of the CSS-Tricks family.
I spoke at Smashing Conf San Francisco.
There's a video! I can't embed it here because of privacy settings or something, so here's a link to the Vimeo.
It's...
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...
Getting To Know The MutationObserver API
8.5.2019
MutationObserver watches the DOM, specifically the places you tell it to, like:
document.querySelector('#watch-this');
...and it can tell you (trigger a callback) when stuff happens — like when a child is added, removed, changed, or a number of other things.
I used it just the other day...
10 Awesome Things from MS Build Day 1
7.5.2019
Microsoft Build is packed with gazillion announcements, fun activities, people and it's so much to fit into one article. I won't be doing justice to the event by trying to fit everything that happe
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...
Oh, the Many Ways to Make Triangular Breadcrumb Ribbons!
29.4.2019
Oh, the Many Ways to Make Triangular Breadcrumb Ribbons
Let’s have a look at how we can create a row of links that sorta run into each other with a chevron-like shape and notch on each block like you might see in a hierarchical breadcrumb navigation.
You’ve probably seen this pattern a lot....
Moving from Gulp to Parcel
25.4.2019
Ben Frain just made some notes about the switch from Gulp to Parcel, a relatively new "web application bundler" which, from a quick look at things, is similar to webpack but without all the hassle of setting things up. One of the things I’ve always disliked about webpack is that you kinda have...
Preload, prefetch and other link tags
24.4.2019
Ivan Akulov has collected a whole bunch of information and know-how on making things load a bit more quickly with preload and prefetch. That's great in and of itself, but he also points to something new to me – the as attribute:
<link rel="preload" href="/style.css" as="style"...
Could Grouping HTML Classes Make Them More Readable?
22.4.2019
You can have multiple classes on an HTML element:
<div class="module p-2"></div>
Nothing incorrect or invalid there at all. It has two classes. In CSS, both of these will apply:
.module { }
.p-2 { }
const div...
Inclusively Hidden
19.4.2019
Scott O'Hara recently published "Inclusively Hidden," a nice walkthrough of the different ways to hide things on the web. Nothing is ever cut and dry when it comes to the web! What complicates this is that hidden begs the question: hidden for whom? Different answers to that have different...