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MDN on GitHub
14.12.2020
Looks like all the content of MDN is on GitHub now. That’s pretty rad. That’s been the public plan for a while. Chris Mills:
We will be using GitHub’s contribution tools and features, essentially moving MDN from a Wiki model to a pull request (PR) model. This is so much better...
Why I love Tailwind
11.12.2020
Max Stoiber wrote some interesting notes about why he loves Tailwind. (Max created styled-components, so he has some skin in the styling methodology game.) There’s a lot of great history in this post about how Tailwind emerged and became a valuable tool for designers and engineers alike, but...
'Low income' Oyster Protocol founder allegedly has $10M yacht full of gold bars
10.12.2020
The founder of Oyster Protocol has been arrested and charged with operating a multimillion-dollar tax evasion scheme
With Flash Games On The Chopping Block, One Popular Site Turns To Emulation
9.12.2020
Armor Games, one of the largest repositories of Adobe Flash-based games on the internet, is choosing to shift to emulation next year as a way to mitigate Adobe’s planned phasing out of Flash after December 2020.Read more
How do you use a block explorer?
9.12.2020
Learn more about a blockchain’s transparency with a block explorer
Late to Logical
7.12.2020
2020 brought another wave of logical property features to major browsers and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my investment into logical, rather than physical, web styling. I feel like I’ve learned a new way to speak about the box model that results in less written code with more global coverage.
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Web Performance Calendar
7.12.2020
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the mythical “fast” web page:
How you approach measuring a web page’s performance can tell you whether it’s built for speed or whether it feels...
Solana Devs Call ‘All Hands on Deck’ as Unknown Bug Stops Block Production
4.12.2020
Solana, a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain spearhead by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, is "stuck" due to an unknown issue
OMG Rallies as Genesis Block Ventures Acquires OMG Network
4.12.2020
OMG helps speed transactions and lower fees on the Ethereum by handling transactions off-chain
Hong Kong OTC trading firm acquires OMG Network
4.12.2020
Second-layer Ethereum scaling solution OMG Network has been acquired by Hong Kong-based OTC trading firm, Genesis Block
In Echo of Bitcoin’s Genesis, Mining Pool Embeds Reuters Headline on the Blockchain
3.12.2020
Slush Pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain
Painting With the Web
1.12.2020
Matthias Ott, comparing how painter Gerhard Richter paints (do stuff, step back, take a look) to what can be the website building process and what can wreck it:
[…] this reminds me of designing and building for the Web: The unpredictability, the peculiarities of the material,...
Ethereum 2.0’s Beacon Chain Just Launched — in a Very Low-key Way
1.12.2020
When Bitcoin’s genesis block first launched, a profound message was included within. It quoted a headline from The Times ofContinue Reading
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Ethereum 2.0 is go: Genesis block of beacon chain winks into existence
1.12.2020
Ethereum's proof-of-stake transition takes another step towards completion
Crypto Version of ‘Giving Tuesday’ Returns With 10X as Many Charities
1.12.2020
While only 12 non-profits had signed up for the event last year, crypto donations platform The Giving Block said that over 120 such organizations will be taking part in this year
Lots of Ways to Use Math.random() in JavaScript
30.11.2020
Math.random() is an API in JavaScript. It is a function that gives you a random number. The number returned will be between 0 (inclusive, as in, it’s possible for an actual 0 to be returned) and 1 (exclusive, as in, it’s not possible for an actual 1 to be returned).
Math.random(); // returns...
Hash War: Mystery Miner’s Empty Block Attack Makes ABC’s New Blockchain Almost Unusable
28.11.2020
According to various reports, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain has been under ‘attack’ for a number of consecutive days now. The mystery miner has been mining a great number of sequential blocks, but almost all of them have been empty. The miner who calls himself...
Chinese Police Seize $4.2 Billion in Multiple Cryptocurrencies From Plustoken Ponzi Clampdown
27.11.2020
Chinese police have seized more than $4.2 billion worth of crypto assets in its clampdown against the Plustoken Ponzi scheme. According to a court ruling made public on Nov. 26, and shared by The Block, law enforcement confiscated a total of 194,775 bitcoin (BTC), 833,083 ether (ETH), 1.4 million...
New analysis suggests Satoshi Nakamoto was a Londoner
26.11.2020
A new take on an old investigation potentially sheds light on the whereabouts of Satoshi Nakamoto — at least while he was working on Bitcoin
New Research Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived in London Creating Bitcoin
26.11.2020
The hunt for the mysterious Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto continues to this day, as new data-driven research has been recently deployed in order to figure out the creator’s location while he/she or they worked on the network. The researchers analyzed Satoshi’s 539 Bitcointalk...