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PureCSS Gaze
28.5.2020
Diana Smith with another mind-bending all HTML & CSS painting.
I love that these occupy a special place on the “Should I draw this in CSS?” curve. Things like simple shapes are definitely on the “yes” side of the curve. Then there’s a large valley where things...
The Expanding Gamut of Color on the Web
27.5.2020
CSS was introduced to the web all the way back in 1996. At the time, most computer monitors were pretty terrible. The colors of CSS — whether defined with the RGB, HSL, or hexadecimal format — catered to the monitors of the time, all within the sRGB colorspace.
Most newer devices have a wide-gamut...
Get Programmatic Control of your Builds with Netlify Build Plugins
27.5.2020
Today at Jamstack_Conf, Netlify announced Build Plugins. What it does is allow you to have particular hooks for events within your build, like when the build starts or ends. What’s nice about them is that they’re just a plain ‘ol JavaScript object, so you can insert some logic...
BitAmp – The Next New Open Source Wallet
26.5.2020
With the recent rise of Bitcoin prices and the Bitcoin halvening, new entrants into the cryptocurrency field may wonder where they can self-custody their Bitcoin in the most secure way. BitAmp’s Emphasis on Privacy and Security The developers behind new entrant Bitamp’s Bitcoin wallet...
The Fastest Google Fonts
22.5.2020
When you use font-display: swap;, which Google Fonts does when you use the default &display=swap part of the URL , you’re already saying, “I’m cool with FOUT,” which is another way of saying web text is displayed right away, and when the web font is ready...
Flexbox-like “just put elements in a row” with CSS grid
21.5.2020
It occurred to me while we were talking about flexbox and gap that one reason we sometimes reach for flexbox is to chuck some boxes in a row and space them out a little.
My brain still reaches for flexbox in that situation, and with gap, it probably will continue to do so. It’s worth noting...
Roll Your Own Comments With Gatsby and FaunaDB
21.5.2020
If you haven’t used Gatsby before have a read about why it’s fast in every way that matters, and if you haven’t used FaunaDB before you’re in for a treat. If you’re looking to make your static sites full blown Jamstack applications this is the back...
Researchers Found a Way to Catch Altcoin Pumpers and Dumpers Early
21.5.2020
While pump and dump groups can't manipulate prices of bitcoin (BTC) or other major cryptoassets, investors in small altcoins have a way to avoid such traps, according to a new research.
“The fundamental idea is to leverage the abnormal growth of so-called market buy orders, buy orders that are used...
Avoid Heavy Babel Transformations by (Sometimes) Not Writing Modern JavaScript
20.5.2020
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much holding us back from really leaning into...
From Cash to Crypto: COVID-19 Is Changing the Way the World Sees Money
18.5.2020
Emerging technologies such as blockchain are driving the world to digitized finances in an effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic
Tackling Authentication With Vue Using RESTful APIs
18.5.2020
Authentication (logging in!) is a crucial part of many websites. Let’s look at how to go about it on a site using Vue, in the same way it can be done with any custom back end. Vue can’t actually do authentication all by itself, —we’ll need another service for that, so we’ll be using another service...
Atari Partnership Paves Way For Token Adoption
14.5.2020
Atari's new partnership sets the stage for builders to incorporate the gaming powerhouse's token
How to Make a Simple CMS With Cloudflare, GitHub Actions and Metalsmith
14.5.2020
Let’s build ourselves a CMS. But rather than build out a UI, we’re going to get that UI for free in the form of GitHub itself! We’ll be leveraging GitHub as the way to manage the content for our static site generator (it could be any static site generator). Here’s the gist of it: GitHub is going...
Asian Countries Leading the Way for FATF Travel Rule
14.5.2020
South Korea and Singapore may have the best regulations around compliance with the Financial Action Task Force guidelines
Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
11.5.2020
This is a hell of a series by Stephanie Eckles. It’s a real pleasure watching CSS evolve and solve problems in clear and elegant ways.
Just today I ran across this little jab at CSS in a StackOverflow answer from 2013.
This particular jab was about CSS lacking a way to pause between...
Only an Hour Way: Cointelegraph Talks Bitcoin Halving, Live
5.5.2020
Cointelegraph hosts a discussion on Bitcoin halving. Join live at 12 PM EST as John Todaro, Alejandro De La Torre and Paolo Ardoino discuss the event
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...
Japan Implements Significant Changes to Cryptocurrency Regulation Today
1.5.2020
Major changes are happening in the cryptocurrency space in Japan as new cryptocurrency regulation enters into force today. Among notable changes are the regulation of crypto custody service providers and crypto derivatives businesses. Japan has 23 regulated crypto exchanges; unregulated platforms...
Bitcoin, Altcoins Facing Hurdles On The Way Up
27.4.2020
This past week, there was a decent upward move in bitcoin price above the USD 7,200 resistance area. BTC/USD even surpassed the USD 7,550 resistance to move into a positive zone. The price is now (08:00 UTC) facing hurdles near USD 7,850 and USD 8,000, and it is likely preparing for the next...
How to Make a CSS-Only Carousel
24.4.2020
We mentioned a way to make a CSS-only carousel in a recent issue of the newsletter and I thought that a more detailed write up would be interesting and capture some of my thoughts on making one.
So, here’s what we’re making today:
There’s no JavaScript here, whatsoever! No jQuery plugins....