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On-chain metrics indicate Bitcoin miners’ influence on the price is diminishing
4.11.2020
Research suggests that Bitcoin miners are holding less of the asset
GIFS and prefers-reduced-motion
3.11.2020
The <picture> element has a trick it can do where it shows different image formats in different situations. If all you are interested in is formats for the sake of performance, maybe you’d do:
<picture<source srcset="img/waterfall.avif" type="image/avif"<source...
Block Relations Partners with ATARC to Conduct Research
3.11.2020
Technology innovation and blockchain marketing consultancy platform Block Relations announced on Monday that it has partnered with Academic Research Center (ATARC), a collaborative platform for government, academia, and enterprises. In a tweet, Block Relations said that collaboration with ATARC...
Transaction fees, explained
1.11.2020
Why do blockchains need transaction fees — and which networks allow crypto to be transferred less expensively? This explained article takes a look
The CSS Custom Property Toggle Trick
29.10.2020
Back in July 2020, I got an email from James0x57 (I always try to refer to people by their name, but I think I get the sense they prefer to go by screen name) that says:
The entire world of branching conditional logic and bulk feature toggling for custom CSS properties is possible and only exists...
More on content-visibility
28.10.2020
Back in August 2020, when the content-visiblity property in CSS trickled its way into Chrome browsers, Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin wrote about it and we covered it. The weirdest part is that to get the performance value out of it, you pair it with contain-intrinsic-size on these big chunks...
US Bail Funds Are Seeing an Uptick in Cryptocurrency Donations
26.10.2020
The Bail Project, Chicago Community Bond Fund and Nashville Community Bail Fund take cryptocurrency donations not just in BTC, but also ETH and even BAT
CSS in 3D: Learning to Think in Cubes Instead of Boxes
23.10.2020
My path to learning CSS was a little unorthodox. I didn’t start as a front-end developer. I was a Java developer. In fact, my earliest recollections of CSS were picking colors for things in Visual Studio.
It wasn’t until later that I got to tackle and find my love for the front end....
Filecoin Network Upgrade Goes Live, Miners Claim 25% Block Rewards
23.10.2020
The mandatory upgrade is the first post-launch upgrade to the Filecoin network
Smarter Ways to Generate a Deep Nested HTML Structure
21.10.2020
Let’s say we want to have the following HTML structure:
<div class='boo'<div class='boo'<div class='boo'<div class='boo'<div class='boo'</div</div</div</div</div
That’s real a pain to write manually. And the reason why this post was born was being...
The failed promise of Web Components
20.10.2020
Lea has some words:
Perusing the components on webcomponents.org fills me with anxiety, and I’m perfectly comfortable writing JS — I write JS for a living! What hope do those who can’t write JS have? Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of...
Bitcoin genesis block is the ‘New Testament’ of finance
17.10.2020
No need to suffer from centralized systems since the world has been offered its greatest weapon against it: cryptocurrency
People Problems
16.10.2020
Just the other day, Jeremy Keith wrote that problems with performance work isn’t only a matter of optimization and fixing code, but also tackling people problems:
It struck me that there’s a continuum of performance challenges. On one end of the continuum, you’ve got technical issues. These can...
Almost 1M Ether would have been burnt in past year if fee proposal approved
16.10.2020
The long awaited EIP-1559 would have seen almost 1 million ETH burnt in the last 365 days if it had been implemented, but miners are yet to get on board
Full Bleed
15.10.2020
We’ve covered techniques before for when you want a full-width element within a constrained-width column, like an edge-to-edge image within a narrower column of text. There are loads of techniques.
Perhaps my favorite is this little utility class:
.full-width {
width: 100vw;
position:...
Block.one Debuts Big-Business Version of EOSIO Blockchain
15.10.2020
Block.one has released “EOSIO for Business,” an enterprise-focused version of its software
Another ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Block Reward from 2010 Was Caught Waking Up After Ten Years
14.10.2020
Another 2010 block reward was spent on Wednesday morning (ET) adding to the great number of ‘Satoshi era’ or so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ waking up in 2020. The block reward with 50 bitcoins was created on November 11, 2010, and transferred in block 652,669 after ten years....
Netlify Edge Handlers
13.10.2020
Some very cool news from Netlify: Edge Handlers are in Early Access (request it here). I think these couple of lines of code do a great job in explaining what an Edge Handler is:
export function onRequest(event) {
console.log(`Incoming request for ${event.request.url}`);
...
G7 will block Libra launch until regulations in place
12.10.2020
“No global stablecoin project should begin operation until it adequately addresses relevant legal, regulatory, and oversight requirements.”
$12M in ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber
11.10.2020
On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 BTC was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. The massive movement of the decade-old ‘sleeping’ bitcoins was caught...