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Crypto Wallet: Its Requirements, Mechanism, and Everything You Need to Know
19.4.2020
Basically, a software program, a cryptocurrency wallet, is a secure digital wallet that stores public and private keys. It enables users to store, send, and receive digital currencies and monitor their balance. How Does It Work? Crypto wallets do not store currency, unlike traditional fiat wallets....
Harsh Stablecoin Recommendations From G-20 Are a Step in the Right Direction, but Regulators Need More Education
17.4.2020
Regulations can help not only legitimize stablecoins but also increase their global popularity, as per many experts
Akon on Africa and Akoin — ‘This Is Bulls**t: We Need Our Own Currency’
16.4.2020
A pocketful of Senegal’s currency proved worthless in France: and inspired one of the world’s agents of ‘change’ to take the problem of money in Africa into his own hands
No-Class CSS Frameworks
13.4.2020
I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No <h2 class="is-title">. You just use semantic HTML and get styles. Is that going to “scale” very far? Probably not, but it sure is handy for styling things quickly, where — of course...
Crypto Markets Don't Need Ambulance Chasers to Mature
12.4.2020
11 lawsuits are targeting major crypto companies: Will they help to bring the crypto sector any closer to legal compliance?
Non-Stimulus Tax Rules You’ll Need This Year
10.4.2020
The IRS has already started crucial initiatives to fight against the COVID-19 crisis, but will they benefit taxpayers?
CSS-Only Marquee Effect
5.4.2020
You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
You’ll probably want to aria-hidden all but one of them if you need to duplicate the text. Or, you could use a very clever CSS trick...
Rethinking Code Comments
2.4.2020
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by default and require a click to reveal:
What a neat idea! Justin’s design reminds me of the way that Instapaper treated inline...
An Annotated Docker Config for Front-End Web Development
2.4.2020
Andrew Welch sings the praises of using Docker containers for local dev environments:
Here are the advantages of Docker for me:
• Each application has exactly the environment it needs to run, including specific versions of any of the plumbing needed to get it to work (PHP, MySQL...
Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator Director on What DLT Startups Need to Succeed
1.4.2020
In an interview with Cointelegraph, the director of UC Berkeley’s blockchain incubator shared her advice for early stage DLT companies
The Need to Report Carbon Emissions Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
30.3.2020
Modern digital companies require more and more energy, which contributes to the global rise of carbon emissions
4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs
30.3.2020
CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout examples. What we’re going to do here is a reverse approach to show you the smallest possible set of grid properties you need to know to meet...
Emergency Website Kit
27.3.2020
Here’s an outstanding idea from Max Böck. He’s created a boilerplate project for building websites that fit within a single HTTP request. This is extremely important for websites that contain critical information for public safety. As Max writes:
In cases of emergency, many organizations need...
5 Essential git Commands and Utilities
26.3.2020
For many of us, git and GitHub play a huge role in our development workflows. Whenever we have a tool that we need to use often, the more fine-tuned we can make that tool, the faster we can get things done. The following are five git commands or helpers that can make your developer life...
10 Loan Providers Taking Crypto as Collateral, If You Think the Time Is Right for Hodling
21.3.2020
If you are not ready to part with decentralized money, at a time when prices are relatively low, but need some fiat cash to cover costs in times of crisis, crypto-backed loans are a working solution. A number of platforms offer this type of service and their popularity is growing among...
A Few Background Patterns Sites
18.3.2020
If I need a quick background pattern to spruce something up, I often think of the CSS3 Patterns Gallery. Some of those are pretty intense but remember they are easily editable because they are just CSS. That means you could take these bold zags and chill them out.
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My usual...
How to Simulate Long HTTP Requests
17.3.2020
It happens less frequently these days but there are times when we need to accommodate for a HTTP request timing out. The service could be down, under heavy traffic, or just poorly coded, or any host of other issues. Whenever I need to simulate a long HTTP request, I use a bit of PHP...
WooCommerce 4.0 & WooCommerce Payments Beta
17.3.2020
Y'all know WooCommerce: it's a plugin for WordPress that adds robust eCommerce functionality to your site. Notably, like WordPress itself, it's open-source and free. You only pay for things if you need things like special plugins that extend functionality.
This is a huge month for WooCommerce!...
Bitcoin Will Need to Rebuild Confidence, Says Novogratz and Gives an Advice
17.3.2020
Mike Novogratz. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, ConsenSysMedia
Although the recent crypto market sell-off may have been bad for those who bought at high levels, and may even scare off new potential investors, it certainly isn’t game over for crypto as an asset class, according to Mike...
Need Self-regulatory Code of Practice, but Exchanges Busy in USDT Manipulation: Crypto Kanoon
17.3.2020
One of the biggest crypto influencers in India, the pseudonymous Crypto Kanoon tweeted on Tuesday that after the industry won the battle against the RBI on March 04, there was a need for self-regulatory code of practice. However, he said, the exchanges were busy in customer acquisition strategies...