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How to Mine Bitcoin in 2020
19.2.2020
Bitcoin mining is a great way to earn cryptocurrency while providing a valuable service to the global network of users. Miners can set up a hardware operation by themselves or join forces with a large venture via cloud mining. If you are looking to enter this field in 2020, here is what you need...
What You Need To Do With Online Gambling Winnings
18.2.2020
Winning big online may seem like a one in a million shot. The truth is, if you play the games right, you can find yourself in a winning streak far beyond what you previously thought attainable. So is the nature of casino games. But what do you do with all that money? You can literally …
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Fed Nominee: Need for a Digital Dollar is an “Extremely Important Discussion”
14.2.2020
Fed Nominee Judy Shelton speaks about the need for a digital dollar at a confirmation hearing in the US Senate
The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries
13.2.2020
This article is full of a bunch of data from Aggelos Arvanitakis. But lemme just focus on his final bit of advice:
Investigate whether a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library can work for your project. Sometimes we tend to prefer writing CSS in JS for the DX (developer experience) it offers, without...
Conservative U.S. Think Tank Denies Need for Federal Digital Currency
12.2.2020
The government should ensure consumers can use the preferred currency instead of launching a digital currency, according to U.S. think tank the Heritage Foundation
Building an Images Gallery using PixiJS and WebGL
12.2.2020
Sometimes, we have to go a little further than HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create the UI we need, and instead use other resources, like SVG, WebGL, canvas and others.
For example, the most amazing effects can be created with WebGL, because...
Bitgo to Offer Regulated Crypto Custody in Switzerland and Germany
12.2.2020
European crypto exchanges, as well as other companies with significant crypto holdings they need to protect, now have another option for cold storing their digital fortune. Bitgo is expanding out of the U.S. and into Europe with two new companies in Switzerland and Germany. Also Read: German...
Facebook, China Light Flame Under Fed: Governor Cites Stablecoins Influencing Digital Dollar Research
9.2.2020
At the recent Symposium for Future Payments held in Stanford, California on February 5, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard stressed the importance of remaining “on the frontier of research and policy development regarding CBDC.” The position seems a contrast to the narrative in 2018...
Why We Need a Federal Privacy Law
8.2.2020
Mutale Nkonde, a Harvard researcher, argues the US should pass a privacy law modeled on California's new CCPA
Custom Styling Form Inputs With Modern CSS Features
7.2.2020
It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and accessible. We don’t even need a single line of JavaScript or extra HTML elements! It’s actually gotten easier lately than it has been in the past. Let’s take a look.
Here’s...
CSS4 is a Bad Idea
5.2.2020
Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:
The reason “CSS3” worked is because it was real. It was the successor to “CSS2.1”. Everything after CSS2.1 was considered to be under the umbrella of “CSS3”.
The gist is that CSS4 isn't real, so won't work, and we don't need it anyway. Perhaps...
Creating an Editable Webpage With Google Spreadsheets and Tabletop.js
5.2.2020
Please raise your hand if you’ve ever faced never-ending content revision requests from your clients. It’s not that the changes themselves are difficult, but wouldn't it be less complicated if clients could just make the revisions themselves? That would save everyone valuable time, and  allow...
Select an Element with a Non-Empty Attribute
5.2.2020
Short answer:
[data-foo]:not([data-foo=""] {
Longer answer (same conclusion, just an explanation on why we might need this):
Say you have an element that you style with a special data-attribute:
<div data-highlight="product"</div
You want to target that element and do special things when...
Iowa Caucus App Fiasco Shows Need for Open Source Transparency
4.2.2020
Iowa's election fiasco shows the risks of relying on centralized, digital systems and software that lacks transparency
Kapitáne, potřebujeme víc klíčových slov
3.2.2020
Překlad textu We need more keywords, captain!, který napsal Brian Goetz na fórum OpenJDK
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
31.1.2020
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight.
Longer thoughts: When you're building a really simple website, you can get away with literally writing raw HTML. It doesn't take long to need a...
“resize: none;” on textareas is bad UX
30.1.2020
Catalin Rosu:
Sometimes you need to type a long reply that consists of many paragraphs and wrapping that text within a tiny textarea box makes it hard to understand and to follow as you type. There were many times when I had to write that text within Notepad++ for example and then just paste...
Free Website Builder + Free CRM + Free Live Chat = Bitrix24
30.1.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
You may know Bitrix24 as the world’s most popular free CRM and sales management system, used by over 6 million businesses. But the free website builder available inside Bitrix24 is worthy of your attention, too.
Why do I need another free website/landing...
How Do You Do max-font-size in CSS?
30.1.2020
CSS doesn't have max-font-size, so if we need something that does something along those lines, we have to get tricky.
Why would you need it at all? Well, font-size itself can be set in dynamic ways. For example, font-size: 10vw;. That's using "viewport units" to size the type, which will...
New Chainalysis Report Sheds Light on Darknet Markets and the Need for Onchain Privacy
29.1.2020
Darknet market activity hit new highs in 2019, as shown in a new report from blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis. Despite concerted attempts from law enforcement (LE) to crack down on darknet markets (DNMs), coupled with several exit scams, crypto inflows and outflows surpassed $800 million last...