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Using CSS Shapes for Interesting User Controls and Navigation
4.8.2021
Straight across or down, that’s the proverbial order for user controls on a screen. Like a list of menu items. But what if we change that to a more fluid layout with bends, curves, and nooks? We can pull it …
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Alchemy Pay and Binance Partner to Drive Binance Pay Merchant Integration
4.8.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore, August 3, 2021 – Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has partnered with crypto-fiat hybrid payment solutions provider Alchemy Pay to build a payment bridge between crypto and fiat through the Binance Pay wallet. Binance Pay is a contactless...
onInput Event
3.8.2021
Coding HTML forms has been painful my entire career. Form controls look different between operating systems and browsers, coding client side and server side validation is a nightmare, and inevitably you forget something somewhere along the line. Some behaviors don’t act the way you’d...
Buda Exchange Starts Requesting Selfie Verification for Withdrawals to New Bitcoin Addresses
2.8.2021
Buda, a Chile-based cryptocurrency exchange, has started requesting selfie verification every time a user needs to withdraw funds to a new bitcoin address. This new measure now introduces a new layer of security for users to avoid getting their accounts hacked, but it will only be mandatory...
Genshin Impact's Official Discord Hit Its Max User Capacity Forcing Devs To Create A Second Server
31.7.2021
I knew Genshin Impact was a popular game. I also knew it had a ton of active and ravenous players who can’t get enough of the free-to-play online RPG. But I had no idea it was so popular that it was pushing Discord to its limits and forcing the devs to start a second server for everyone.Read more
Bitrue Aims to Democratize Token Listing Rights by Opening Voting Power to Users
29.7.2021
Digital asset exchange Bitrue is seeking to engage its user community directly by distributing decision-making power for adding new token projects after the listing team thoroughly vets them. Platform Advancing Further Voting Powers in Future Updates Blockchain’s innate ability...
Small Love Potion (SLP) price doubles as Axie Infinity user growth explodes
12.7.2021
Rapid expansion in the Axie Infinity ecosystem and a parabolic rally from AXS triggered a 100% surge in the price of SLP
93K Users Scammed Into Buying Fake Cryptocurrency Mining Apps
9.7.2021
Thousands of users were scammed into buying fake Android cryptocurrency mining apps, according to a California-based security firm. These apps are advertised as a way of earning money via mining cryptocurrencies, but in actuality they don’t perform any function. Instead, they charge the user...
Musée – the User Owned NFT Marketplace and Gallery
7.7.2021
2021 continues to bear witness to the continual rise in non-fungible token (NFT) prevalence and innovation. Following on from 2020 – where the NFT market was claimed to have tripled in total transaction value – NFT sales in just the first quarter of 2021 reached over a whopping...
Polygon and NFTrade Consolidate to Enhance User Transaction
6.7.2021
The capabilities of NFTrade and Polygon network through consolidation intend to render accelerated exchanges that are cost-friendly. This integrated business goal to enhance trades will be accessible through a comprehensive dual pairing of the stack cover scaling procedure of Polygon. With...
User Reviews Are Still The Best Tool We Have
5.7.2021
It’s an increasingly common refrain: user reviews, particularly on Steam and Metacritic, are increasingly unhelpful. We’ve covered all the facets of review bombing for years, but what’s interesting is that some developers themselves are backing the idea of scrapping user reviews altogether.Read more
Cryptocurrency and the rise of the user-generated brand
3.7.2021
When looking at cryptocurrencies from a marketing perspective, they present a significant paradigm shift in branding
Major Modding Site Pisses Off Tons Of Users, Sparking Revolt
2.7.2021
Nexus Mods, the biggest host of video game modifications in the world, came under fire from mod creators this week over controversial plans to prevent modders from fully deleting any works they upload to the popular mod-hosting network.Read more
Huobi Prohibits Chinese Residents From Leveraging Cryptocurrency Derivatives
28.6.2021
The Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange originally founded in China, Huobi, has officially banned Chinese residents from swapping cryptocurrency derivatives, according to the company’s revised user agreement. China is now listed as prohibited and residents from the country are forbidden...
Crypto Travel Rule Working Group Launches 2.0 Protocol ‘Solving the Discoverability Problem’
26.6.2021
Just before the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published the organization’s 12-month review, a working group called the Travel Rule Protocol (TRP) released its 2.0 version of the TRP crypto application programming interface (API) in order to “simplify the end-user crypto exchange...
How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data
25.6.2021
I recently had to create a widget in React that fetches data from multiple API endpoints. As the user clicks around, new data is fetched and marshalled into the UI. But it caused some problems.
One problem quickly became evident: …
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The True Crime Story Of A GameFAQs User Who Just Wanted More Mountain Dew
24.6.2021
In 2008, GameFAQs user EpitaphILIP had an idea: what if, instead of buying a cup of soda at Taco Bell and merely drinking it, he bought a refillable cup, built a contraption leading from the cup to a container hidden in a messenger bag and proceeded to pour a whole ton of Mountain Dew.Read more
Always Show Arrows for Number Input
21.6.2021
While I enjoy small details that make user interfaces more elegant, I also believe that less is more, especially when it comes to native behavior. One native behavior I dislike is that <input type="number" /> elements only show the increment and decrement arrows when the input is focused....
Indian ‘Crypto King’ Arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau — Wazirx Says Not Our User
19.6.2021
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a Mumbai resident known as “crypto king,” who allegedly used bitcoin to purchase narcotics on the dark web. Indian cryptocurrency exchange Wazirx says the accused is not one of its customers. ‘Crypto King’ Arrested...
Ledger Customers Are Being Mailed Fake Wallets to Steal Their Private Seeds
19.6.2021
Ledger customers are receiving fake wallets by mail to steal their cryptocurrency. A user in Reddit reported receiving a suspicious package that claimed to be mailed by Ledger. The package included a letter stating the user needed to substitute the current wallet for safety reasons. Ledger has been...