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Top Bitcoin Developers Face Off in a Lightning-Powered Boxing Match
11.2.2020
The esports smackdown was meant to highlight the power of bitcoin's lightning network – since the cutting-edge payments system is fast, cheap and lets users send tiny payments, even a fraction of a cent
Collective #575
19.12.2019
The State of JavaScript 2019 * Awesome Design Conferences * RegExp match indices * Steer the Deer * Crater
Collective #575 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles
2.12.2019
Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.
So you do a little research and find...
Dutch Soccer Assn. Trials Blockchain App at EU Championship Qualifying Match
20.11.2019
A blockchain-based app designed to combat ticket fraud was trialed at yesterday’s Netherlands-Estonia European Championship qualifying match
Show Search Button when Search Field is Non-Empty
5.11.2019
I think the :placeholder-shown selector is tremendously cool. It allows you to select the placeholder of an input (<input placeholder="...">) when that placeholder is present. Meaning, the input does not yet have any value. You might think input[value] could do that, or help match on...
Shots Fired as Nancy Pelosi Challenger Bacelar Funds Campaign With Crypto
2.10.2019
27-year-old Agatha Bacelar is a Brazilian-American immigrant from a STEM background, and she’s targeting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the California Congress (CA-12) in the next election cycle. Her campaign is seeking to raise $1 million in crypto (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC...
How Cryptocurrency and Online Casinos are a Match Made in Heaven?
5.9.2019
It wasn’t too long ago that people had to travel miles so they could gamble and play their favorite games. With the advent of the internet, it became possible to play your favorite games from poker to slots from the comfort of your home. Transactions were made online, and you could win money from...
Buy Bitcoin? Trump Says US 'Should Match' China’s Money Printing Game
4.7.2019
Belligerent currency manipulation tweet from Trump bolsters the argument for crypto as a safe haven asset
Grid, content re-ordering and accessibility
13.6.2019
Take this:
<ol>
<li>Get hungry</li>
<li>Order pizza</li>
<li>Eat pizza</li>
</ol>
That HTML ends up in the DOM that way (and thus how it is is exposed to assistive technology), and by default, those list items are also visually...
JavaScript Glossary: String match()
27.3.2019
Basics
This method is a called against a regular expression and returns the matching values in the string. The return value is an array containing the matched values. If no matches are fo
Accessible SVG Icons With Inline Sprites
7.12.2018
This is a great look at accessible SVG markup patterns by Marco Hengstenberg. Here's the ideal example:
<button type="button">
Menu
<svg class="svg-icon"
role="img"
height="10"
width="10"
viewBox="0 0 10 10"
aria-hidden="true"
focusable="false">
...
Nový nástroj zabrání krádežím videí na YouTube, pokus hned nahlásí
12.7.2018
Nejsnadnější cestou, jak do svého YouTube kanálu získat atraktivní video, je ukrást jej od jiného uživatele. Nový nástroj zkontroluje každé uploadované video a informuje toho, kdo jej nahrál jako první
Unused
11.7.2018
I recently wrote Here’s the thing about "unused CSS" tools, where I tried to enumerate all the challenges any tool would have in finding truly "unused" CSS. The overarching idea is that CSS selectors match elements in the DOM, and those elements in the DOM come from all sorts of places: your static...
Vue + TypeScript: A Match Made in Your Code Editor
27.6.2018
Vue is so hot right now and I’ve been thinking of doing a serious project with it since quite a while, so when the opportunity popped up, I hopped in. But there was a little problem — one of the requirements of the project was to write it in TypeScript. At first, I was super stressed about...
The Four Big Ways Jetpack Helps with Image Performance
19.6.2018
We've been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It's a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here's one way...
A Quick Roundup of Recent React Chatter
12.6.2018
Like many, many others, I'm in the pool of leveling up my JavaScript skills and learning how to put React to use. That's why Brad Frost resonated with me when he posted My Struggle to Learn React."
As Brad does, he clearly outlines his struggles point-by-point:
I have invested enough time...
How to Delete Untracked Files in a Mercurial Repository
29.5.2018
Working around Firefox at Mozilla means that you need to get acquainted with mercurial, the version control system that rivals git and svn. Like any tool, hg (mercurial) can be difficult until you’re well versed with it. And if you hg import a URL that doesn’t match up with...
Overriding Default Button Styles
9.5.2018
There are a variety of "buttons" in HTML. You've got:
<button>Button</button>
<input type="button" value="Button">
Plus, for better or worse, people like having links that are styled to match the look of other true buttons on the site
<a href="#0"...