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Nasdaq Partners With R3 to Help Build Institutional-Grade Digital Assets
30.4.2020
Nasdaq is partnering with the blockchain solution provider R3 to build institution-grade digital assets and marketplaces
Alpine.js: The JavaScript Framework That’s Used Like jQuery, Written Like Vue, and Inspired by TailwindCSS
29.4.2020
We have big JavaScript frameworks that tons of people already use and like, including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte. Do we need another JavaScript library? Let’s take a look at Alpine.js and you can decide for yourself. Alpine.js is for developers who aren’t looking to build a single page...
How to Redirect a Search Form to a Site-Scoped Google Search
29.4.2020
This is just a tiny little trick that might be helpful on a site where you don’t have the time or desire to build out a really good on-site search solution. Google.com itself can perform searches scoped to one particular site. The trick is getting people there using that special syntax...
Advice for Writing a Technical Resume
27.4.2020
Marco Rogers asked a very good question on Twitter:
I talk to a lot of people new to tech from non-traditional backgrounds, e.g. bootcamps or self-taught. I'm looking for good information for those people on how to build out a strong resume when they don't have work experience yet. Advice...
NFT Devs Build While Users Follow Ethereum Price & Wait For Better Products
26.4.2020
F1® Delta Time NFTs are used in the game as core assets for play. The coronavirus-related lockdown might help the non-fungible token (NFT) market, but industry players should offer better products if they want this sector to go mainstream.
While the NFT market is slow lately and people...
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...
The Contrast Triangle
21.4.2020
Chip Cullen:
Let’s say you’re building a site, and you’re working with a designer. They come to you with some solid designs, and you’re ready to go. You’re also a conscientious front end developer and you like to make sure the sites you build are accessible. The designs you’re working from have...
Front-End Challenges
17.4.2020
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the websites you make can help yourself or anyone else you care about, then that’s also great. In lieu of that, you can also make things...
Bankera Launches Bank Account Alternative Focused on Crypto Businesses
17.4.2020
Bankera, an ambitious project to build a neobank for the digital era, has started to offer payment accounts to individual and business clients as a low-cost, fast and convenient alternative to traditional bank accounts. Individual and business clients who sign up to the service can already enjoy...
Will Blockchain Technology Be Used to Build Evil Social Credit Systems?
12.4.2020
If even a good thing falls into the wrong hands, there may be disaster: Blockchain tech might help to build a Brave New World instead of promised decentralization
Tips for Writing Animation Code Efficiently
10.4.2020
I’ve been coding web animations and helping others do the same for years now. However, I have yet to see a concise list of tips focused on how to efficiently build animations, so here you go!
I will be using the GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP). It provides a simple, readable API and solves...
A Grid of Logos in Squares
6.4.2020
Let’s build a literal grid of squares, and we’ll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo grid before. You can probably already picture it: an area of a site that lists the donors, sponsors, or that is showing off...
Shyft Network to Build FATF-Compliant ‘Identity Layer’ for Polkadot
6.4.2020
Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network
SoftBank-Backed Fintech Firm Joins Chinese Conglomerate to Build Blockchain Platform
3.4.2020
OneConnect, the fintech wing of Ping An Insurance Group, is building a logistics-tracking blockchain platform with the China Merchants Port Group
Accessibility Links
2.4.2020
Austin Gil has kicked off the first in a five-part series about “HTML Forms Right” and to starts with semantics. It’s talking to the “we build our front-ends with JavaScript” crowd. The first block of code is an example of an Ajax form submission where the data...
How to build a bad design system
31.3.2020
I didn’t realize this until it was far too late, but one of the biggest mistakes that’s made on a design systems team is a common mismanagement issue: there are too many people in a meeting and they have too many dang opinions.
Is there a conversation about the color of your buttons that’s taking...
Creating an Editable Site with Google Sheets and Eleventy
27.3.2020
Remember Tabletop.js? We just covered it a little bit ago in this same exact context: building editable websites. It’s a tool that turns a Google Sheet into an API, that you as a developer can hit for data when building a website. In that last article, we used that API on the client side, meaning...
How to Animate Text with SVG and CSS
26.3.2020
The other day I was helping my pal Jez work Dept. of Enthusiasm, the site for his newsletter, and I had a thought. What if we made the word “enthusiasm” in the title animate a little bit? Like, what if each of the letters in the word bopped up and down enthusiastically?
Like this:
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Solana and Chainlink Team Up To Build A Crazy Fast Oracle
24.3.2020
Blockchain platform Solana partners with Chainlink to build a price oracle that updates in under a second
Client-Side Image Editing on Mobile
20.3.2020
Michael Scharnagl:
Ever wanted to easily convert an image to a grayscale image on your phone? I do sometimes, and that's why I build a demo using the Web Share Target API to achieve exactly that.
For this I used the Service Worker way to handle the data. Once the data is received on the client,...