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Blockchains Are an Excellent Solution for Privacy, Part 1
20.6.2020
The first part of a series of articles on the advantages and challenges in the usage of blockchain technology for collecting and sharing information, without violating users’ privacy
Patternico
20.6.2020
I remember searching for tutorials for making seamless patterns in Photoshop¹ all the time back in the day.
It’s fun to see this little website for building repeating patterns as its one job. It does everything you’d expect: pick a background, drag some decorations onto it and position...
Stay DRY Using axios for API Requests
18.6.2020
HTTP requests are a crucial part of any web application that’s communicating with a back-end server. The front end needs some data, so it asks for it via a network HTTP request (or Ajax, as it tends to be called), and the server returns an answer. Almost every website these days does this in some...
Everything You Need to Know About FLIP Animations in React
16.6.2020
With a very recent Safari update, Web Animations API (WAAPI) is now supported without a flag in all modern browsers (except IE).  Here’s a handy Pen where you can check which features your browser supports. The WAAPI is a nice way to do animation (that needs to be done in JavaScript) because...
Dash Investment Foundation Buying Gold as Part of Rebalancing Strategy
15.6.2020
Dash Investment Foundation has launched a Dash-to-gold rebalancing strategy in order to grow its gold and Dash reserves, while reducing volatility
My Flywheel Landing Page
15.6.2020
Flywheel is my WordPress hosting partner here. I use Local every day for my WordPress local development environment and use their hosting for all my WordPress sites as part of my whole flow, so I’m glad they aren’t just a sponsor but a product I use and like.
Last November some of their...
Estonia Revokes 500 Crypto Firms’ Licenses After $220 Billion Money Laundering Scandal
13.6.2020
Estonia has canceled 500 cryptocurrency firms’ licenses, about 30% of the total, as part of a crackdown on illicit financial flows following a $220 billion money-laundering scandal involving Danske Bank. Regulators are concerned that bitcoin exchanges and other crypto companies might...
The Chad Index Versus Doomer Internet Money: The Breakdown Weekly Recap
13.6.2020
This week, the wildest, most nonsensical, volatile part of the market wasn’t bitcoin, but the “Robinhood Rally” in equities
CUBE CSS
11.6.2020
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
The most important part of this methodology is the language itself: CSS. It’s key to note its existence in the name because some alternative approaches, such as BEM—which I have enjoyed for many years—can veer very far away from Cascading Style Sheets. I love CSS...
US Officials Allege Student Defrauded Apple as Part of SIM Swap Attack
9.6.2020
A UC San Diego student is accused of participating in a SIM-swapping scam that defrauded Apple and stole one victim’s crypto
Making My Netlify Build Run Sass
9.6.2020
Let’s say you wanted to build a site with Eleventy as the generator. Popular choice these days! Eleventy doesn’t have some particularly blessed way of preprocessing your CSS, if that’s something you want to do. There are a variety of ways to do it and perhaps that freedom is part...
Understand why CSS has no effect with the Inactive CSS rules indicator in Firefox DevTools
5.6.2020
It’s useful when DevTools tells you that a declaration is invalid. For example, colr: red; isn’t valid because colr isn’t a valid property. Likewise color: rd; isn’t valid because rd isn’t a valid value. For the most part, a browser’s DevTools shows...
Vybrali jsme 15 nejlepších bezdrátových reproduktorů. Od levných až po špičku
4.6.2020
Cryptobartender Serves Drinks for Crypto, Doing its Part in Pandemic
4.6.2020
Cryptobartender. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/CryptoTexty
A device called Cryptobartender is doing its part to help social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, by selling drinks for crypto.
Cryptobartender is a device that allows users to buy water, wine, whiskey, or any other type...
US Government Prediction: Economy Faces 10-Year Recovery, $8 Trillion Loss From Coronavirus
3.6.2020
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has projected that the coronavirus crisis will cost the U.S. economy about $8 trillion. Many factors play a part in shrinking the economy, such as business closures, social distancing measures, consumer spending, a drop in energy prices, and recent legislation....
Blockchain Is Part Of China’s Master Plan for New Competitor Island to Hong Kong
2.6.2020
China’s master plan for making Hainan a free trade island encourages institutions to use blockchain in transforming government function
ViaBTC Group Announces Strategic Upgrade to Advance Innovation and Improve Customer Experience
30.5.2020
Hong Kong, 30 May, 2020 – ViaBTC Group, an innovative technology company specialized in blockchain and dedicated to providing users with comprehensive digital asset management services, today announced a strategic upgrade, which included a new organizational structure, product innovations...
How to Convert a Date String into a Human-Readable Format
25.5.2020
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m writing this article, in part, because it’s something I look up often and want to be able to find it next time. Formatting a date string that you get from an API in JavaScript can take many shapes — anything from loading all of Moment.js to have...
Second-Tier Exchanges Are A Vital Part of Crypto Ecosystem
24.5.2020
Source: Adobe/Azaliya (Elya Vatel)
Everyone has heard of Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and other big exchanges, but few of us could name any or many of the so-called ‘second-tier’ exchanges. These are smaller exchanges that don’t grab the headlines and don’t trade massive volumes, and given the fact...
The Fastest Google Fonts
22.5.2020
When you use font-display: swap;, which Google Fonts does when you use the default &display=swap part of the URL , you’re already saying, “I’m cool with FOUT,” which is another way of saying web text is displayed right away, and when the web font is ready...