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Opacity Storage: Handling Your Privacy with Crypto
12.6.2019
Opacity provides encrypted file storage that maintains your privacy by never requiring personal account information Technology Has Become Really Convenient! Right?!? It has been clear for some time that online technology trends have been focused on ‘learning’ about you and […]
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Building Decentralized AI, Enabling Ownership
12.6.2019
If you could hire an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered personal assistant to work with you exclusively, and it would become better at its job the more time it spent helping you, would you want that assistant to fully belong to […]
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How to Detect Text in Images
11.6.2019
Images are a great way to communicate without text but oftentimes images are used/abused to spread text within social media and advertisements. Text in images also presents an accessibility issue. The truth is that it’s important, for any number of reasons, to be able to detect text in image...
Designing with Motifs
10.6.2019
I love the way Erik Kennedy talks about digital design. Very practical and understandable. Have a listen to a chat with him we had on ShopTalk.
One of his latest blog posts is titled "The #1 Way to Spice Up Your Designs (And Create a More Cohesive Brand)" and it's about something he pegs as more...
Detect if Element is a Web Component
5.6.2019
I’ve advocated for web components since before they became a spec, mostly inspired by the Dojo Toolkit’s dijit framework. Empowering first class JavaScript widgets, as opposed to a mess of DIVs and templates, always made the most sense. Now that web components exist, and awesome...
IP Geolocation API
4.6.2019
Detecting geolocation information from your user provides you a massive advantage: improved conversion, better segmenting and analytics, and providing more relevant content. There are numerous paid services which will provide geolocation info but they’re oftentimes too costly or short...
Do you need an ICON ONLY button without screwing up the accessibility?
3.6.2019
The first consideration is: do you really? If you can, having text next to your icons is proven over and over again to be the most accessible and clearest UX (see Apple's latest blunder). But if you need to (and I get it, sometimes you need to), Sara Soueidan and Scott O'Hara have a pair...
Collective #521
3.6.2019
Self-Host Your Static Assets * Uibot * Why I'm still using jQuery in 2019 * Medium to own blog
Collective #521 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Reducing motion with the picture element
31.5.2019
Here’s a bonafide CSS/HTML trick from Brad Frost and Dave Rupert where they use the <picture> element to switch out a GIF file with an image if the user has reduced motion enabled. This is how Brad goes about implementing that:
<picture>
<!-- This image will be loaded if...
Commerce 3.0: $100T Community Oriented, Owned and Operated (c3o) Economy
30.5.2019
As an entrepreneur in the crypto space, I have unshakable belief that decentralization is a disruptive innovation. Blockchain enables an entirely new token-based business model that is intrinsically disruptive to the equity-based business model used by centralized platforms. By combining this...
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
30.5.2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot … fatter.
While
Angular v8 is Released!
29.5.2019
Angular's 8.0.0 release is here! This is a major release that brings some nice features. For the official blog post, check the
Wix Is Challenging You to an SEO Battle for $25K (Sponsored)
24.5.2019
This year Wix launched a series of advanced SEO tools for Wix users to optimize their site pages for search engines and social media platforms. These tools include custom meta tags, canonical URLs, 301 redirects, structured data and rapid loading. So what’s the deal? To put their new SEO tools...
The Evolution of Cryptocurrency Payments
22.5.2019
On January 12, 2009, the first ever Bitcoin transaction between the still-elusive Satoshi Nakamoto and the late cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney was made. As Finney himself described in a forum post he made on March 2014, Nakamoto had sent him […]
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Resize Observer
21.5.2019
Creating websites that are reactive and responsive used to be considered advanced but responsiveness is a necessity for successful websites and apps. We’ve added media queries, matchMedia, and a host of other APIs to help developers make responsiveness easier and now we get a new one:...
AI-Backed Image Background Removal (Sponsored)
21.5.2019
I’ve worked on dozens of eCommerce sites in my career and many of them were hamstrung by the same pain points: tax collection, payment customization, and image optimization. While tax collection and payment customization were important, image optimization was always the hardest and most...
SoftSwiss Launches a New Online Casino
20.5.2019
SoftSwiss has announced the launch of a new online casino, and it is quite unlike any other they have previously developed. Working in tandem with Direx N.V., the operators have managed to put together a good-looking and entertaining bitcoin casino. […]
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Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
17.5.2019
Feedbin is the RSS reader I'm using at the moment. I was reading one of Harry's blog posts on it the other day, and I noticed a nice little interactive touch right inside Feedbin. There was a button-looking element with the number one which, as it turned out, was a footnote. I hovered over it,...
Recursive Array.flat
17.5.2019
There was much talk about Array.prototype.flat during its early stages, starting with the name alone. Many developers preferred the name flatten but the spec differed from MooTools’ implementation. MooTools would recursively flatten an array but the new, official flat implementation was only...
Using Array reduce
14.5.2019
Every developer who specializes in any programming language will tell you there’s a powerful tool the language provides that they rarely use and wish they knew more about. For me, it’s Array.prototype.reduce. I quite enjoy the other Array methods like map, filter, and find, but reduce...