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BitMEX Research Unveils Who Funds Bitcoin Network Development
29.3.2020
BitMEX research shows that blockchain firms Blockstream and Lightning Labs are the largest contributors to Bitcoin development
Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
26.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption?
How do new algorithms help?
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important than ever to modern...
5 Essential git Commands and Utilities
26.3.2020
For many of us, git and GitHub play a huge role in our development workflows. Whenever we have a tool that we need to use often, the more fine-tuned we can make that tool, the faster we can get things done. The following are five git commands or helpers that can make your developer life...
China Is Drafting Laws for the Circulation of National Digital Currency
26.3.2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, China’s central bank has reportedly completed the basic development of the nation’s central bank digital currency. The central bank is now drafting legislation for its circulation, according to local media. A number of patents have revealed what...
Different Favicon for Development
24.3.2020
I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to make some local change, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, and just not see the change, only to discover you were looking at the production...
CSS Can Influence Screenreaders
23.3.2020
Ben Myers covers some clear examples of where CSS totally changes what some screen readers announce. For example, some screenreader will see text-transform: uppercase; on a button label that says "Add" and read it like an abbreviation, "A.D.D."
These cases of CSS messing with our screenreader...
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Vitalik Reveals His Vision For the Next Decade of ETH 2.0 Development
19.3.2020
Blockchain community responds to potential ETH 2.0 roadmap posted to twitter by Vitalik Buterin
Binance Lending Adds Bitcoin Cash to Flexible Deposits Letting Users Earn Interest on BCH
18.3.2020
Bitcoin cash users now have another venue to earn interest on their digital asset holdings. Binance has added support for BCH flexible deposits on its lending platform, alongside ETH and EOS. This development comes just as competition in the crypto lending field is heating up. Also Read: Binance...
Nischal Shetty Shares Views on the Indian Crypto Market Development
14.3.2020
Nischal Shetty, the prominent India-based crypto enthusiast and the honorable CEO of WazirX crypto exchange, has released a chain of tweets on his official Twitter handle proclaiming massive development and investments in the Indian crypto space very soon. Founded in 2009, cryptocurrencies have...
ARPA Announces the Launch of its African Community as Part of Global Development
12.3.2020
Privacy-focused blockchain computation network ARPA announced on Thursday that it had established the ARPA Africa community, with an intention to serve African nations. The community includes support from various countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and more....
How Cryptographic Keys Development Will Drive Digital Asset Adoption
12.3.2020
Digital currency’s mass adoption will accelerate through development in cryptographic keys management
I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn’t Believe What Happened Next
9.3.2020
This talk by Marcin Wichary is — beyond both enthusiastic and outstanding — all about the complexity of UI design, typography, and the lengths his team at Figma has gone to make sure that doing something as simple as selecting a font from a dropdown does what you expect it to.
I’d recommend this...
Geoff’s Redesign Posts
9.3.2020
I love it when people redesign "in the open" and write about it. I'd just like to shout out to our own Geoff who has been doing this for 3 months now. He started in late December last year. He's been sharing stuff like his dev tooling choices, considering performance, considering accessibility...
CryptoKitties’ Dieter Shirley on Breaking Ethereum and NFTs
8.3.2020
Dieter Shirley shares his thoughts on ETH 2.0, the lessons learned from CryptoKitties, and NFTs
Jack Dorsey's Square Publicly Launches Grants for Bitcoin Development
5.3.2020
Square Crypto reveals criteria for its grants program for the development of the Bitcoin network
Bitcoin Cash Node Reveals Upgrade Plans for May and Difficulty Algorithm Research
3.3.2020
On March 2, the developers behind the Bitcoin Cash Node project announced the team’s plans for the May upgrade and beyond. The programmers highlighted that the implementation was built to follow the longest chain, regardless of whether the Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) is voted...
A Sea Change to Crypto Hits America, Again
1.3.2020
A sea change is coming to cryptocurrency in America. It is likely to hit in two separate waves: a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and draconian regulation that shuts down free-market activities, including development. Also Read: No Backdoor on Human Rights: Why Encryption Cannot Be Compromised...
Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development
28.2.2020
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the whole v10 redesign, a friend's website, and even writing a book. Those are getting a little long in the tooth though. You might still learn from...
Gödel Labs Lends Support to Ongoing Multi-Geth Project & Development Team Creation
27.2.2020
Gödel Labs, a leading blockchain-focused venture studio, has announced to lend support to the ongoing development process of Multi-Geth and will also play an important role in the potential creation of a new development team. “We are happy to announce Gödel Labs will be joining the maintaining...