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SEC Issues Alert Against Initial Exchange Offerings
15.1.2020
The SEC has issued an alert to investors regarding initial exchange offerings. This warning is not an official statement on regulatory policy, but it does indicate the way the American market regulators view the practice and why many exchanges are shunning U.S. investors. Also Read: Telegram...
A Trick That Makes Drawing SVG Lines Way Easier
14.1.2020
When drawing lines with SVG, you often have a <path> element with a stroke. You set a stroke-dasharray that is as long as the path itself, as well as a stroke-offset that extends so far that you that it's initially hidden. Then you animate the stroke-offset back to 0 so you can watch...
Our Learning Partner: Frontend Masters
10.1.2020
I'd like to think there is a lot to learn on CSS-Tricks. But we don't really offer much by the way of courses. You're probably reading this because you just generally read this site, and you land on CSS-Tricks otherwise mostly because you are looking for an answer to some front-end...
Understanding Async Await
9.1.2020
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so we'll need a way to handle those long-running processes.
Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great...
The Ultimate Guide to Dark Mode for Email Marketers
7.1.2020
On the regular web (I suppose) we handle "dark mode" with the CSS prefers-color-scheme media query. But, and to nobody's surprise, it's way weirder in the land of HTML email. The weirdness is that across different email clients, they handle the dark mode thing differently, starting with the fact...
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
6.1.2020
Our own Robin Rendle:
[...] folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything...
Early Cypherpunk Emails Reveal a Blueprint for Bitcoin
3.1.2020
The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would have remained that way in perpetuity were it not for a certain Satoshi Nakamoto launching a digital currency in 2009 encapsulating their core beliefs....
Neal.fun
2.1.2020
Hats off to Neal Agarwal for some stellar interactive work lately, like The Deep Sea, a vertical scrolling experience to help us understand the depth of the oceans, and The Size of Space, a side-scrolling experience to help us understand the size scale of things in the universe (check out Josh...
How to Build Your Resume on npm
2.1.2020
Just yesterday, Ali Churcher shared a neat way to make a resume using a CSS Grid layout. Let’s build off that a bit by creating a template that we can spin up whenever we want using the command line. The cool thing about that is that you’ll be able to run it with just one command.
I know...
New Year, New Job? Let’s Make a Grid-Powered Resume!
1.1.2020
Many popular resume designs are making the most of the available page space by laying sections out in a grid shape. Let’s use CSS Grid to create a layout that looks great when printed and at different screen sizes. That way, we can use the resume online and offline, which might come in handy during...
AirSwap is Leading the Way to Smart Contracts’ Perfection
31.12.2019
In the financial world, advancements and innovations are at their peak. One of the finest innovations is Smart Contracts. It is nothing but automation of the deal-making process. Like its conventional counterpart, it also needs two or more parties and deals with realities, exchange shares, money...
One Way to Break Users Out of the Habit of Reloading Too Much
30.12.2019
Page reloads are a thing. Sometimes we refresh a page when we think it’s unresponsive, or believe that new content is available. Sometimes we’re just mad at the dang site and rage-refresh to let it know we’re displeased.
Wouldn’t be nice to know when a user refreshes the page? Not just that,...
RUON.AI Announces Patents and Successful Upload Of SovereignSky Space Blockchain
30.12.2019
Within just a decade, mankind will be well on the way to ending extreme world poverty. A new, encrypted Wi-Fi network will connect people on Earth. And a near indestructible blockchain financial system and global currency will exist off-world, invulnerable to the effects of war, conflict, solar...
So Many Color Links
27.12.2019
There's been a run of tools, articles, and resources about color lately. Please allow me to close a few tabs by rounding them up here for your enjoyment.
Curated colors in context
Happy Hues demonstrates a bunch of color palettes in the context of the site itself. That's a nice way to do...
How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree
26.12.2019
One of the more powerful concepts I've stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs. If you've ever studied alchemy, you may recall that the whole motivation for alchemists was to discover some way to transform not-gold into gold through scientific or arcane methods.
ASTs...
Is Web Design Easier or Harder Than it was 10 Years Ago?
20.12.2019
Is it harder or easier to build a website now than 10 years ago? Has the bar gone up or down? I don't have any data for you, but I can shell out some loosey-goosey opinions.
HTML
HTML5 was the only big HTML change in the last decade, and it wasn't particularly dramatic. It's cool it's the looser...
A Decade of Quantitative Easing Has Paved the Way for the Age of Digital Currency
20.12.2019
Ten years of central bank quantitative easing have fostered big distortions in the global financial system, setting it up for a major architectural shift
You Can Earn Lead Tokens by Becoming a Crypto Community Champion
20.12.2019
Becoming a cryptocurrency community leader is a good way to bring about the future you want to see in the world by taking real action today. Now you can also be directly rewarded for your work with the Bitcoin Cash community’s new SLP token, Lead (Leaders of Education, Adoption...
Create a Static Site Using Angular & Scully
20.12.2019
The team at HeroDevs has just released the alpha version of Scully, a static site generator for Angular. That's right, Angular didn't have an intuitive way to create JAMstack applications before, but now it's possible!
Scully uses a node CLI application to run Angular schematics so you don’t have...
The JAMstack Landscape
17.12.2019
It's no big secret that Netlify invented the term JAMstack. While it's possible to embrace the JAMstack without using Netlify, it's notable that Netlify is at the very heart of the whole "JAMstack landscape."
What does "JAMstack landscape" even mean? I like the term because it sets the stage that...