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Former Bakkt CEO to Help Oversee CFTC in Congress
8.1.2020
Newly appointed senator Kelly Loeffler is to join the committee that oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, raising concerns of a possible conflict of interest
Binance Donates $1 Million in Crypto for Australian Bushfire Relief
8.1.2020
The cryptocurrency community is again showing its commitment to support charitable goals around the world. Binance, the most active international digital asset exchange, has donated $1 million to help with Australian fire relief efforts and invites the community to join the initiative. The recent...
Abu Dhabi, Financial Giants Bet on Blockchain to Help ETF Ecosystem
7.1.2020
New York-headquartered international investment giant WisdomTree Investments together with Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) and other investors invested in Securrency, as they aim to integrate blockchain technology into the exchange-traded fund (ETF) ecosystem.
Securrency,...
Baidu Adds Service to Help Developers, Small Businesses Build Dapps
6.1.2020
Chinese internet giant Baidu launched on Monday a blockchain-based service for developers and small and medium-sized businesses to build decentralized applications, or dapps
SLP Devs Publish Code Bounties With $2,500+ in Crypto Rewards
5.1.2020
While a number of software developers work on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework, SLP devs are still looking for other contributors to help foster the protocol’s ecosystem. In order to help bolster SLP development, the simpleledger.cash website has published requests for bounties...
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...
Guangdong Blockchain Financing Platform Aims to Help Small Business
2.1.2020
A new platform backed by Guangdong province aims to streamline the process for commercial banks to lend funds to small businesses with more detailed and reliable profiles provided by its blockchain network
Validate CSP from Command Line
2.1.2020
The content security policy spec has been an amazing front-end security tool to help prevent XSS and other types of attacks. I’d go as far to say that every site should implement as specific CSP as possible. If you aren’t familiar with CSPs, here’s a quick example:...
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,...
Thomson Reuters Launches Crypto Tax Tool
23.12.2019
Tax authorities around the world are increasing their focus on crypto transactions and companies are rushing to help investors navigate the unclear regulations. The latest example is Thomson Reuters which has added a new tool for American tax payers to report crypto dealings to the IRS. Also Read:...
EU Asks Its Citizens For Help in Creating Crypto Regulation
19.12.2019
The European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union (EU), has launched a public consultation on the regulation of cryptoassets, as the world's second largest economy aims to strengthen its positions in the global payments market.
The EC invites investors, banks, supervisors...
Freak Flags
11.12.2019
I don't see image sprites used that much anymore, but it's still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big idea is combining all the graphics into one and then shifting around the size and background-position to reveal one at...
Microsoft Is Using Blockchain to Help Firms Trust AI
6.12.2019
Microsoft is pitching blockchain technology as a way to make artificial intelligence less scary for its corporate customers
Can Crypto Platforms Help Loyalty Schemes in Shops Make a Comeback?
26.11.2019
Would you want to receive loyalty rewards from retailers in crypto? New platforms are beginning to make this a reality #Sponsored
Mirror Android Device to Computer
26.11.2019
As I continue my adventure into Android development, pair programming has been a huge help in learning this new platform. When it’s time to build and run the app, relying on the emulator is a fools’ game — the emulator is slow and it’s hard to reliably simulate gestures....
How Bitcoin Applies to The Sovereign Individual Thesis
24.11.2019
Just before the internet became a massive display of human ingenuity and networking, a few individuals anticipated the emergence of tools that would help progress the end of politics and the nation states. 22 years ago, much like Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, Gerald Celente, and Carl Jung’s...
Growing Accessibility Conversations
22.11.2019
I started this year on a new path at Knowbility — to help people and organizations create accessible content and apps. But what was exciting and helped motivate me more were two things:
WebAIM's Accessibility Analysis of One Million Page Homepages. With over 97% of sites having WCAG failure...
Emcee Tips for a Conference or Meetup
21.11.2019
There are some great resources out there to help conference speakers give better talks, but fewer for people who are preparing to take on the role of emcee at meetup or conference.
I've been fortunate enough to emcee conferences more than 20 times now, most recently JAMstack_conf which I help...
It’s my job, and yours.
21.11.2019
The role of ethics in our modern web space has been on my mind for the past few years and I suspect it will occupy my thoughts increasingly as I move forward. With each encounter of a questionable feature or setting on a website, I can't help but think of all of the people involved and...
The Typed Object Model
20.11.2019
I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). If you haven't come across it yet you would be forgiven as it's pretty new. It falls under the CSS Houdini suite of API's and on the surface...