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Here’s How I Solved a Weird Bug Using Tried and True Debugging Strategies
28.8.2020
Remember the last time you dealt with a UI-related bug that left you scratching your head for hours? Maybe the issue was happening at random, or occurring under specific circumstances (device, OS, browser, user action), or was just hidden in one of the many front-end technologies that are part...
DEC777 Decentralized Exchange – The Last Resort for the People Who Lost Trust in Centralized Exchange
27.8.2020
Why do we have to store our digital assets with hesitation? We’ve lost trust in many scam exchanges such as Wex, BITPoint…Maybe this is the right time to look for an exchange that doesn’t need us to deposit to trade. DEC77 is an outstanding decentralized exchange built...
Anticipated Ethereum Proposal 'Big Maybe' Out Within a Year
26.8.2020
The highly anticipated Ethereum (ETH) improvement proposal (EIP) 1559, which includes things like an automatic token burn mechanism for each transaction and an improved fee market, may be rolled out in the next 6-12 months, according to Anthony Sassano, SetProtocol product marketing manager...
Is This China’s Century or the US’s? Maybe It’s Both
26.7.2020
This Long Reads Sunday is a reading of Adam Tooze's recent review of four books on the growing conflict between the U.S. and China
Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
23.7.2020
I’d bet grid-template-columns is used about 10× more than grid-template-rows, but maybe everyone has just been missing out. Eric Meyer chucks a bunch of row lines onto his main site layout grid like this:
grid-template-rows: repeat(7, min-content) 1fr repeat(3, min-content);
That way, if...
Maybe It Wasn’t About the Money – Few People Fell for Twitter Hack, Data Indicates
16.7.2020
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul
Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid
16.7.2020
Michelle Barker covers a situation where you need offset rectangles part of a clickable area. The tricky part is having just the rectangles be clickable. That rules out using some parent element and making the whole larger encompassing rectangle clickable, which is a common (but equally tricky)...
Frontity is React for WordPress
9.7.2020
Some developers just prefer working in React. I don’t blame them really, because I like React too. Maybe that’s what they learned first. I’ve been using it long enough there is just some comfort to it. But mostly it is the strong component model that I like. There is just...
Stablecoins Might Be Better Than Bitcoin For Payments, But Maybe Not For Long
5.7.2020
Stablecoins offer most of the benefits of bitcoin (BTC), but without any of the volatility. This is the opinion of a wide number of industry figures and experts, all of whom affirm that removing volatility is the key to making cryptocurrencies viable as a means of payment.
Does this mean that...
Popular Analyst Reveals New Bitcoin Pricing Model: Prediction Suggests ‘Bullish Run a Month Away’
27.6.2020
The popular bitcoin analyst Willy Woo told his 132,000 Twitter followers that he’s working on a new pricing model that suggests a bull run is imminent. In fact, Woo says the model suggests bitcoin is close to “another bullish run” with “maybe another month to go.”...
Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution
25.5.2020
I was reading this article by Chris where he talks about block links — you know, like wrapping an entire card element inside an anchor — being a bad idea. It’s bad accessibility because of how it affects screen readers. And it’s bad UX because it prevents simple user tasks, like selecting text.
But...
Why does writing matter in remote work?
12.5.2020
Talk to anyone who has an active blog and I bet they’ll tell you it’s been valuable to them. Maybe it’s opened doors. Maybe it’s got them a job. Maybe it’s got them a conference invite. Maybe they just like the thrill of knowing people have read and responded to...
Bitcoin: Not a Safe Haven, but Maybe Something More
27.4.2020
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could provide some of the best solutions to drive a new economy in the post-COVID-19 world
Fake Code
21.4.2020
Here’s a fun little idea from Knut Synstad. You give it the URL of a GitHub Gist and it converts the Gist into grayscale rounded blobs (SVG) that sorta look like code if you squint. Maybe fun for interesting dynamic backgrounds or for whatever you might use code-looking stock art for.
It...
Constrained CSS grids without `max-width`
21.4.2020
Ain’t nothing wrong with max-width, but Ethan makes a point in the last sentence:
Rather than simply defaulting to max-width as a constraint, I can use the empty space around my design, and treat it as a layout tool.
If the space “around” your grid...
JavaScript Picture-in-Picture API
14.4.2020
As a huge fan of media on the web, I’m always excited about enhancements to how we can control our media. Maybe I get excited about simple things like the <video> tag and its associated elements and attributes because media on the web started with custom codecs, browser extensions,...
How to Repeat Text as a Background Image in CSS Using element()
26.3.2020
There’s a design trend I’ve seen popping up all over the place. Maybe you’ve seen it too. It’s this sort of thing where text is repeated over and over. A good example is the price comparison website, GoCompare, who used it in a major multi-channel advertising campaign.
Nike has used it as well...
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...
“weeds of specificity”
13.3.2020
Lara Schenck:
[...] with WordPress child themes, you are all but guaranteed to get into the weeds of specificity, hunting around theme stylesheets that you didn’t author, trying to figure out what existing declaration is preventing you from applying a new style, and then figuring out the least...
Block Links Are a Pain (and Maybe Just a Bad Idea)
10.3.2020
As we noted in our complete guide, you can put an <a href=""> link around whatever chunks of HTML you like. Let's call that a "block link." Like you are wanting to link up an entire "Card" of content because it makes a big clickable target.
<a href="/article/"<!-- display: block;...