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Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money on Life Support as Central Bank Tightens Screws: Restrictions to Affect P2P Bitcoin Trading
28.8.2020
Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money Operators (MMO) say they will comply with the latest directive by the central bank to shutdown mobile money agents. In addition, the MMOs will also limit mobile money transactions to $50 (Zwl $5,000) per day while users are now restricted to one mobile money account...
Morphing SVG With react-spring
26.8.2020
I’ve been intrigued by the morphing effect ever since I was a little kid. There’s something about a shape-shifting animation that always captures my attention. The first time I saw morphing left me wondering “ Wow, how did they do that?” Since then, I’ve created demos and written an article about...
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
21.8.2020
leading-trim is a suggested new CSS property that lets us remove the extra spacing in every font so that we can more predictably style text. Ethan Wang has written about it — including how Microsoft has advocated for it — and that it’s now part of the Inline Layout Module Level 3 spec.
You’d use...
Responsive Styling Using Attribute Selectors
30.6.2020
One of the challenges we face when implementing class-based atomic styling is that it often depends on a specific breakpoint for context.
<div class="span-12"</div<!-- we want this for small screens --<div class="span-6"</div<!-- we want this for medium screens --<div...
Ayn Rand: Francisco d’Anconia’s Speech on Money
14.6.2020
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of...
Someone Just Anonymously Dropped an ETH 2.0 Scaling Solution On Medium
6.6.2020
Someone just anonymously gave the world a simplistic Ethereum 2.0 concept, via a Medium post
Armoney Recommends Only the Following Cryptocurrencies in India
6.6.2020
So, what is cryptocurrency? It’s an internet medium to exchange funds between individuals or corporations to conduct financial transactions. An individual becomes a bank and has control over his own money. Post-COVID will be the beginning of an online transaction era, without the need to...
Carl Menger: The Nature and Origin of Money
23.5.2020
In the early stages of trade, when economizing individuals are only slowly awakening to knowledge of the economic gains that can be derived from exploitation of existing exchange opportunities, their attention is, in keeping with the simplicity of all cultural beginnings, directed only to the most...
Stake.com: #1 Bitcoin Casino & Sports Betting Site (Provably Fair Games)
4.5.2020
About Stake.com was established in the year 2017. It is owned and operated by Medium […]
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$2 Trillion for Surveillance Capitalism – US Government Promises $1,200 to Every American
25.3.2020
On Wednesday, U.S. Congressional leaders had seemingly come up with a stimulus deal at around 1 a.m. EST. The package will cost upwards of $2 trillion and politicians are promising direct payments of $1,200 per American if they make $75,000 or less. The dollar injection will be the largest...
Solving Sticky Hover States with @media (hover: hover)
18.2.2020
Mezo Istvan does a good job of covering the problem and a solution to it in a blog post on Medium¹.
If you tap on something that has a :hover state but you don't leave the page then, on a mobile device, there is a chance that :hover state "sticks." You'll see this with stuff like jump-links used...
2020 Stack
13.2.2020
In an article with the most clickbaity article ever, Joe Honton does a nice job of talking about the evolving landscape of web development. "Full-stack" perhaps had its day as a useful term, but since front-end development touches so many parts of the stack now, it's not a particularly useful term....
Free Website Builder + Free CRM + Free Live Chat = Bitrix24
30.1.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
You may know Bitrix24 as the world’s most popular free CRM and sales management system, used by over 6 million businesses. But the free website builder available inside Bitrix24 is worthy of your attention, too.
Why do I need another free website/landing...
Close to $6k in Bitcoin Cash Tips Paid to Read.cash Authors Last Week
29.1.2020
The read.cash blog has been a resource for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community for a while now but ever since the recent miner funded development proposal, the blogging site has gathered significant traction. For instance, the front page of read.cash shows that during the last week, more than $5,730...
“Browser Functions”
26.1.2020
Serverless functions are fairly straightforward. Put a bit of back-end language code, like Node, in the cloud and communicate with it via URL. But what if that URL didn't run a back-end language, it ran an actual browser? Richard Young:
We can now do full stack development using just Web APIs....
Hacker Noon Is Storing Content on a Blockchain After Ditching Medium
22.1.2020
Hacker Noon is publishing article annotations onto its new blockchain to save costs and storage space
In Defence of “Serverless” —the term
14.1.2020
Ben Ellerby:
For now Serverless, to me at least, manages to do a hard job, defining the borders of a very fluid and complex space of possible solutions in which we can build next-generation architectures. It would help if there was not a framework of the same name, it would help if people didn’t...
let vs. const
9.1.2020
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const are replacements to the point we rarely (if ever) need var anymore. This doodle explanation does a pretty good job, if you need...
IOTA Marks an Intraday Bullish Crossover; Gains Medium-term Support
8.1.2020
IOTA (MIOTA), at the time of writing, was trading at $0.186. The coin is seen recording a good height after having bottomed out at $0.135 in the previous month. Although currently we see a growth of 37%, IOTA coin is seen trading at the 23rd position in the global crypto market. Also, important...
Binance Coin Marks a Fresh Weekly High; Gains Medium-term Support
7.1.2020
Binance Coin (BNB), at the time of writing, was trading at $14.9. Important to note that the intraday movement has marked a fresh weekly high at $15.14 and a continuous uptrend can lead BNB coin to breach the 30-day high soon. All the altcoins of the market including the king of cryptocurrencies...