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Twitter Doesn’t Need Web 3.0 to Solve Its Identity Problem
17.7.2020
The great Twitter hack does not herald the end of the centralized web. But we need stronger cryptography for social media
Two Teens Arrested After Paying Bitcoin to See Livestream Murder on Dark Web
16.7.2020
The deep-web website allowed users to pay extra to decide what torture the children would be subject to next
A Hacker is Attempting to Sell a Las Vegas Hotel Database for Crypto
14.7.2020
Data for 142 million hotel guests is being sold via the dark web
US Army Requests Information on Tools to Track Cryptocurrency Transactions
14.7.2020
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army have requested information on web-based cryptocurrency tracking tools. The tools must enable U.S. government agencies worldwide to conduct in-depth investigations into the source of crypto transactions and provide multi-currency analysis from bitcoin...
Open Prioritization
14.7.2020
Like Kickstarter, but for Web Platform Features.
That’s about the quickest way to sum up Open Prioritization from Igalia. Igalia is an independent company that works on browsers. They literally commit to all the different open source browsers to implement (and fix) features that we all use....
Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS
14.7.2020
I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them...
Police Thwart Dark Web Criminals Who Planned to Firebomb a Nebraskan Pharmacy
13.7.2020
William Burgamy and Hyrum Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiring to firebomb a pharmacy in Nebraska
My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site
13.7.2020
As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging...
Lazy Load IFRAMEs
13.7.2020
We’ve known for a decade that lazy loading resources like JavaScript, CSS, and especially images is a massive performance win for web pages. At first we used tricks and JavaScript to do the lazy loading, but more recently native image lazy loading has debuted in browsers. Did you know that...
Your Passwords Could Be For Sale on the Dark Web Right Now
10.7.2020
Digital Shadows warned that over 15 billion credentials are exposed on the dark web for sale and some of them are even available for free
We need more inclusive web performance metrics
10.7.2020
Scott Jehl argues that performance metrics such as First Contentful Paint and Largest Contentful Paint don’t really capture the full picture of everyone’s experience with websites:
These metrics are often touted as measures of usability or meaning, but they are not necessarily meaningful...
Anonymous Crypto Hacker’s Identity Revealed by US Authorities
8.7.2020
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled the identity of the hacker behind the pseudonym “fxmsp” after charging him with federal crimes
Web 3.0 Will Drive Decentralized Business Models, Says Blockchain Exec
7.7.2020
Kevin Chou discussed how content creators could build their own virtual economies with blockchain technology
Social Media Bans ‘Highlight the Profound Censorship on Web 2.0’
6.7.2020
Recent moves by social media companies to outlaw certain types of content raise big questions about the future of free speech in the modern internet era
Posters! (for CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid)
6.7.2020
Any time I chat with a fellow web person and CSS-Tricks comes up in conversation, there is a good chance they’ll say: oh yeah, that guide on CSS flexbox, I use that all the time!
Indeed that page, and it’s cousin the CSS grid guide, are among our top trafficked pages. I try to take...
Trouble in Defi Paradise: Compound-Issued DAI Surpasses DAI in Circulation
3.7.2020
A number of cryptocurrency proponents have been discussing the stablecoin DAI this week, as the DAI allegedly held on the Compound platform is much larger than what is recorded in circulation. At press time, Compound statistics show there’s $523 million worth of DAI held in reserves, while...
Some Performance Links
3.7.2020
Just had a couple of good performance links burning a hole in my pocket, so blogging them like a good little blogger.
Web Performance Recipes With Puppeteer
Puppeteer is an Node library for spinning up a copy of Chrome “headlessly” (i.e. no UI) and controlling it. People use it...
Why Isn’t BCH Way More Popular on the Dark Web?
2.7.2020
Despite a growing number of advanced privacy features, Bitcoin Cash seems to have fallen out of favor with Dark Web operators
[článek] Google představil Web Vitals a chystá se hodnotit „page experience“. Co to znamená pro vaše weby?
2.7.2020
[7 minut čtení] K květnu představené Web Vitals jsou podle Googlu nejdůležitější metriky pro posuzování té části uživatelské zkušenosti na webu, která jej zajímá a která je měřitelná zvenčí. Google na konci května oznámil, že pracuje za způsobu posuzování stránek, který více zohlední uživatelský...
A Complete Guide to Dark Mode on the Web
1.7.2020
“Dark mode” is defined as a color scheme that uses light-colored text and other UI elements on a dark-colored background. Dark mode, dark theme, black mode, night mode… they all refer to and mean the same thing: a mostly-dark interface rather than a mostly-light interface.
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