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Bank of Japan Eyes Lower Rates for Halloween as Negative Global Trend Continues
1.10.2019
In a recent rate review meeting of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda and others on the nine-member board urged leaving all options on the table, where further cuts to the country’s negative interest rate are concerned. The talk of further stimulus reflects an ever-growing...
Without Disobedience, Bitcoin Is No Better Than Gold
27.9.2019
With the launch of Bakkt’s bitcoin futures market and Binance’s revamped U.S. exchange, there’s been a lot of talk in the space about institutionalization and traditional money flowing into crypto. It’s almost as if some believe that Bitcoin can’t scale as a purely...
Thinking in React Hooks
25.9.2019
Amelia Wattenberger has written this wonderful and interactive piece about React Hooks and details how they can clean up code and remove all those troubling lifecycle events:
React introduced hooks one year ago, and they've been a game-changer for a lot of developers. There are tons of how-to...
Browser Engine Diversity
24.9.2019
We lost Opera when they went Chrome in 2013. Same deal with Edge when it also went Chrome earlier this year. Mike Taylor called these changes a "Decreasingly Diverse Browser Engine World" in a talk I'd like to see.
So all we've got left is Chrome-stuff, Firefox-stuff, and Safari-stuff. Chrome...
SEC Chair, Commissioners to Talk Crypto at US Congress Hearing Next Week
20.9.2019
The House Financial Services Committee will question SEC commissioners about crypto regulations and Facebook's Libra next week
CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXVI
16.9.2019
This is one of these little roundups of things going on with myself, this site, and the other sites that are part of the CSS-Tricks family.
I was recently in Zürich for Front Conference. It was my first time there and I very much enjoyed the city and the lovely staff of the conference. I...
Keene New Hampshire Is Not Only a Libertarian Enclave – It’s Also a Crypto Mecca
6.9.2019
Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of attention directed toward destinations like Slovenia, North Queensland, Japan, and Venezuela which capture the largest number of bitcoin cash merchants worldwide. Another region that’s seen a massive influx of BCH adoption is Keene,...
Fast Software
3.9.2019
There have been some wonderfully interconnected things about fast software lately.
We talk a lot of performance on the web. We can make things a little faster here and there. We see rises in success metrics with rises in performance. I find those type of charts very satisfying. But perhaps even...
US and Swiss Regulators to Talk 'Complicated' Libra Subject This Week
19.8.2019
Six members of the American House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee are traveling to Switzerland this week for talks on Facebook’s forthcoming Libra token and “other cryptocurrency projects.”
The group will meet Swiss regulators later this week, and will be led by committee...
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
18.8.2019
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however,...
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support to Its Blockchain Keystore
15.8.2019
On August 13, Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate, published the company’s new Blockchain Keystore SDK for developers and the latest release supports Bitcoin Core (BTC). The version follows Samsung’s previous Keystore release which only supported ETH and the ERC20...
Elon Musk Supports Yang – But Does Andrew Yang Really Support Bitcoin?
14.8.2019
There’s much talk about multi-billionaire innovator Elon Musk’s newly announced support for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Yang, known as the Bitcoin-friendly choice for 2020, has a reputation for innovation with his unique stance on Universal Basic Income, emphatic...
[aktualita] Jiří Ovčáček bude mít na Barrandově vlastní talk show
6.8.2019
Mluvčí prezidenta republiky Jiří Ovčáček se stane televizním moderátorem. Kromě své současné práce bude moderovat vlastní týdeník na stanici Barrandov. Podle informací publikovaných prostřednictvím Parlamentních listů půjde o “laskavou talk show”, v níž bude Ovčáček v neformální atmosféře zpovídat...
Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
30.7.2019
Mike Pennisi:
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is ambitious: the health of the web depends on a plurality of interoperable...
[článek] Prima na podzim: nové díly Temného kraje a talk show Marty Jandové
25.7.2019
[3 minuty čtení] Televizní skupina Prima představila své podzimní schéma. Kromě osvědčených seriálových formátů nasadí do vysílání další řadu reality show Česko Slovensko má talent nebo americký kriminální seriál Narcos známý z Netflixu. Mimo obrazovku investuje do e-sportů. Podzimní programové...
My New Mac Setup and Why I Switched
24.7.2019
I want to start this article by saying that I'm not here to start or take part in any brand war between Microsoft and Apple. I like both companies and have switched between operating systems occasi
10 Need to Know Mac Terminal Commands
24.7.2019
If you want to get into web development, knowing what the Terminal is and how to use it is very beneficial. But there are some essential commands that we’ll go over so we feel comfortable using it
What the Web Needs Now (and how ARTIFACT is here for it)
19.7.2019
I recently had the pleasure of joining Dave Rupert, Chris Coyier, and Chris Ferdinandi on the Shop Talk Show to talk about the upcoming ARTIFACT Conference (Austin, TX on Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2019). ARTIFACT is an intimate gathering of web designers and developers where we discuss ways to build...
G7 Leaders Talk Cryptocurrency and Libra, Pledge to ‘Act Quickly’
18.7.2019
The G7 may throw up another roadblock for Facebook and its Libra project, as prominent attendees at a summit of ministers and central bankers expressed concerns – and promised action.
The summit is currently ongoing in Chantilly, France, and attendees include American Treasury Secretary Steven...
Dynamic Imports and F# Pipes Officially Land in Babel 7.5
12.7.2019
A few days ago, the Babel team release two new feature proposals among all the awesome features we are looking forward to at the next major release. Over time, they have added a lot new things adde