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Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline
16.8.2019
This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. It all began when Ethan Marcotte made a lot of great notes about the accessibility issues that are common with AMP:
In the recordings above, I’m trying to navigate through the AMP Story. And as I do, VoiceOver describes a page...
WDRL — Edition 272: Unactionable Advice, Bye iframes Hello ShadowDOM, And Teams Not Made Of Stars.
16.8.2019
Hey,
what’s more powerful than a star who knows everything? Well, a team not made of stars but of people who love what they do, like their company’s vision and can work together, support each other. Like a galaxy made of stars — where not every star shines and also doesn’t need...
How Mike Tyson Made Headlines in Cryptoland without Even Knowing It
14.8.2019
Mike Tyson. Source: a screenshot, Instagram/miketyson
The crypto news sites reported on Tuesday that a cryptocurrency offering is coming the cryptoland’s way, supposedly backed by the (in)famous boxer Mike Tyson - a project which reportedly turned out to be a fraud.
Unfortunately, even the crypto...
Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers
9.8.2019
One of my favorite developments in software development has been the advent of serverless. As a developer who has a tendency to get bogged down in the details of deployment and DevOps, it's refreshing to be given a mode of building web applications that simply abstracts scaling and infrastructure...
Basic Attention Token Price Analysis: Basic Attention Token (BAT) Made a Steep Fall Today
7.8.2019
For every advertise user sees on the Brave browser, advertisers can put money into a digital wallet. From now onwards, one can transact out that amount by using Brave’s cryptocurrency payment system. One needs to sign up with the Uphold cryptocurrency exchange in order to retrieve those...
VeChain Price Analysis: VeChain (VET) Made A Steep Fall Yesterday
7.8.2019
Plair, a decentralized gaming ecosystem, has released a new Alpha 0.8 update running on VeChain Thor Mainnet. The latest update has two key features, including CS: GO Tournaments and Smart Contract. The new development supports all the actions involving PLA transactions, staking of PLA, automatic...
Getting design system customization just right
29.7.2019
I had a little rant in me a few months ago about design systems: "Who Are Design Systems For?" My main point was that there are so many public and open source ones out there that choosing one can feel like choosing new furniture for your house. You just measure up what you need and what you like...
Honestnode Founder Discusses the First Stablecoin Built on Bitcoin Cash
22.7.2019
On June 12, the Honestnode team announced the release of a new stablecoin project built on top of the Bitcoin Cash network called Honestcoin (USDH). The new token was made using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) and recently launched on the cryptocurrency trading platform Coinex. This week...
Crypto Bullishness Spreads on Capitol Hill
21.7.2019
U.S. Congress has shown that it is starting to care about cryptocurrency as a number of lawmakers spoke up in favor of it this week. “The world Satoshi Nakamoto had envisioned is an unstoppable force” and “there’s no capacity to kill bitcoin” are some of the comments...
Why You Can’t Bet With Bitcoin at Online Casinos in the US
20.7.2019
Since the dawn of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency landscape has seen a lot of digital currency gaming websites where users can wager their coins in games like poker, dice, blackjack and slots. Because public blockchains are transparent, the protocols have made online gaming provably fair. However...
SEC Begins Green-Lighting Token Offerings
17.7.2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently made history when it green-lighted two token offerings under Regulation A+. “This is the first time in U.S. history that a crypto token offering has received SEC qualification,” one of the two qualified issuers proclaims. Also read:...
Binance Adds Margin as Exchange Competition Heats Up
13.7.2019
This week, the world’s largest exchange by trading volume, Binance, launched margin trading. In doing so, it made the elite group of exchanges that offer crypto derivatives less exclusive than it once was. Binance, Kucoin, and Bitmax have all rolled out margin products this year, in a bid...
Learn to Read Crypto and Blockchain Data With Our Guide
4.7.2019
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Zcash Price Analysis: The Crypto Again Made Bounce Back, Still Avoid In Short Term
3.7.2019
In a recent public internet survey and darknet survey regarding the State of Privacy Coins, the report suggests that 42% of the surveyors bought Zcash as their first privacy coin, followed by 25% bought Monero. The survey was conducted on a sample size of 234, and out of them, 42% of people stated...
The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs
3.7.2019
Since their introduction, content management systems (CMS) have made life easier for website developers, site owners, and administrators alike. Platforms like Word
Zcash Price Analysis: ZEC Surpassing Bearish Trend of Last 2-3 Days, Altcoin Again Made Huge Bounce Back
28.6.2019
The Zcash team has shared a public ‘Testnet’ Interest Form for Coda Protocol, which will help any user to get a hands-on of the new update based on their skill level. The Zcash Foundation also shared a technical video presentation about the design space for scaling Zcash using recursive validation....
Binance and Paxos Just Made It Easier to Exchange Stablecoins for Fiat
27.6.2019
Top crypto exchange Binance and stablecoin issuer Paxos have partnered to integrate a new fiat deposit gateway on Binance’s flagship trading platform
Node40 Executive Explains What to Expect When the IRS Issues Its New Crypto Policy
27.6.2019
Last May, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed it would be issuing new tax guidance and rules about the tax treatment of digital assets and forks. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told congressional leaders that the agency has made it a priority to issue crypto-related tax guidance. This...
Monero Price Analysis: The Altcoin Made a Sudden But Expected Downfall, With Its Rank Portraying the same
26.6.2019
Monero (XMR) went down from 13th to 14th place in cryptocurrency ranking. Market Capitalisation also reduces by almost a million USD. Current Statistics Of XMR Coin (On June 26, at UTC 10:29): Monero (XMR) is currently trading around 104 USD. At the same time, Monero price (BTC) is 0.00821614 BTC....
Why I don’t use web components
25.6.2019
Here’s an interesting post by Rich Harris where he’s made a list of some of the problems he’s experienced in the past with web components and why he doesn’t use them today:
Given finite resources, time spent on one task means time not spent on another task. Considerable energy has been expended...