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Real Talk: Why You Really Need to Come to The Capital
15.10.2019
By now, you must have noticed the new appearance of a blue banner extending across the top of the CoinMarketCap homepage — the one right below our most-loved header banner advertisements! This dedicated space hosts our announcements for The Capital, […]
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Scrape the Web with scrapestack (Sponsored)
14.10.2019
I first grew to love Firefox not as a web developer but as user, and what drew me to this amazing new browser was its add-on ecosystem. The add-on I used the most? Web scrapers. Piracy had just hit mainstream and I also need imagery and documentation to create my first websites. Scrapers were...
Dutch Central Bank: World Will Need Gold if Entire System Collapses
14.10.2019
Crypto-skeptic Dutch central bank admits gold superiority to fiat money
Two Images and an API: Everything We Need for Recoloring Products
11.10.2019
I recently found a solution to dynamically update the color of any product image. So with just one <img> of a product, we can colorize it in different ways to show different color options. We don’t even need any fancy SVG or CSS to get it done!
We’ll be using an image editor (e.g. Photoshop...
Russian Central Bank Chief: ‘No Obvious Need’ for National Cryptocurrency
10.10.2019
Russia's central bank sees no strong reason to launch a national cryptocurrency that would override the potential risks, according to its chief
How to Detect an Ad Blocker
8.10.2019
One of the unspoken rules of the internet is that most content is “free”… at the cost of webpage being littered with advertisements and trackers. This was’t a big problem in the early internet days but trackers and advertisements have become so intrusive and unapologetically...
Foreign Exchange Giant CLS Admits: No, We Don’t Need a Blockchain for That
8.10.2019
Forex giant CLS is now using a blockchain to handle certain currency trades, but the technology is “not essential” for the task, an executive admits
Crypto Outpaces Political Donation Laws in Japan
7.10.2019
A major Japanese news publication has reported that crypto donations to individual politicians are legal and do not need to be reported publicly as donations. Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications verified that even though it is illegal to donate cash or securities directly...
Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web
4.10.2019
Here’s one of the best essays I’ve ever read about why progressive web apps are important, how they work, and what impact they have on a business:
PWAs are powerful, effective, fast and app-like.
It’s hard to imagine a mobile web property that could not be significantly improved via...
Zimbabwe Bans Popular Mobile Money Services From Paying out Fiat Cash
3.10.2019
Zimbabwe is once again showing the need to take away from politicians the power to control normal people’s money. The government there is now trying to cope with the results of mismanaging the economy by preventing citizens from using their fiat currency as they see fit. Also Read: Bittrex...
Custody Services for Digital Assets: Everything You Need to Know
28.9.2019
Custodial solutions for Bitcoin are improving rapidly, making room for large financial institutions to participate
US SEC’s Crypto Mom: ‘I Think We Need to Be a Little Less Paternalistic’
27.9.2019
U.S. SEC Commissioner Peirce, also known as Crypto Mom, encourages regulators to “be a little less paternalistic”
Meeting GraphQL at a Cocktail Mixer
26.9.2019
GraphQL and REST are two specifications used when building APIs for websites to use. REST defines a series of unique identifiers (URLs) that applications use to request and send data. GraphQL defines a query language that allows client applications to specify precisely the data they need from...
Get Geographic Information from an IP Address for Free
24.9.2019
Say you need to know what country someone visiting your website is from, because you have an internationalized site and display different things based on that country. You could ask the user. You might want to have that functionality anyway to make sure your visitors have control, but surely they...
Web Developer Search History
18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...
weatherstack: an Amazing Weather API (Sponsored)
18.9.2019
One of my first tasks each day is checking the weather; it’s a necessity for knowing what my children and I should wear, if I’m going to need to water the lawn or need to shovel snow, and if I can take meetings out on my patio. It’s also been one of my worst web […]
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Boeing Says China Will Need to Spend $2.9 Trillion on New Aircrafts and Services
17.9.2019
Boeing may be the biggest aircraft maker in the world, but in addition to that, the company remains one of the biggest authorities on the aviation sector as a whole. Hence, when the company releases its annual report regarding its outlook on the commercial aviation sector in China, it is supposed...
(Why) Some HTML is “optional”
16.9.2019
Remy Sharp digs into the history of the web and describes why the <p> tag doesn’t need to be closed like this:
<p>Paragraphs don’t need to be closed
<p>Pretty weird, huh?
Remy writes:
Pre-DOM, pre-browsers, the world's first browser was being written by Sir...
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Why Trump’s Proposed Negative Rates Bode Well for Bitcoin
14.9.2019
In a recent tweet, U.S. president Donald Trump delved into an explosive, all-caps-loaded mini-rant about the necessity of getting “interest rates down to ZERO, or less.” The bombastic politician stressed the need for America to refinance its debt, trailing off with some superficially...
Big Banks Won’t Touch Crypto Clients – But These Smaller Banks Will
13.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies undoubtedly bring new business opportunities. The expanding industry around digital assets and its customers need more and more services that traditional sectors can provide. Banking is often a bottleneck in the crypto space as most traditional institutions are still reluctant...