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style9: build-time CSS-in-JS
29.7.2020
In April of last year, Facebook revealed its big new redesign. An ambitious project, it was a rebuild of a large site with a massive amount of users. To accomplish this, they used several technologies they have created and open-sourced, such as React, GraphQL, Relay, and a new CSS-in-JS library...
Polkadot Passes Proposal to Make DOTs ‘More Ergonomic’
27.7.2020
Polkadot’s first major voting proposal passed with 86% in favor of multiplying the DOT supply 100-fold
How to Make a Monthly Calendar With Real Data
21.7.2020
Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or even an embedded Google Calendar, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires...
ERC-20 Tokens Make up About 50% of Entire ETH Blockchain
20.7.2020
Ether now accounts for only half of the value on the ETH blockchain as DeFi tokens like LINK and stablecoins take its place
Develop, Preview, Test
17.7.2020
Guillermo:
I want to make the case that prioritizing end-to-end (E2E) testing for the critical parts of your app will reduce risk and give you the best return. Further, I’ll show how you can adopt this methodology in mere minutes.
His test is:
Spin up Puppeteer (Headless Chrome)...
How a Digital Dollar Can Make the Financial System More Equitable
15.7.2020
Digital dollars can promote a more inclusive financial system, or they can contribute to already-growing economic inequality in the U.S
Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.
15.7.2020
“Jamstack is slowwwww.” That’s not something you hear often, right? Especially, when one of the main selling points of Jamstack is performance. But yeah, it’s true that even a Jamstack site can suffer hits to performance just like any other site. 
Don’t think that by choosing Jamstack you...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Trading Near Make-or-Break Levels
14.7.2020
Bitcoin price made a couple of attempts to clear the USD 9,300 and USD 9,320 resistance levels. BTC failed to continue higher and recently declined by 1%. It is currently (08:30 UTC) approaching the USD 9,150 support, below which it could revisit USD 9,000.
Similarly, most major altcoins are slowly...
Data Shows the ‘Cheaper Altcoins Make Higher Returns’ Myth Is Flawed
13.7.2020
Many investors believe that buying the cheapest altcoins produces greater returns during rallies but is this true?
Market Wrap: Stocks Make Gains While Bitcoin Sticks to $9,200
13.7.2020
A bullish stock market left bitcoin behind Monday with the world’s oldest cryptocurrency trading flat
CoinSwap and the Ongoing Effort to Make Bitcoin Privacy ‘Invisible’
13.7.2020
Developer Chris Belcher has set his sights on making CoinSwap a reality – a new project he hopes will "massively improve bitcoin privacy."
This Startup Is on a Quest to Make Decentralized Exchanges Viable for Pros
8.7.2020
The Vega Protocol claims to have found a solution to sustainably bootstrap liquidity for decentralized exchanges
How to Make a List Component with Emotion
8.7.2020
I’ve been doing a bit of refactoring this week at Sentry and I noticed that we didn’t have a generic List component that we could use across projects and features. So, I started one, but here’s the rub: we style things at Sentry using Emotion, which I have only passing experience with and...
US Founding Fathers Would Make Bitcoin Primary Legal Tender
5.7.2020
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Juan Villaverde is...
Telecom Giant Thinks Blockchain Can Make Phone Insurance More Convenient
3.7.2020
This South Korean company joined forces with Samsung to forward requests to insurance companies using Blockchain technology
PayPal Dabbling in Crypto Could Make BTC a Mainstream Payment Option
1.7.2020
As PayPal is rumored to join the crypto game, what will it mean for the industry and the price of Bitcoin and Ether?
When Sass and New CSS Features Collide
29.6.2020
Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can also end up interacting with preprocessors, like Sass, in funny ways.
So this is going to be a post about the issues I’ve encountered...
Book: The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I
29.6.2020
Ya know, for a site called “CSS-Tricks” that I’ve run for well over a decade, it’s a little funny we’ve never done a book under that name. I’ve written a book about WordPress and SVG, but never CSS!
Well, allow me to change that. I’ve been working on...
Quick Tips for High Contrast Mode
27.6.2020
Sarah Higley has some CSS tricks up her sleeve for dealing with High Contrast Mode on Windows, which I learned is referred to as WHCM.
Here’s the first trick:
[…] if the default CSS outline property doesn’t give you the visual effect you want [in WHCM] for focus states...
In Defense of a Fussy Website
26.6.2020
The other day, I was doom-scrolling Twitter and saw a delightful article titled “The Case for Fussy Breakfasts.” I love food — especially breakfast — and since the pandemic hit I’ve been using my breaks in between meetings (or, shh, sometimes in meetings) to make a full bacon, poached...