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Burger King Lets You Pay Your Way in Germany — With Bitcoin
3.9.2019
Burger King Germany enables Bitcoin payments in its mobile app
Need to scroll to the top of the page?
2.9.2019
Perhaps the easiest way to offer that to the user is a link that targets an ID on the <html> element. So like...
<html id="top">
<body>
<!-- the entire document -->
<a href="#top">Jump to top of page</a>
...
Working with Attributes on DOM Elements
30.8.2019
The DOM is just a little weird about some things, and the way you deal with attributes is no exception. There are a number of ways to deal with the attributes on elements. By attributes, I mean things like the id in <div id="cool"></div>. Sometimes you need to set them. Sometimes...
The Best (GraphQL) API is One You Write
30.8.2019
Listen, I am no GraphQL expert but I do enjoy working with it. The way it exposes data to me as a front-end developer is pretty cool. It's like a menu of available data and I can ask for whatever I want. That's a massive improvement over REST and highly empowering for me as a front-end developer...
Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Cash Shine During Hong Kong Protests
29.8.2019
The Hong Kong protests started in June 2019 over a controversial bill and now after weeks of demonstrations, marching citizens are fighting for the future of Hong Kong. In the midst of all the activists protesting, digital currencies like bitcoin cash are being promoted as a way for people...
Litecoin Breaks Way Below $70, Is It Retracing to Bears Eye?
29.8.2019
Litecoin price falls below $70, testing support near $65 and $70. LTC seems retracing the bearish path. LTC trading price is currently not supported by any moving averages. Litecoin traces a downward path and plunges below $70. This dip has given a new 90-day low price and is fearing an even deeper...
Can you rotate the cursor in CSS?
28.8.2019
Kinda! There is no simple or standard way to do it, but it's possible. You can change the cursor to different built-in native versions with CSS with the cursor property, but that doesn't help much here. You can also use that property to set a static image as the cursor. But again that doesn't help...
Reverse Lookups with JavaScript
28.8.2019
I’ve always loved exploring regular expressions because they’re one of those skills that’s never taught in school — you need to pick them up on the fly, messing up and fixing them along the way. Regex’s are incredibly powerful, and one power they have are referred...
Paxful: Redefining the Way to Sell and Buy Bitcoin
23.8.2019
Paxful is a peer-to-peer platform connecting the buyers and sellers who want to invest and trade in Bitcoin. It has redefined the convenience of buying and selling cryptocurrency and has evolved as one of the credible platforms for managing your digital wallets. The company was founded in 2015,...
Promises and Static Values
23.8.2019
Async can throw a real wrench into the cogs of our programming workflows, all despite the fact that async is the modern JavaScript pattern. While async/await helps, there’s sometimes confusion about the way to have a single function that returns a value whether it exists or needs a Promise...
Navbar Nudging on @keyframers
22.8.2019
I got to be the featured guest over on The Keyframers the other day. We looked at a Dribbble shot by Björgvin Pétur Sigurjónsson and then slowly built it, taking some purposeful detours along the way to discuss various tech.
We start by considering doing it entirely in CSS, then go for some light...
NEO Price Analysis: Will the Bears Make Way for Bulls For NEO?
22.8.2019
The bears had been putting pressure on the price of NEO like other altcoins for the whole of July. August seems to have been a little better for NEO though the bears are still holding ground as seen from the one-day price chart with the prices oscillating in the range of $9.20 – $9.83....
The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt
21.8.2019
Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with...
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
Other Ways to SPAs
21.8.2019
That rhymed lolz.
I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:
Build a server-rendered site.
Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page...
Pave the Way for Future of Fintech and Cryptocurrency
21.8.2019
[USA August 5, 2019] – Hosted by BitMart Labs, the 2019 Block Plus Summit III will be launched on September 15 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The summit gathers the elites in the industry of Fintech from regulators, international leading companies, financial institutions, blockchain companies...
DigiByte Price Analysis: Will Bears Give A Way for Bull Run to DGB Price?
19.8.2019
DigiByte has shown a lot of downward price variations over the last month DigiByte (DGB) is the most secure UTXO blockchain till date and has been growing at a rapid pace with ever-expanding user base. DGB price has been under a lot of pressure with the bears currently controlling the crypto market...
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,...
20 Crypto Jokes on the Way Back to USD 20K per Bitcoin
17.8.2019
This week in Bitcoin news: BTC dropped to USD 10.5K, while Ether and XRP remained steady and BCH rallied, then it dropped below USD 10K, then it went above USD 10K...This happened a few more times. Your first visit to the Cryptoworld? No need for a heart attack, this is normal around here....
The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...