Search
Amazon Web Services Integrates Its Managed Blockchain Platform with Cloud Storage
13.8.2019
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is interfacing its Managed Blockchain platform with its cloud storage services. AWS CloudFormation gives a common language for the user to explain and allocate all the necessary infrastructure resources in the cloud environment. Moreover, CloudFormation enables the client...
Amazon Managed Blockchain Gets Cloud Support
13.8.2019
Amazon adds Managed Blockchain solution to its cloud storage services
Site Monetization with Coil (and Removing Ads for Supporters)
13.8.2019
I've tried a handful of websites based on "tip with micropayments" in the past. They come and go. That's fine. From a publisher perspective, it's low-commitment. I've never earned a ton, but it was typically enough to be worth it.
Now Bruce has me trying Coil. It's compelling to me for a couple...
Three UK Men Busted Over Bitcoin-Based Drug Ring
12.8.2019
The trio sold their products on the dark web and shipped as far as Australia
Tech Behemoth IBM Files for a Blockchain-Enabled Web Browser Patent
11.8.2019
American technology behemoth IBM has filed for a blockchain-enabled web browser patent
IBM Recently Registers a Patent for Blockchain-Based Web Browser for the Peer-to-Peer Framework
11.8.2019
The latest patent application from IBM represents about a blockchain-based internet browser. Registered on sixth August by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, IBM’s patent is for an internet browser supported by a peer-to-peer framework. IBM is as of now spearheading...
IBM Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Web Browser
10.8.2019
The patent describes a peer-to-peer network for managing and storing browsing session data
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...
Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhin browser extension, CSS Modules V1
9.8.2019
In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.
Use font-style: oblique on variable fonts
Some popular variable fonts have a 'wght' (weight) axis for displaying text at different font weights and a 'slnt' (slant)...
Collective #539
8.8.2019
Native lazy-loading for the web * The case study factory * Predictably Random * Writing Modes And CSS Layout
Collective #539 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design
8.8.2019
It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s a difference between actually knowing how to prepare a delicious meal and hoping for the best as you throw a few ingredients in a pot. Just like web development, you might know the ingredients—<span>, background-color, .heading-1—but...
Dark Market Drug Dealers Plead Guilty, Forfeit Crypto Proceeds
7.8.2019
A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies
California Couple to Forfeit Cryptocurrency Riches After Drug Bust
7.8.2019
The couple must forfeit an undisclosed sum of bitcoin and bitcoin cash they acquired from selling illicit goods on a dark web marketplace
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
Let Mavo Shine in Building Interactive Web Applications
6.8.2019
As you could guess from the title, this tutorial is dedicated to Mavo: a new, approachable way to create complex, reactive, persistent web applications just by writing HTML and CSS, without a single line of JavaScript and no server backend.
🐇 Follow the white rabbit!
Mavo is developed...
The Real Dark Web
5.8.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Charlie Owen that everyone in the web design industry isn’t using the latest and greatest technology. And that’s okay! Charlie writes:
Most web developers are working on very "boring" teams. They're producing workhorse products that serve the organisation needs....
Branching Out from the Great Divide
2.8.2019
I like the term Front-End Developer. It's encapsulates the nature of your job if your concerns are:
Building UIs for web browsers
The spectrum of devices and platforms those web browsers run on
The people who use those web browsers and related assistive technology
The breadth of knowledge...
Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
2.8.2019
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned...
Weekly Platform News: Preventing Image Loads with the Picture Element, the Web We Want, Svg Styles Are Not Scoped
1.8.2019
In this week's week roundup of browser news, a trick for loading images conditionally using the picture element, your chance to tell bowser vendors about the web you want, and the styles applied to inline SVG elements are, well, not scoped only to that SVG.
Let's turn to...
Collective #537
1.8.2019
The Real Dark Web * A Message to GitHub * Truths about digital accessibility * What I Like About Vue
Collective #537 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops