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Russian State-Owned Holding Giant Proposes to Apply DLT in All the Gov’t Data Systems
24.5.2019
Russian state-owned holding conglomerate Rostec proposes a $1.3 billion-worth plan to apply blockchain in all the state data systems
Collective #518
23.5.2019
Take Back Your Web * Animation Handbook * Accessible Icon Buttons * The State of Fluid Web Typography
Collective #518 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Berlin: Next month UNCHAIN Convention 2019 will set up a get-together with state of the art crypto voices again, amongst others Tone Vays and Brock Pierce
23.5.2019
June 14-15, Berlin: Pioneers and visionaries are welcomed to join UNCHAIN Convention 2019 for networking, business initiation and controversial discussions of the most exciting areas of crypto and blockchain technology real world utilisation. The second edition of the last year’s top-10 blockchain...
State Street’s Blockchain Lead Departs to Build Data Privacy Startup
23.5.2019
Moiz Kohari, State Street's global chief technology architect, has left to build a new data privacy startup
Binance Hack: What Did CZ Do After the “F***, F***, F***” State?
20.5.2019
Source: Instagram, Binance
When Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao first realized that the exchange had been hacked, and plenty of funds stolen on May 7, his first thought was “F***!”. His second thought was quite different: “F***!!”, while the third one, and you’ll never guess it, was: “F***!!!”.
A...
Jet Airways Sinks Further Into the Abyss as Top Executives Start Quitting
15.5.2019
Even until last year, India’s Jet Airways was the country’s biggest privately owned airline with the biggest market share, and there was no doubt that the airline was going to continue on its growth path as the airline industry expanded in the country. However, the company’s massive debt burden...
German State Announces Plan to Establish European Blockchain Institute
15.5.2019
Germany unveils plans for the European Blockchain Institute, a blockchain research center to be based in Dortmund
10 React Challenges (Beginner): Use React State to Update the DOM
10.5.2019
A common theme in modern front-end JavaScript libraries/frameworks is that they can help you manage the data in your applications.
Once you update something, React can immediate
10 Days of React Challenges (Beginner): Use React State to Update the DOM
10.5.2019
A common theme in modern front-end JavaScript libraries/frameworks is that they can help you manage the data in your applications.
Once you update something, React can immediate
Under-Engineered Toggles
10.4.2019
Toggles. Switches. Whatever you want to call them, they've been with us for some time and have been a dominant a staple for many form interfaces. They're even baked right into many CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
It's easy to think of them in binary terms: on and off. Off...
Some Notes About Accessibility
20.3.2019
Earlier this month Eric Bailey wrote about the current state of accessibility on the web and why it felt like fighting an uphill battle:
As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into...
An Introduction to Web Components
18.3.2019
Front-end development moves at a break-neck pace. This is made evident by the myriad articles, tutorials, and Twitter threads bemoaning the state of what once was a fairly simple tech stack. In this article, I’ll discuss why Web Components are a great tool to deliver high-quality user experiences...
Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements
15.3.2019
The popularity of CSS-in-JS has mostly come from the React community, and indeed many CSS-in-JS libraries are React-specific. However, Emotion, the most popular library in terms of npm downloads, is framework agnostic.
Using the shadow DOM is common when creating custom elements, but there’s...
The Cloud is Just Someone Else's Computer
17.2.2019
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:
1GB RAM
modern, fast dual core CPU
speedy solid state drive
I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.
We were OK with that, because we were
The #StateOfCSS 2019 Survey
15.2.2019
You know about the State of JavaScript survey, where thousands upon thousands of developers were surveyed about all-things-JS, from frameworks to testing and many other things in between? Well, Sacha Greif has launched one focused entirely on CSS.
This is super timely given a lot of the content...
Avoiding those dang cannot read property of undefined errors
13.2.2019
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'foo' of undefined. The dreaded error we all hit at some point in JavaScript development. Could be an empty state from an API that returns differently than you expected. Could be something else. We don’t know because the error itself is so general...
Mac Dark Mode from Command Line
30.1.2019
One of the best professional decisions I ever made was switching to a dark text editor theme. I suffered from horrible headaches for years, partially caused by late night coding sessions with blindingly bright computer screens. Recently Apple implemented a dark OS theme which helps my eyes,...
Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS
29.1.2019
David Heinemeier Hansson has written an interesting post about the current state of web design and how designers ought to be able to still work on the code side of things:
We build using server-side rendering, Turbolinks, and Stimulus. All tools that are approachable and realistic for designers...
Using React and XState to Build a Sign In Form
24.1.2019
To make a sign in form with good UX requires UI state management, meaning we’d like to minimize the cognitive load to complete it and reduce the number of required user actions while making an intuitive experience. Think about it: even a relatively simple email and password sign in form needs...
React 16.6.0 Goodies
23.1.2019
React 16.6.0 was released October 2018 and with it came goodies that spice up the way we can develop with React. We’re going to cover what I consider the best of those new goodies with examples of how we can put them to use in our work.
React.memo() avoids unnecessary re-rendering
There...