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Low Interest Rates Are Crushing Young People and Fueling Global Riots
27.10.2019
There are currently riots going on in Chile, Hong Kong and Lebanon. While in every place they are caused by complex local issues, there is a global problem that is an underlying trend: low interest rates which make it impossible for young people to save for their future and at the same time push...
The Landscape of Cross-Platform App Development
25.10.2019
I don't track this stuff very well, but I get it. If you want a native app for Android and iOS, it sure would be nice to only have to write it once rather than two very different languages. Roughly double your reach without doubling the work. More and more of these things are reaching into desktop...
It’s on you
24.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 24 October, 2019 Change “If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in a room.” – Dalai Lama Happy Thursday! Without further ado, let's see what's up […]
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ImageKit.io: Image Optimization That Plugs Into Your Infrastructure
24.10.2019
Images are the most efficient means to showcase a product or service on a website. They make up for most of the visual content on our website.
But, the more images a webpage has, the more bandwidth it consumes, affecting the page load speed - a raging factor having a significant impact on not just...
Tron is Yet to Make Any Move Towards Recovery; Loses 4.7% Overnight
24.10.2019
Tron is down by 4.7% in the last 24 hours and reached $0.01442. The next resistance for TRX coin is likely to come at $0.0150. Tron (TRX) seems to be far away from a price recovery. After the last day’s struggle, it has again lost a whopping 4.7% in the last 24 hours to be …
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Why Are Accessible Websites so Hard to Build?
23.10.2019
I was chatting with some front-end folks the other day about why so many companies struggle at making accessible websites. Why are accessible websites so hard to build? We learn about HTML, we make sure things are semantic and — voila! @— we have an accessible website. During the course...
Digging Into the Preview Loading Animation in WordPress
22.10.2019
WordPress shipped the Block Editor (aka Gutenberg) back in version 5.0 and with it came a snazzy new post preview screen that shows the WordPress logo drawing itself while the preview loads.
That's what you get when saving a post draft and clicking the "Preview" button in the editor. How'd they...
UK Gov’t: FCA Will Make Final Decision on Banning Crypto Derivatives
22.10.2019
The U.K. government has stressed that is up to the “operationally independent” financial regulator, not the executive, to decide on a proposed crypto derivatives ban
Designing accessible color systems
21.10.2019
The team at Stripe explores how they’re refining their color palette to make it more accessible and legible for users across all their products and interfaces. Not only that but the team built a wonderful and yet entirely bonkers app for figuring out the ideal range of colors that they needed.
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South Korea to Make a Complete Transition of Financial Trade Over Blockchain by 2021
20.10.2019
Financial trade in Korea is steering fast towards the blockchain. A recent local report published the story on the basis of an authentic report from the company. The complete transformation of the company could be achieved by 2021, according to the report, and transactions pertaining...
What to Make of the SEC’s Latest Bitcoin ETF Rejection
18.10.2019
The bitcoin market isn't mature enough to support an ETF, said the SEC in its latest rejection of the concept. So what now?
Alleged Las Vegas Scammer Charged for $11 Million Crypto Binary Options Ponzi
18.10.2019
A Las Vegas man is charged with raising at least $11 million from cryptocurrency investors he promised to trade binary options for, and make gains of up to 300%. According to the charges the money was sent from new clients to previous ones in a classic Ponzi scheme manner. Also Read: Binance to...
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
17.10.2019
Here’s a fabulous CSS trick from Bradley Taunt in which he shows how to make tables work on mobile with just a little bit of extra code. He styles each table row into a card that looks something like this:
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Responsive Tables #2.5: Flexbox by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt)
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The `hidden` Attribute is Visibly Weak
16.10.2019
There is an HTML attribute that does exactly what you think it should do:
<div>I'm visible</div>
<div hidden>I'm hidden</div>
It even has great browser support. Is it useful? Uhm. Maybe. Not really.
Adam Laki likes the semantics of it:
If we use the hidden...
ICOs Are Dead But ICO Scammers Are Immortal
16.10.2019
The initial coin offering may have all but died, but the ICO scammer marches on regardless. Whereas legitimate projects have to wrangle with all kinds of challenges including the strength of the market, generating value for investors, creating a real product and actually delivering on the promises...
Workflow Considerations for Using an Image Management Service
16.10.2019
There are all these sites out there that want to help you with your images. They do things like optimize your images and help you serve them performantly.
That's a very good thing. By any metric, images are a major slice of the resources on websites, and we're notoriously bad at optimizing them...
Case Study: Chang Liu Portfolio V4
16.10.2019
Get insight on how to add 3D to a website using Three.js and make a wavy distortion effect in this case study of Chang Liu's portfolio reimplementation.
Case Study: Chang Liu Portfolio V4 was written by Chang Liu and published on Codrops
Let’s Make a Fancy, but Uncomplicated Page Loader
15.10.2019
It’s pretty common to see a loading state on sites these days, particularly as progressive web apps and reactive sites are on the rise. It’s one way to improve "perceived" performance — that is, making it feel as though the site is loading faster than it actually is.
There’s no shortage of ways...
Weaving One Element Over and Under Another Element
14.10.2019
In this post, we’re going to use CSS superpowers to create a visual effect where two elements overlap and weave together. The epiphany for this design came during a short burst of spiritual inquisitiveness where I ended up at The Bible Project’s website. They make really cool animations, and...
PoS Will Make Ethereum More Secure Than Bitcoin, Says Vitalik Buterin
12.10.2019
After the proof-of-stake consensus algorithm is implemented, Ethereum will be more costly to attack than Bitcoin, says Vitalik Buterin