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The New Good Ol’ Days
22.11.2019
Eighteen years into this game, I love to reminisce back to the good ol’ days of the early to mid-2000s when there was an explosion of creativity on the web. It felt fresh and unbridled, with boundaries expected to be pushed at every turn, and they were. This was mainly down to one thing, the thing...
Bitcoin.com Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption With Racer Endorsement
22.11.2019
Luke Vanna and the Bitcoin.com car are competing for top honors in the Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series. Sports partnerships like this can introduce cryptocurrency to new audiences as well as attract more businesses to join the ranks of the many merchants already accepting bitcoin cash across...
Growing Accessibility Conversations
22.11.2019
I started this year on a new path at Knowbility — to help people and organizations create accessible content and apps. But what was exciting and helped motivate me more were two things:
WebAIM's Accessibility Analysis of One Million Page Homepages. With over 97% of sites having WCAG failure...
Everything and Nothing
22.11.2019
I've been thinking about the question for a solid month now. What about building websites has you interested this year? The question pervaded my solitary thoughts and played in the background during my conversations. I’d love to just tell you the answer I’ve come to, but the more interesting part...
HSBC Closes Account Used to Support Hong Kong Protesters
22.11.2019
For months on end, Hong Kong has been the scene of intensive confrontation between pro-democracy activists and its Beijing-supported government. It now seems the financial establishment has taken a side in this conflict. Banking giant HSBC has decided to close an account used to support the protest...
Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2019
22.11.2019
Ire Aderinokun has made another round-up summary of some things that piqued her attention during this year’s Chrome Dev Summit and there’s a lot of exciting news! There’s the :is selector (which Geoff wrote about a while back) as well as logical properties, updates to standard form elements,...
Market Update: Cryptos Shed Billions in Rapid Sell-Off
22.11.2019
Digital currency prices have been dropping in value this week and on November 21 the entire cryptoconomy fell below $200 billion. At the moment, most cryptocurrencies are down between 4-12% in the last 24 hours and 10-25% over the last seven days. Traders are currently pondering what will happen...
Smarter Design Systems Tools
22.11.2019
What has me really excited about building websites is largely around design systems and the design tools we use to build them. Though, design systems are certainly not limited to websites.
Closing the Gap
In the ever-so-hot-right-now world of design systems, one of the most common phrases people...
Ouch
22.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 November, 2019 “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Algorand 2.0 now supports non-Turing-complete smart contracts LG and […]
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Ouch
22.11.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 November, 2019 “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Algorand 2.0 now supports non-Turing-complete smart contracts LG and […]
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Tackling 7 Myths About Bitcoin for Beginners
22.11.2019
For those long involved in the crypto space, it’s easy to forget just how overwhelming and mystifying the world of bitcoin was when first encountered as a fresh-faced neophyte, unable to tell the difference between a bitcoin and a blockchain, or even what a private key was. In that interest...
Známe nejlepší české internetové projekty roku 2019. Křišťálové Lupy jsou rozdány
22.11.2019
Včera večer proběhlo slavnostní vyhlášení ankety Křišťálová Lupa 2019 - Cena českého Internetu. V této anketě se každoročně vyhlašují nejlepší internetové projekty daného roku v různých kategoriích. Některé vycházejí z hodnocení veřejnosti, jiné ceny uděluje odborná porota
New Cypherpunk Podcast Debuts Discussing Cryptoanarchy
22.11.2019
The Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast hosted by cryptoanarchists @thefrankbraun and @TheRealSmuggler has just released its second episode. The show compassionately reaches out to those listeners tired of the coercive “statist-quo” and explores how anyone can use cryptographic technology...
The New England Venture Summit Will Be Held on December 4, 2019
22.11.2019
The New England Venture Summit connects VCs and Angels with the most innovative growth early and stages companies. Over 800 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, investment bankers, and founders of venture backed, emerging, and early-stage companies will be convening at the prestigious New England...
Developer Launches BCH-Powered Paywall Service
22.11.2019
On Thursday, software developer Alex Winter announced the launch of Satoshiwall.cash, a noncustodial bitcoin cash-powered paywall service. The new platform allows anyone to create a customized paywall that uses BCH for payments so people can monetize their work online. Also read: Crypto Swapping...
How Building in the Open Can Change Our Industry
21.11.2019
I have to admit, I'm a developer who hasn't built a website. When I first read Chris's question, I sat in silence for at least a minute. Which technical topic did I want to discuss? A new library, programming language or best practice? Nothing, in particular, came to mind. Is that because I'm a...
Few Big Exchanges Continue to Report Fake Volumes in 2019: Chainalysis
21.11.2019
Large crypto exchanges have clamped down on reporting of fake trading volumes in 2019, while few are still likely misreporting, Chainalysis says
In 2019, Cryptocurrency Exchanges Diversified
21.11.2019
With exchanges controlling so much of the industry inflows, and accounting for more than 40% of the jobs, any review of the year has to start and end there. An analysis of the dominant trends driving trading platforms serves as a proxy for measuring the cryptosphere’s overall health. From...
Embrace the Political
21.11.2019
The tech industry has long held the belief that technology is apolitical. People are flawed, but the machines? They are neutral. They are pure.
This is ridiculous, of course. People make the machines. We write the algorithms that can't recognize dark skin tones. We decide to downplay or ignore...
[článek] Křišťálová Lupa 2019: Projektem roku je Deník N, osobností Oliver Dlouhý, bodovala i DVTV
21.11.2019
[10 minut čtení] Čtrnáctý ročník Ceny českého internetu zná své vítěze. V osmi kategoriích rozhodla porota, v sedmi pak veřejnost. Celkem hlasovalo 90 tisíc lidí. Ve 14. ročníku ceny českého internetu Křišťálová Lupa 2019 bodovali tradiční hráči i nové projekty. Výsledky se veřejnost dozvěděla...