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4.12.2019
There are loads of microsites and developer tools for looking at color accessibility, including tools built right into browser DevTools. They often show you if a color passes AA or AAA WCAG guidelines. But color contrast is more complicated than that because there is a wide variety of vision...
The New Klim Type Website is Impossibly Lovely
4.12.2019
I’ve spent the last hour hunched over the new Klim Type foundry website with my arms outstretched as if it was a fire in a very dark cave. Klim Type makes and sells wondrous fonts — like Tiempos, and National 2 or Pitch — and this fresh redesign now showcases them in all their glory. Here’s...
British Virgin Island announces a USbacked digital currency
4.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 4 December, 2019 “There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” - Aldous Huxley In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum's proposed hard […]
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British Virgin Island announces a USbacked digital currency
4.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 4 December, 2019 “There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.” - Aldous Huxley In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Ethereum's proposed hard […]
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New List Claims 1.9 Million Bitcoin Held by Centralized Exchanges
3.12.2019
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been discussing a newly developed exchange ranking developed by the crypto portfolio and trading bot startup Bituniverse. According to a leaked screenshot of Bituniverse’s “Exchange Transparent Balance Rank,” there’s roughly 1.9 million...
John McAfee Weighs in on Maximalism, Epstein’s Death, and ‘the Greatest Gift Since Fire’
3.12.2019
When it comes to causing sensation in the crypto space, there are few figures like 2020 Libertarian presidential candidate John McAfee. The controversial crypto champion took time out with news.Bitcoin.com to discuss his presidential campaign, the clampdown of regulators on crypto, and even...
Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles
2.12.2019
Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.
So you do a little research and find...
Testing React Hooks With Enzyme and React Testing Library
29.11.2019
As you begin to make use of React hooks in your applications, you’ll want to be certain the code you write is nothing short of solid. There’s nothing like shipping buggy code. One way to be certain your code is bug-free is to write tests. And testing React hooks is not much different from how React...
Bakkt Smashes Another Bitcoin Futures Record, But There is a ‘But’
28.11.2019
Source: iStock/Sergey_P
Bakkt, the recently launched U.S.-based physically-settled Bitcoin futures trading platform, has set another record, but it came with one 'but.'
Even though Bitcoin (BTC) dropped in November, the platform announced that two months after the launch of Bakkt Bitcoin Futures...
Image Lazy Loading
25.11.2019
Lazy loading images is a practice that’s been popular for a decade and for good reason: images are usually the heaviest downloads on a given webpage and avoiding unloading images that are never seen saves the user bandwidth. There are plugins for lazy loading images in every JavaScript...
Despite Market Turbulence, Bitcoin’s Support Lines Remain Intact
24.11.2019
Technical analysis of price trends is a topic ever electrifying the world of crypto investment with, dynamic debate on social media and beyond. While there are no guarantees, there are fundamental methods for looking at data which can provide valuable insights, such as analysis of price support...
Shift Cryptosecurity Reveals New Tamper-Evident Packaging
23.11.2019
As digital assets have grown valuable over the last decade, hardware wallets have become a mainstay and there’s now a variety of choices on the market. However, people still worry about their devices being tampered with during the shipping process and the firm Shift Cryptosecurity AG wants...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
IRS Vs. Bitcoin ATMs: Industry Says There Is Already Enough Regulation
21.11.2019
The IRS is eyeing the Bitcoin ATM industry for potential tax issues. Large industry players are already compliant enough, experts say, while smaller operators might experience additional difficulties
Emcee Tips for a Conference or Meetup
21.11.2019
There are some great resources out there to help conference speakers give better talks, but fewer for people who are preparing to take on the role of emcee at meetup or conference.
I've been fortunate enough to emcee conferences more than 20 times now, most recently JAMstack_conf which I help...