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Six Months Using Firebase Web Performance Monitoring
19.11.2019
I don't really think of Firebase as a performance monitoring tool (all I ever think about is auth and real-time data storage), but nevertheless, it totally has that feature.
Justin Ribeiro...
[A] tool to track what real users in the wild are experiencing with an easy setup? Yes, please. [...]...
serpstack
19.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Is it your job to keep an eye on your company's search engine placement? Or your clients? Or are you building a tool to do just that? Manually Googling stuff isn't going to scale particularly well there. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hit an API and it would return...
The Department of Useless Images
18.11.2019
Gerry McGovern:
The Web is smothering in useless images. These clichéd, stock images communicate absolutely nothing of value, interest or use. They are one of the worst forms of digital pollution because they take up space on the page, forcing more useful content out of sight. They also slow down...
Chainlink (LINK) Marks Moderate Fall Over the Last 24 Hours
16.11.2019
Chainlink price movement has been quite satisfactory lately. From the last couple of months, the coin has been trading in a lower range. The traders were eagerly waiting for improvement, which started getting reflected from the beginning of the month LINK coin price was dealing at $2.74, and today...
How We Perform Frontend Testing on StackPath’s Customer Portal
15.11.2019
Nice post from Thomas Ladd about how their front-end team does testing. The list feels like a nice place to be:
TypeScript - A language, but you're essentially getting various testing for free (passing the right arguments and types of variables)
Jest - Unit tests. JavaScript functions are doing...
Learn UI Design
14.11.2019
Erik Kennedy's course Learn UI Design is open for enrollment for less than a week. Disclosure, that link is our affiliate link. I'm linking to it here because I think this is worthy of your time and money if you're looking to become a good UI designer.
I think of Erik sorta like the Wes Bos...
Chainlink (LINK) Price Indicates Bullish Trend on the Intraday Trading
12.11.2019
Chainlink is counted among the top result-yielding coins of the market. The currency was seen touching astounding highs in the first two quarters. The downtrend started in the third quarter. Today, the LINK coin tried to trade upwards in the opening hours, but soon realized a pullback. The currency...
scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites
12.11.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Not every site has an API to access data from it. Most don't, in fact. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it. That is, load the page in web browser (that you automate), find what you are looking for in the DOM, and take it.
You can do this...
Disabled buttons suck
11.11.2019
In this oldie but goodie, Hampus Sethfors digs into why disabled buttons are troubling for usability reasons and he details one example where this was pretty annoying for him. The same has happened to me recently where I clicked a button that looked like a secondary button and... nothing happened....
Diana Smith’s Pure CSS Artwork “Lace”
8.11.2019
Diana is at it again with her absolutely unbelievable CSS paintings. This latest one is called Lace. Past paintings are Francine, Vignes, and Zigario.
She wrote for us last year if you'd like a little insight into her thinking.
Andy Baio looked at the painting in a variety of older...
Will Bears Tighten the Leash on Link Price?
8.11.2019
Chainlink price continued to be down trending to a major extent, yesterday Chainlink (LINK) price has been quite volatile and majorly inclined towards a $2.66 price area after having mounted at $2.71. The investor community has been in a lot of despair due to the ongoing bearish trend in the crypto...
Location, Privilege and Performant Websites
7.11.2019
Here’s a wonderful reminder from Stephanie Stimac about web performance. She writes about a recent experience of moving to an area with an unreliable network and how this caused problems for her as she tried to figure out what was happening during a power blackout:
Assuming all of your customers...
Chainlink (LINK) Indicates Recovery Despite Market Volatility
6.11.2019
Chainlink reflected a moderate price movement yesterday. The currency managed to close the day with a progression. Yesterday, the coin touched a high of $2.7 and a low at $2.64. The volume marked as $119,153,856. Yesterday, Chainlink (LINK) started the day with an uptrend in the price. The counters...
Prophet Announce to Joining Chainlink for Add Real-world Experience to Smart Contracts
6.11.2019
Recently, Prophet has announced joining with Chainlink to bridge the gap between smart contracts and authorized paperwork. From now onwards, Prophet will be a certified Chainlink Node Operator. It is a team of crypto enthusiasts, and early adopters of blockchain technology with a vision of linking...
Chainlink Exhibits a Moderate Uptrend Amidst Hefty Fluctuation
5.11.2019
Chainlink (LINK) price improves despite the ongoing volatility The intraday traders might close the day with a profit digit Chainlink marks an astounding recovery with its intraday movement. LINK started the day trading with a bearish trend, which now seems to be improving. The intraday traders...
Chainlink (LINK) Indicates Slight Growth Despite Fluctuating Market
3.11.2019
Chainlink has marked a marvelous past from the beginning of the year. The first half was quite a result –giving for the traders. The second half started with a fall and which continued till now. The second month of the last quarter has started. The traders are eyeing for better and improved...
Using the Platform
29.10.2019
Tim Kadlec:
So much care and planning has gone into creating the web platform, to ensure that even as new features are added, they’re added in a way that doesn’t break the web for anyone using an older device or browser. Can you say the same for any framework out there? I don’t mean that to...
Bidirectional Horizontal Rules in CSS
25.10.2019
Say you have a <blockquote> and the design calls for a thick border along the left side. Well, you might not necessarily mean left side, but actually mean on the side of the start of the text.
That's exactly what CSS logical properties are meant to address, and Hussein Al Hammad has a nice...
Chainlink Exhibits a 1.03% Uptrend in Past 24 hours
25.10.2019
Chainlink gains 1.03% overnight to touch 2.63 USD The next resistance for LINK awaits at 2.82 USD Chainlink has not been able to show significant strength in the last 24 hours, unlike other major coins. It has been up by only 1.03% in these hours. The three price variations have been between 2.61...
Limechain’s Developer Product Integrates Etherlime with Chainlink for Rapid DApp Development
25.10.2019
Blockchain-based solutions provider Limechain has launched a developer product, “Etherlime Chainlink Shape,” that combines Etherlime and Chainlink to reduce the time taken for developing Decentralized Apps (DApps). Etherlime developed by Limechain is an Ethereum development framework based...