Search
Understanding Blockchain Technology In and Out
6.4.2020
Blockchain is, without doubt, one of the most creative inventions in human history. With this being the case, it is slightly ironic that its creator has so far decided to abstain from taking credit and instead, has so far refused to reveal his/her identity. Blockchain was created in 2008 by...
React Suspense in Practice
19.3.2020
This post is about understanding how Suspense works, what it does, and seeing how it can integrate into a real web app. We'll look at how to integrate routing and data loading with Suspense in React. For routing, I'll be using vanilla JavaScript, and I'll be using my own micro-graphql-react GraphQL...
Understanding This Week’s Market Whiplash, Featuring Scott Melker
28.2.2020
What one of the worst weeks in recent history can teach us about market fundamentals, featuring prominent crypto trader Scott Melker
Bank of Japan Official Calls for Deeper Understanding of Digital Currencies
27.2.2020
Advanced economies should focus on addressing money laundering and oversight instead of issuing digital currencies, says a Bank of Japan official
Understanding Defi Flash Loans: Complex Attacks, Inflation and Composable Systems
23.2.2020
Two recent flash loans on the defi platform Bzx have started a fierce debate about the subject of using uncollateralized loans in a quick trade. Essentially these flash loans are providing people with the ability to borrow crypto without relinquishing any collateral. The scheme was used to exploit...
Understanding Web Accessibility Color Contrast Guidelines and Ratios
19.2.2020
What should you do when you get a complaint about the color contrast in your web design? It might seem perfectly fine to you because you’re able to read content throughout the site, but to someone else, it might be a totally different experience. How can put yourself in that person’s shoes...
Initial Coin Offering (ICO): Understanding Its Pros and Cons
2.2.2020
The influence of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is growing with each passing day. We are witnessing heightened interests not only from the investor community in the digital economy but also masses are moving towards the adoption of cryptocurrencies. There are many factors fuelling...
Understanding Immutability in JavaScript
30.1.2020
If you haven’t worked with immutability in JavaScript before, you might find it easy to confuse it with assigning a variable to a new value, or reassignment. While it’s possible to reassign variables and values declared using let or var, you'll begin to run into issues when you try that with...
Ukraine to Oversee Crypto Transactions Above $1,200, Sees Opportunities in Legalization Not Risks
27.1.2020
Cryptocurrency transactions in Ukraine will be strictly monitored by the state, although the country’s finance minister admits that it’s not digital coins but fiat cash that criminals and corrupt officials are more likely to use. The legalization of cryptocurrencies remains a priority...
The Design Squiggle
16.1.2020
I think we all have an intuitive understanding that, at the beginning of projects that require our creativity (be it design or code), things feel uncertain and messy. Then, as we go, things tend to straighten out. There is still some wiggling and setbacks, but by the end, we find a single solution...
China Issues Digital Currency Guide for Party Cadres
14.1.2020
Understanding a complex subject should be easier with access to educational materials. With blockchain and CBDC now part of Beijing’s political vocabulary, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has issued a guide to digital currencies meant to prepare party officials for upcoming changes in...
Understanding Async Await
9.1.2020
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so we'll need a way to handle those long-running processes.
Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great...
The SEC’s 2020 crypto priorities
8.1.2020
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 8 January, 2020 “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” - Maya Angelou In today's newsletter, we will be covering: $17 million funding round in startup to […]
The post The SEC’s...
The SEC’s 2020 crypto priorities
8.1.2020
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 8 January, 2020 “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” - Maya Angelou In today's newsletter, we will be covering: $17 million funding round in startup to […]
The post The SEC’s...
Now You See It
16.12.2019
I recently accepted a teaching position at a local college here in SoCal where I'll be spouting off whatever I know (or more likely don't know!) about HTML and CSS. It's suffice to say I was all ears (well, actually eyes) when Rachel Andrew recently published a post on teaching CSS.
The display...
China’s Crypto Game—Understanding the Dragon’s Move
24.11.2019
China has been one of the staunch critics of cryptocurrencies and has always adopted a reserved approach. The country has strict and stringent laws imposed on the crypto industry, which forced several companies to either end operations or move their bases out of the country. Ironically, some of...
No, Absolutely Not
19.11.2019
I think the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer isn't in their understanding or familiarity with a particular tech stack, toolchain, or whether they can write flawless code. Instead, it all comes down to this: how they push back against bad ideas.
What I've learned this year...
When to Use SVG vs. When to Use Canvas
12.11.2019
SVG and canvas are both technologies that can draw stuff in web browsers, so they are worth comparing and understanding when one is more suitable than the other. Even a light understanding of them makes the choice of choosing one over the other pretty clear.
A little flat-color icon? That's...
Understanding How Reducers are Used in Redux
24.10.2019
A reducer is a function that determines changes to an application’s state. It uses the action it receives to determine this change. We have tools, like Redux, that help manage an application’s state changes in a single store so that they behave consistently.
Why do we mention Redux when talking...
Understanding the Impact of Cryptocurrency Exchanges on the Market & Modern-Day Economy
6.10.2019
The year 2018 and part of 2019, saw the fall of several ‘revolutionary’ crypto projects which eventually led to the delisting of tokens from the cryptocurrency exchanges. The primary reasons given for this included lack of liquidity, usage issues, as well as lack of regulatory abidance by...