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Crypto Networks Stress Tested During Bitcoin’s Wild Week

14.3.2020
Crypto valuations haven’t been the only casualties of this week’s market crash; crypto networks have also felt the strain. As onchain activity has ramped up in response to the market slump, fees have soared and the mempool filled on the BTC and ETH chains. Other crypto networks have...

Fluid Width Video

11.3.2020
IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web, ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video. There are lots of ways in which video can be displayed on your site. You might be self-hosting the video and presenting it via the HTML5 <video tag. You might...

7 of the World’s Largest Blockchain-as-a-Service Enterprises

10.3.2020
You’ve heard of Software as a Service (Saas), the means by which businesses subscribe to and access cloud-based software. Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) is its distributed ledger equivalent. It describes the process by which a third party installs, hosts and maintains blockchain networks...

Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land

9.3.2020
Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overlays — both with the same RGB values for the background-color — on top of an image. Something like this: <img src='myImage.jpg'/> <div...

Is Twitter Helping Justin Sun and Other Cryptocurrency Celebrities Defraud?

8.3.2020
A site as hugely influential as Twitter should ideally take a balanced and responsible approach when suggesting blue check accounts and other popular influencers to follow in the crypto space. Fact is, this couldn’t be further from the reality: Twitter seems to constantly promote the same...

Nigerians Can Now Buy Bitcoin With Cash From Stores and ATMs That Take Naira

8.3.2020
If there’s a place where cryptocurrencies draw significantly more attention than anywhere else right now, it has to be Nigeria. Africa’s largest economy is driven by its oil exports, expanding manufacturing, financial services, communications and information technology sectors, but also...

Bitcoin.com Local Gathers Steam as Other P2P Markets Falter

7.3.2020
The bitcoin marketplace Localbitcoins was once the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform. But during the last few years, the company’s trading requirements and KYC implementation have caused an influx of traders to migrate to different P2P crypto markets. The mass departure...

Creating a Modal Image Gallery With Bootstrap Components

6.3.2020
Have you ever clicked on an image on a webpage that opens up a larger version of the image with navigation to view other photos? Some folks call it a pop-up. Others call it a lightbox. Bootstrap calls it a modal. I mention Bootstrap because I want to use it to make the same sort of thing. So, let’s...

Charlie Shrem: Bitcoin Continues to Dwarf Other Crypto Communities

4.3.2020
As the world enters the second decade of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has been joined by thousands of other coins and crypto ecosystems. In an interview with SFOX, Bitcoin enthusiast Charlie Shrem stated that despite these growing crypto communities, the Bitcoin ecosystem continued to dwarf other...

USDZ Capital Group Launches USDZ Stablecoin

4.3.2020
Stablecoin is a cryptocurrency pegged to less volatile external assets such as official currencies, precious metals, or oil. The value of a stablecoin can also be pegged to other crypto-assets or fixed by algorithms. Stablecoins retain the same value as the underlying asset and are not subject...

Selectors Explained

2.3.2020
Have you ever found yourself either writing a CSS selector that winds up looking confusing as heck, or seen one while reading through someone's code? That happened to me the other day. Here's what I wrote: .site-footer__nav a:hover svg ellipse:first-child { } At the end of it, I honestly couldn't...

A Follow-Up to PHP Templating

28.2.2020
Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I'm literally using that technique for some super basic templating I needed to do on this very WordPress site. The main pushback was that this kind of thing can be an XSS vulnerability. In my case, it's...

Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development

28.2.2020
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the whole v10 redesign, a friend's website, and even writing a book. Those are getting a little long in the tooth though. You might still learn from...

Data-driven Jamstack with Sourcebit

28.2.2020
Think of building sites with Gatsby as an hourglass shape. Gatsby itself is right in the middle. The wide funnel at the top represents the fact that Gatsby can take in data from all sorts of sources. The data could be in markdown files, from a headless CMS or some other API, from a hosted database...

When CSS Blocks

28.2.2020
Tim Kadlec: One particular pattern [for loading non-critical CSS] I’ve seen is the preload/polyfill pattern. With this approach, you load any stylesheets as preloads instead, and then use their onload events to change them back to a stylesheet once the browser has them ready. So you're...

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