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The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap
18.3.2021
Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile:
[…] CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers’ rosy resource assumptions. If there is unambiguously good news on the tooling front,
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How to Animate the Details Element
2.3.2021
Here’s a nice simple demo from Moritz Gießmann on animating the triangle of a <details> element, which is the affordance that tells people this thing can be opened. Animating it, then is another kind of affordance that tells people …
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An Ethereum and Web3-Compatible Sidechain Is Coming to Bitcoin Cash
2.3.2021
On March 2, 2021, the average fee on the Ethereum network costs around 0.0083 ETH in gas or around $12.89 per transaction. Transaction fees of this caliber have dampened Ethereum-based decentralized finance (defi) applications and Web3 platforms. On February 23, however, crypto proponents were...
BTC Balance Sheets: 42 Companies Hold 1.3 Million Bitcoin Worth More Than $65 Billion
1.3.2021
Since the company Microstrategy shifted a lot of its treasury reserves into bitcoin, a great number of companies have followed the firm’s lead. According to the web portal, bitcointreasuries.org, data shows that 42 companies are now represented on the list and the businesses hold more than...
Next.js on Netlify
28.2.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
If you want to put Next.js on Netlify, here’s a 5 minute tutorial¹. One of the many strengths of Next.js is that it can do server-side rendering (SSR) with a Node …
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Crypto Users Claim Popular Bitcoin Paper Wallet Generator Is Compromised, Millions Allegedly Stolen
25.2.2021
A number of forum posts and tweets say that the website bitcoinpaperwallet.com is compromised and people have said they have lost bitcoin using the paper wallet generator. Three years ago the website domain changed ownership and ever since then losses have been reported on Reddit forums...
Using AbortController as an Alternative for Removing Event Listeners
15.2.2021
The idea of an “abortable” fetch came to life in 2017 when AbortController was released. That gives us a way to bail on an API request initiated by fetch() — even multiple calls — whenever we want.
Here’s a super …
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:focus-visible Support Comes to Firefox
10.2.2021
Look at that! The :focus-visible pseudo-selector is now supported in Firefox, as of version 85 which shipped yesterday. I had to rush over to the MDN Docs just to confirm, and yep, the :focus-visible page has been updated to …
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Crypto Patent Alliance Questions Craig Wright’s White Paper Copyright Claim
8.2.2021
Back in January, the notorious Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto had his lawyers send letters to a number of websites like bitcoin.org telling them to remove the Bitcoin white paper hosted on their web portals. On January 31, bitcoin.org’s owner Cobra claimed he was threatened...
Online Sleuths Believe Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Stash Is a Blockchain Treasure Hunt Meant to Be Found
7.2.2021
Over the last twelve years, the cryptocurrency community has always been intrigued by Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. For over a decade, armchair sleuths and journalists have tried to uncover the creator’s identity and information on the whereabouts of all the bitcoins the enigma...
Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
5.2.2021
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.
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Open Web Docs
2.2.2021
Robert Nyman:
Open Web Docs was created to ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on de facto standard resources like MDN Web Docs, independently of any single vendor or organization. Through full-time staff, community management, and
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A Whole Website in a Single HTML File
28.1.2021
I can’t stop thinking about this site. It looks like a pretty standard fare; a website with links to different pages. Nothing to write home about except that… the whole website is contained within a single HTML file.…
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Components: Server-Side vs. Client-Side
28.1.2021
Building a website in 2021? I’m guessing you’re going to take a component-driven approach. It’s all the chatter these days. React and Vue are everywhere (is Angular still a thing?), while other emerging frameworks continue to attempt a push …
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Bitcoin Websites Asked to Remove White Paper After Craig Wright Claims Copyright Infringement
21.1.2021
During the last few days, the cryptocurrency community has been discussing the recent action taken by Craig Wright’s lawyers against web portals that host the original Bitcoin white paper. Recently letters were sent to a number of websites requesting the removal of the paper due to alleged...
Bitcoin.org Rebuts Craig Wright’s ‘Meritless’ Copyright Claim on Bitcoin White Paper
21.1.2021
The open-source project said it would not comply with Wright's demand to take down its copy of the iconic founding document
New in Chrome 88: aspect-ratio
20.1.2021
And it was released yesterday! The big news for us in CSS Land is that the new release supports the aspect-ratio property. This comes right on the heels of Safari announcing support for it in Safari Technology Preview 118, …
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Life with ESM
19.1.2021
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.
Before ESM, the situation for JavaScript …
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The Foundation for Economic Education Announces Two Major Gifts From Bitcoin.com Founder Roger Ver
19.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. 19th January 2020, St Kitts & Nevis & Atlanta – The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE.org) announced today that Bitcoin.com founder and early cryptocurrency investor Roger Ver has made two gifts totaling $2,000,000 in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to support FEE’s...
Dynamic, Conditional Imports
13.1.2021
With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async ()
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