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The 3 Laws of Serverless
6.3.2020
Burke Holland thinks that to "build applications without thinking about servers" is a pretty good way to describe serverless, but...
Nobody really thinks about servers when they are writing their code. I mean, I doubt any developer has ever thrown up their hands and said “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait...
From Trolls to Hodlers: Highlights From CMC Founder Brandon Chez’s AMA
6.3.2020
Brandon Chez, the founder and CEO of CoinMarketCap, made a rare public-ish appearance online last week (without a mask andContinue Reading
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Animating CSS Width and Height Without the Squish Effect
6.3.2020
The first rule of animating on the web: don't animate width and height. It forces the browser to recalculate a bunch of stuff and it's slow (or "expensive" as they say). If you can get away with it, animating any transform property is faster (and "cheaper").
Butttt, transform can be tricky. Check...
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
5.3.2020
Some commentary from Zack Bloom on the Cloudflare Blog, looking at requests to CDNJS for versions of jQuery.
What we don’t see is a decline in our old versions which come close to the volume of growth of new versions when they’re released. In fact the release of 3.4.1, as popular as it quickly...
What React Does (and Doesn’t Do)
5.3.2020
With a name as big as React, it's bound to cause some Stream-Crossing Confusion, as I like to call it. How do you center a <div> in React? Dave Ceddia:
React cares exactly zero about styling. Think of it as generating the barebones HTML. React will put elements on the page, but everything...
Price Analysis Mar 4: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, EOS, BNB, XTZ, LINK
4.3.2020
Tightening trading ranges suggest that Bitcoin and Ether are likely to start a directional move within the next few days
How I think about solving problems
4.3.2020
Nicholas C. Zakas:
Eventually, I settled on a list of questions I would ask myself for each problem as it arose. I found that asking these questions, in order, helped me make the best decision possible:
1) Is this really a problem?2) Does the problem need to be solved?3) Does the problem need...
Crypto Derivatives, A Short Guide to A Growing Trade (pun intended)
4.3.2020
CoinMarketCap has now expanded its listing to include crypto derivative market data. If you are interested to learn more aboutContinue Reading
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Distorted Link Effects with SVG Filters
4.3.2020
A couple of ideas for decorative link distortion effects using SVG filters on lines, circles and squares.
Distorted Link Effects with SVG Filters was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
CoinMarketCap Now Lists Crypto Derivative Markets
4.3.2020
To expand the discovery of crypto derivative trading opportunities for our users, we have now expanded our listings to includeContinue Reading
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Chainlink (LINK) Nears $5 All-Time High Unfazed by Bitcoin Price Slump
4.3.2020
Bitcoin and most altcoins have yet to fully recover from last week’s Coronavirus driven meltdown but LINK bucked the trend, rallying double-digits since Feb. 25
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
3.3.2020
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
There are four different techniques we can use to do this. Let’s look at those while being mindful of important things, like accessibility, performance,...
Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS
3.3.2020
(This is a sponsored post.)
Robin recently lamented the common complaint that CSS is frustrating. There are misconceptions about what it is and what it does. There are debates about what kind of language it is. There are even different views on where it should be written.
Rachel Andrew has a...
“What You Said” (Mar. 3), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
3.3.2020
Welcome back to our weekly blog series, “What You Said,” where we conduct fun polls for our community and shareContinue Reading
Price Analysis Mar 2: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, EOS, BNB, XTZ, LINK
2.3.2020
The way bulls have defended the 200-day SMA shows that sentiment is to buy the dips. Several major cryptocurrencies are likely to resume their uptrend in the next few days
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...
Top 5 Cryptos This Week (March 1): LEO, HT, LINK, HEDG, Bitcoin (BTC)
1.3.2020
The top-performers of this week show buying on dips, suggesting that the bulls could stage a comeback after a few days of consolidation
HTML: The Inaccessible Parts
29.2.2020
<input type="number", <input type="date", <input type="search", <select multiple, <progress, <meter, <dialog, <details<summary, <video, <div onclick, <div aria-label, <a href<divBlock Links</div</a, aria-controls...
Price Analysis Feb 28: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, EOS, BNB, XTZ, LINK
28.2.2020
Many major cryptocurrencies are holding their 200-day moving averages, which suggests a larger move in the next few days
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...