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5% Over Spot: Gold-Backed Tokens Tether Gold and Digix Sell for Higher Premiums
7.4.2020
Digital asset markets have been gathering some gains during the last few days and tokens like stablecoins have seen massive demand since the start of the market carnage. Alongside stablecoins, gold-backed digital assets like Tether Gold, Pax Gold, and Digix Gold have seen tremendous trade volumes...
Sweden’s ‘Lagom’ Response to Coronavirus: No Masks, Keep The Economy Going With a “No Limit” Printing Press
7.4.2020
The Coronavirus in Sweden has so far claimed 611 deaths, with 7849 confirmed cases. Swedish people still send their kids to school and are not hoarding much of anything compared to countries like the US. But just like in most of the world many businesses are hit hard, and the country's central bank...
Learn Eleventy From Scratch
7.4.2020
The latest edition of Andy Bell’s Piccalilli landed in my inbox this morning with a sweet offer: preorder Andy’s course on learning Eleventy from scratch at a third of the price.
Why the plug? No, not sponsorships or anything like that. I just happen to hear a heckuva lot about Eleventy...
How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS
7.4.2020
The design for Netflix’s browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to scroll through content and hover on items to see a preview.
One unique characteristic of the UI is its hover behavior. When a show preview...
Ethereum Co-Founder: Finding Satoshi Is Like Finding a Malware Author
6.4.2020
An Ethereum co-founder suggests applying stylometric techniques to find Satoshi, but there is a caveat
Continuous Deployments for WordPress Using GitHub Actions
6.4.2020
Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are considered a best practice these days. As in, you work with your version control system (Git), and as you do, CI is doing work for you like running tests, sending notifications, and deploying code. That last part is called Continuous Deployment (CD)....
Is Bitcoin More Like Gold or Equities?
6.4.2020
Bitcoin markets have behaved a lot more like equities than gold during recent market swings. But widen the time frame, and things start to look shinier
ICO Crackdown: 11 Class-Action Lawsuits Filed Against Cryptocurrency Companies
5.4.2020
A number of class-action lawsuits have been filed against various digital asset firms and exchanges on Friday. The U.S.-based “litigation boutique,” Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, filed the lawsuit for three plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York. All three lawsuits claim that...
Google’s Technical Writing Guide
3.4.2020
It’s good!
I’ve written up my advice (sprinkled with great advice from others), but this is way more straightforward nuts-and-bolts training on technical writing. It’s structured like an actual course, with exercises along the way.
I’m far from an expert here. But between...
Tiger King’s Archnemesis Big Cat Rescue Accepts Bitcoin
2.4.2020
The number one show on Netflix in the U.S. right now is a television series called “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” and American audiences are eating it up like candy. While the docuseries costar Joseph Maldonado, aka “Joe Exotic,” spends 22 years behind bars...
Rethinking Code Comments
2.4.2020
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by default and require a click to reveal:
What a neat idea! Justin’s design reminds me of the way that Instapaper treated inline...
Cloudinary Studio
2.4.2020
I knew that Cloudinary worked with video as well as images but, the other day, I was curious if Cloudinary offered a video player embed just like other video hosts do (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc). Like an <iframe> that comes with a special player.
I was curious because, as much as...
Financial Bazookas Revealed – Market Strategists Believe the Fed Will Purchase Stocks Soon
1.4.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies may be the only free-market assets left not manipulated by central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve. Since the covid-19 outbreak, the Fed has unleashed a massive arsenal of monetary weapons to combat the effects on the economy. After the significant rate cuts...
Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3
31.3.2020
Here’s something I’d never heard of before: Display-P3 support in CSS Color Module Level 4 spec. This is a new color profile supported by certain displays and it introduces a much wider range of colors that we can choose from.
Right now the syntax looks something like this in CSS:
header...
Civic Wallet Now Offers $1M ‘FDIC-Like Insurance’ for Crypto
31.3.2020
Civic Wallet offers “FDIC-like insurance” for crypto for up to $1M, underwritten by Lloyds of London
RSS Stuff
31.3.2020
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it’s for, and how you can start using it as a reader. I like this callout, too:
Sometimes the content is just an excerpt, encouraging you to read the rest of the content...
Stablecoin Market Caps Swell Over $7 Billion – Volumes Surpass Most Trading Pairs
31.3.2020
While most digital assets have been suffering, stablecoins have been surging since the market downturn in mid-March and tether (USDT) is capturing more than 70% of BTC trades today. Besides tether, a wide range of other dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies have also benefited this month, as the market...
gqless
30.3.2020
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It’s very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data in templates.
But what if you didn’t have to write the query at all? What if you just wrote the templates pretending you already...
How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
30.3.2020
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
.el {
transform: rotate(10deg) scale(0.95) translate(10px, 10px);
}
...we can do:
.el {
rotate: 10deg;
scale: 0.95;
translate: 10px 10px;
}
That's extremely...
Tron Launches Djed, a Platform That Looks Suspiciously Like MakerDAO
30.3.2020
Is Tron’s recently announced Djed really a MakerDAO clone?