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TypeScript, Minus TypeScript
6.8.2020
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the last several years (and let’s face it, hiding under a rock sometimes feels like the right thing to do), you’ve probably heard of and likely used TypeScript. TypeScript is a syntactical superset of JavaScript that adds — as its name suggests — typing to...
Match Accented Letters with Regular Expressions
6.8.2020
Regular expressions are used for a variety of tasks but the one I see most often is input validation. Names, dates, numbers…we tend to use regular expressions for everything, even when we probably shouldn’t. The most common syntax for checking alphabetic characters is A-z but what...
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
5.8.2020
Browser DevTools are indispensable for us front end developers. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Computed tab, a small corner of the DevTools panel that shows us big things, like how relative CSS values are resolved. We’ll also see how inheritance fits into the browser’s...
Orchid: Bringing Decentralization to VPNs
5.8.2020
Whenever we browse the web, read news online, or purchase a new pair of glasses from an e-commerce store, we leave traces. These traces sometimes show us content that actually provides us with value, but more often the information we leave is used in concerning ways with scandals like Cambridge...
Jetpack CRM
4.8.2020
About a year ago, Automattic bought up Zero BS CRM. The thinking at the time was that it could be rebranded into the Jetpack suite and, well, that happened.
CRM meaning “Customer Relationship Management” if you’re like me and this is a little outside your sphere of everyday...
What People Who Aren’t Bullish on Bitcoin Still Like About It
4.8.2020
Working with open-source software changes the development process, according to this researcher who interviewed hundreds of technologists across projects
Bitpatt.com, a Safe, Fast and Reliable P2P Crypto Exchange, Launches Operations
3.8.2020
While there are many crypto exchanges, fear of hacking and theft has slowly crept into crypto traders due to many such past incidents. It makes sense to always be in control of one’s fund and cryptocurrencies, and that’s why P2P or peer to peer services like Bitpatt are trusted by both...
Promise.allSettled
3.8.2020
The Promise object has many useful functions like all, resolve, reject, and race — stuff we use all the time. One function that many don’t know about is Promise.allSettled, a function that fires when all promises in an array are settled, regardless of whether any of the promises...
Spotting a Trend
31.7.2020
There are tons of smokin’ hot websites out there, with an equal or greater number of talented designers and developers who make them. The web is awesome like that and encourages that sort of creativity.
Even so, it amazes me that certain traits find their way into things. I mean, it makes...
SVG Title vs. HTML Title Attribute
30.7.2020
You know the title attribute? I can do this:
<div title="The Title"I'm a div with a `title`
</div
And now if I’m on a device with a mouse pointer and hover the cursor over that element, I get…
Which, uh, I guess is something. I sometimes use it for things like putting...
Zero Collateral: $138 Million in Defi Flash Loans Issued in 24 Hours
30.7.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) realm continues to heat up with concepts like yield farming, but another scheme called defi flash loans has also grown exponential. On Monday, the noncustodial lending protocol Aave issued $138 million in loans with zero collateral. Since the last week of June, defi...
Why DeFi on Ethereum Is Like Algorithmic Trading in the ‘90s
29.7.2020
DeFi's surge has created an interesting dynamic: Traditional fund managers are beginning to experiment with what decentralization has to offer
A Bit on Web Component Libraries
29.7.2020
A run of Web Components news crossed my desk recently so I thought I’d group it up here.
To my mind, one of the best use cases for Web Components is pattern libraries. Instead of doing, say, <ul class="nav nav-tabs"> like you would do in Bootstrap or <div class="tabs"> like...
Why Bitcoin-Like Scarcity Would Be a Disaster for the Dollar
28.7.2020
Calls to restrict the Fed's money printing powers fail to recognize the likely consequences, including price instability
CSS Vocabulary
27.7.2020
This is a neat interactive page by Ville V. Vanninen to reference the names of things in the CSS syntax. I feel like the easy ones to remember are “selector,” “property,” and “value,” but even as a person who writes about CSS a lot, I forget some of the others....
Bold on Hover… Without the Layout Shift
27.7.2020
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That’s because bold text is often larger and takes up more space. Sometimes that doesn’t matter, like a vertical stack of links where the wider/bolder text doesn’t push anything...
Bitcoin Could Be Latin America’s Ladder Out of COVID Chaos
27.7.2020
Although back in March, coronavirus seemed like a European problem, it was only a matter of time before it startedContinue Reading
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Bitcoin Could Be Latin America’s Ladder Out of COVID Chaos
27.7.2020
Although back in March, coronavirus seemed like a European problem, it was only a matter of time before it startedContinue Reading
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Despite Stock Market Disaster Predictions, Bitcoin Markets Permeate Bullish Signals
24.7.2020
A number of Wall Street veterans like Bear Traps Report author, Larry McDonald, think that markets might see some “disastrous and unimaginable” impacts in the near future. Another seasoned analyst, Larry Williams, believes the S&P 500 will shudder after July 28. Despite the pending...
A Font-Like SVG Icon System for Vue
24.7.2020
Managing a custom collection of icons in a Vue app can be challenging at times. An icon font is easy to use, but for customization, you have to rely on third-party font generators, and merge conflicts can be painful to resolve since fonts are binary files.
Using SVG files instead can eliminate...