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Path to $20K Bitcoin price now wide open after previous resistance breaks
20.11.2020
BTC/USD climbs to over $18,800 in Friday trading, less than $1,250 off its historic highs from 2017
The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
10.11.2020
For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we’re heading in that direction.
When building components for a website, you don’t always know how that component will be used. Maybe it will be render as wide as the browser window is. Maybe two of them...
Toyota’s Tech Arm to Begin Company-wide ‘Digital Currency’ Pilot
26.10.2020
Source: Adobe/Björn Wylezich
Toyota’s IT subsidiary Toyota Systems has said it will begin a “digital currency” pilot with the Japanese crypto exchange DeCurret – embarking on a half-year-long company token experiment.
Toyota Systems develops tech support and system development solutions for...
Styling Complex Labels
5.10.2020
Danielle Romo covers the HTML pattern you need when you have a wordy <label> with fancy styling for an <input type="radio">.
The trick? The ol’ <span class="hidden-visually"> that contains the label that you want to be read, and a <span aria-hidden="true"> with...
Achieving Vertical Alignment (Thanks, Subgrid!)
30.9.2020
Our tools for vertical alignment have gotten a lot better as of late. My early days as a website designer involved laying out 960px wide homepage designs and aligning things horizontally across a page using a 12-column grid. Media queries came along which required a serious mental shift. It solved...
Kenya’s golf stablecoin highlights need for Africa-wide regulations
29.9.2020
A stablecoin that will be used to pay entrance fees for the golfing tournaments of a Kenyan 'entrepreneurs network’ has started testing under the local regulatory sandbox
Thinking About Power Usage and Websites
22.9.2020
Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He has a book, after all, about the digital costs on the planet. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like…
If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will...
Bitcoin Birch says no retail crypto-wide bull run likely for rest of 2020
17.9.2020
He isn't bearish. In fact, his ideas appear to lean ever so slightly bullish
Key Insights Behind the Market-Wide Crash: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
9.9.2020
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Chinese Bank Disables Digital Yuan Wallet After Soft Launch Draws Wide Attention
29.8.2020
China Construction Bank had quietly opened up the wallet service of China's digital yuan to public users – but has now disabled it shortly after the feature gained wide attention
Chapter 3: The Website
19.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Berners-Lee, motivated by his own curiosity, creates the World Wide Web at CERN. He releases its technologies to the public domain, which enables the development of several new browsers for every operating system. Mosaic proves to the most popular, and...
A New DeFi Exchange Says It Has Solved An Industry-Wide Problem
11.8.2020
This exchange aggregator thinks it can do better than the exchanges it aggregates
Chapter 1: Birth
5.8.2020
Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and stored and transmitted. How it passes from person to person. How the seeds of information become the roots of dramatic change. It is so fundamental...
EU Creating a Regulatory Regime for Cryptocurrencies, Says Economic Chief
26.6.2020
The planned regulatory regime could include stricter rules for projects deemed "global stablecoins," a subtle reference, possibly, to Libra
Some Typography Links
25.6.2020
I just can’t stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open tabs.
Vistaserve is “a grass-roots web hosting initiative hailing from Thornbury, Australia. Inspired by the quirky web of...
Creative Background Patterns Using Gradients, CSS Shapes, and Even Emojis
10.6.2020
You can create stripes in CSS. That’s all I thought about in terms of CSS background patterns for a long time. There’s nothing wrong with stripes; stripes are cool. They can be customized into wide and narrow bands, criss-crossed into a checked pattern, and played with in other ways using the idea...
The Expanding Gamut of Color on the Web
27.5.2020
CSS was introduced to the web all the way back in 1996. At the time, most computer monitors were pretty terrible. The colors of CSS — whether defined with the RGB, HSL, or hexadecimal format — catered to the monitors of the time, all within the sRGB colorspace.
Most newer devices have a wide-gamut...
Avoid Heavy Babel Transformations by (Sometimes) Not Writing Modern JavaScript
20.5.2020
It’s hard to imagine writing production-ready JavaScript without a tool like Babel. It’s been an undisputed game-changer in making modern code accessible to a wide range of users. With this challenge largely out of the way, there’s not much holding us back from really leaning into...
CSS fix for 100vh in mobile WebKit
15.5.2020
A surprisingly common response when asking people about things they’d fix about anything in CSS, is to improve the handling of viewport units.
One thing that comes up often is how they relate to scrollbars. For example, if an element is sized to 100vw and stretches edge-to-edge, that’s...
Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts
13.4.2020
Safari 13.1 just shipped support for CSS Shadow Parts. That means the ::part() selector is now supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. We’ll see why it’s useful, but first a recap on shadow DOM encapsulation…
The benefits of shadow DOM encapsulation
I work at giffgaff where we have...