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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...
Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus
5.5.2020
Heydon’s <watched-box> is a damn fantastic tool. It’s a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added to the box based on size breakpoints that are calculated with ResizeObserver. It’s like a cleaner version of what Philip...
Open Source PPE: Inside the Project Decentralizing Face Mask Production
13.4.2020
Engineers in the Midwest are creating an open source method for manufacturing face masks. They hope to decentralize production to the local level
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)....
Different Favicon for Development
24.3.2020
I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to make some local change, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, and just not see the change, only to discover you were looking at the production...
Coronavirus Killing Smartphone Production Globally: How Does it Impact the Crypto Industry?
23.3.2020
Since the turn of this millennium, the world has seen several epidemics like SARS, Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Ebola, etc. However, none of them was as dangerous as the current pandemic, novel Coronavirus. At the time of writing this article, COVID-19 has infected over 260,000 people, killing more than...
US Firm Plans $100 Million ICO to Fund Electric Vehicle Production in Africa
14.3.2020
US-based ALYI has announced that the tokens for its upcoming $100 million initial coin offering have been minted on the Ethereum blockchain
Override window.alert
11.2.2020
For years the only bit of feedback web developers could get was via alert("{str}") calls. These days we have the web console but, in rare cases, we don’t have a console and alert calls are our only window into a value at a given time. One problem: if an alert sneaks into production code, your...
German Economy in Risk of Recession Amid Weak Demand, Tariff Threat, and Epidemic
8.2.2020
Germany, the economic powerhouse of Europe, is facing renewed challenges that may soon push it towards recession. Falling industrial production and dwindling factory orders are the prime cause of concern. The negative results have been announced on the backdrop of weak demand from Eurozone...
Bitmain and Canaan to Reveal 5nm Bitcoin Mining Chips in 2020
27.12.2019
Two of the largest bitcoin mining chip manufacturers have plans to equip their products with 5nm chips in the near future. Just recently, China-based manufacturer Bitmain purportedly produced the world’s first 5nm test-grade bitcoin mining chip and more efficient mining rigs will see mass...
Youtube ‘Christmas Purge’ Has Content Creators Pointing to These Alternate Platforms
26.12.2019
Recent widespread video removals have crypto Youtubers searching for greener and more dependable pastures for content production. While reports have since emerged of Youtube claiming the incident was an accident, and that videos are now being restored, the “Christmas Crypto purge”...
Boeing to Stop Production of 737 Max Aircrafts
18.12.2019
The America-based multinational airplane manufacturing firm, Boeing has announced that the team is contemplating to halt the production of its best-selling aircraft named 737 Max by next month of the fast-approaching new year 2020. The ban was imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
A Product Development Team Just Made ETH Block Production Twice As Fast
27.11.2019
Blockchain advisory firm ran a test that shows it can cut the average block propagation time by more than 50% on the Ethereum network
Playing Sounds with CSS
25.11.2019
CSS is the domain of styling, layout, and presentation. It is full of colors, sizes, and animations. But did you know that it could also control when a sound plays on a web page?
This article is about a little trick to pull that off. It’s actually a strict implementation of the HTML and CSS,...
S Block Quantum Leap Partners with Running Horses Films for Bollywood Co-Production
10.11.2019
Singapore based e-wallet platform, S Block Quantum Leap, and Running Horses Films has recently announced their first Bollywood co-production. To grace the launch, various dignitaries of the film fraternity were present. Among them was the famous Bollywood actor Ranjha Vikram Singh of the Running...
Netlify Build Plugins Announcement
22.10.2019
Netlify just dropped a new thing: Build Plugins. (It's in beta, so you have to request access for now.) Here's my crack at explaining it, which is heavily informed from David Well's announcement video.
You might think of Netlify as that service that makes it easy to sling up some static files from...
Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use
9.10.2019
I've been playing around with CSS Custom Properties to discover their power since browser support is finally at a place where we can use them in our production code. I’ve been using them in a number different ways and I’d love for you to get as excited about them as I am. They are so useful...
Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element
7.10.2019
This is me looking at the HTML <dialog> element for the first time. I've been aware of it for a while, but haven't taken it for a spin yet. It has some pretty cool and compelling features. I can't decide for you if you should use it in production on your sites, but I'd think it's starting...
German Bank Predicts BTC at $90,000 After Next Halving
3.10.2019
You wouldn’t expect a traditional financial institution to come up with a very optimistic forecast about the future of a cryptocurrency or an honest appraisal of its design. But Bayern LB, a lender based in the rich German province of Bavaria, has surprised the crypto community. In a recently...
Powerful New Ethereum Miner Reaches Final Stage Before Mass Production
11.9.2019
Upstart manufacturer Linzhi is ready to produce its first batch of powerful new machines for mining ethereum and ethereum classic