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Using Custom Properties to Wrangle Variations in Keyframe Animations
12.9.2019
Have you ever wondered how to customize CSS animations keyframes without using any preprocessor feature, like mixins? I keep reaching for preprocessors for this reason, but it would so nice to drop yet one more dependency and go with vanilla CSS.
Well, I found a way to account for variations within...
This is How the New Wallet by ex-CEO of BTCC Exchange Looks Like
12.9.2019
Bobby Lee. Source: Twitter, @bobbyclee
Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of one of the world’s first Bitcoin exchanges, BTCC, known as a pioneer in the Cryptoland, came out with his new project – a crypto wallet, dubbed Ballet, or the REAL Series.
Lee, who’s also the brother of Litecoin’s...
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
12.9.2019
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right?
On an electric scooter, though
No, Bitcoin Price Is Not in a 2018-Like ‘Descending Triangle’ of Doom
12.9.2019
Is there a descending triangle on the current Bitcoin price chart? In our opinion, no
Logical Operations with CSS Variables
11.9.2019
Very often, while using switch variables (a variable that's either 0 or 1, a concept that's explained in a greater detail in in this post), I wish I could perform logical operations on them. We don't have functions like not(var(--i)) or and(var(--i), var(--k)) in CSS, but we can emulate these...
“Off The Main Thread”
10.9.2019
JavaScript is what they call "single-threaded." As Brian Barbour puts it:
This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.
We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on elements or entire sites. If we give JavaScript lots of jobs and it gets...
How to Not Minify Source with webpack
10.9.2019
The webpack JavaScript utility has taken over the modern JavaScript landscape, so much so that it’s hard to be a JavaScript developer and not use it. JavaScript build utilities are the point where they do best practices implicitly, like minify code, caching, and more. I was recently debugging...
SWIFT: Crypto Useless, ‘Goes Down In Value Like A Yoyo’
10.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies “go down in value like a yoyo,” are “useless and unstable,” say representatives at SWIFT
CSS Security Vulnerabilities
9.9.2019
Don't read that headline and get worried. I don't think CSS is a particularly dangerous security concern and, for the most part, I don't think you need to worry about it.
But every once in a while, articles tend to circulate and get some attention as to the possibilities of what CSS can do that...
Despite Setbacks, Darknet Markets Show Continuous Growth in 2019
9.9.2019
Since the birth of the Silk Road, there’s been a cat and mouse game between global law enforcement and darknet market (DNM) operators. Over the last two years, law enforcement agencies have knocked out a slew of markets like Hansa and the massive Alphabay. Months later, Dream and Wall Street...
Crypto Banking Expands With Positive Interest Rates and New Services
9.9.2019
Banking, in the traditional sense of the term, has become a financial burden for account holders in regions where the era of subzero interest rates has already set in. European nations like Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Eurozone countries have been in negative territory for some time, and banks...
Stop Installing Packages Globally
9.9.2019
These days, most front-end projects are going to involve NPM packages of some kind. Occasionally, when browsing documentation for these packages, I’ll see a recommendation to install a package like this. yarn global add <package> Or like this. npm install --global <package> In both...
Bitcoin’s Early Days: How Crypto’s Past Is Much Different Than the Present
8.9.2019
Over the last 24 hours, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been discussing a transaction that saw 94,000 BTC sent to an unknown wallet. The hoopla over the large transaction shows how things have changed significantly over the last decade. Back in cryptocurrency’s early days, between 2010-2012...
Jack Dorsey: Twitter Has No Interest in Creating Libra-Like Crypto
7.9.2019
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has no interest in following the example of Facebook’s Libra
Keene New Hampshire Is Not Only a Libertarian Enclave – It’s Also a Crypto Mecca
6.9.2019
Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of attention directed toward destinations like Slovenia, North Queensland, Japan, and Venezuela which capture the largest number of bitcoin cash merchants worldwide. Another region that’s seen a massive influx of BCH adoption is Keene,...
JPMorgan Warns Stablecoins Like Libra at Risk of ‘System Gridlock’
6.9.2019
Libra can add negative yields to its growing list of risks, according to a new JPMorgan analysis
Using a PostCSS function to automate your responsive workflow
5.9.2019
A little while back, you might have bumped into this CSS-Tricks article where I described how a mixin can be used to automate responsive font sizes using RFS. In its latest version, v9, RFS is capable of rescaling any value for value for any CSS property with px or rem units, like margin, padding...
PR: PayKassa.pro Launches Multifunctional Payment Aggregator
5.9.2019
Cryptocurrencies will be in great demand in the future, as the cryptocurrency market surprised skeptics once again. As soon as Bitcoin began its bullish trend, hundreds of other crypto coins followed the example. The authorities of large countries are starting to think about regulation,...
Crypto Payments Startup Eligma Raises €4 Million From Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund
3.9.2019
Many retail stores would like to welcome the added business that the crypto community brings, but find that they don’t have the capability to do so within their existing payment infrastructure. One company bridging this gap is Slovenian startup Eligma which is now set to start global...
Need to scroll to the top of the page?
2.9.2019
Perhaps the easiest way to offer that to the user is a link that targets an ID on the <html> element. So like...
<html id="top">
<body>
<!-- the entire document -->
<a href="#top">Jump to top of page</a>
...