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Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid
16.7.2020
Michelle Barker covers a situation where you need offset rectangles part of a clickable area. The tricky part is having just the rectangles be clickable. That rules out using some parent element and making the whole larger encompassing rectangle clickable, which is a common (but equally tricky)...
Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
16.7.2020
This is a masterclass from Dave:
After you hit the wall of unremovable complexity, any “advances” are a shell game, making tradeoffs that get passed down to the user … you get “advances” by shifting where the complexity lives.
You don’t get free reductions in complexity. In CSS land...
Making lil’ me
15.7.2020
Cassie Evans made a lovely illustration of herself and then used Greensock to add a flourish of animations to polish it off. Cassie wrote a series of posts about how she did it:
In this post we’ll cover how to get values from the mouse movement and plug them into an animation. This is...
Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.
15.7.2020
“Jamstack is slowwwww.” That’s not something you hear often, right? Especially, when one of the main selling points of Jamstack is performance. But yeah, it’s true that even a Jamstack site can suffer hits to performance just like any other site. 
Don’t think that by choosing Jamstack you...
Bitcoin (BTC) Lacks Steady Support and Awaits Possible Breakout
15.7.2020
Bitcoin continues to trade around $9.2k while the altcoin market experiences steep surges as the smart contract-based blockchain platforms make breakthrough developments and extend their services in all the possible sectors. BTC price trend has been moving with almost a flattish curve over...
Netlify Does Cache Invalidation For You
15.7.2020
This is one of my favorite Netlify features. Say you’re working on a site and you change as asset like a CSS, JavaScript, or image file. Ya know, like do our job. On Netlify, you don’t have to think about how that’s going to play out with deployment, browsers, and cache. Netlify...
Three CSS Alternatives to JavaScript Navigation
14.7.2020
Hey quick! You’ve gotta create the navigation for the site and you start working on the mobile behavior. What pattern do you choose? If you’re like most folks, it’s probably the “hamburger” menu that, when clicked, uses a little JavaScript to expand a vertical list of navigation links.
But that’s...
Open Prioritization
14.7.2020
Like Kickstarter, but for Web Platform Features.
That’s about the quickest way to sum up Open Prioritization from Igalia. Igalia is an independent company that works on browsers. They literally commit to all the different open source browsers to implement (and fix) features that we all use....
Gemini Boosts User Security With Hardware Security Key Support for Android and iOS
14.7.2020
The Winklevoss brothers' Gemini exchange now supports hardware security keys for both Android and Apple iOS mobile devices
Iran Licenses 14 Bitcoin Mining Farms, Cuts Electricity Tariff up to 47% for Miners
14.7.2020
Iran has reportedly issued permits for 14 bitcoin mining farms and will cut up to 47% off of the electricity tariff in order to support authorized cryptocurrency mining centers. Crypto miners will soon have to register with the government. Iran Licenses More Crypto Mining Farms The Islamic Republic...
Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS
14.7.2020
I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them...
My Long Journey to a Decoupled WordPress Gatsby Site
13.7.2020
As a professional research biologist, my playground used to be science laboratories filled with microscopes, petri dishes, and biology tools. Curiosity leads many scientists on their journey to discoveries. Mine led me to web design. I used to try learning HTML on my lab desktop while centrifuging...
Introducing Headless WordPress with Gatsby Cloud (Live Preview, Incremental Builds, and more!)
13.7.2020
The Gatsby team shipped an update to its source plugin for WordPress, graduating it to a beta release. The new version brings a new set of features to Gatsby’s headless WordPress configuration, which brings together WPGraphQL and WPGatsby to power a Gatsby front-end that pulls in data from...
Lazy Loaded Prefill Embeds
13.7.2020
Lemme sum this up:
CodePen has Embedded Pens. Build a Pen on CodePen, embed it on any other site.
We also offer Prefill Embeds, which remove that first step. With Prefill Embeds, the Pen doesn’t need to exist on CodePen at all. You pass in the code and settings you want to appear in...
Phemex Exchange Adds Support For ONT Token
13.7.2020
The Ontology Network is proud to announce the listing of its native token ONT on Phemex, one of the fastest-growing crypto exchange platforms, which is the brainchild of more than eight ex-executives of the Morgan Stanley group. An official Twitter post was released by Ontology to broadcast...
DigiByte Holds Complete Support; Faces Strong Resistance at $0.0250
10.7.2020
DigiByte has had an excellent listing in the previous month, wherein the extending presence of DGB coin will lead to greater adoption. DigiByte is now available for trading on Binance, Bololex, OceanEx, CoinDCX, DigiFinex Global, Bilaxy exchange, WazirX, LBank Exchange, Bitcoin.com while it awaits...
Bad Day for Stocks Sends Bitcoin Price Below Key $9.3K Support
9.7.2020
Bitcoin price dropped below $9,200 as stocks were rattled by the U.S. Supreme Court decision on President Trump’s tax returns
Binance To Support Binance Chain Mainnet Nightingale Upgrade Process
8.7.2020
Headquartered in Malta, Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange has announced that the platform will support the forthcoming Binance Chain Mainnet Nightingale Upgrade. According to the official blog, Binance will block the deposition and withdrawal processes for the users owning BNB and...
Binance Expands Fiat Gateway to Support 15 New National Currencies
7.7.2020
Binance added support for the new currencies through a partnership with crypto asset and fiat money institutional custodian Etana Custody
WordPress Contributors Seek Sponsorship for Improving Gutenberg Developer Docs
6.7.2020
A couple of WordPress contributors are currently looking for folks to sponsor them to work on the documentation for the WordPress block editor (often referred to as “Gutenberg”) and this is your chance to support them.
If you’ve developed blocks for the WordPress block editor —...