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min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!
12.5.2020
Nice video from Kevin Powell. Here are some notes, thoughts, and stuff I learned while watching it. Right when they came out, I was mostly obsessed with font-size usage, but they are just functions, so they can be used anywhere you’d use a number, like a length.
Sometimes pretty basic usage...
Bitcoin Transaction Costs Soar 400% Amid Halving Hyperbole
11.5.2020
The average transaction cost for Bitcoin (BTC) soared 414% in the days before the halving, peaking at $3.19 on May 8, from as low as $0.62 on April 26. This is the highest price bitcoiners have paid for a transaction on the network in ten months, according to data from Bitinfocharts. Fees are paid...
Bitcoin Miners Sell BTC Months After Halving, On-Chain Data Suggests
10.5.2020
The Bitcoin halving is just one day away, and historical data suggests a post halving selloff isn’t guaranteed
Quantitative Hardening: Dissecting the Third Bitcoin Halving, 3 Key Data Points to Watch
10.5.2020
In a touch more than 24-hours time, the third bitcoin halving will take place on May 12, 2020, on or around 9:50 p.m. ET. Miners will see their revenues slashed in half from 12.5 coins to 6.25 BTC after the halving and speculators wonder what will happen after the event. Currently, according...
Chromium lands Flexbox gap
9.5.2020
I mentioned this the other day via Michelle Barker’s coverage, but here I’ll link to the official announcement. The main thing is that we’ll be getting gap with flexbox, which means:
.flex-parent {
display: flex;
gap: 1rem;
}
.flex-child {
flex: 1;
}
That’s excellent...
Most Bitcoin Buyers Are in the Money Ahead of the Halving, Data Suggests
8.5.2020
Nearly 85% — or 25.79 million — of addresses holding bitcoin are now “in-the-money.”
Filecoin Is Mailing Out Hard Drives of Climate Data to Kickstart Its File-Storage Network
7.5.2020
Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world's literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto
65% of Global Bitcoin Hashrate Concentrated in China
7.5.2020
A new bitcoin mining map by the University of Cambridge shows that China accounts for 65% of the world’s hash power. About half of the country’s hash rate is produced in just one place, the autonomous Xinjiang region, which makes up 35.76% of the global total. Launched recently,...
US Central Bank Blamed for 2020 Financial Crash: ‘The Fed Is Lawless Economic Government Unto Itself’
6.5.2020
The last two months dealing with the coronavirus outbreak have been strange, to say the least, and as data rolls in more people are becoming aware that there was quite a bit of overreaction from politicians, the media, and medical professionals. A small number of people are starting to focus on...
Ransomware Hackers Threaten to Release Credit Card Data From Costa Rican Bank
6.5.2020
A group of ransomware hackers has reportedly stolen sensitive information from a major Costa Rican state-owned bank, Banco BCR
Totle to Integrate with Chainlink, Will Provide Aggregated DEX Data to Smart Contracts
6.5.2020
Decentralized liquidity aggregator Totle announced on Tuesday that it would be integrating with distributed oracle network Chainlink. In an official tweet, Chainlink stated that Totle would provide aggregated DEX data to smart contracts, which dapps can use in the execution of DeFi applications....
Vědci dokážou získat data z hacknutého počítače i přes napájecí zdroj
6.5.2020
Inženýři a vědci z oblasti kyberbezpečnosti zkoumají různé druhy útoků na počítače a servery a jedním novým se pochlubil tým vědců z Ben Girion University v Izraeli.
Pomocí speciálně připraveného malwaru jsou schopni na menší vzdálenost maximálně asi 5 metrů bez přímé viditelnosti získat
`lh` and `rlh` units
5.5.2020
There’s some new units I was totally unaware of from the Level 4 spec for CSS values! The lh unit is “equal to the computed value of line-height” and rlh is the same only of the root element (probably the <html> element) rather than the current element.
Why would that...
Mastercard and R3 Join Linux Foundation’s New Data Privacy Project
5.5.2020
The Linux Foundation has launched a new initiative to create a global digital trust standard
Bitcoin Fails at $9K Hurdle Again, But Data Suggests Investors are Bullish
5.5.2020
The cryptocurrency has again failed to keep gains above $9,000 even as active bitcoin addresses spike to 11-month highs
No-Comma Color Functions in CSS
4.5.2020
There have been a couple of viral tweets about this lately, one from Adam Argyle and one from Mathias Bynes. This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit more clear. Before, every single color function actually needs two functions, one for transparency and one without, this eliminates that need...
Bitcoin Price May Drop After Halving, Historical Data Shows
4.5.2020
Bitcoin has again rallied sharply in the weeks leading up to the impending halving event, but if historic patterns are anything to go by, the cryptocurrency could suffer a temporary price pullback following the event
Australské vládě unikla data o 774 000 migrantech. Ani si toho nevšimla
4.5.2020
Vážný problém musí řešit australské ministerstvo vnitra. Vyšetřování britského deníku The Guardian ukázalo, že informace o více než 774 tisících migrantech, které úřad spravuje, byly dostupné ve veřejné databázi na internetu. Stačilo pár kliknutí a kdokoliv se mohl o určitých lidech dozvědět
US Manufacturing Crisis: Fastest Economic Deterioration Ever Recorded, Analyst Says
3.5.2020
The US manufacturing activity has plunged to a record low, indicating that the country has entered into a deeper recession. “This recession is the quickest deterioration in economic activity ever recorded,” an economist explained. This data is accompanied by collapsing global demand...
Data Shows the US Economy Was Collapsing 5 Months Before the Coronavirus Outbreak
3.5.2020
During the last two months, the global economy has shuddered and a great number of people still attribute the financial meltdown to the Covid-19 outbreak. However, during the last two weeks, the blame has shifted, as many citizens are now blaming the government lockdowns, overly-predictive models...