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Datalist is for suggesting values without enforcing values
26.7.2019
Have you ever had a form that needed to accept a short, arbitrary bit of text? Like a name or whatever. That's exactly what <input type="text"> is for. There are lots of different input types (and modes!), and picking the right one is a great idea.
But this little story is about something...
A Story of 1 Picture: How Blockchain Startup Accidentally Met Jack Ma
25.7.2019
Jack Ma. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Viva Technology
A rather unusual and amusing story happened to a Lithuania-based blockchain startup, Lympo, on Wednesday.
Apparently, the founder and chairman of a China's giant Alibaba Group, one of the China's richest men, Jack Ma, was visiting...
Dogecoin Price Analysis: DOGE drops with intraday movement, But YTD tells different story
23.7.2019
Dogecoin (DOGE) price yields 37% profit since the beginning of the year Traders hold high hopes with their investments in DOGE Dogecoin (DOGE) has surprising profit digits if concerned from the start of 2019 until now. The coin has recently been through a hefty price drop. We were not expecting...
Wala Was Africa’s Perfect Crypto Success Story – Until It Collapsed
11.7.2019
Wala went from serving customers in Uganda to shuttering its payments app. Here's what sources say happened
Columbia Embroiled in 'Fake' Crypto Story, Mexico Cautious over Libra
28.6.2019
Colombia’s former finance minister has hit out at what he says are “fake news” stories linking him to cryptocurrency investments.
The Colombian crypto-community had been galvanized by reports surrounding Mauricio Cárdenas – who served as the country’s finance minister from 2012 to 2018 – claiming...
Napínavá story pokračuje: Rover Curiosity objevil na Marsu velké množství metanu
25.6.2019
Napínavá story pokračuje: Rover Curiosity objevil na Marsu velké množství metanu
Bitmain’s Nishant Sharma Talks China and Crypto in the Humans of Bitcoin Podcast
19.6.2019
This week on the Humans of Bitcoin podcast host Matt Aaron chatted with Bitmain’s Nishant Sharma who shared his story and discussed the western hemisphere’s false impressions of China and Bitcoin. During the interview, Sharma conversed about his work with Bitmain, one of the largest...
Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS
13.6.2019
Greek mythology tells the story of Zeus creating the cloud nymph, Nephele. Like other Greek myths, this tale gets pretty bizarre and X-rated. Here’s a very abridged, polite version.
Nephele, we are told, was created by Zeus in the image of his own beautiful wife. A mortal meets Nephele, falls...
Crypto Assets Outshine Most Traditional Investments in 2019
29.5.2019
Last year, cryptocurrency proponents either complained about the low prices or celebrated the fact they could obtain cheaper coins. 2019 has been an entirely different story, however, as digital assets have started to gain significant value in comparison to traditional assets like stocks, oil,...
Litecoin (LTC) Price Analysis: Stop Selling; Litecoin’s Growth Story is Not Yet Over
23.5.2019
Litecoin (LTC) has managed to gain 200% in just 6 months. The 2020 prediction target remains at $220. Litecoin (LTC) is one of the biggest performers in the whole crypto market. The hopes with this coin for a likewise performance in the next few months are also really high. Litecoin (LTC) could...
From Exxon to Crypto: the Story of Joey King on the Humans of Bitcoin Podcast
15.5.2019
Joey King, a developer at Bitcoin.com, is the latest character to have shared his story on the Humans of Bitcoin podcast with Matt Aaron. The interview covers how he went from working in the oil industry to being a crypto programmer to how he sees the propaganda efforts of Napoleon reflected in...
Dash (DASH) Price Analysis: DASH Coin Theft Couldn’t Harm The Growth Story; Bullish Days Ahead
15.5.2019
Dash coin experienced a theft over 75000 units of a coin. Current resistance at 140 USD and 2019 prediction rests at 160 USD. Dash (DASH) has been subject to malicious defamation due to the theft that happened recently. The theft cost the users a whopping 75000 units of Dash coin. Dash (DASH)...
Deploying a Client-Side Rendered create-react-app to Microsoft Azure
10.5.2019
Deploying a React app to Microsoft Azure is simple. Except that... it isn’t. The devil is in the details. If you're looking to deploy a create-react-app — or a similar style front-end JavaScript framework that requires pushState-based routing — to Microsoft Azure, I believe this article will serve...
A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
6.5.2019
Chris Zacharias published a few notes about why the team at YouTube added a banner that asked users to switch from IE6 to a more modern browser back in 2009:
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint....
Perceived Velocity through Version Numbers
30.4.2019
HTML5 and CSS3 were big. So big that they were buzzwords that actually meant something and were a massive success story in pushing web technology forward. JavaScript names their big releases now too: ES6, ES7, ES8... and it seems like it will keep going that way.
But HTML and CSS are done with that...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
Technical Debt is Like Tetris
21.3.2019
Here’s a wonderful post by Eric Higgins all about refactoring and technical debt. He compares giant refactoring projects to being similar to Tetris:
Similar to running a business, Tetris gets harder the longer you play. Pieces move faster and it becomes harder to keep up.
Similar to running...
Planning for Responsive Images
13.3.2019
The first time I made an image responsive, it was as simple as coding these four lines:
img {
max-width: 100%;
height auto; /* default */
}
Though that worked for me as a developer, it wasn’t the best for the audience. What happens if the the image in the src attribute is heavy? On high-end...
WooCommerce
20.12.2018
(This is a sponsored post.)
I just read a nicely put together story about WooCommerce over on the CodeinWP blog. WooCommerce started life as WooThemes, sort of a "premium themes" business started by just a couple of fellas who had never even met in person. Two years and a few employees later they...
Build a Health Tracking App with React, GraphQL, and User Authentication
12.6.2018
I think you’ll like the story I’m about to tell you. I’m going to show you how to build a GraphQL API with Vesper framework, TypeORM, and MySQL. These are Node frameworks, and I’ll use TypeScript f