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Devising the Cloak of Invisibility in JavaScript
25.5.2020
Steganography. The art of hiding something right under your nose. For as long as humans have been alive, we’ve been trying to hide things — whether it’s our last slice of pizza or the location of a buried treasure. Do you remember the cool invisible lemon ink trick, where we’d write the secret...
How to Convert a Date String into a Human-Readable Format
25.5.2020
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m writing this article, in part, because it’s something I look up often and want to be able to find it next time. Formatting a date string that you get from an API in JavaScript can take many shapes — anything from loading all of Moment.js to have...
7 Reasons to Use Illustrations on Your Website (And Examples of How to Do It)
25.5.2020
Are you having a hard time finding photos for your website? The solution might be a simple one: use illustrations. This post will show you how and when they make sense to use.
7 Reasons to Use Illustrations on Your Website (And Examples of How to Do It) was written by Bogdan Sandu and published...
Everything you need to know about McAfee’s GHOST Coin
25.5.2020
Having established itself as a globally acclaimed device-to-cloud cybersecurity firm, McAfee is now aiming to revolutionize the cryptocurrency arena with the launch of its native coin branded under the name of, GHOST. Unveiled as a privacy coin, GHOST employs the excellence of the proof-of-stake...
Some Effective Ways to Help you Predict Bitcoin Price Accurately
23.5.2020
In the world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is what a monarch is to his territory, the unprecedented ruler. Referred to as the pioneer of virtual currencies, Bitcoin came into existence in 2009 when the global economy was in shatters, and recession had damaged the entire financial space severely....
Should you invest in Bitcoin or stick to traditional bank stock investment?
23.5.2020
There has been an unprecedented rise in the price of Bitcoin, tempting thousands of investors across the world to invest in the most popular cryptocurrency asset. But the question is, what with the price fluctuations, security issues, and other such factors, is it a prudent move to invest...
Got 10 BTC? You’re Now in the Top 0.5% of 30 Million Bitcoin Addresses
23.5.2020
There are now 30.4 million Bitcoin addresses with a balance, but those with even a whole coin form a tiny minority
Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages
22.5.2020
Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages. For example, as you scroll down the page products may slide into view, MacBooks fold open and iPhones spin, all while showing off the hardware, demonstrating the software and telling interactive stories of how the products...
The Fastest Google Fonts
22.5.2020
When you use font-display: swap;, which Google Fonts does when you use the default &display=swap part of the URL , you’re already saying, “I’m cool with FOUT,” which is another way of saying web text is displayed right away, and when the web font is ready...
A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling
21.5.2020
You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position:...
Roll Your Own Comments With Gatsby and FaunaDB
21.5.2020
If you haven’t used Gatsby before have a read about why it’s fast in every way that matters, and if you haven’t used FaunaDB before you’re in for a treat. If you’re looking to make your static sites full blown Jamstack applications this is the back...
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...
Radio Buttons Are Like Selects; Checkboxes Are Like Multiple Selects
20.5.2020
I was reading Anna Kaley’s “Listboxes vs. Dropdown Lists” post the other day. It’s a fairly straightforward comparison between different UI implementations of selecting options. There is lots of good advice there. Classics like that you should use radio buttons (single...
WordPress Block Transforms
20.5.2020
This has been the year of Gutenberg for us here at CSS-Tricks. In fact, that’s a goal we set at the end of last year. We’re much further along that I thought we’d be, authoring all new content in the block editor¹, enabling the block editor for all content now. That means when...
You Can Now Buy Tezos From 10,000 Convenience Stores in France
19.5.2020
French consumers can now buy Tezos from 10,000 mini-marts, tobacco stores, and petrol stations using prepaid coupons or cards
User agents
19.5.2020
Jeremy beating the classic drum:
For web development, start with HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript (and don’t move on to JavaScript too quickly—really get to grips with HTML and CSS first).
And then…
That’s assuming you want to be a good well-rounded web developer. But it might be that...
Using BugHerd to Track Visual Feedback on Websites
19.5.2020
BugHerd is about collecting visual feedback for websites.
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking at your own websites and you’re constantly critiquing them. I think that’s healthy. Nothing gets better if you look at your own work and consider it perfectly finished....
Bitcoin.com’s Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
18.5.2020
During the last few years, the Google-owned Youtube platform has been accused of massive censorship and in the last three months, the video streaming business resembles the Ministry of Propaganda, more than an online video-sharing platform. This week Bitcoin.com was also censored for sharing...
How You Could Save Money When Reporting Crypto Taxes
16.5.2020
There is no denying that you should be paying taxes on your income from crypto, but how can you ensure that you are not paying more taxes than you owe?
Offscreen Text for Copy & Paste
15.5.2020
The relationship between HTML and CSS is special: mixing content via HTML with presentation from CSS to make an awesome presentation. Sometimes, however, you need to employ CSS tricks solely to enhance functionality. This could be one of those cases. When browsing through the Firefox DevTools...