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CSS-Only Carousel
10.1.2020
It's kind of amazing how far HTML and CSS will take you when building a carousel/slideshow.
Setting some boxes in a horizontal row with flexbox is easy.
Showing only one box at a time with overflow and making it swipable with -webkit-overflow-scrolling is easy.
You can make the "slides" line...
Things you can do with a browser in 2020
10.1.2020
I edit a good amount of technical articles about the web, and there is a tendency for authors to be super broad in their opening sentence, like "What we're able to do on the web has expanded greatly over the years."
I tend to remove stuff like that because it usually doesn't serve the article well...
Video Games Giant Ubisoft Is Looking for Blockchain Startups to Support
10.1.2020
Are you developing a blockchain game that could be the next Cryptokitties or even take blockchain games mainstream, if only you had some help from a major company in the field? You’re in luck, because French video games giant Ubisoft is now looking for new blockchain startups it can support....
Is it better to use ems/rems than px for font-size?
10.1.2020
The answer used to be absolutely yes because, if you used px units, you prevented the text from being resized by the user at all.
But browser zoom is the default method for making everything bigger (including text) these days and it works great even if you use px.
But... Kathleen McMahon really...
Our Learning Partner: Frontend Masters
10.1.2020
I'd like to think there is a lot to learn on CSS-Tricks. But we don't really offer much by the way of courses. You're probably reading this because you just generally read this site, and you land on CSS-Tricks otherwise mostly because you are looking for an answer to some front-end...
Understanding Async Await
9.1.2020
When writing code for the web, eventually you'll need to do some process that might take a few moments to complete. JavaScript can't really multitask, so we'll need a way to handle those long-running processes.
Async/Await is a way to handle this type of time-based sequencing. It’s especially great...
let vs. const
9.1.2020
There are multiple ways to declare variables in JavaScript. We had var, and while that still works like it always has, it is generally said that let and const are replacements to the point we rarely (if ever) need var anymore. This doodle explanation does a pretty good job, if you need...
According to CoinMarketCap 2019
9.1.2020
In this “According to CoinMarketCap 2019” report, we will share an overview of the industry in 2019. As always, we hope you get a sense of the markets with our crypto data – with the additional nuance of the activity […]
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Join CoinDesk Tonight in Las Vegas
8.1.2020
Hey, Las Vegas crypto lovers, see you tonight at G.O.A.T. for our first On Tap meetup in Las Vegas. Join us for an evening of brews, bitcoin and blockchain. The event will be held at G.O.A.T. Sports Bar in Las Vegas and starts at 6 p.m. on Jan. 8. We’ll close up at around 8 p.m....
The Auto-Flowing Powers of Grid’s Dense Keyword
8.1.2020
Let's say we're working on the homepage of a news website. You're probably used to seeing some card-based content in a grid layout, right? Here's a classic example, The New York Times:
Yeah, something like that.
There are going to be some cards/elements/boxes/whatever that need to take up more...
Jetpack Slideshow Block
7.1.2020
One of the many (many) useful things that Jetpack does is give you extra-fancy custom blocks in the WordPress block (AKA Gutenberg) editor: a slideshow, business hours, contact info, GIF, Mailchimp, Map, Markdown, Pinterest, Star Rating, Recurring Payments Button, Repeat Visitor, Simple Payments...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for January 2020
7.1.2020
We're kicking off 2020 with a list of some of our favorite web dev libraries, frameworks and tools that you should use in your next project
Playing with Texture Projection in Three.js
7.1.2020
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to project a texture onto an object in Three.js with some interesting examples.
Playing with Texture Projection in Three.js was written by Marco Fugaro and published on Codrops
How Auto Margins Work in Flexbox
6.1.2020
Robin has covered this before, but I've heard some confusion about it in the past few weeks and saw another person take a stab at explaining it, and I wanted to join the party.
Say you have a flex container with some flex items inside that don't fill the whole area.
See the Pen
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Why every website wants you to accept its cookies
6.1.2020
I'm probably in the minority on this, but I've never ever built one of those "This site uses cookies, here's some kind of explanation of why, and please click this OK button to accept that" bars that feels like they are on half of the internet.
Emily Stewart:
Most of us just tediously click “yes”...
How to Stack Elements in CSS
6.1.2020
If you want to create fantastic and unique visual experiences on the web, you will eventually need two elements to overlap or exist in the same place. You may even just need them to be positioned near or next to each other. Let's go over two different ways to accomplish this, one with the position...
Duplicated Argument Names
6.1.2020
Oftentimes we override or monkey patch functions and, in many cases, there are arguments we don’t care too much about. A common practice for those arguments is using _ for argument names — it’s a generally accepted and known practice for “this isn’t important”....
View from The Capital: Tokenizing Hashpower
6.1.2020
By: Ryan Condron, CEO of Titan TL;DR: If you missed Titan’s presentation at The Capital, here’s a video of their presentation at The Capital and our preliminary whitepaper. It’s been some time since we presented our vision for tokenizing hashpower […]
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View from The Capital: Tokenizing Hashpower
6.1.2020
By: Ryan Condron, CEO of Titan TL;DR: If you missed Titan’s presentation at The Capital, here’s a video of theirContinue Reading
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View from The Capital: Tokenizing Hashpower
6.1.2020
By: Ryan Condron, CEO of Titan TL;DR: If you missed Titan’s presentation at The Capital, here’s a video of theirContinue Reading
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