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Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
28.3.2020
Scott Turner, who has an entire blog "Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps", gets into why vector graphics seems on these surface why it would be bad for the look of a pencil stroke:
Something like this pencil stroke would require many tens of thousands of different...
California Governor Namedrops Bitcoin in Speech About ‘Extraordinarily Bad People’
26.3.2020
California Governor Gavin Newsom cautioned the public against BTC fraudsters during his COVID-19 speech
Performance Links
24.3.2020
I've had a number of browser tabs open to articles all related to web performance and gosh darn it if blogging them is a way for me get some closure. They are all good!
Manuel Matuzovic, Why 543 KB keep me up at night:
Yes, I know, it depends. 543 KB aren't always bad, but on that specific page...
Chinese Censorship, Falling Prices, Illegal Mining & More: Bad Crypto News of the Week
21.3.2020
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These Online Stores Will Sell You Masks, Gloves, Emergency Items for Cryptocurrency
15.3.2020
Events like the global coronavirus outbreak provide good justification for some prepping. Crises like this often result in shortages and skyrocketing prices of important emergency items, proving that everyone should keep a box of face masks and even a decent survival kit, should things go really...
BTC Plunge, YouTube Ban & Other Challenges: Bad Crypto News of the Week
14.3.2020
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Block Links Are a Pain (and Maybe Just a Bad Idea)
10.3.2020
As we noted in our complete guide, you can put an <a href=""> link around whatever chunks of HTML you like. Let's call that a "block link." Like you are wanting to link up an entire "Card" of content because it makes a big clickable target.
<a href="/article/"<!-- display: block;...
Steem Scandal, Blockchain Voting Fiasco & More: Bad Crypto News of the Week
8.3.2020
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Coronavirus, Drug Dealers and Buffett’s BTC: Bad Crypto News of the Week
29.2.2020
Coronavirus keeps marching on the planet, drug dealers lose millions of dollars in BTC, while Tyler Winklevoss experiences his “Bitcoin pizza moment.” Check the bad crypto news of the past week
BTC Crash, Fraud and Anti-Hodling: Bad Crypto News of the Week
22.2.2020
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Animate SVG Path Changes in CSS
20.2.2020
Every once in a while I'm motivated to attempt to draw some shapes with <path>, the all-powerful drawing syntax of SVG. I only understand a fragment of what it all can do, but I know enough to be dangerous. All the straight-line syntax commands (like L) are pretty straightforward and I find...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Tells Banks That 'Crypto Is Not a Bad Word'
20.2.2020
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that stressing compliance is key to getting bankers on board with cryptocurrencies
Blame the implementation, not the technique
17.2.2020
I'm not sure we've gotten much better at this since Tim Kadlec wrote this in 2012:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“Responsive design is bad for performance.”“User agent detection is bad. Don’t segment the web.”“Hybrid apps don’t work as well as native apps.”“CSS preprocessors shouldn’t...
he CIA’s Decryption Abilities, BTC Beyond $10K and More on the Bad Crypto Podcast
17.2.2020
This week’s episode of the Bad Crypto podcast cites a bunch of great Cointelegraph reporting — check it out!
The Case of the Stolen Domain Names
10.2.2020
Back in 2011, the domain name for this site, css-tricks.com, was stolen. "Domain Hijacking," they call it. It wasn't just this site, but around 12 others in the design and development space. To this day, none of us really know how it happened and who was behind it, although I believe all...
Bitcoin’s New 2020 High, US Marshals Bitcoin Auction and More on the Bad Crypto Podcast
7.2.2020
You can also get your crypto news in audio format via the Bad Crypto Podcast. Here’s what happened on the latest episode
CSS4 is a Bad Idea
5.2.2020
Louis Lazaris, reacting to the idea of CSS4:
The reason “CSS3” worked is because it was real. It was the successor to “CSS2.1”. Everything after CSS2.1 was considered to be under the umbrella of “CSS3”.
The gist is that CSS4 isn't real, so won't work, and we don't need it anyway. Perhaps...
PHP is A-OK for Templating
4.2.2020
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn't have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built templating engine.
But first, a very brief PHP history lesson
The...
Silk Road Mentor’s Arrest Rekindles Tales of Rogue Agents and Pirate’s Treasure
3.2.2020
On January 30, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) revealed that Roger Clark, the alleged senior advisor to the Silk Road marketplace, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics. Clark, otherwise known as ‘Variety...
Rising BTC Price, Justin Sun’s Harassment Suit, and More on the Bad Crypto Podcast
1.2.2020
You can also get your crypto news in audio format via the Bad Crypto Podcast. Here’s what happened on the latest episode