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Reverse Lookups with JavaScript
28.8.2019
I’ve always loved exploring regular expressions because they’re one of those skills that’s never taught in school — you need to pick them up on the fly, messing up and fixing them along the way. Regex’s are incredibly powerful, and one power they have are referred...
How to Build Firefox
27.8.2019
Open source is a dream and a gateway to an amazing career — I’m a testament to that. One of the most amazing open source projects to ever exist, Mozilla Firefox, is a project I’m proud to work on as an employee of Mozilla. It’s rewarding, challenging, and a unique...
Popular Web Tools and Services Among Designers & Developers (Sponsored)
26.8.2019
Today we will present you the most popular 30 web tools and services among designers and developers. We handpicked solutions that are offering the best functionalities, support, and pricing on the market. You will find probably the best logo design creating software, the very well-known Hotjar...
8 Reasons You Should Get Into Bitcoin
26.8.2019
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
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You must have heard of Bitcoins one way or another. A virtual currency that has taken the world by storm over the last several years, Bitcoins continue to be the most popular among its kind. Bitcoin...
Crypto Funds Are Outperforming – You Shouldn’t Be Surprised
24.8.2019
Josh Gnaizda of Crypto Fund Research looks into possible reasons behind the relative performance of crypto funds vs bitcoin since Q1 2017
Doing What You Want With Your Money Is a Fundamental Right
24.8.2019
Since the birth of Bitcoin, crusaders fighting for the separation of money and state discovered a new payment tool that bypasses the nation state’s control over the monetary system. For over ten years now, lots of people have been using digital currencies to hide from prying eyes...
Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with GraphQL
23.8.2019
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that is very empowering for front-end developers. As the GraphQL site explains it, you describe your data, ask for what you want, and get predictable results.
If you haven’t worked with it before, GraphQL might be a little confusing to grok at first glance....
Coinbase Now Allows You to Access Dapps on Desktop Browsers
22.8.2019
Coinbase Wallet saves users from installing browser extensions, moving private keys across devices, to administer their wallet funds on desktop browsers
Coinbase Now Lets You Access DApps on Your Desktop Browsers
22.8.2019
As per the official announcement by Coinbase, users will now be able to access their DApps (decentralized applications) on their desktop browsers hassle-freely. It has been made possible through Coinbase Wallet’s WalletLink service. As described in the blog post, WalletLink will act as the secure...
New Flexa Tech Will Let You Spend Bitcoin From Other Apps Too
21.8.2019
Mobile wallets and other apps will soon be able to plug into Flexa's payment rails and offer crypto payments to retailers
You Can Now Earn Bitcoin Rewards for Postmates Purchases
21.8.2019
Postmates has become the latest partner for Lolli's bitcoin rewards service
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
21.8.2019
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might cause you a headache. Here are three gotcha moments I learned the hard way.
TLDR: Pass an empty array as a second parameter...
You Can Now Purchase DAI on Crypto.com at its True Value at Zero Fees
21.8.2019
The payment and crypto platform- Crypto.com has announced today about the listing of the USD-pegged stablecoin- Dai (DAI) to its native application. The pre-existing coin and altcoins include- Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple’s XRP, TrueUSD (TUSD), PAXOS (PAX), Crypto.com’s native...
Getting Netlify Large Media Going
20.8.2019
I just did this the other day so I figured I'd blog it up. There is a thing called Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Here's the entire point of it: it keeps large files out of your repo directly. Say you have 500MB of images on your site and they kinda need to be in the repo so you can work with...
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
20.8.2019
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider the history of computing, this type of abstraction isn’t...
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
20.8.2019
This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still...
Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
20.8.2019
Milica Mihajlija:
Adding rel=preconnect to a <link> informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you'd like the process to start as soon as possible. Resources will load more quickly because the setup process has already been completed...
Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
19.8.2019
Let's say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something.
You'd probably be tracking the X location of the element, increasing or decreasing it in a time loop and — when the element reached the maximum or minimum value —...
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
19.8.2019
Yep.
Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if anything here is wrong, let us know and we can update it.
In Firefox...
It's a little button in DevTools. So easy!
Open DevTools...
IRS Revoking Passports Shows How Government Erodes Everything We Hold Dear
17.8.2019
If you have outstanding tax debt, the IRS may now want to take your passport. For U.S. crypto holders still waiting on promised IRS guidelines for filing — especially those overseas who may have missed these warning memos — the over 400,000 agency notifications issued since February...