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No-Comma Color Functions in CSS
4.5.2020
There have been a couple of viral tweets about this lately, one from Adam Argyle and one from Mathias Bynes. This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit more clear. Before, every single color function actually needs two functions, one for transparency and one without, this eliminates that need...
Blockfolio Quietly Patches Years-Old Security Hole That Exposed Source Code
1.5.2020
The security vulnerability, which appeared in older versions of its application, could have allowed a bad actor to steal closed source code and possibly inject their own code into Blockfolio’s Github repository and, from there, into the app itself
Drupal to Jamstack
21.4.2020
I’ve been harping for a while that Jamstack doesn’t necessarily mean throwing away your old CMS. In fact, I’d argue that Jamstack is at it’s most powerful when paired with a system that you already know, are comfortable with, and perhaps even like. You’d call that...
61-Year-Old Silk Road Vendor to Stay in Prison Despite COVID-19
14.4.2020
A judge ruled that the vendor is in “reasonably good health” and this his argument would justify the release of every single federal in-mate over the age of 60
150-Year-Old Chinese Gas Company Ramps Up Blockchain Adoption
3.4.2020
Shanghai Gas will use blockchain to monitor and record data across its entire supply chain
Why Do Some HTML Elements Become Deprecated?
2.4.2020
The internet has been around for a long while, and over time we’ve changed the way we think about web design. Many old techniques and ways of doing things have gotten phased out as newer and better alternatives have been created, and we say that they have been deprecated.
Deprecated. It’s a word...
Vitalik Buterin: ETH Still Can Be Used as Plain Old Crypto
1.4.2020
Ethereum has emerged as arguably the most promising and successful crypto project after Bitcoin. ETH now has more applications than most, with continuous improvement being a part of the process. However, CEO Vitalik Buterin said in a tweet on Wednesday that Ethereum can also be used as “a...
Supreme Court Lifts RBI’s 2-year-old Ban on Crypto Trading Thus Welcoming Crypto Firms
15.3.2020
In April 2018, the Reserve Bank of India imposed a ban on crypto trading that barred various banks and financial institutions in India from availing any services that are related to digital assets and virtual currencies. Following the notice of the ban, several startup companies that were just...
Can ‘Old’ Users from U.S. Still Trade on Binance.com?
11.3.2020
Source: Instagram, Binance
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance is allegedly allowing some users from the U.S. to trade on the Binance.com platform, instead of Binance.US.
Though trading on Binance.com for U.S. citizens has seemingly been forbidden, some alleged users are claiming that they...
Old Rivals Oracle and IBM Want Their Blockchains to Talk to Each Other
9.3.2020
IBM and Oracle are working on an interoperability project that could unite the business consortia on the companies' respective blockchain platforms
Airport Gold Seizure in Amsterdam Points to Bitcoin Utility for Private, Borderless Travel
7.3.2020
A 27-year-old Brazilian man was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam Friday for failing to declare 15 kilograms of gold bars to customs, according to local reports. After failing to provide a convincing explanation as to how he acquired the gold, the traveler flying from Rio de Janeiro to Hong...
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
5.3.2020
Some commentary from Zack Bloom on the Cloudflare Blog, looking at requests to CDNJS for versions of jQuery.
What we don’t see is a decline in our old versions which come close to the volume of growth of new versions when they’re released. In fact the release of 3.4.1, as popular as it quickly...
Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development
28.2.2020
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the whole v10 redesign, a friend's website, and even writing a book. Those are getting a little long in the tooth though. You might still learn from...
13 Crypto Debit Cards You Can Use Right Now
28.2.2020
If cryptocurrency is designed to reconstruct the financial world while introducing major improvements in transaction speed, privacy, cost and convenience, debit cards represent a useful bridge between old and new. A preponderance of crypto debit card options now exist that allow cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Coders Confront an Old Quandary: How to Upgrade an Entire Network
19.2.2020
An old debate is resurfacing in the bitcoin developer community, underscoring one of the critical challenges confronting decentralized systems
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Are ‘Like a Giant Garbage Dumpster,’ Says Minneapolis Federal Reserve President
13.2.2020
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, said on Tuesday that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “like a giant garbage dumpster.” He would rather his one-year-old daughter have a low yielding Treasury bond than a bitcoin, emphasizing that...
Wendy McElroy: Crypto is Banking for Anarchists and Average People
10.2.2020
“What I love about Bitcoin is that instead of some rich old guy on Wall Street, young poor people are the ones getting rich” —Eric Finman No Longer Is Economic Sovereignty Just for Politicians and Bankers “Cryptocurrency is for the rich”; this pernicious myth causes...
Old CSS, new CSS
7.2.2020
I love this post that walks through the development of CSS and HTML — it shows just how far web design has come and how much easier it is for us all now.
Eevee looks at designing websites with tables, the Space Jam website, and how for centuries there was no way to easily inspect changes made to...
Building an accessible autocomplete control
6.2.2020
Here’s a great in-depth post from Adam Silver about his journey to create an autocomplete field that’s as accessible as possible. There are so many edge cases to consider! There are old browsers and their peculiar quirks, there are accessibility best practices for screen readers, and not to mention...
Overcomplicatin’
4.2.2020
There's some famous quote that goes something like...
When we're young, we make simple things because that's all we know. Then we learn how to make complex things so we make complex things. When we grow old, we learn to make simple things again.
Brad recently wrote about this abstractly in regard...