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Tailwind versus BEM
25.11.2020
Some really refreshing technological comparison writing from Eric Bailey. Like, ya know, everything in life, we don’t have to hate or love everything. Baby bear thinking, I like to say. There are benefits and drawbacks. Every single bullet point here is well-considered and valid. I really...
Retail Crypto Trading Soars In Africa and Asia + More News
25.11.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
Marcus Swanepoel, Founder of UK-headquartered crypto exchange Luno, recently acquired by the Digital Currency Group, said that...
Considerations for Making a CSS Framework
25.11.2020
Around eight months ago, I started building a framework which would eventually go on to become Halfmoon. I made a post on this very website announcing the launch of the very first version. Halfmoon has been billed as a Bootstrap alternative with a built-in dark mode feature, that is especially good...
Digital Yen Would Make Crypto Markets ‘More Lively,’ Says CEO of Monex Group
25.11.2020
Oki Matsumoto said a central bank digital currency would make it easier to convert cryptocurrency into legal tender
A digital yen will make the crypto market ‘more lively,’ says Monex CEO
25.11.2020
Oki Matsumoto, the head of Japanese financial services giant Monex, has welcomed the Bank of Japan's recent interest in central bank digital currency
Rendering Spectrum
25.11.2020
Here are the big categories of rendering websites:
Client: ship a <div id="root"></div> and let a JavaScript template render all of it.
Static: pre-render all the HTML.
Server: let a live server process requests and generate the HTML response.
They are not mutually exclusive....
Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Threshold Met: Proof-of-Stake ‘Beacon’ Chain Starts in 7 Days
24.11.2020
The Ethereum network’s ETH 2.0 contract has crossed the threshold needed to initiate the upcoming upgrade. Currently, there’s more 694,368 ether worth over $422 million resting in the contract, as developers hope the proof-of-stake launch will begin on December 1. At the end of...
Alarming Tax Letters, Bitcoin Sponsors, Mining Chaos in Abkhazia + More News
24.11.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto tax news
Crypto traders in the United States state that they have been sent alarming letters with faulty calculations about crypto-related...
How to Load Fonts in a Way That Fights FOUT and Makes Lighthouse Happy
24.11.2020
A web font workflow is simple, right? Choose a few nice-looking web-ready fonts, get the HTML or CSS code snippet, plop it in the project, and check if they display properly. People do this with Google Fonts a zillion times a day, dropping its <link> tag into the <head>.
Let’s...
The Core Web Vitals hype train
24.11.2020
Some baby bear thinking from Katie Sylor-Miller:
my excitement for Core Web Vitals is tempered with a healthy skepticism. I’m not yet convinced that Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) are the right metrics that all sites should...
WDRL — Edition 285: Making CSS more unterstandable, crowdsec, bfcache, web theming and finding details in climate change
24.11.2020
Hey,
Now there we go with a new writing. For me, this year has been quite different so far. And no, this is mostly not about some virus spreading across the world but about changing a lot in my work and personal life. My son keeps teaching me new skills, patience, happiness. My gardening project...
XRP Jumps 50%, Ether Eyes More Gains While Bitcoin Consolidates
24.11.2020
Bitcoin price remained in a range below the USD 18,800 resistance levels. BTC is holding the USD 18,200 and USD 18,000 support levels, but there are few bearish signs emerging. The price is currently (05:00 UTC) trading below USD 18,500 and it might soon attempt another upside break in the near...
Creating UI Components in SVG
24.11.2020
I’m thoroughly convinced that SVG unlocks a whole entire world of building interfaces on the web. It might seem daunting to learn SVG at first, but you have a spec that was designed to create shapes and yet, still has elements, like text, links, and aria labels available to you. You can accomplish...
How to Create a Timeline Task List Component Using SVG
24.11.2020
I’m thoroughly convinced that SVG unlocks a whole entire world of building interfaces on the web. It might seem daunting to learn SVG at first, but you have a spec that was designed to create shapes and yet, still has elements, like text, links, and aria labels available to you. You can accomplish...
More Institutions Are Buying Bitcoin, Say JP Morgan Analysts
23.11.2020
In their “Flows & Liquidity” report, JP Morgan analysts say institutions are piling into bitcoin at a stronger pace this quarter than they were in Q3 and may have a bigger role in price movement than quantitative traders
A Bitcoin Shortage? PayPal and Cash App Buying More Than 100% of New Supply
23.11.2020
When demand from these two sources alone exceeds the entire supply of newly minted bitcoins, expect serious supply pressure to follow
New Crypto Unicorn, Filecoins' First Exbibyte, Catching Monero + More News
23.11.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Investments news
US-based blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis told Forbes it expects to raise USD 100m venture capital at a USD 1bn valuation...
DRY-ing up styled-components
23.11.2020
I like working with styled-components. They allow you write CSS in your JavaScript, keeping your CSS in very close proximity to your JavaScript for a single component. As a front-end developer who loves to dissect a web page and break it down into reusable components, the idea of styled-components...
Privacy coins no more? CipherTrace files patents for tracing Monero transactions
23.11.2020
The firm claims it will be able to identify XMR used for illicit purposes to support criminal investigations
USDT Towers Over 30 Stablecoins- Tether’s Market Cap Grew by 2 Million Percent in Just Four Years
22.11.2020
During the last two years since the initial bear market after the 2017 bull run, stablecoins have been extremely popular. Today, statistics show that the market capitalization of all the notable stablecoins today is hovering above the $23.9 billion mark. Out of more than 30 stablecoins in 2020...