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“What You Said” (Mar. 30), a Weekly Round-Up of Sentiments From the Community
30.3.2020
It’s been a minute, CoinMarketCap-ers! Glad to see you back here again for another week’s edition of “What You Said“!Continue Reading
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More New Bitcoin Dev Funds Needed, Key Funding Players Revealed - Study
30.3.2020
The outlook for Bitcoin (BTC) development is generally positive, and although funding and training incentives “could improve,” funding is “far more distributed than it has been in the past,” per a new report.
The report, compiled by BitMEX, confirmed many of the findings of Cryptonews.com’s...
Big Tech in Blockchain: Comparing IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google and More
29.3.2020
Big tech and blockchain — how do the world’s biggest firms compare?
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...
How to use CSS Scroll Snap
27.3.2020
Nada Rifki demonstrates the scroll-snap-type and scroll-snap-alignCSS properties. I like that the demo shows that the items in the scrolling container can be different sizes. It is the edges of those children that matter, not some fixed snapping distance.
I like Max Kohler's coverage...
Emergency Website Kit
27.3.2020
Here’s an outstanding idea from Max Böck. He’s created a boilerplate project for building websites that fit within a single HTTP request. This is extremely important for websites that contain critical information for public safety. As Max writes:
In cases of emergency, many organizations need...
Vermont Rapper Releases Hip Hop Track ‘#Freeross,’ Ulbricht Petition Nears 300K Signatures
27.3.2020
Southern Vermont-based hip-hop artist, Krypto Man, has released a new single called “#Freeross” in hopes to get Ross Ulbricht released from prison. Krypto Man is a well known rapper on the east coast and revenue from the song will be donated to the nonprofit Freeross.org. Ross Ulbricht...
Strange Days: S&P 500 Is More Volatile Than Bitcoin This Month
27.3.2020
In a role reversal befitting these topsy-turvy times, Wall Street has recently seen more turbulence than the top cryptocurrency
Investors Accused Ripple CEO of Dumping XRP While Touting It + More News
27.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Legal news
In an amended complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, XRP investors...
The Impact of Blockchain on AB Testing and CRMs
27.3.2020
Companies who have deployed blockchain technology to optimize their business operations could have a distinct advantage over those reliant on traditionalContinue Reading
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Creating an Editable Site with Google Sheets and Eleventy
27.3.2020
Remember Tabletop.js? We just covered it a little bit ago in this same exact context: building editable websites. It’s a tool that turns a Google Sheet into an API, that you as a developer can hit for data when building a website. In that last article, we used that API on the client side, meaning...
Maintaining Performance
27.3.2020
Real talk from Dave:
I, Dave Rupert, a person who cares about web performance, a person who reads web performance blogs, a person who spends lots of hours trying to keep up on best practices, a person who co-hosts a weekly podcast about making websites and speak with web performance professionals…...
Top 3 Crypto Mining Pool Founder Speaks on the ‘Wins’ of Working in Hardware
27.3.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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EOS to Become More ‘Community-Driven’ as Block.One Seeks to Use Dfuse’s Open-Source APIs
27.3.2020
Block.One appears to be taking a more active stance in the EOS network
Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
26.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption?
How do new algorithms help?
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important than ever to modern...
Get Static
26.3.2020
In this piece, Eric Meyer argues that performance is more important than ever right now — especially for websites that contain critical information for the public:
If you are in charge of a web site that provides even slightly important information, or important services, it’s time to...
4 Virtual Crypto Conferences You Can Attend From Home
26.3.2020
The crypto industry has had to quickly adapt to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, with major conferences postponed, canceled or hastily reformatted for the virtual realm. Due to its disproportionately high number of remote workers, though, the industry is more geared up for this new paradigm...
Miners Are Selling More Bitcoin Than They Are Mining
26.3.2020
While bitcoin looks set to prolong its recent bullish moves, those responsible for making new bitcoin have increased their selling
EU Seeking Blockchain Defense Solutions + More News
26.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
The European Commission is looking for solutions that drive innovation and adapt technologies for civil and defense...
5 Essential git Commands and Utilities
26.3.2020
For many of us, git and GitHub play a huge role in our development workflows. Whenever we have a tool that we need to use often, the more fine-tuned we can make that tool, the faster we can get things done. The following are five git commands or helpers that can make your developer life...