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Dark Mode Favicons
4.12.2019
Oooo! A bonafide trick from Thomas Steiner. Chrome will soon be supporting SVG favicons (e.g. <link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg">). And you can embed CSS within an SVG with a <style> element. That CSS can use a perfers-color-sceme media query, and as a result, a favicon that supports...
State of JavaScript 2019 Survey
3.12.2019
Well, hey, look at that — it's time for this year's State of JavaScript survey!
You have taken this survey last year. Or in 2017. Or in 2016. It's been going on for a little while now and it always lends interesting insights into things like the features developers are using, the popularity...
Save Big on An Event Apart for a Limited Time!
3.12.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
If you could get one gift from your boss this holiday season, what would you want it to be? You know, other than the usual mouse pad, picture frame or, my favorite, the ol' coffee mug and Starbucks card combo.
What if you were to receive something, hmm, more substantial?...
Save Big on An Event Apart for a Limited Time!
3.12.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
If you could get one gift from your boss this holiday season, what would you want it to be? You know, other than the usual mouse pad, picture frame or, my favorite, the ol' coffee mug and Starbucks card combo.
What if you were to receive something, hmm, more substantial?...
The Darknet Just Had One of Its Wildest Months Yet
3.12.2019
Darknet marketplaces exist on a constant knife edge, never more than an exit scam, LE bust, or DDoS away from going down. Even by their usual frenetic standards, though, November was quite a month for DNMs, with high drama and intrigue aplenty. Despite a number of marketplaces disappearing off...
Masking GIFs with other GIFs
3.12.2019
The other day, Cassie Evans tweeted a really neat trick that I’ve never seen before: using SVG to mask one GIF on top of another. The effect is quite lovely, especially if you happen to grab a colorful GIF and place it on top of a monochrome one:
See the Pen
Masking gifs with other gifs......
Nordea Employees Banned From Buying Bitcoin + More News
3.12.2019
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.
Regulation news
Nordea Bank is free to prevent its employees from investing in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in their...
Crypto Market Sentiment Drops More; 4 Coins Enter the Negative Zone
2.12.2019
The cryptocurrency market sentiment did not manage to recover from its major tumble last week, despite the situation looking greener. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure for the top 10 coins by market capitalization fell for the fourth week in a row, from last Monday’s 4.39...
Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles
2.12.2019
Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.
So you do a little research and find...
“Headless Mode”
2.12.2019
A couple of months ago, we invited Marc Anton Dahmen to show off his database-less content management system (CMS) Automad. His post is an interesting inside look at templating engines, including how they work, how CMSs use them, and how they impact the way we write things, such as loops.
Well...
IMF Wants Crypto Mining Answers from Georgia + More News
2.12.2019
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.
Mining news
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Georgia to report on its crypto mining industry. The country...
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Remains Above $210 After Declining by More Than 5%
2.12.2019
BCH seems to have a support level at $210; gearing up for a rebound Binance coin has breached major support levels over the last two days A strong bearish trendline has taken place; current consolidation shows a bit of ambiguity Technical indicators give mixed signals while Bollinger bands head...
Crypto Goes Mainstream with TV Ads and More in France, Switzerland
29.11.2019
Cryptocurrencies are getting mainstream media coverage in Europe – with France’s biggest TV network airing Bitcoin (BTC)-related advertisement, and a Swiss newspaper publishing a full-page spread on crypto.
As previously reported, Keplerk last month relaunched a program that allows customers to...
Join This Competition and Win More With Blockchain Betting
29.11.2019
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article.
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Blockchain is revolutionizing the world, one industry at a time, and betting is certainly no exception. One of the companies helping build a decentralized future is Betmatch, an online betting platform that utilizes blockchain in order...
Testing React Hooks With Enzyme and React Testing Library
29.11.2019
As you begin to make use of React hooks in your applications, you’ll want to be certain the code you write is nothing short of solid. There’s nothing like shipping buggy code. One way to be certain your code is bug-free is to write tests. And testing React hooks is not much different from how React...
50m-User Chat App Kakao to Add Crypto Wallet in Early 2020 + More News
29.11.2019
A screenshot of the KakaoTalk chat app.
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.
Wallets news
Chat app giant and Klaytn blockchain mainnet developer Kakao has announced...
Despite St. Louis Branch Warnings, New York Fed Pumps $108 Billion Into US Economy
29.11.2019
On Wednesday, November 27, the U.S. Federal Reserve pumped $108 billion into the American economy using overnight repo tactics and 15-day repos. The central bank explained the move will stimulate more liquidity into the faltering U.S. economy, but economists from the St. Louis Federal Reserve...
Web Scraping Made Simple With Zenscrape
28.11.2019
Web scraping has always been taken care of by actual developers, since a lot of coding, proxy management and CAPTCHA-solving is involved. However, the scraped data is very often needed by people that are non-coders: Marketers, Analysts, Business Developers etc.
Zenscrape is an easy-to-use...
Bitso Says 5% of U.S.-Mexico Remittances Made in Crypto + More News
28.11.2019
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.
Adoption news
The CEO of Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso claims that some 5% of remittances sent from the United States...
The Power (and Fun) of Scope with CSS Custom Properties
27.11.2019
You’re probably already at least a little familiar with CSS variables. If not, here’s a two-second overview: they are really called custom properties, you set them in declaration blocks like --size: 1em and use them as values like font-size: var(--size);, they differ from preprocessor variables...