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Tips for Working Remotely and Enjoying It!
9.3.2020
With the coronavirus spreading and employers telling employees work from home if possible, there are scores of people getting their first taste of working remotely. Depending on your experience and discipline levels, this could be a welcomed change or a complete culture shock. The amount of freedom...
Forces of Change: Women in Blockchain
7.3.2020
The disparity in involvement by gender has plagued the blockchain and crypto space. However, this seems to be changing, albeit gradually. In 2018, of the total number of people engaged in the Bitcoin community, only a little over 5 percent were women. Today, this number lies at 12.28 percent. While...
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...
Hyperledger Conference Shows Where Blockchain Can Fight Global Warming
4.3.2020
Social impact took center stage at this year's Hyperledger Global Forum, with perhaps less of an emphasis on banking consortia and trade finance blockchains
Tron’s Steemit Acquisition Exposes Delegated-Proof-of-Stake Centralization
3.3.2020
The Steemit community is mired in controversy over the recent Tron takeover that managed to change the Steem blockchain’s governance. Steem witnesses attempted to soft fork the blockchain on February 24 to remove the powerful voting power Tron and Steemit hold. However, the soft fork...
Cryptocurrency Could Kill Bank Lending, Warns Bank of England Deputy Governor
1.3.2020
In the cryptocurrency economy, the supply of credit through the banking system could disappear, warned Bank of England Deputy Governor Sir Jon Cunliffe. That would be a change with “profound economic consequences,” he added, emphasizing the risks from Facebook’s Libra project...
ICO Safe Harbor Won’t Change the Future
1.3.2020
Source: iStock/Joecho-16
Aaron Kaplan is the founder and Co-CEO of Prometheum, Inc., a New York-based fintech company building a regulated, blockchain-native, capital market infrastructure. Aaron was an attorney at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where he focused his practice on the applications...
A Sea Change to Crypto Hits America, Again
1.3.2020
A sea change is coming to cryptocurrency in America. It is likely to hit in two separate waves: a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and draconian regulation that shuts down free-market activities, including development. Also Read: No Backdoor on Human Rights: Why Encryption Cannot Be Compromised...
When CSS Blocks
28.2.2020
Tim Kadlec:
One particular pattern [for loading non-critical CSS] I’ve seen is the preload/polyfill pattern. With this approach, you load any stylesheets as preloads instead, and then use their onload events to change them back to a stylesheet once the browser has them ready.
So you're...
Cryptocurrency Adoption: How Can Crypto Change the Travel Industry?
27.2.2020
Who will benefit from crypto’s integration into the travel industry?
Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi Change Crypto Regulations to Align With FATF
27.2.2020
Hong Kong’s AML/CTF laws will apply to crypto exchanges and remitters, and dealers of precious metals and stones
The Future of Crypto: The Latest Cryptography Advances Set to Change Blockchain
20.2.2020
Crypto experts talk about the latest cryptography advances and what they mean for the future of cryptocurrencies
Steemit for Sale: Popular Crypto Blogging Platform Sold to Tron, Community Reacts
16.2.2020
Crypto blogging platform Steemit is undergoing a big change, migrating from its own Steem blockchain to the Tron network. The struggling crypto blogging platform launched in 2016 and made waves when big name libertarian users began to make thousands of dollars per post. The platform’s heyday...
Listen to your web pages
16.2.2020
A clever idea from Tom Hicks combining MutationObserver (which can "observe" changes to elements like when their attributes, text, or children change) and the Web Audio API for creating sounds. Plop this code into the console on a page where you'd like to listen to essentially any DOM change...
Craig Wright’s $100B Theft Claim – BTC and BCH Used His Database Without Permission
15.2.2020
The infamous Craig Wright, the Australian native who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has published a blog post that explains he owns “the full rights to the Bitcoin registry” and developers do not have the right to change the protocol’s underlying database. Wright’s recent...
Helping Browsers Optimize With The CSS Contain Property
10.2.2020
There is a growing number of things that we have to do to help the browser achieve for peak performance.
Responsive image syntax has several. For example, needing to tell the browser how large the image will be in our layout with the sizes attribute and how big the images are with w descriptors....
Climate Change: Looking Towards a blockchain-based Solution?
5.2.2020
Climate change is arguably the defining issue of our times. Secretary-General Antònio Guterres recently labeled it the first of four biblical ‘horsemen’ that threatened our world. A UN Climate report released in 2018 stated absolutely that the global community has 12 years to correct our behavior...
Visa to Change PoS Fees to Merchant to Adjust to New Business Categories
4.2.2020
Visa is reportedly planning to change merchant fees rates as part of a major update of its system
Bundling JavaScript for Performance: Best Practices
24.1.2020
Performance advice from David Calhoun on how many scripts to load on a page for best performance:
[...] some of your vendor dependencies probably change slower than others. react and react-dom probably change the slowest, and their versions are always paired together, so they...
The Web in 2020: Extensibility and Interoperability
22.1.2020
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward two major trends/goals: extensibility and interoperability. Let’s break those down.
Extensibility
Extensibility describes...