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Moving Text on a Curved Path
9.8.2019
There was a fun article in The New York Times the other day describing the fancy way Elizabeth Warren and her staff let people take a selfie with Warren. But... the pictures aren't actually selfies because they are taken by someone else. The article has his hilarious line of text that wiggles by...
IOTA Price Analysis: Bears Continue To Dominate IOTA, Same Trend Likely To Continue For Few More Days
9.8.2019
IOTA started trading around $0.28 on 4-Aug-19 at 12:45 UTC. It slowly started to rise upwards, and it managed to peak at the trading price of $0.30 on 5-Aug-19. However, post the said date the price of the coin until now is declining. Over the past 5 days, the trend of the coin has seen …
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Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers
9.8.2019
One of my favorite developments in software development has been the advent of serverless. As a developer who has a tendency to get bogged down in the details of deployment and DevOps, it's refreshing to be given a mode of building web applications that simply abstracts scaling and infrastructure...
Weekly Platform News: CSS font-style: oblique, webhin browser extension, CSS Modules V1
9.8.2019
In this week's roundup, variable fonts get oblique, a new browser extension for linting, and the very first version of CSS Modules.
Use font-style: oblique on variable fonts
Some popular variable fonts have a 'wght' (weight) axis for displaying text at different font weights and a 'slnt' (slant)...
Design Principles for Developers: Processes and CSS Tips for Better Web Design
8.8.2019
It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s a difference between actually knowing how to prepare a delicious meal and hoping for the best as you throw a few ingredients in a pot. Just like web development, you might know the ingredients—<span>, background-color, .heading-1—but...
Get the Best Domain Name for your New Website
8.8.2019
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If you're on CSS-Tricks, we can probably bet that you're in the process of building a really cool website. You've spent your time creating content, applying appropriate UX design techniques, coding it to perfection, and now you're about ready to launch it to the world.
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Owning Fiat Just Got More Expensive – NIRP Strikes Again
8.8.2019
With the recent Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announcement that even more customers will be charged to hold money in their banks, people are scrambling to find ways to preserve their wealth, while USB and others scramble to dam the losses resulting from national negative interest rate policy...
Token Offerings Raised Twice More Than Blockchain Equity Deals in H1 2019
8.8.2019
Token offerings raised $2.095 billion in H1 2019, as compared with the $1.248 billion raised by blockchain firms through venture capital investment
Using Immer for React State Management
7.8.2019
We make use of state to keep track of application data. States change as users interact with an application. When this happens, we need to update the state that is displayed to the user, and we do this using React’s setState.
Since states are not meant to be updated directly (because React’s state...
Quick Gulp Cache Busting
7.8.2019
You should for sure be setting far-out cache headers on your assets like CSS and JavaScript (and images and fonts and whatever else). That tells the browser "hang on to this file basically forever." That way, when navigating from page to page on a site — or revisiting it, or refreshing...
ECB Says It Plans to Use More On-Chain Data to Monitor Crypto Assets
7.8.2019
The European Central Bank has issued a new report revealing plans to use more granular blockchain data to better monitor the crypto markets
How to Shuffle BCH and Keep Your Transactions Private With Cashshuffle
6.8.2019
As blockchain surveillance becomes more prevalent, cryptocurrency advocates have created ways to make digital currency transactions more private. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has an application called Cashshuffle, which allows users to shuffle their BCH with other fractions of BCH to obfuscate...
Let’s Give Grunt Tasks the Marie Kondo Organization Treatment
6.8.2019
We live in an era of webpack and npm scripts. Good or bad, they took the lead for bundling and task running, along with bits of Rollup, JSPM and Gulp. But let's face it. Some of your older projects are still using good ol' Grunt. While it no longer glimmers as brightly, it does the job well...
The Guide to Understanding Crypto: How Cryptocurrency Works [Part 1]
6.8.2019
Introducing The Crypto Demystified Series Welcome to your guide on cryptocurrency! If you’re new to the world of cryptocurrencies and are looking to learn more about them without the complicated jargon, you’ve come to the right place. You might have […]
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13 More dApps on Samsung’s dApp Store- Blockchain Keystore
6.8.2019
Today, Samsung has made an exciting announcement for its official dApp Store- Blockchain Keystore. The announcement revealed that the world’s leading tech company had added thirteen more dApps to its dApp Store. Now the total number of dApps is seventeen. Samsung has been taking leaps towards...
More Cities and Regions Accepting Coins for Taxes, Services
6.8.2019
Cryptocurrency payments, as convenient as they can be, are still something most governments are trying to wrap their heads around and regulate. Local authorities, however, being closer to the citizens they are called upon to serve, are often quicker to adopt novelties that make their lives and...
SSCCE
6.8.2019
You know what a "reduced test case" is, right? We've talked about it here. I imagine the concept is useful in many walks of life, but in the world of front-end development, you can think of it like:
A reduced test case is a demo/example page you create which reproduces the problem you are having...
Using Your Domain with a Netlify-Hosted Site
6.8.2019
Netlify has their own docs for Custom Domains, so if you're looking for horse's mouth technical docs on this stuff, that should be treated as the source of truth. But I'd like to take a crack at it from a slightly different angle, where we look at where you are and what you wanna do, and the point...
IX Wallet, Lead Blockchain Developer, Sergey Storozhuk Was Recently Interviewed By CryptoNewsZ About The Crypto World, IX Ecosystem And More
6.8.2019
Sergey Storozhuk is the Lead Blockchain Developer in IX Wallet. Driven by a vision to provide convenient solutions to its customers, the IX ecosystem strives to reinvent the traditional saving system by utilizing modern technological advances and thereby, generate a distinctive passive income...
Let Mavo Shine in Building Interactive Web Applications
6.8.2019
As you could guess from the title, this tutorial is dedicated to Mavo: a new, approachable way to create complex, reactive, persistent web applications just by writing HTML and CSS, without a single line of JavaScript and no server backend.
🐇 Follow the white rabbit!
Mavo is developed...