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US Senator: ‘I Don’t Think You’ve Persuaded Anyone’ Crypto Creates Financial Inclusion
30.7.2019
Sen. Brian Schatz (D.-HI) questioned the claim that blockchain spurs financial inclusion at Tuesday's Banking Committee hearing
Creating Dynamic Routes in a Nuxt Application
30.7.2019
In this post, we’ll be using an ecommerce store demo I built and deployed to Netlify to show how we can make dynamic routes for incoming data. It’s a fairly common use-case: you get data from an API, and you either don’t know exactly what that data might be, there’s a lot of it, or it might change....
The Simplest Way to Load CSS Asynchronously
30.7.2019
Scott Jehl:
One of the most impactful things we can do to improve page performance and resilience is to load CSS in a way that does not delay page rendering. That’s because by default, browsers will load external CSS synchronously—halting all page rendering while the CSS is downloaded...
Large Regulated Token Sales Indicate ICOs May Be Coming Back
28.7.2019
Initial coin offerings have seen a significant decline in popularity, but they are not to be written off completely. Although you don’t hear the term “ICO” so often nowadays, some recent regulatory developments indicate they have a place in the digital economy realm. Crowdfunding...
Unbanked for Buying Bitcoin: How the Financial System Criminalizes Crypto
28.7.2019
When we think of the unbanked, we envisage citizens of developing nations who lack the means and documentation to obtain access. But you don’t have to be a Mongolian goat herder to find yourself financially excluded. In the West, relatively affluent citizens are having their banking services...
What I Like About Vue
25.7.2019
Dave Rupert digs into some of his favorite Vue features and one particular issue that he has with React:
I’ve come to realize one thing I don’t particularly like about React is jumping into a file, reading the top for the state, jumping to the bottom to find the render function, then following...
Don’t comma-separate :focus-within if you need deep browser support
24.7.2019
I really like :focus-within. It's a super useful selector that allows you to essentially select a parent element when any of its children are in focus.
Say you wanted to reveal some extra stuff when a <div> is hovered...
div:hover {
.extra-stuff {
/* reveal it */
}
}
That's...
Beware: Don’t Fall a Victim to Libra Scams
23.7.2019
A screenshot of a Libra scam website.
Announcements great and small, particularly by large, well-known companies attract a particular group of people, targeting the inexperienced – the scammers. No wonder, then, that Facebook’s announcement of its Libra coin, even if not launched yet, is used as...
Sorry, I Don’t Want to Pay for More Bombs: Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Funding War
23.7.2019
After nearly two decades of U.S.-led coalition bombs falling on the Middle East, peace in the region still has not been achieved. Now the United States is once again bolstering military forces, this time in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, taxpayers in multiple countries are being forced to pay for these...
Don’t Miss the HUSD Trading, Deposits oN Huobi Global that Start From Today
22.7.2019
Are you ready for the ever first regulated Tether alternative regulated stablecoin? Well, Huobi Global (HBG) surely is. The digital asset trading platform announced the exciting launch on Twitter a few hours ago. On this subject, the CEO of Huobi Global- Livio Weng has the following to...
Get Peak WordPress Performance with Jetpack
18.7.2019
The irony of web performance is that the average page weight of a site continues to go up year after year, despite us being more aware of the problem and having more tools at our disposal to fight it than ever.
To paraphrase Seinfeld, "we know how to fight page weight issues; we just don't use...
Libra Hearings, Day 2: 'I Don’t Think You Should Launch Libra at All'
17.7.2019
David Marcus. U.S. lawmakers held another day of heated questioning over Facebook's plans together with at least another 27 partners to launch the Libra project.
This time, David Marcus, co-creator of Libra, head of their Calibra wallet, was answering questions before the U.S. House Financial...
Don’t Miss the Blockchain & AI Festival for Enterprise, Blockchain Eventon; Save the Date December 6 ,2019
9.7.2019
Our previous events of Blockchain Eventon were a stellar success as we attracted some of the top reputed names in our participation list from companies such as Reliance Big Entertainment, Adani Group, DBS Bank India Ltd., Apex Bank, Motilal Oswal, Aditya Birla Capital, Koinex, The Himalaya Drug...
‘Don’t Worry We Can Just Print More Money’ – Swedish Central Bank Ponders -1.5% Interest Rate
6.7.2019
At a press conference on Wednesday, the head of the Swedish Central Bank admitted that interest rates could potentially go as low as -1.5%, and quipped that Swedes likely wouldn’t even protest. Other countries implementing negative interest rate policies are producing lukewarm results that...
Three Bank Failures Open New Chapter in Never-Ending Financial Crisis
5.7.2019
The collapse of three banks on three different continents indicates a new global crisis is brewing. But it may also show that the last one never really ended and the tools used to manage the global economy simply don’t work. Also read: Side Effects of Economic Growth: Is Snowden Right to...
Haunted: Hooks for Web Components
3.7.2019
I was just chatting with Dave and he told me about Haunted. It's hooks, but for native web components! Pretty cool. I think the existence of stuff like this makes using web components more and more palatable — particularly in that totally-native no-build-step-needed-at-all kinda way.
I...
Fix Touch Bar Volume Buttons
30.6.2019
The touch bar on MacBooks has been a source of controversy since the beginning. Many mourned the loss of the escape key, while others refused to buy a new laptop to avoid the touch bar completely. I’ve not had many issues with the touch bar but mostly because I don’t really use it. One necessary...
Top 12 Do's and Don'ts of Bitcoin
30.6.2019
Bitcoin is back! Year-to-date, the price of the digital currency is up by more than 200%, and people are taking notice. Bitcoin Google search volumes are up, brokers are advertising their crypto offerings again, scammers are coming back, and first-time buyers are knocking on the doors of exchanges....
Which CSS IS AWESOME makes the most sense if you don’t know CSS well?
27.6.2019
Peter-Paul posted this question:
Which of the examples in the image do you consider correct?
If you know CSS well, don't reply, just retweet.
If you don't know CSS too well, please reply to the poll in the next tweet. pic.twitter.com/4bgnf9Wdkc
— ppk 🇪🇺 (@ppk) June...
Which CSS IS AWESOME makes the most sense if you don’t know CSS well?
27.6.2019
Peter-Paul posted this question:
Which of the examples in the image do you consider correct?
If you know CSS well, don't reply, just retweet.
If you don't know CSS too well, please reply to the poll in the next tweet. pic.twitter.com/4bgnf9Wdkc
— ppk 🇪🇺 (@ppk) June...