Search
How to Debug Remote Browsers
27.6.2019
It’s super frustrating when bugs pop up only in a remote browser. Something about that user, that device, or that environment is different, but I don’t know what! And of course, I can’t recreate it on my local development machine. The team at TrackJS came up with a cool way...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Prices Continue to Accelerate
26.6.2019
Digital asset markets have been on a tear lately, gaining $68 billion in five days. Currently, there’s over $100 billion in global trade volumes and crypto bulls don’t seem to be letting up any time soon. Also Read: How to Find a Bitcoin Cash Meetup Near You The Cryptoconomy Captures...
Why I don’t use web components
25.6.2019
Here’s an interesting post by Rich Harris where he’s made a list of some of the problems he’s experienced in the past with web components and why he doesn’t use them today:
Given finite resources, time spent on one task means time not spent on another task. Considerable energy has been expended...
CSS :focus-within
25.6.2019
Using :hover to display additional information or elements is a very useful technique but a big drawback to using the hover pseudo-class is that they are usually not accessibility-friendly. Not everyone uses a mouse and some users have visual impairments, so they rely on screen readers or...
Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans
25.6.2019
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is "snarky" or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to "feature" or "bury" comments. It's old but it still works fine in...
‘Don’t Hold Your Breath:’ Australia’s Central Bank Chief Bearish On Libra
22.6.2019
Australian regulators don't expect Libra to gain much traction in the land down under
Amazon Pay VP Says No Current Plans to Create Crypto: ‘We Don’t Deal in the Speculative’
20.6.2019
For the time being, Amazon is staying away from competing with Facebook’s Libra, according to an Amazon Pay executive
Checkout the Last Public Revision with Mercurial
19.6.2019
I’ve always preferred git over Mercurial (hg) because the feature branch workflow makes organizing code and working off of master very easy. You don’t get that with vanilla mercurial — instead, commits can just sort of apply on top of each other, without much organization....
‘I Don’t Trust Facebook With Anything:’ The World Reacts to Facebook’s Libra
19.6.2019
The world reacted to Facebook's Libra launch with fear, uncertainty, and jokes. Here are a few choice quotes
How to Increase Your Page Size by 1,500% with webpack and Vue
19.6.2019
What we don’t have are enough articles showing you how to increase your page size. In fact, the only article I could find was this one from the Geek Squad which ended up being about making the font size bigger. This is a good start, but I think we can do better.
The post How to Increase Your Page...
Binance CEO: We Don't Know Whether BNB Will be Listed on Binance.US
18.6.2019
Changpeng Zhao, CZ. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance does not know yet whether its native token, Binance Coin (BNB), is going to be listed on their U.S. based trading platform Binance.US, said CEO of the exchange Changpeng Zhao.
"We'll work very hard to try to get BNB listed on Binance.US....
Review: The Corazon Trezor by Gray Is Made of Titanium
14.6.2019
Hardware wallets don’t have to look beautiful – they just have to work. The Corazon by Gray is a silver titanium device that happens to delivers on both counts. USB hardware has never looked or felt so good in your hand. All that brushed metal and angular chic comes at a price though...
Everything You Need to Know About Date in JavaScript
11.6.2019
Date is weird in JavaScript. It gets on our nerves so much that we reach for libraries (like Date-fns and Moment) the moment (ha!) we need to work with date and time.
But we don't always need to use libraries. Date can actually be quite simple if you know what to watch out for. In this article...
How to Use Bitcoin to Invest in Gold
8.6.2019
Gold and bitcoin enjoy a curious relationship. On the one hand, there is a significant crossover between investors in both, particularly from libertarians who don’t trust the U.S. dollar. But on the other hand, initiatives such as #DropGold have sought to position bitcoin as a more portable...
Ripple and MoneyGram Don't Comment as Acquisition Rumors are Flying
6.6.2019
After a rumor broke out yesterday that Ripple, a California-based crypto start-up focusing on the banking sector, has acquired the major US-based money transfer company MoneyGram, both companies refused to comment. Both have stated that they do not comment on speculations and rumors as a rule,...
Using the Grid Shepherd Technique to Order Data with CSS
28.5.2019
Shepherds are good at tending to their sheep, bringing order and structure to their herds. Even if there are hundreds of those wooly animals, a shepherd still herds them back to the farm at the end of the day.
When dealing with data, programmers often don't know if it is correctly filtered...
How to Easily Convert Funds From BTC to BCH
28.5.2019
Converting funds from one cryptocurrency to another using an exchange can be costly and time consuming, especially if you don’t already have a verified account at one. Luckily there are much faster and convenient ways, such as switching from BTC to BCH right inside the Bitcoin.com Wallet app....
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2018: Delivering Optimized Resources
28.5.2019
Don’t just get assets from your resources pool and dump it right into your web pages. There is always a high chance that SVGs, images, fonts, videos, and every kind of asset you can think of come i
10 Web Performance Audit Tips for Your Next Billion Users in 2019: Delivering Optimized Resources
28.5.2019
Don’t just get assets from your resources pool and dump it right into your web pages. There is always a high chance that SVGs, images, fonts, videos, and every kind of asset you can think of come i
Bitcoin Cash Upgrade and 30K Stores Accepting BCH in the Weekly Update From Bitcoin.com
19.5.2019
Bitcoin Cash network successfully undergoes an upgrade and more than 30,000 new stores now accept BCH payments. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel. Also Read: After Trillions Printed Under QE, Politicians Now...