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Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
5.2.2021
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.
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25 Years Later, Player Confirms Street Fighter Alpha 2 Really Does Favor The Underdog
28.1.2021
Modern fighting games are often decried for what’s called “comeback mechanics,” which are thought to be absent from the more “honest” classic fighters. But those complaints ignore that the genre has always been (and I say this with all the love and respect in my heart) full of bullshit. Case...
Age of Empires II Is Still Getting New Civilizations, More Than 21 Years Later
26.1.2021
The classic real-time strategy game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings just keeps growing, and growing, and growing. Its latest expansion, decades after the game was originally released in 1999, is called Lords of the West and adds three more campaigns and two completely new civilizations:...
Popular Youtuber Ali Spagnola ‘Accidentally Got Bitcoin Rich,’ Decides to ‘Pay It Forward’
14.1.2021
On Wednesday, the popular musician and Youtuber, Alicia Dawn “Ali” Spagnola, made a new video and tweeted about how she got “accidentally bitcoin rich,” after taking a request for her project called Free Paintings. After getting a bitcoin in 2013 and checking her account...
20 Years Later I’m Still Thinking About The Bouncer
23.12.2020
Sometimes a piece of pop culture worms its way into your brain, builds a comfortable, cost-efficient home in your cerebral cortex, and lives there happily for decades on end. My own tenant is The Bouncer, an odd beat ‘em up by Square Soft, which came out in Japan 20 years ago today before fading...
Here’s Where the Earliest ETH Ever Mined Ended Up 5 Years Later
1.8.2020
Coinfirm details what happened to the first mined Ethereum after the asset's launch in 2015
Five Years Later, the Ethereum DApp Ecosystem Looks Exactly as Predicted
30.7.2020
The Ethereum ecosystem is now seeing the growth and adoption of ideas outlined more than five years ago, including many of the components of DeFi
Blockchain Bites: Iran and Russia Revisit Crypto Regulations, Bitcoin Pizza Day 10 Years Later
22.5.2020
Ten years ago today someone spent 10,000 bitcoin on about $30 worth of pizza. Today, nations are redrafting crypto regulation and crypto firms report millions in revenues
DentaVox: Market Statistics Powered by Blockchain
16.4.2020
Back in November 2017, the Netherlands-based Dentacoin Foundation launched its market research platform DentaVox among other software products to raise oral health awareness with the help of blockchain. Two and a half years later, DentaVox has already gained international traction as a trustworthy...
‘Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized’ 6 Years Later
15.3.2020
After one of the most challenging weeks in recent memory we're talking about a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and revisiting Johnston's Law (anything that can be decentralized will be decentralized) with the man who coined the phrase so many years ago
Embracing the Universal Web
21.11.2019
There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it's still rooted in the limitations...
CSS Remedy
4.3.2019
There is a 15-year history of CSS resets. In fact, a "reset" isn't really the right word. Tantek Çelik's take in 2004 was called "undohtml.css" and it wasn't until a few years later when Eric Meyer called his version a reset, that the word became the default term. When Normalize came around,...