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The Rogue Squadron Pilots We Want in Patty Jenkins' Star Wars Movie
7.1.2021
In 2023, Patty Jenkins will deliver (pending future ramifications of the world in which we live) Rogue Squadron, the next major theatrical release in the Star Wars saga: a tale of the bravest squadron of pilots in the galaxy far, far away. The Rogues have a long history within canon and a longer...
The Best Holiday 2020 Gifts for the Nerd Who Has Everything
22.12.2020
Top Pick: The Child Real Moves Plush | $70 | Disney StoreRead more
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020
16.12.2020
A certain amount of escapism through books would have been more than understandable in 2020. (And by “a certain amount” we mean “a lot.”) You’d be forgiven for favoring the comfort food of a reread or a beach read. Or for not reading at all. Because for every person who was able to forget...
Debugging CSS
14.12.2020
High five to Ahmad Shadeed for releasing his new book, Debugging CSS. I think that’s a neat angle for a book on CSS. There are a ton of books on the general subject of CSS already, so not that they can’t be fresh takes on that, but this feels equally important and less trodden...
Here are the top 10 books blockchain thought leaders recommend in 2020
11.12.2020
Cointelegraph asked 10 leaders in blockchain about book recommendations this year
The Best Pop Culture We Caught Up On in 2020
10.12.2020
It has been a year of weirdness, especially when it comes to wrangling the kinds of media we’ve been watching. Though there’s been new things to read, watch, listen to, and play, 2020 has seen many of us revisit familiar favorites as well as things we missed when they first came out. Here’s...
Bitcoin book breaks into the top 3 on Amazon’s macroeconomics
10.12.2020
It appears that more people are reading about Bitcoin these days
Venezuelan Authorities Clamp Down on Off-The-Books Crypto Pay Vendors
20.11.2020
Venezuelan tax agents on the prowl. Source: Twitter/@jdavidcabello
Customers spending foreign currency and cryptoassets in Venezuelan stores have been warned to demand invoices and receipts in fiat bolivars, with the nation’s tax authorities worried that crypto pay and payment in overseas fiats...
CSS Background Patterns
17.11.2020
Nice little tool from Jim Raptis: CSS Background Patterns. A bunch of easy-to-customize and copy-and-paste backgrounds that use hard stop CSS gradients to make classy patterns. Not quite as flexible as SVG backgrounds, but just as lightweight.
Like this:
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Speaking of cool...
Best Forex Books: For Beginners to Advanced Traders
16.11.2020
An introduction to Forex trading Forex, a portmanteau of foreign exchange, also known as currency trading, is a decentralized global financial market where the world’s currencies are traded. According to a recent triennial report by the Bank for International Settlements, the forex market...
Every Credit Card a Tribe, Every Crypto Coin a Scaling Debate
3.10.2020
Lana Swartz's "New Money" is a book that will force crypto users to ask: What does using ETH or BTC or XLM or ATOM say about me?
Thinking About Power Usage and Websites
22.9.2020
Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He has a book, after all, about the digital costs on the planet. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like…
If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will...
Did Ethereum Learn Anything From the $55M DAO Attack?
20.9.2020
Matthew Leising's new book, "Out of the Ether," tells the story of the attack that almost brought down Ethereum. Here he talks with Dan Kuhn
Fantasy authors turn the VulcanVerse NFT game into a trilogy of books
18.9.2020
Two of Britain’s most successful gamebook authors will turn VeChain’s VulcanVerse NFT game into a fantasy trilogy series
Book review: 'Boom and Bust — A Global History of Financial Bubbles'
2.9.2020
This book takes an in depth look at some of the biggest financial bubbles in history: their causes, their commonalities, their effects, even their occasional benefits. But is it an essential read for the cryptocurrency fan?
Book review of Don Tapscott’s collaborative ‘Supply Chain Revolution’
25.8.2020
A detailed explanation of how blockchain is being applied to transform a variety of supply chains
Book Review: The Little Book of Crypto
18.8.2020
An introduction to crypto with none of the BS, but plenty of the S
zerodivs.com
10.8.2020
Pretty neat little website from Joan Perals, inspired by stuff like Lynn’s A Single Div. With multiple hard-stop background-image gradients, you don’t need extra HTML elements to draw shapes — you can draw as many shapes as you want on a single element. There is even a stacking order...
Novel Charts Dark Side of ICO Mania
18.7.2020
Haydn Wilks' latest novel examines the cryptomania of the 2017 ICO boom
Book Review: Digital Is the Cash
10.7.2020
"Digital is the Cash" is a short, accessible read, looking at cryptocurrency from a vaguely African perspective, with a strong preference for Dash