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Ethereum 2.0’s Beacon Chain Just Launched — in a Very Low-key Way
1.12.2020
When Bitcoin’s genesis block first launched, a profound message was included within. It quoted a headline from The Times ofContinue Reading
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No… Bitcoin’s Price Did Not Set an All-Time High. Here’s Why
1.12.2020
It might be a little too early to crack open the champagne — for several reasons.
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Super Tiny Icons
30.11.2020
A bunch of SVG icons (of popular things) all under 1KB. SVG is awesome for golfing.
I was going to add a CodePen logo but there is already one in there at 375 Bytes. I’ve got one at 208 Bytes, based on a logo update David DeSandro did for us a couple years back.
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Bitcoin is Set for a Record Monthly Close. Here’s Why This is a Big Deal
30.11.2020
Barring a horror crash of 25%, Bitcoin is about to secure its highest-ever monthly close. The current record of $13,873Continue Reading
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Pizza Hut Accepts Crypto in Venezuela! (History Says This Is a Bad Idea)
30.11.2020
A quick warning… this news might make your mouth water. Hungry crypto enthusiasts in Venezuela can now pay for PizzaContinue Reading
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This Hedge Fund Wants to Invest $500 Million in Bitcoin
30.11.2020
A massive hedge fund might be about to invest $500 million in Bitcoin — in yet another sign that institutionalContinue Reading
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What’s Missing from CSS?
21.11.2020
The survey results from the State of CSS aren’t out yet, but they made this landing page that randomly shows you what one person wrote to answer that question. Just clicking the reload button a bunch, I get the sense that the top answers are:
Container Queries
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Bitcoin Hits $18,400, We Are Getting Back to the ‘Old Times’: Weekly Market Review by TokenInsight
20.11.2020
Hi, crypto communities, We are delighted to provide you with our weekly review of the crypto market, beginning this week.Continue Reading
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CMC Announces Next CoinMarketCap Earn Campaign With Orchid
19.11.2020
CoinMarketCap Earn, a place for crypto enthusiasts to learn more about how a cryptoasset works while earning crypto rewards, hasContinue Reading
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Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid
19.11.2020
Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and down, you can place items across grid lines creating a staggered effect that looks pretty rad. Grid-like, but it appears to align to diagonal...
Bitcoin’s All-Time Highs & the End to Uniswap’s UNI Mining: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
18.11.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s publicContinue Reading
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Is Impermanent Loss Overblown?: Flipside Crypto
17.11.2020
Is Impermanent Loss Overblown? The use of decentralized exchanges (DEXes) has skyrocketed this year, with volumes deposited going from underContinue Reading
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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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DeFi’s Resurgence & Bitcoin’s Most Recent Stamp of Approval: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
11.11.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s publicContinue Reading
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Failed Sybil Attack Targeted Monero Users, Privacy Is Safe
11.11.2020
Monero was targeted by an attempted Sybil attack that ultimately failed, according to reports from project developer Riccardo Spagni. AttackerContinue Reading
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‘Formula E’ racing title among four NFT-powered games announced today
6.11.2020
Non-fungible tokens are booming, with Animoca Brands and Skymarch revealing upcoming gaming titles powered by NFTs
compute cuter
30.10.2020
Get that desk more cuter, fam. Amy (@sailorhg) has this perfectly cute minisite with assorted desktop backgrounds, fonts, editor themes, keyboard stuff, and other accessories. These rainbow cables are great.
And speaking of fonts, we’re still plucking away at this microsite for coding fonts...
Marathon and Riot battle for the title of America’s biggest Bitcoin miner
28.10.2020
A recent purchase of 10,000 Antminer S-19s has placed Marathon Patent Group on-track to become North America’s largest Bitcoin mining firm by Q3 2021
POW
30.9.2020
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
POW stands for Packaged Offline/online Webpage. It turns out the png format includes ways to save metadata alongside the image file. A powfile has a metadata entry that contains a zip file that contains a full website.
So a PNG file...
Supercharging Number Inputs
4.9.2020
Speaking of number scrubbing (i.e. adding mouse UX to number inputs), you can also add better keyboard commands to number inputs. Kilian Valkhof explains how he added up and down arrows to a number input, as well as modifier keys to change how much the keys increment the value, like Emmet does....