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The web didn’t change; you did
16.2.2021
I love this piece from Remy Sharp where he argues that the web didn’t get more complicated over the last 20 years, despite what we might think:
Web development did not change. Web development grew. There are more options now,
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Front-End Dissatisfaction (and Backing Off)
13.2.2021
Asko Nõmm reached a breaking point with front end:
I want to have a personal life and not have to spend my nights reading up on some new flavour of *.js in fear that if I don’t I would soon
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Responsible Web Applications
12.2.2021
Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there:
Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some
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Progressive Web Apps in 2021
12.2.2021
Maximiliano Firtman has a look at PWAs this year, including trying to get a bead on how widespread they are:
At the end of 2020, approximately 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% had an installable Web App
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HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive
11.2.2021
Scott Jehl doesn’t mince words here:
Removing media support from HTML video was a mistake. It means that for every video we embed in HTML, we’re stuck with the choice of serving source files that are potentially too large or
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How to Favicon in 2021
10.2.2021
I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements. Andrey Sitnik has done that here with favicons.
The final suggestion:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"
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The Differences in Web Hosting (Go with the Happy Path)
10.2.2021
One of our readers checked out “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live” and had some follow up questions specifically about hosting providers. Here’s what they asked:
What’s the difference between hosting providers? For example, what is the difference...
Animating a CSS Gradient Border
8.2.2021
This little trick for gradient borders is super useful:
.border-gradient {
border: 5px solid;
border-image-slice: 1;
border-image-source: linear-gradient(to left, #743ad5, #d53a9d);
}
Here’s some basic demos from our article on the subject. Sephanie Eckles was sharing around the idea...
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-end predictions for 2021
8.2.2021
React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I’ll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay says:
Interestingly, the biggest developments in the front-end are unlikely to be traditionally front-end concerns. Back...
The Block Founder Mike Dudas Takes Stablecoin Role at Paxos
3.2.2021
The serial entrepreneur, payments veteran and pugnacious tweeter will focus on building Paxos' white-labeled stablecoin business
Dynamically Switching From One HTML Element to Another in Vue
2.2.2021
A friend once contacted me asking if I had a way to dynamically change one HTML element into another within Vue’s template block. For instance, shifting a <div> element to a <span> element based on some criteria. The trick was …
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Open Web Docs
2.2.2021
Robert Nyman:
Open Web Docs was created to ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on de facto standard resources like MDN Web Docs, independently of any single vendor or organization. Through full-time staff, community management, and
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Halving & Burns on BitGesell – the Optimal Combination for Scarcity and Value in the Crypto Age
1.2.2021
BitGesell represents a deflationary cryptocurrency that closely resembles bitcoin, but comes along with a few design changes. Its value proposition stems from Silvio Gesell’s financial market philosophy, who imagined monetary units that lose their value over time through demurrage. To keep...
Run, blockchain, run! DeFi adoption needs faster block times
30.1.2021
Low-cost, low-latency and highly scalable blockchain infrastructure — that is what will lead crypto and DeFi to real mass adoption
American Cancer Society Creates Its First Crypto Only Donation Fund
28.1.2021
The American Cancer Society has set up a fund for crypto donations so the nonprofit can raise at least $1 million by early 2021. Together with The Giving Block, the U.S.-based voluntary health organization expects to collect funds via several cryptocurrencies. Donations to Fund Cancer-Related...
Too Fast Too Fantasy XV: Episode Gladio? More Like Episode Bad-io
27.1.2021
When I sit down for my daily session of Final Fantasy XV I’m expecting one of two things: A happy-funtime road-trip adventure with my boys, or a sad, emotionally wrought meditation on the bonds of friendship. I am not expecting a horror-suspense thriller filled with stealth mechanics...
Research Proves Recent Transfers of 8,000 Ten-Year-Old ‘Forgotten Bitcoins’ Were Sold to Coinbase
27.1.2021
For months now our newsdesk has followed the tracks of a mysterious whale from 2010, a miner who not only mined thousands of bitcoin back in the day, but has also spent over 8,000 bitcoin during the past ten months. This week, the Russian blockchain researcher, Issak Shvarts published a report...
Iranian government reportedly moving to block Signal messaging app
26.1.2021
Rumors are circulating in Iran that authorities already have access to messages on WhatsApp, one of the few unblocked platforms in the country
While BTC’s Hashrate Remains High, It’s More Difficult Than Ever Before to Mine Bitcoin
26.1.2021
At the end of January 2021, Bitcoin’s network mining difficulty, a measure of how complicated it is to mine a block reward, is higher than it’s ever been during the crypto protocol’s lifetime. Currently, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is a whopping 20.8 trillion but despite...
Tech Stacks and Website Longevity
25.1.2021
Steren Giannini in “My stack will outlive yours”:
My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, is based on open standards, is portable, has an instant dev loop, has no build step
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