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Bitcoin Script and Onchain Contracts: Two High-Level Programming Languages for Bitcoin Cash
11.7.2020
Last May, the software developer and creator of revoke.cash, Rosco Kalis, released Cashscript version 0.4 that included a number of optimizations. Cashscript’s new website highlights the high-level language that “offers a strong abstraction layer over Bitcoin Cash’ native virtual...
DigiByte Holds Complete Support; Faces Strong Resistance at $0.0250
10.7.2020
DigiByte has had an excellent listing in the previous month, wherein the extending presence of DGB coin will lead to greater adoption. DigiByte is now available for trading on Binance, Bololex, OceanEx, CoinDCX, DigiFinex Global, Bilaxy exchange, WazirX, LBank Exchange, Bitcoin.com while it awaits...
Frontity is React for WordPress
9.7.2020
Some developers just prefer working in React. I don’t blame them really, because I like React too. Maybe that’s what they learned first. I’ve been using it long enough there is just some comfort to it. But mostly it is the strong component model that I like. There is just...
A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
8.7.2020
Julia Evans:
I decided to implement almost all of the UI by just adding & removing CSS classes, and using CSS transitions if I want to animate a transition.
An awful lot of the JavaScript on sites (that aren’t otherwise entirely constructed from JavaScript) is click the thing...
Cardano Works Towards Excelling the 3rd Generation Asset Type
29.6.2020
Charles Hoskinson has recently explained what Cardano is and what the difference is between Cardano in comparison to Bitcoin and Ethereum. To simplify and draw a difference between the given three cryptos, Hoskinson, while comparing in common parlance, said that Bitcoin is the first mover in...
The Analytics That Matter
25.6.2020
I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other than nerdy cocktail party fodder. The usage that matters is what users on your site are using, and that can...
Using Custom Property “Stacks” to Tame the Cascade
22.6.2020
Since the inception of CSS in 1994, the cascade and inheritance have defined how we design on the web. Both are powerful features but, as authors, we’ve had very little control over how they interact. Selector specificity and source order provide some minimal “layering” control...
LingoJam
17.6.2020
I’ll sometimes search the web for something like “Small Text Generator” knowing there will be some website that will turn some dumb thing I want to type like:
Uhm hi when is that meeting again?
into something fun like…
ᵁʰᵐ ʰᶦ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵉᵉᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿˀ
Important note about...
CUBE CSS
11.6.2020
A CSS methodology from Andy Bell:
The most important part of this methodology is the language itself: CSS. It’s key to note its existence in the name because some alternative approaches, such as BEM—which I have enjoyed for many years—can veer very far away from Cascading Style Sheets. I love CSS...
EOS Lacks Steady Traction; Faces Strong Resistance Around $3
11.6.2020
A paper on “Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchain” claimed that the current throughput for EOSIO is only 34 TPS. This paper has reconsidered the meaning of throughput from “what a system can do” to “What a system is doing that can be valued.” The goal behind this...
80% of US and European Institutional Investors Find Cryptocurrency Appealing: Survey
11.6.2020
A new survey of about 800 institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe shows strong cryptocurrency adoption, particularly bitcoin. About 80% of institutions said they find cryptocurrency appealing, and 60% believe cryptocurrencies have a place in their portfolios. Crypto Appeals to 80%...
Research Points to ‘Strong Signal’ That Altseason Has Arrived
10.6.2020
A recent increase in trading on exchanges that are more geared towards speculative altcoins may be a sign that it is once again time for altcoins to shine, according to crypto research firm Coin Metrics.
In their recent report, the firm said that exchanges that typically offer trading in coins that...
Bitcoin's Wasabi Too Strong For Europol
5.6.2020
Open-source, non-custodial Bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi is popular enough to catch the attention of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the Hague-based European Union's law enforcement agency. As for what the law enforcement can do about this wallet's privacy...
Jetpack Scan
2.6.2020
Fresh from the Jetpack team at Automattic, today, comes Jetpack Scan. Jetpack Scan scans all the files on your site looking for anything suspicious or malicious and lets you know, or literally fixes it for you with your one-click approval.
This kind of security scanning is very important to...
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Buys Over 1.5 Times Total BTC Mined Since Halving
29.5.2020
Grayscale Investments has purchased more than 1.5 times the number of bitcoins mined since the third Bitcoin halving for its bitcoin trust. This indicates that there is a strong institutional demand for the cryptocurrency, which is expected to grow significantly post the coronavirus crisis. GBTC...
Core Web Vitals
29.5.2020
Core Web Vitals is what Google is calling a a new collection of three web performance metrics:
LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
FID: First Input Delay
CLS: Cumulative Layout Shift
These are all measurable. They aren’t in Lighthouse (e.g. the Audits tab in Chrome DevTools) just yet, but sounds...
The Geopolitical Implications of a Too-Strong Dollar, Feat. Brent Johnson
28.5.2020
A macro expert joins to discuss why the U.S. dollar and economy are more broadly poised to suck the liquidity from the entire global economy
Background Patterns, Simplified by Conic Gradients
28.5.2020
For those who have missed the big news, Firefox now supports conic gradients!
Starting with Firefox 75, released on the April 7, we can go to about:config, look for the layout.css.conic-gradient.enabled flag and set its value to true (it’s false by default and all it takes to switch...
The Expanding Gamut of Color on the Web
27.5.2020
CSS was introduced to the web all the way back in 1996. At the time, most computer monitors were pretty terrible. The colors of CSS — whether defined with the RGB, HSL, or hexadecimal format — catered to the monitors of the time, all within the sRGB colorspace.
Most newer devices have a wide-gamut...
Why a Strong Dollar Is Bad for the US and Bad for the World
20.5.2020
Despite the specter of inflation from money printing, the dollar has gained strength. Here’s why that’s a problem - for everyone