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Facebook Sues User for Cloaking Ads for Fake COVID-19 News and Crypto Scams
9.4.2020
Facebook and Instagram sue user for cloaking ads for fake COVID-19 news and crypto scams, sneaking them past reviewers
Creating Scheduled Push Notifications
8.4.2020
Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even if they’ve gone offline. That’s an improvement from the past where push notification...
High Court Delivers Judgement on User Assets at Hacked Exchange Cryptopia
8.4.2020
Users at the now-defunct exchange Cryptopia are the co-beneficiaries of trusts that contained their assets prior to the platform’s hack
Blockchain Gaming, Messaging Apps See User Growth Amid Coronavirus Lockdowns
3.4.2020
Coronavirus lockdowns have led to a relative surge in a small corner of the cryptocurrency space: its more casual and entertaining end
Blockchainarmy Leader Erol User Declares Result of the First Poll Using Blockchain Expertise
3.4.2020
Serving the blockchain community with its unparalleled consulting and advisory services, the BlockchainArmy has added another feather to its credit. Erol User, the globally renowned Turkish businessmen and the honorable spearhead of BlockchainArmy, has announced the results of the very first...
Revolut Fast-Tracks User-Wide Crypto Support Due to Global Economic Upset
3.4.2020
As the Fed ramps up quantitative easing, fintech giant Revolut is moving fast to offer all users cryptocurrency services
Let a website be a worry stone
1.4.2020
Ethan Marcotte just redesigned his website and wrote about how the process was a distraction from the difficult things that are going on right now. Adding new features to your blog or your portfolio, tidying up performance issues, and improving things bit by bit can certainly relieve a lot...
Microsoft Patents New Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data
29.3.2020
Microsoft has patented a cryptocurrency mining system that leverages human activities, including brain waves and body heat, when performing online tasks such as using search engines, chatbots, and reading ads. “A user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,”...
Value Bubbles for Range Inputs
26.3.2020
HTML5 range inputs, in supported browsers and by design, don't show the user the actual value they are submitting. If you want to use the cool slider, but show the value, you'll have to do that yourself. Here we use the output element and jQuery to show the current value in a bubble that hovers...
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
Ethereum-Based Game to Enhance User Experience with Matic Scaling Solution
22.3.2020
Matic will allow the firm behind VR game The Sandbox to carry out faster transactions and create a better user experience
Neumorphism and CSS
20.3.2020
Neumorphism (aka neomorphism) is a relatively new design trend and a term that’s gotten a good amount of buzz lately. It’s aesthetic is marked by minimal and real-looking UI that’s sort of a new take on skeuomorphism — hence the name. It got its name in a UX Collective post from December 2019,...
Shadow of Steem: Crypto Exchanges Choose to Govern User Deposits Differently
19.3.2020
In view of the Steem fiasco, Cointelegraph examines how some of the most popular exchanges handle user deposits: Do they lend them out, stake them or leverage them?
Pantera-Backed DEX Sparkswap Shuts Down Due to Weak User Base
19.3.2020
In a blog post, the exchange states that it was unable to attract a large enough user base to sustain future operations
15 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility
17.3.2020
This is a really great list from Bruce. There is a lot of directly actionable stuff here. Send it around to your team and make it something that you all go through together.
Here's a little one that prodded me to finally fix...
Most screen readers allow the user to quickly see a list of links...
Stop Using “Dropdown”
16.3.2020
Adrian Roselli notes that it might actually mean:
A <select> menu
An ARIA Listbox, Combobox, Menu, or Disclosure Widget
An input with a <datalist>
An input with autocomplete
A <details><summary> block
An accordion
Flyout navigation
In my own usage, I tend to mean...
Using the HTML title attribute
15.3.2020
Steve Faulkner:
User groups not well served by use of the title attribute
• Mobile phone users.• Keyboard only users.• Screen magnifier users.• Screen reader users.• Users with fine motor skill impairments.• Users with cognitive impairments.
Sounds like in 2020, the only useful thing the title...
Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
12.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption? (Coming soon)
How do new algorithms help? (Coming soon)
In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of a series where we explain how...
Careful with Nested `display: grid; height: 100%;`
11.3.2020
It's not every day you can feel CSS be slow at something. Reddit user jgbbrd discovered nesting grid containers that all have 100% height can cause many-seconds of rendering delay. Probably not something you'll ever have to worry about, but still, interesting. From the comments:
What a funny...
Lightning-Fast New Bitcoin.com Wallet Proves Popular With Over 10 Million Wallets Created
11.3.2020
The Bitcoin.com Wallet app has reached almost 10.5 million wallets created across several million app downloads. This milestone follows last month’s release of the new app, which most notably included a redesigned, user-friendly interface along with the lightning-fast Instant Pay feature...