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Advice for Writing a Technical Resume
27.4.2020
Marco Rogers asked a very good question on Twitter:
I talk to a lot of people new to tech from non-traditional backgrounds, e.g. bootcamps or self-taught. I'm looking for good information for those people on how to build out a strong resume when they don't have work experience yet. Advice...
Hex Opacity Table
6.3.2020
We’ve used hex colors for years but 8-digit hexadecimal is still relatively new. While rgba is simple to understand, 8-digit hex is more difficult, as you need to provide a hex representation of a numeric value. The following is a hexadecimal chart of opacity! 100 FF 99 FC 98 FA 97 F7 96...
Sticky Table of Contents with Scrolling Active States
30.1.2020
Say you have a two-column layout: a main column with content. Say it has a lot of content, with sections that requires scrolling. And let's toss in a sidebar column that is largely empty, such that you can safely put a position: sticky; table of contents over there for all that content in the main...
5 Online Casinos That Accept Bitcoin Cash
27.1.2020
Digital cash was the original use case for bitcoin, and it remains the primary one for bitcoin cash (BCH) today. The ability to send funds anywhere in the world quickly and cheaply has made bitcoin cash a popular choice for online casino players. There are scores of gaming sites where you...
Teaching CSS
19.11.2019
I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using <font> tags and <table>s for layout. I remember arguments about whether this whole CSS thing was a good idea at all. I was quickly convinced, mostly due to...
Are There Random Numbers in CSS?
29.10.2019
CSS allows you to create dynamic layouts and interfaces on the web, but as a language, it is static: once a value is set, it cannot be changed. The idea of randomness is off the table. Generating random numbers at runtime is the territory of JavaScript, not so much CSS. Or is it? If we factor in...
Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS
17.10.2019
Here’s a fabulous CSS trick from Bradley Taunt in which he shows how to make tables work on mobile with just a little bit of extra code. He styles each table row into a card that looks something like this:
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Responsive Tables #2.5: Flexbox by Bradley Taunt (@bradleytaunt)
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Bank of Japan Eyes Lower Rates for Halloween as Negative Global Trend Continues
1.10.2019
In a recent rate review meeting of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda and others on the nine-member board urged leaving all options on the table, where further cuts to the country’s negative interest rate are concerned. The talk of further stimulus reflects an ever-growing...
Table with Expando Rows
20.9.2019
"Expando Rows" is a concept where multiple related rows in a <table> are collapsed until you open them. You'd call that "progressive disclosure" in interaction design parlance.
After all these years on CSS-Tricks, I have a little better eye for what the accessibility concerns of...
caniemail.com
15.9.2019
As long as I can remember the main source for feature support in HTML email clients is Campaign Monitor's guide. Now there is a new player on the block: caniemail.com.
HTML email is often joked about in how you have to code for it in such an antiquated way (<table>s! really!) but that's...
Some HTML is “Optional”
11.9.2019
There is a variety of HTML that you can just leave out of the source HTML and it's still valid markup.
Doesn't this look weird?
<p>Paragraph one.
<p>Paragraph two.
<p>Paragraph three.
It does to me, but the closing </p> tags are optional. The browser will detect...
All the New ES2019 Tips and Tricks
13.8.2019
The ECMAScript standard has been updated yet again with the addition of new features in ES2019. Now officially available in node, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari you can also use Babel to compile these features to a different version of JavaScript if you need to support an older browser.
Let’s look...
Cryptocurrency in China: Over the Counter, Under the Table
5.8.2019
Primitive Ventures partner Dovey Wan breaks down the crypto situation as it stands in China today
eToro and Binance Get Their Seats at the Table With Warren Buffet
22.7.2019
Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain project, invited two more guests to join him for the Warren Buffett charity lunch, both of which accepted the invitation.
The third guest to attend this highly-anticipated event is founder and CEO of trading platform eToro, Yoni Assia. Assia replied...
Position Sticky and Table Headers
13.7.2019
You can't position: sticky; a <thead>. Nor a <tr>. But you can sticky a <th>, which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol' <table>. This is tricky stuff, because if you didn't know this weird quirk, it would be hard to blame you. It makes way more...
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Handling Mutations with 8base
17.6.2019
To begin creating questions, we’ll have to run mutations on the Questions table; a quick trick is to look at the 8base API explorer to see how the mutation script should look like. Go the to 8base
Community First: One Protocol’s Plan to Give Users a Seat at the Governance Table
14.6.2019
A mobile payment protocol says council nodes will be “essential to the performance and security” of its blockchain #SPONSORED
Scroll-Linked Animations
29.3.2019
You scroll down to a certain point, now you want to style things in a certain way. A header becomes fixed. An animation triggers. A table of contents appears. To do anything based on scroll position, JavaScript is required right now. You watch the scroll position via a DOM event and alter...
The Whole Spreadsheets as Databases Thing is Pretty Cool
18.3.2019
A spreadsheet has always been a strong (if fairly literal) analogy for a database. A database has tables, which is like a single spreadsheet. Imagine a spreadsheet for tracking RSVPs for a wedding. Across the top, column titles like First Name, Last Name, Address, and Attending?. Those titles...
More Like position: tricky;
4.2.2019
I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it's not used that much...