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What’s the Difference Between Width/Height in CSS and Width/Height HTML attributes?

24.1.2020
Some HTML elements accept width and height as attributes. Some do not. For example: <!-- valid, works, is a good idea --<img width="500" height="400" src="..." alt="..."<iframe width="600" height="400" src="..."</iframe<svg width="20" height="20"</svg<!-- not valid...

What Is the Ideal Block Size and Fee Cost?

24.1.2020
Many of the debates around block size in Bitcoin operate under the false premise that the question can even be properly answered by a central authority. But markets are better at deciding these questions and block sizes and fee costs should be worked out by miners and users, not development...

This Page is Designed to Last

23.1.2020
Jeff Huang, while going through his collection of bookmarks, sadly finds a lot of old pages gone from the internet. Bit rot. It's pretty bad. Most of what gets published on the web disappears. Thankfully, the Internet Archive gets a lot of it. Jeff has seven things that he thinks will help make...

Bitcoin Cash Miners Plan $6M Development Fund by Leveraging Block Rewards

22.1.2020
A group of Bitcoin Cash mining pool operations have decided to help fund BCH infrastructure development. On January 22, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed that five mining pools are preparing a short-term developers donation plan. Miners from Btc.top, Bitcoin.com, Viabtc, Antpool, and Btc.com...

Bad accessibility equals bad quality

22.1.2020
Here’s a smart post from Manuel Matuzovic where he digs into why accessibility is so important for building websites: Web accessibility is not just about keyboard users, color contrast or screen readers. Accessibility is a perfect indicator for the quality of a website. Accessibility is strongly...

Hamburger ☰ Heaven

22.1.2020
A pleasant little romp through iconography and culture from Sophia Lucero. The "hamburger" menu icon we're familiar with now is really a sign from Taoist cosmology. Besides ☰, which represents heaven 天, we have ☱ for lake/marsh 澤, ☲ for fire 火, ☳ for thunder 雷, ☴ for wind 風, ☵ for water 水,...

Edgium

22.1.2020
January 15th, 2020 was the day Microsoft Edge went Chromium. A drop in browser engine diversity. There is a strong argument to be made that's not good for an ecosystem. Looked at another way, perhaps not so bad: Perhaps diversity has just moved scope. Rather than the browser engines themselves...

Searching the Jamstack

22.1.2020
Here's Raymon Camden on adding site search functionality to a site that is statically hosted. A classic trick! Just shoot 'em to Google and scope the results to your site: <form action="https://www.google.com/search" method="get"<input type="search" name="q"...

How Is Bitcoin Cash Different From Bitcoin Core?

20.1.2020
The crypto space can be hard to break into for those unfamiliar with the jargon, lingo, and foundational knowledge taken for granted by the already initiated. Adding to this difficulty is the fact that there are several different cryptos which bear the name “Bitcoin.” Convoluted as this...

Block.one Not Sure About Giving EOS Voice; Market Unmoved

20.1.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram, eosio_official As the community is learning about Block.one’s change of plans about blockchain on which their anticipated decentralized social media platform, Voice is to be launched, the price of EOS doesn’t seem to be affected. The announcement in June 2019...

Block.One Will Not Launch Its Social Network on EOS

17.1.2020
In a departure from earlier announcements, the company now says its Facebook rival, Voice, "will be run on a purpose-made EOSIO blockchain."

Snowpack

14.1.2020
Snowpack. Love that name. This is the new thing from the Pika people, who are on to something. It's a bundler alternative, in a sense. It runs over packages you pull from npm to make sure that they are ES module-compatible (native imports). This is how I digest it. When you write a line of code...

EOSio 20

13.1.2020
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 13 January, 2020 “The cautious seldom err.” - Confucius In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Block.One releasing major EOS.io blockchain software update EOS.io 2.0 PwC Switzerland partnering with smart contract auditing team...

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Block.One Released Major EOS.io Blockchain Software Update EOS.io 2.0

12.1.2020
Block.One released a major update of the software underlying the EOS blockchain

Jetpack Slideshow Block

7.1.2020
One of the many (many) useful things that Jetpack does is give you extra-fancy custom blocks in the WordPress block (AKA Gutenberg) editor: a slideshow, business hours, contact info, GIF, Mailchimp, Map, Markdown, Pinterest, Star Rating, Recurring Payments Button, Repeat Visitor, Simple Payments...

Ethereum Block Time Reduced by 25% After Muir Glacier Hard Fork

5.1.2020
Ethereum block time decreased by nearly 25% and daily block rewards increased by over 31%

Proof of Keys Day Returns on Bitcoin’s 11th Birthday

3.1.2020
Last year’s inaugural Proof of Keys day didn’t see massive amounts of bitcoin withdrawn judging by onchain data – but it did serve to educate a community. Trace Mayer’s call to arms also put exchanges on notice, with some disabling withdrawals, citing unscheduled...

A Deep Dive Into Satoshi’s 11-Year Old Bitcoin Genesis Block

3.1.2020
11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network at approximately 18:15:05 UTC and the world hasn’t been the same since. The Bitcoin blockchain came to life on January 3, 2009, and so far, more than 600,000 blocks have been mined into existence. Nakamoto’s genesis block...

These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths

22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...