tech/webdev magazine

December 3, 2017

Is Bitcoin a Threat to the Global Banking System?

Sunday, December 03, 2017 Teklinks

Who knew what shape the 4th industrial revolution might take, and the exponential acceleration of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. Along with voice-AI developments like Amazon Alexa, I think we’re witnessing the beginning of the transformation of banking.

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How CSS Grid Beats Bootstrap

Sunday, December 03, 2017 Teklinks

CSS Grid is a new way of creating layouts on the web. For the first time ever we have a proper layout system available natively in the browser, which gives us a ton of benefits. These benefits become especially clear if you compare CSS Grid to the most popular framework of them all: CSS Bootstrap.

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Keeping your code clean

Sunday, December 03, 2017 Teklinks

Some minutes later, one of the judges who was a senior engineer walked up to my desk with a look of disapproval on her face and muttered: “Your code is not clean, It’s messy!” and that was the beginning of my journey towards a cleaner code.

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Angular... It’s You, Not Me.

Sunday, December 03, 2017 Teklinks

It’s been 2 1/2 years that we’ve been together. I knew you before I even really knew JavaScript. There’s no easy way to say this. I’m breaking up with you. I’ve done everything I can, but you’ve hurt me too many times. I mean, two-way binding seemed like a good idea at the time.

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Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals, Part 1: Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Sunday, December 03, 2017 Teklinks

Blockchains are inherently decentralized systems which consist of different actors who act depending on their incentives and on the information that is available to them. Whenever a new transaction gets broadcasted to the network, nodes have the option to include that transaction to their copy of their ledger or to ignore it.

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December 2, 2017

Protected routes and authentication with React Router v4

Saturday, December 02, 2017 Teklinks

Protected routes are an important part of any web application. In this post we’ll break down the “Redirects (Auth)” example on the React Router documentation to learn how to create authenticated routes (routes that only certain users can access based on their authentication status) using React Router.

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