In this episode: David and Todd return from travels to San Francisco, Oslo, and Iceland, Todd reveals he's a new (dog) father, and they welcome guest Daniel Buchner, a Senior PM for Microsoft's Decentralized Identity team. Daniel shares his knowledge about blockchain and crypto, then moves on to describing what decentralized identity is, its advantages over current systems, how Microsoft plans to use decentralized identity, and how us developers can get involved!
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...
One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook. Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control...
The MooTools Accordion plugin seems to be the plugin that people seem to have the most problems with. It's an awesome plugin, so I can see why so many people want to use it, but I think that may be part of the problem.
One thing I love about love about Safari on the iPhone is that Safari provides a darkened background effect when you click a link. It's the most subtle of details but just enforces than an action is taking place. So why not implement that...
