Category: CoolTools

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Thinking about a blockchain project? Here are 10 conditions you should meet before you start

So blockchains make sense for databases that are shared by multiple writers who don’t entirely trust each other, and who modify that database directly. But that’s still not enough. Blockchains truly shine where there is some interaction between the transactions created by these writers.

— Avoiding the pointless blockchain project | MultiChain http://www.multichain.com/blog/2015/11/avoiding-pointless-blockchain-project/

This article has some of the best thinking I’ve seen about how to figure out what to do with blockchain. Blockchain all the things really isn’t a good idea here. This is a complex set of technologies that have any number of useful applications, but, like any tool, it needs to used properly.

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Google launches Resizer to help with responsive design

An interactive viewer to see and test how digital products respond to material design breakpoints across desktop, mobile, and tablet.

https://design.google.com/articles/introducing-resizer/

Basically Resizer is a website that lets you look at how your responsive design is going to look across multiple screens. It provides instant access to a number of different screen sizes and orientations in a way that is a lot less fussy than resizing browser windows. Give it a try and enter the address of any website to see how the layout responds at different break points.