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Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
10.3.2021
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe’s approach to building websites:
There are three key web technologies underpinning Kehoe’s approach:
ES6 Modules: JavaScript ES6 can support import modules, which are also supported by browsers.
Module CDNs: JavaScript modules can now
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What’s The First Setting You Change In Any Game?
8.3.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
A Reminder That A Lot Of Big Games Exploit Overseas Labor
5.3.2021
While most big games released have a main studio that’s often based somewhere like the United States or Canada or the UK, they also frequently make use of outsourcing studios in other countries to get their games made. Studios where, surprise, the working conditions can be not great.Read more
The Best Home Security Cameras, According To Our Readers
4.3.2021
Cameras aren’t just useful for finding intruders; they can help us keep an eye on the kids during work or make sure your dog isn’t getting into trouble behind your back. In an age where we’re stuck at home, we wanted to know the systems that they were using to keep track of their domain. Earlier...
Blockchain Losers Are Spending Millions On What Are Basically Useless Loot Boxes
4.3.2021
While gamers rail against loot boxes and governments around the world edge ever closer to regulating them, connoisseurs of blockchain bullshit are falling over themselves trying to buy digital highlights of basketball players from a platform called “NBA Top Shot”, in effect spending their money...
Activision Blizzard Hires Bush-Era Torture Apologist As Chief Compliance Officer
3.3.2021
Activision Blizzard announced yesterday that Frances F. Townsend, a former George W. Bush-era counterterrorism appointee and torture apologist, would become its new head of compliance, in charge of making sure the company doesn’t run afoul of the varying laws and regulations throughout all of...
What's the Best Camera for Home Security?
1.3.2021
There are plenty of uses for a camera system in your home. First and most importantly, they’re powerful tools for home security. That’s especially useful in the work from home era when we’re cooped up inside all day. If anything suspicious is happening, you’ll want to know right away. But home...
Snag a Powerful Dyson Ball MultiFloor Upright Vacuum for Just $220, a 45% Savings
26.2.2021
Dyson Ball MultiFloor Upright Vacuum | $220 | Best BuyRead more
Japanese TV Introduces "Mask Manners"
25.2.2021
Even before the age of covid-19, sickness masks were widely worn in Japan, especially during hay fever season. But now that people wear them every day, throughout the day, it seems as though there’s a notion as to what’s good and bad mask manners. Read more
Modders Fix Valheim's Terrible Inventory, Odin Be Praised
24.2.2021
Valheim rules. Exploring is fun, building is fun, kiting trolls around islands while crying quietly to yourself as you tap dance on the razor’s edge of death is fun. But nothing is perfect, especially not early access games. So I don’t think we need to kid ourselves here: Valheim’s inventory sucks...
Sweep Up the Savings With $70 off the eufy BoostIQ RoboVac 30C
24.2.2021
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9 Useful WordPress Plugins For Your 2021 Projects
24.2.2021
A collection of high-quality WordPress plugins that will take your site's performance and functionality to a higher level.
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Dysfunctional Game Development Comedy Mythic Quest Returns In May
19.2.2021
Mythic Quest, the dark workplace comedy about pouring your heart and soul into a creative project only to be undermined by everyone around you, comes back to Apple TV+ for its second season starting May 7, Apple announced today. Read more
A Princess Charm Game Would Be Great, Thanks
19.2.2021
During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Mario Kart Live developer Velan Studios revealed its next game, Knockout City. But all I really care about is the spunky (and wholly unrelated) little princess that was used to market it.Read more
The Crucial Legacy of the Black Aunt
18.2.2021
When it comes to Black families, there is no role more imitated, meme’d, or recognizable than aunt. Whether the aunt you claim is kin or “play,” the role is somewhat universal—a supportive woman in your life, younger than grandma, that bridges familial bonds between children and parents.Read more
How ImageEngine can Optimize Contentful CMS For Faster Web Performance
18.2.2021
In this article, we will review how ImageEngine’s API can transform images better than the native API of Contentful.
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Billionaires’ Favorite Climate Solution Is a Dangerous Distraction
17.2.2021
An Elon Musk tweet can do everything from moving the stock market to convincing people to invest in a joke cryptocurrency. So when the richest man on Earth tweeted in late January about kicking $100 million to whoever could come up with the best technology to capture carbon from the air, the world...
A Classic Tale of Two Prep School Friends Who Founded the Uber of Hangover IV Drips Then Somehow Started Covid-19 Testing for Cities
16.2.2021
Shortly before Thanksgiving, the Hoboken, New Jersey city council held an emergency meeting to vote on covid-19 testing contracts, the kind of event that was doubtlessly being replicated in Zoom conference rooms around the county. Hospitalizations in the state were the highest they’d been in...
So What The Heck is Sex Tech, and Why Do I Need It?
12.2.2021
When it comes to luxury sex toys, Swedish-based Lelo has led the charge in creating some of the most beloved and beautiful toys on the market. Lelo’s toys have won awards and if you own one, you simply know. Lelo is a sensual luxury in a toy, the preferred addition to your nightstand. Significant...
Ubisoft Considering Changing Rainbow Six Quarantine's Name Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
10.2.2021
Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot told investors yesterday that the company is looking into changing the name of Rainbow Six Quarantine due to the negative connotations of the subtitle while the world is still in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic.Read more