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Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering
8.10.2024
I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the most recent episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I was nervous as heck. I’ve admired Heydon’s work for years, and even though we run in similar circles, this was our first …
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How are the `colspan` and `rowspan` attributes different?
15.8.2024
Yes, yes. Functionally, they are different. But heck if I didn’t know about the wacky thresholds until Jens Oliver Meiert tooted a pair of quick polls.
According to the HTML Standard:
If the current cell has a colspan attribute, then 
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What The Heck Does FF7 Rebirth’s Dynamic Difficulty Do?
27.3.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth features a lot of fighting. And while the game’s flexible materia system lets you customize your fighting style, you can also adjust the difficulty with three different options at the beginning, plus a fourth once you finish the game. Read more
US Presidential Candidate Vows to Protect Bitcoin From Government Interference
19.11.2023
U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the government is “threatened by the existence of Bitcoin,” emphasizing that if the cryptocurrency becomes more popular, it would create “a threat to the incumbent status of the U.S. Federal Reserve itself.” He promised...
Where The Heck Is Tears Of The Kingdom's Hestu, The Korok Trader?
17.5.2023
The Korok seeds make a return in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but after you’re gifted these golden turds collectibles after gently and humanely returning a Korok to their friend across a body of water or other obstacles, where do you take them? Hestu, the lovable, maraca-playing Korok...
Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
12.4.2023
These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari 16, are finding their way into macOS and iOS, and are slated to …
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I’m Going To Play The Heck Out Of Mario Strikers: Battle League
10.6.2022
Wario is a cheater. Sure, that’s part of his notorious personality, but in Mario Strikers: Battle League, he literally picks up the ball (with his hands!) and hurls it toward the goal. I won’t profess to be some sort of expert in soccer. I am, however, pretty certain that’s a violation of every...
What the Heck Does “npm” Mean?
20.1.2022
One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different …
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What the Heck is the Command Line?
20.1.2022
Now that we know what npm stands for and have a super general idea of what it does and how it fits into web development, we ought to spend a little bit of time looking at the command line, because …
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What the Heck is Node?
20.1.2022
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Here’s what you need to know about Node.js (or simply Node) and how it relates to npm right off the bat:
Node is JavaScript, but as a server-side language.
This is possible because of
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What the Heck is a Package Manager?
20.1.2022
If you’re keeping score, so far in this npm guide we’ve developed a general understanding of what npm is—notably, that it stands for Node Package Manager. In the process, we’ve discussed the importance of the command line and how it’s …
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How the Heck Do You Install npm?
20.1.2022
Feel like you have a pretty good idea of what a package manager is? We’ve certainly covered a lot of ground getting familiar with all the terms and concepts of package managers, but I’d say it’s high time we actually …
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How the Heck Do You Install npm Packages?
20.1.2022
By now, you’re becoming quite knowledgeable with npm! So far, we’ve broken down the three letters in “npm” to gain a better understand of Node and package managers. In the previous chapter, we even installed Node and npm while …
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What the Heck Are npm Commands?
20.1.2022
npm is, as you now know, a package manager. But like similar, earlier tools that run tasks in the command line, such as Grunt and Gulp, npm can also run tasks—which is perfect for us because now that …
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How the Heck Do You Install an Existing npm Project?
20.1.2022
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We’ve gotten a good overview of how npm works and how to use it to install packages and run commands at this point. Now let’s go a little further and see what it looks …
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Let’s Pick Winners For The 2021 Game Awards
3.12.2021
It’s December, the month when little children’s thoughts turn to presents and big children’s thoughts turn to Geoff Keighley’s annual celebration of world-premiere trailers. And those trailers come with awards between them, bestowed upon the best games of the year as judged by professional game...
I’m Gonna Play The Heck Out Of This Lo-Fi Spin On Pokémon
19.10.2021
The elevator pitch for Cassette Beasts, a forthcoming indie game, can’t fit on a single line. A lo-fi monster-hunting game clearly inspired by Pokémon? Or, oh, oh, how about a top-down role-playing game with gorgeous pixel art and killer music? Surely it’s something distinguished by being awash...
Wanna see a whiter white?
11.8.2021
Heck of a CSS trick here from Dongsung Kim.
There are hidden HDR videos playing at the corners of this page. When a HDR-capable browser encounters one, it switches to HDR mode. For some reason, CSS backdrop-filter + brightness >100%
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Beginner JavaScript Notes
9.7.2021
Wes has a heck of a set of “notes” for learning JavaScript. It’s organized like a curriculum, meaning if you teach JavaScript, you could do a lot worse. It’s actually more like 85 really fleshed-out blog posts organized into sections …
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JSON in CSS
21.5.2021
Jonathan Neal tweeted a heck of a little CSS trick the other day, putting JSON inside CSS and plucking it out with JavaScript. Valid values for custom properties are quite liberal! So this looks for a CSS rule (e.g. a …
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