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Makerdao Dev Insists Defi Protocol Should Leverage Real World Assets to Scale
20.3.2022
On March 16, the protocol engineer at Makerdao and co-founder of the software and design firm Bellwood Studios, Hexonaut, announced a proposal to use real world assets (RWAs) in order to scale the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Makerdao. Hexonaut insists the bull market was good,...
Horizon Forbidden West Dev Explains Far Zenith, The Game’s Most Twisted Villains
18.3.2022
You could draw a direct line between the fictitious villains of Horizon Forbidden West and certain members of the IRL three comma club. The game’s lead writer, however, insists that such characters aren’t based on any real-world people.Read more
Horizon Forbidden West Dev Dishes On The Game’s Biggest Twist
15.3.2022
Partway through Horizon Forbidden West, you encounter a monster. It’s not an animal-shaped robot, like the bulk of enemies you fight. It’s a bona fide creature of the shadows, and a rare moment of terror in a series that largely avoids jump scares and nightmare fuel. According to the game’s...
Steam Game Dev’s Patch Notes Include Anti-Mask Rant, Users Immediately Revolt
13.3.2022
Domina, a small game on Steam about managing gladiators, is currently being review bombed by users after the latest patch notes for the game included an unrelated rant about people wearing masks during the pandemic. The message also explains that not wearing a mask will “get you laid” and seems...
Elden Ring's Minimal UI And HUD Elements Have Started Maximum Dev Debates
10.3.2022
If you’ve spent any time on the internet in the last week, you would’ve likely seen a number of intense debates happening over Elden Ring. The usual accessibility and difficulty discourse still permeates much of the conversation around the game, but the newest point of contention was actually Elden...
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev CDPR And Others Condemn Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
25.2.2022
Earlier this week Russian troops, acting on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine and launched 200 missiles, some of which reportedly hit residential areas near the capital city of Kyiv. At least 50,000 Ukrainian citizens have been displaced and are fleeing the country, according...
After Cyberpunk 2077’s Big Update, Dev Says It’s An RPG Now—But Fans Differ
17.2.2022
Cyberpunk 2077 disappointed a lot of players when it launched without many of its originally promised features. The quests were incredibly light on dynamic player choices, and advertised features like apartment customization and body augmentations were not in the final game. The gameplay was...
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify CLI
17.2.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
First things first, if you didn’t know Netlify had a CLI, they do.  One of my favorite things about it running the command netlify dev on nearly any static-site generator project is seeing it …
Top Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Netlify...
GSAP Flip Plugin for Animation
15.2.2022
Greensock made the GSAP Flip plugin free in the 3.9 release. FLIP is an animation concept that helps make super performance state-change animations. Ryan Mulligan has a good blog post:
FLIP, coined by Paul Lewis, is an
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Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’
13.2.2022
On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed...
iOS jailbreak dev wins $2M bounty for finding critical Optimism bug
11.2.2022
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project’s Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH
Building a newbie-friendly codebase
3.2.2022
Pedro Santos suggests:
Using naming conventions such that you can learn them once and apply them everywhere
Unidirectional data flows. Make it easy to follow the app flow.
No magic numbers. I’d add they are even worse in CSS
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No Man's Sky Dev Brings Back Older Games To Brighten One Kid's Life
27.1.2022
Before Hello Games made a name for itself with the procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, its developer was all about Joe Danger, a cartoonish motorcycle stuntman racing through an eponymous series of console and mobile games. After years of being defunct due to iOS updates, the...
Wordle Brings Accidental Windfall To Another Dev, Who Gives It All To Charity
17.1.2022
You know how everything is awful? Well, wait! This isn’t! Wordle, the super-simple Mastermind-like word game that has taken over planet Earth, seems to create goodwill in its wake—the latest being that of Steven Cravotta, whose five-year-old app with the same name has found itself at the top of...
Lessons from a disappointing game launch: Spire Of Sorcery
17.1.2022
Some honest feedback from the dev
How to Build Your First Custom Svelte Transition
14.1.2022
The Svelte transition API provides a first-class way to animate your components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions. By default, the transition directive uses CSS animations, which generally offer better performance and allow the browser’s …
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Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App
11.1.2022
Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.
This post will walk through the process of converting an existing …
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Netflix Is Planning On Making A Scott Pilgrim Anime
8.1.2022
And then it was time for Toronto to drown in the sweet sorrow of Clash At Demonhead, again, but in the form of an anime. That’s right, Netflix is planning to develop a new adaptation to the cult classic comic book and movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Read more
Halo Infinite Dev Dishes About The Game’s Most Shocking Moment
29.12.2021
The most shocking moment in Halo Infinite isn’t about exploding a derelict ancient space station or accidentally awakening a once-slumbering threat. It’s a brief exchange between two main characters, one that reveals the extent to which Halo protagonist Master Chief would go to fulfill what he sees...
Be Prepared for Failure and Handle it Gracefully
20.12.2021
When I was working at my first “real” job in the field in the mid-2000s, it was hammered in the web dev field to build tiny websites (no more than 100KB per page), only use JavaScript for special effects, and …