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Why Everyone Is Talking About Twitch Star Hasan Piker's New Merch Line
10.11.2021
Popular socialist streamer Hasan Piker did a cool thing earlier this week: he launched a new line of merch aimed at supporting workers. In addition to the clothes being made by union shops, some of the profits are also going to strike funds to help pro-labor causes across the country. The store...
Favicons: How to Make Sure Browsers Only Download the SVG Version
5.11.2021
Šime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:
<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"
The attribute size is a typo there...
How to Create an Animated Chart of Nested Squares Using Masks
5.11.2021
We have many well-known chart types: bar, donut, line, pie, you name it. All popular chart libraries support these. Then there are the chart types that do not even have a name. Check out this dreamt-up chart with stacked (nested) …
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Proxying Third-Party JavaScript as First-Party JavaScript (and the Potential Effect on Analytics)
2.11.2021
First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL:
addEventListener("fetch", (event) ={
event.respondWith(
fetch("https://css-tricks.com")
);
});
It doesn’t have any error handling or anything, but hey, it works:
Now imagine how …
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Goldman Sachs Predicts Ethereum Could Hit $8,000 This Year
2.11.2021
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs is reportedly predicting that the price of ether could rise to $8,000 by year-end. The bank’s analysts explained that cryptocurrencies have traded in line with inflation breakevens since 2019. Ether Could Reach $8K by Year-End, According to Goldman Sachs...
A Psychedelic Horror Game About Exploring A Haunted Train
29.10.2021
Boarding a city subway is always a dice roll for whatever terror awaits you once the train doors close. Maybe there’s some trash taking up a seat, or annoying passengers who are hell bent on making their business yours. The new psychological horror game, Subway Midnight, taps into that uncertainty...
Opulous and LINE Are Announcing a New Partnership
27.10.2021
Many stories on the $OPUL token listing, staking possibilities, and the sale of Lil Pump & Soulja Boy’s Music NFT appeared in recent weeks. Opulous has been busy developing its platform. It was more than excited to share the news of a significant collaboration. Opulous will collaborate...
The Semantics of Jamstack
25.10.2021
The past year has seen a healthy debate around the term ‘Jamstack’ as the definition gets stretched to include new use cases. I recently posted my take on a Jamstack definition in “Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s The Line?”…
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Command Line trash
24.10.2021
One of the first commands you learn when experimenting with command line is rm, the utility for deleting files and directories. Deletion is a core computer UI operation but operating systems use a “Trash” paradigm, where files are stored before truly deleted. With the rm utility...
YouTuber Valkyrae Under Fire Over Skin Care Line
22.10.2021
After streamer Valkyrae’s skincare line RFLCT drew criticism for its promises to help offset the negative effects of computer light,” the YouTube has issued a statement. Yesterday, Valkyrae posted a voice note acknowledging the pushback and promised to answer questions in a future stream.Read more
Enormous Train Simulator Installed In Tokyo Hotel
19.10.2021
Train fans, does Tokyo ever have the hotel room for you! At Asakusa Tobu Hotel, a large train simulator has been installed for guests to play on. Read more
Sony Now Lets You Line Up To Buy PS5s Directly From Them
14.10.2021
The story of the PlayStation 5 hasn’t been about killer next-gen games or technological benchmarks, but about how, in the 11 months since it was released, it’s been maddeningly difficult to buy one. For some, that might be about to get a bit less difficult. Today, Sony put up a website that allows...
South Korean Regulator Says DeFi and NFT Regulations Are Coming
12.10.2021
get="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://cryptonews.com/tags/defi">DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) sectors were next in line.In
Hideo Kojima On Japan's Most Magical And Wonderful Trains
12.10.2021
The country of Japan is crisscrossed with trains. Many of them are memorable and great. But for me, one train stands apart as truly special—the Hankyu train. I’m not alone.In his forthcoming book The Creative Gene, Kojima has a chapter titled, “For Me, The Hankyu Railway Is A Time Machine...
How Henry Ford Envisaged Bitcoin 100 Years Ago — A Unique ‘Energy Currency’ That Could ‘Stop Wars’
11.10.2021
55 days from now will be the hundred-year anniversary of when the American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford talked about a unique “energy currency” that could “stop wars.” The well known founder of the Ford Motor Company suggested that a currency could...
Terminate Process on a Port from Command Line
10.10.2021
Once a week I have to deal with a zombie process or try to start a process that’s already running on its designated port. In most cases I use macOS’s Activity Monitor to kill the process, which is time-consuming. What if we could just kill a process on a given port from command line?...
Tether Hits Back at 'Outlandish' Report as USDT 'Mystery' Continues
8.10.2021
lecoin-tether">report that it claimed was full of “outlandish anecdotes” and “character assassination.”Tether has previously claimed to have drawn a line under the matter of whether or not it actually has the funds it says underpins the USD-pegged token by publishing results of an “audit
Developer Decisions For Building Flexible Components
7.10.2021
Blog posts that get into the whole “how to think like a front-end developer” vibe are my favorite. Michelle Barker nails that in this post, and does it without sharing a line of code!
We simply can no longer
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Steam survey: do wishlists and sales line up meaningfully?
6.10.2021
We've got some graphs AND some charts
The Options for Password Revealing Inputs
6.10.2021
In HTML, there is a very clear input type for dealing with passwords:
<input type="password"
If you use that, you get the obfuscated bullet-points when you type into it, like:
••••••••
That’s the web trying to help with security. If …
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