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How to Make Search Your Site’s Greatest Asset
7.11.2022
Expert tips and tricks on the features any search should be equipped with for a great user experience
It's Time To Ditch Some Of Your Favorite Cards From Your Marvel Snap Deck
5.11.2022
If you, like me John Walker, are still fathoming your way through the lower echelons of Marvel Snap, there’s a good chance there are cards you’re clinging on to because they were working so well for you. However, you’re now starting to lose more often, wondering what went wrong. The answer is: Kill...
Locate Empty Directories from Command Line
1.11.2022
As a software engineer that lives too much of his life on a computer, I like keeping my machine as clean as possible. I don’t keep rogue downloaded files and removes apps when I don’t need them. Part of keeping a clean, performant system is removing empty directories. To identify empty...
5 Beginner Vampire Survivors Tips To Easily Slay The Gothic Roguelite
31.10.2022
Indie darling roguelite Vampire Survivors, a flaming arrow of pixel monsters and treasure chests, is a little more than a week into its official release, coming out from early access. The game received some tweaks in its final transformation, like balance changes and new achievements. But...
How to Extend Prototypes with JavaScript
31.10.2022
One of the ideological sticking points of the first JavaScript framework was was extending prototypes vs. wrapping functions. Frameworks like MooTools and Prototype extended prototypes while jQuery and other smaller frameworks did not. Each had their benefits, but ultimately all these years later...
Here are top tips by the crypto community to get through the bear market
31.10.2022
The common theme of advice revolved around focusing on long-term goals and avoiding short-term distractions be it price volatility or negative mainstream news
20 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Playing Marvel Snap, 2022's Best New Card Game
27.10.2022
Hey, punk. You wanna be like the The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl? Okay, maybe let’s not start an argument over who the most powerful Marvel character really is because nobody is coming out of that one alive. We are here to help you hulk out in the best new card battler around, and by the time we’re...
How to Use window.crypto in Node.js
27.10.2022
I’ve been writing a bunch of jest tests recently for libraries that use the underlying window.crypto methods like getRandomValues() and window.crypto.subtle key management methods. One problem I run into is that the window.crypto object isn’t available, so I need to shim it. To use...
11 Gotham Knights Tips To Kick Criminal Ass And Clean The Streets In Style
26.10.2022
When you’re first getting to grips with Gotham Knights, it can be a counterintuitive mix of familiar mechanics grafted onto a confusing hodgepodge of systems from other games. There’s Arkham-inspired melee combat, a Destiny-style progression system, and RPG elements that might lure you into...
Create a Thumbnail From a Video with ffmpeg
25.10.2022
Creating a thumbnail to represent a video is a frequent task when presenting media on a website. I previously created a shell script to create a preview video from a larger video, much like many adult sites provide. Let’s view how we can create a preview thumbnail from a video! Developers...
13 Things Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Players Should Master
24.10.2022
Don’t let the ridiculously silly Rabbids fool you. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is a formidable tactics game that can and will kick your butt if you’re not careful. Fortunately, the game also gives you a wide variety of mechanics and tools that come together in complex and satisfying ways....
Detect System Theme Preference Change Using JavaScript
24.10.2022
JavaScript and CSS allow users to detect the user theme preference with CSS’ prefers-color-scheme media query. It’s standard these days to use that preference to show the dark or light theme on a given website. But what if the user changes their preference while using your app?...
Everything We Know About Starfield’s Dialogue And Traits System So Far
13.10.2022
Doom publisher Bethesda’s star-spotted, belly-bloated role-playing game Starfield is delayed to 2023, but game director and executive producer Todd Howard shared details of its dialogue and traits system in a Q&A video released this week. Howard says in the video that he considers Starfield...
Cyberpunk 2077 Tips To Break Hearts, Romance Everyone After All The Updates
12.10.2022
Are you sick of wandering the streets of Night City alone, with only the sights and sounds of gratuitously over-sexualized advertisements to keep you company? Has someone caught your eye? Someone you’d like to be more than just chooms with? Even if you’ve ventured into Night City before, it’s worth...
Ripple boss tips when SEC case will end as Hoskinson hits back at XRP army
12.10.2022
Optimistically speaking, Brad Garlinghouse thinks the case will be concluded in 3-4 months, though it could take longer
Skip or Only Run a Test with JavaScript Mocha
10.10.2022
Whenever I start to feel anxiety about a big change I’m making, I start writing more unit tests. I’ll write down my fear and then write a test that attacks, and eventually relaxes, that fear. There are two actions that I’ve been frequently using with test writing: skipping all...
7 Tips For Overwatch 2 Beginners Determined To Win
7.10.2022
Thanks to a bunch of funny people, the most difficult aspect of Overwatch 2 right now is probably just getting into the damn game. But if you’re new to this franchise, what awaits is a whole suite of heroes with unique abilities that mesh together into a hectic first-person shooter in which...
13 Things I Wish I Knew Before (Re)Starting Cyberpunk 2077
5.10.2022
Cyberpunk 2077’s been having a bit of a renaissance lately. The hit Netflix spinoff anime Edgerunners, which fellow Kotaku staff writer Isaiah Colbert described as “Studio Trigger at its finest,” has pulled people into the dark and gritty world of this game once more. Add to that a number...
Be Prepared For These 7 Big Overwatch 2 Gameplay Changes
4.10.2022
Sorry, the old Overwatch can’t come to the phone right now. She’s dead. Today, October 4 at 3 p.m. EST, Overwatch 2 will come to replace her, and the sun has long set on days of 6v6 and free-range characters not cloistered behind a battle pass.Read more
Determine Default App for File Type from Command Line
3.10.2022
One quality of life improvement any developer can make for themselves is ensuring different file types open in the app they’re most proficient in. If you know me, you know I prefer accomplishing as much as possible from the command line. The duti utility allows users to determine default file...