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Did You Like The New Mortal Kombat Movie?
3.5.2021
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
Swipey Image Grids
3.5.2021
I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here’s one more: SVG is good for composition. You draw things at very specific coordinates …
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WebPageTest API
3.5.2021
I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, …
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Safari 14.1 Adds Support for Flexbox Gaps
30.4.2021
Yay, it’s here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We’ve had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name, it’s limited to grid layouts. Now we can use gap in either type …
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Got crypto? Here are 3 debit cards that let you spend your stack
30.4.2021
Crypto debit cards are growing in popularity as holders look for effortless ways to spend their assets
Web Languages as Compile Targets
30.4.2021
Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
He references an example on Twitter where someone noted you can use the <details> element to “create a native HTML accordion,” to which someone responded: “this works without Bootstrap? 🤯”
What’s the problem here? From
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Jenny B Kowalski’s A-Z (and a-z) as Variable Letterforms
30.4.2021
Jenny B Kowalski has been posting a-letter-a-day on Instagram exploring multi-axis variable/responsive letterforms. They are very clever in that one of the axes controls an uppercase-to-lowercase conversion, literally morphing the shape of the letters from an uppercase version to a …
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
30.4.2021
This weekend is about distracting myself with an MMO so I don’t buy the big new shiny PS5 game Returnal. Read more
You Can Label a JavaScript `if` Statement
30.4.2021
Labels are a feature that have existed since the creation of JavaScript. They aren’t new! I don’t think all that many people know about them and I’d even argue they are a bit confusing. But, as we’ll see, labels can …
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Image Optimization Strategies Compared (Sponsored)
30.4.2021
We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive...
Sending Large Files
29.4.2021
I’ve got a podcast that will be 10 years old this coming January! Most of those episodes have one or more guests (plus me and Dave). Despite fancy modern options for recording podcasts with guests, like Riverside.fm or Zencastr…
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How to Monitor Core Web Vitals and Take Action with Raygun
29.4.2021
Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your site, which takes 2 seconds, and now you’ve got monitoring in place. Why? Well now …
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List Markers and String Styles
29.4.2021
Lists—we’ve all worked with them in one form or another. I’m talking about HTML’s <ol> and <ul>. Much of the time, because we desire styling control, we turn off the list’s markers completely with list-style-type: none, and start …
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Your Team is Not “Them”
28.4.2021
This post was written for engineering managers, but anyone is welcome to read it.
Let’s talk for a moment about how we talk about our teams. This might not seem like something that needs a whole article dedicated to it, …
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Now You Can Play The Canceled Dreamcast Castlevania Prototype
28.4.2021
Earlier this month, it appeared as if Castlevania Resurrection, a canceled Sega Dreamcast project from the early 2000s, had somehow escaped the dark confines of a Konami warehouse somewhere. Now, everyone has a chance to play that prototype thanks to gaming preservationists having archived that...
How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
28.4.2021
Click, drag, release: you’ve just selected some text on a webpage — probably to copy and paste it somewhere or to share it. Wouldn’t it be cool if selecting that text revealed some options that make those tasks easier? That’s …
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Shared Element Transitions
27.4.2021
I was just Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions, and Bramus commented that Chrome is working on something. Looks like it has some fresh enthusiasm for it, as there is a brand new repo, and you can literally …
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One U.S. Dollar Will Buy You Unlimited Invincibility In Capcom Arcade Stadium
27.4.2021
Having a hard time with the classic games of Capcom Arcade Stadium? Well, the developers have just the thing for you: paid invincibility.Read more
Are You A Gaming Snob?
27.4.2021
It’s a new week 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 Complete Guide to Custom Properties
27.4.2021
Everything important and useful to know about CSS Custom Properties. Like that they are often referred to as "CSS Variables" but that's not their real name.
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