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WandaVision's Finale Was What You Made of It
5.3.2021
There were as many ways that Marvel’s WandaVision series finale could have ended as there are different ways to process grief. Each of the season’s nine episodes teased this out—new plot twists that threw audiences for loops all meant to obscure, but not erase, the reality that despite all...
Thank You, Persona 5 Strikers, For This Adult Who Doesn't Suck
5.3.2021
Persona 5 Strikers has been out for a little more than a week, so I feel pretty comfortable saying this:Read more
You Can Claim PlayStation Plus' Monthly PS5 Games Before You Get A PS5
5.3.2021
PS Plus continues to offer “free” games to subscribers, and, in recent months, has even started offering PlayStation 5 games. If you don’t have a still-impossible-to-find PS5, you’re not quite S.O.L.. You just have to claim those games through a web browser.Read more
A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
5.3.2021
Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows …
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
5.3.2021
The weekend is for screening attractive anime characters to determine which are friends and which are disguised aliens hell-bent on murdering all of humanity. That, and maybe some light gardening. Read more
Perhaps I Treated You Too Harshly, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
5.3.2021
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was one of my favourite games of the past decade, a combination of stealth, adventuring and some incredible art design. Yet when its sequel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided hit five years later, I only spent a few hours with it before writing it off and getting on with...
Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end bundlers
5.3.2021
I really like the kind of tech writing where a fellow developer lays out some specific needs, tries out different tech to fulfill those needs, and documents how it went for them.
That’s exactly what Andrew Walpole did here. …
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Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end bundlers
5.3.2021
I really like the kind of tech writing where a fellow developer lays out some specific needs, tries out different tech to fulfill those needs, and documents how it went for them.
That’s exactly what Andrew Walpole did here. …
The post Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end...
Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, Ditching em Units, and Global Privacy Control
4.3.2021
In this week’s news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get “donut” scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it’s time to ditch pixels in media queries, and a snippet that prevents annoying form validation styling.
Chrome will…
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Exploring @property and its Animating Powers
4.3.2021
Uh, what’s @property? It’s a new CSS feature! It gives you superpowers. No joke, there is stuff that @property can do that unlocks things in CSS we’ve never been able to do before.
While everything about @property is exciting, …
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How to Develop and Test a Mobile-First Design in 2021
4.3.2021
The internet has connected 4.66 billion people with each other as of October 2020. A total of 59% of the world’s total population. Amazingly, this is not even the surprising part. The stat to look out for is mobile users …
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How to Get an Amazon Echo to Tell You a Room's Temperature
4.3.2021
Little thermometers you can buy and hang anywhere are fairly cheap, but there’s no need to get one if you own an Amazon Echo. That is, if you own one of two kinds of Echos: a fourth-generation Echo or a second-generation Echo Plus. Both of these have temperature sensors built into the smart...
React authentication, simplified
4.3.2021
Authentication is one of those things that just always seems to take a lot more effort than we want it to. To set up auth, you have to re-research topics you haven’t thought about since the last time you did authentication, and the fast-paced nature of the space means things have often changed...
All you can eat: SushiSwap deploys contracts on five new networks
4.3.2021
Top decentralized exchanges are exploring alternatives to Ethereum amid high gas prices, with SushiSwap porting its platform onto five additional networks
‘I can’t believe you morons actually buy this shit’: Banksy art burned and tokenized
4.3.2021
The satirical piece by Banksy pokes fun at the shallow, bloated art industry... So, what would he think about NFTs?
Maquette's Love Story Has Already Broken My Heart
3.3.2021
Ever listen to a song so powerful you stop, drop, and roll to frantically figure out what it is? That’s what happened to me last night while playing Maquette, a puzzle game out this week for PC, PS4, and PS5. Yes, the game’s fantastic, which we’ll get to in a moment, but first: that song.Read more
Damn You, Fortnite Butter Barn Song
3.3.2021
This season of Fortnite has been a whirlwind of crossover skins and deranged players hoping that Epic puts Family Guy’s Peter Griffin in the game. But the latest in-demand item is a possible music track—the song “Butter Barn Hoedown.” The supposedly leaked track somehow, impossibly, rules?Read more
A Bare-Bones Approach to Versatile and Reusable Skeleton Loaders
3.3.2021
UI components like spinners and skeleton loaders make waiting for a page load less frustrating and might even affect how loading times are perceived when used correctly. They won’t completely prevent users from abandoning the website, but they might encourage …
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5TH Cell's Latest Is A Bite-Sized Deck-Building Game You Can Play Right Now
3.3.2021
Launching today on Steam from Scribblenauts and Lock’s Quest creators 5TH Cell, Castlehold is a free-to-play deck-building strategy game that manages to cram a ton of strategy fun into battles that last under 10 minutes. Read more
React Without Build Tools
3.3.2021
Jim Nielsen:
I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.
Refreshing indeed:
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It’s not really the React that’s the hard part …
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