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Bitcoin Transaction Fee Estimators: What Are They and How Do You Use Them
22.1.2021
Whenever there’s a bitcoin (BTC) rally, bitcoin transaction fees tend to go up. If you want to know what current Bitcoin network fees are, you can take a look at bitcoin transaction fee estimators.
In this article, we will delve into what they are, what they do, the challenges they face, and...
You Can Play A Classic Racing Game Right Now On Whatever You're Using To Read This
22.1.2021
Modern racing games owe so much to Sega’s Virtua Racing. Released to arcades in 1992, Virtua Racing wasn’t the first 3D polygonal racing game, though it was the first to really get it right, thanks to a blistering sense of speed and smooth, responsive 30 frame-per-second gameplay that outpaced...
Servers: Cool Once Again
22.1.2021
There were jokes coming back from the holiday break that JavaScript decided to go all server-side. I think it was rooted in:
The Basecamp gang releasing Hotwire, which looks like marketing panache around a combination of technologies. “HTML over
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
22.1.2021
This weekend is for relaxing just a little bit more than we relaxed last weekend. I’m not saying we should just collapse on our couches and let out long, relieved sighs, but perhaps we can breathe a little easier. Maybe play some video games. Perhaps even space video games. Read more
useStateInCustomProperties
21.1.2021
In my recent “Custom Properties as State” post, one of the things I mentioned was that theoretically, UI libraries, like React and Vue, could automatically map the state they manage over to CSS Custom Properties so we could use that state …
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PUBG's New Reputation System Will Let Other Players Know If You're An Asshole
21.1.2021
PUBG’s latest update adds a souped-up new sports car, more improvements to test out in the lab version, and most importantly a reputation system that will try to give you a score based on how toxic you are as a player. That sounds amazing. More games should have this. Read more
You Won’t Get a New GPU for a While. So Why Not Dig up Some of These Less Demanding, Underappreciated Games?
21.1.2021
Nvidia and AMD have released top-tier graphics cards for the next generation of gaming, but you can’t get them anywhere. Trump’s tariffs have raised prices even further this year. And while NVIDIA just announced yet another card—the affordable RTX 3060—I wouldn’t expect to get one of those anytime...
How to Play and Pause CSS Animations with CSS Custom Properties
21.1.2021
Let’s have a look CSS @keyframes animations, and specifically about how you can pause and otherwise control them. There is a CSS property specifically for it, that can be controlled with JavaScript, but there is plenty of nuance to get …
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What if you could cut your hosting costs by 80%? Webiny Serverless CMS makes it possible.
21.1.2021
Are you hosting one or more websites and are using a headless CMS? Are you hosting your CMS on a virtual machine or a container, or using a SaaS solution? If so, then you’re paying for the uptime, regardless if …
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Scrollbars on Hover
21.1.2021
First, scrollbars are a usability and accessibility thing. Second, a rule of thumb: if an area scrolls, it should have a visible scrollbar. But the web is a big place and I like tricks, so I’m going to cover the …
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You Can Buy A 912lb Box Of PlayStation Consoles
21.1.2021
What an age we live in. PlayStation consoles, by the pound.Read more
Watch Reruns of ‘90s Cartoons While You Work
20.1.2021
All those ‘90s babies grew up with the best childhood cartoons—shows so beloved they continue to remake them to this day. Recently we’ve seen reboots of Duck Tales, Animaniacs, and Ren and Stimpy, not to mention the many iterations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But nothing really beats...
How To Ensure Your Old Hitman Data Follows You To Hitman 3
20.1.2021
Hitman 3, out today for pretty much all of the platforms, sees Agent 47 continue his spree of heinous crimes, including murder and travel journalism. Like the previous entry in IO Interactive’s sumptuous Savile Row simulator, you can import levels and character progression from prior games. It’s...
New in Chrome 88: aspect-ratio
20.1.2021
And it was released yesterday! The big news for us in CSS Land is that the new release supports the aspect-ratio property. This comes right on the heels of Safari announcing support for it in Safari Technology Preview 118, …
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SEC’s "Crypto Mom" demands innovation, says you can’t prosecute an algorithm
20.1.2021
The commissioner of the SEC, Hester Peirce, told an audience at CFC 2021 that crypto regulation should be focused on innovation, and that the U.S should be number one
Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js
20.1.2021
Many users these days expect instant feedback in form validation. How do you achieve this level of interactivity when you’re building a small static site or a server-rendered Rails or Laravel app? Alpine.js and Iodine.js are two minimal JavaScript …
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What Media Property Would You Like To See Adapted Into A Game?
19.1.2021
It’s Tuesday 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
Life with ESM
19.1.2021
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends.
Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuance, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open.
Before ESM, the situation for JavaScript …
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Netlify Edge Handlers
19.1.2021
Netlify Edge Handlers are in Early Access (you can request it), but they are super cool and I think they are worth wrapping your brain around now. I think they change the nature of what Jamstack is and can be.…
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On Type Patterns and Style Guides
19.1.2021
Over the last six years or so, I’ve been using these things I’ve been calling “type patterns” in my web design work, and they’ve worked out pretty well for me. I’ll dig into what they are and how they can …
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