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Web Performance Calendar
7.12.2020
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the mythical “fast” web page:
How you approach measuring a web page’s performance can tell you whether it’s built for speed or whether it feels...
Coding a Simple Raymarching Scene with Three.js
7.12.2020
A coding session where you'll learn how to set up a simple Raymarching scene with Three.js.
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Did you fall for it? 13 ICO scams that fooled thousands
6.12.2020
ICOs are revolutionary for business, though the fear of being scammed keeps investors at a distance
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones Expects Bitcoin’s Market Cap to Grow Beyond $500 Billion
5.12.2020
Famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has updated his view on bitcoin. Envisioning a bullish future similar to “the metals complex where you have precious crypto,” he says that $500 billion is the wrong market cap for bitcoin, given all the “possibilities that it has.”...
Cloudinary Fetch with Eleventy (Respecting Local Development)
4.12.2020
This is about a wildly specific combination of technologies — Eleventy, the static site generator, with pages with images on them that you ultimately want hosted by Cloudinary — but I just wanna document it as it sounds like a decent amount of people run into this situation.
The deal:
Cloudinary...
How Much Money Can You Make on Twitch?
4.12.2020
Streaming videos on Twitch can earn you some pocket money, but making it a full-time job isn’t easy. You’ll probably need around 1,000 loyal subscribers before you’ll want to quit your day job. Read more
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
4.12.2020
The weekend is for figuring out what my children want for Christmas aside from “a toy” and “get the fick out of my bedroom.” It’s also for playing video games, and it turns out there are quite a few to play.Read more
How to Get Sticky and Full-Bleed Elements to Play Well Together
4.12.2020
I had a unique requirement the other day: to build a layout with full-bleed elements while one element stays stuck to the top. This ended up being rather tricky to pull off so I’m documenting it here in case anyone needs to re-create this same effect. Part of the trickiness was dealing with logical...
This $350 HP Pavilion Desktop Won't Run Crysis, but It Will Get You Out of a Crisis When That Presentation Is Due
4.12.2020
HP Pavilion Desktop Computer | $350 | StaplesRead more
Bitcoin ATH & ETH 2.0 Launch
4.12.2020
Powered by Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s publicContinue Reading
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2020 Year in Review
4.12.2020
Looking back on an entire year of one’s professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively, for surviving...
You Can All Get This Ugly Suit In Arkham Knight Now
3.12.2020
Today, Rocksteady Games announced that two obscure skins will finally be obtainable again in its five-year-old superhero adventure Batman: Arkham Knight. The suits in question are the Anime Batman suit and the Zur En Arrh suit, and starting today, after you update Arkham Knight, the suits will...
Happier HTML5 form validation in Vue
3.12.2020
It’s kind of neat that we can do input:invalid {} in CSS to style an input when it’s in an invalid state. Yet, used exactly like that, the UX is pretty bad. Say you have <input type="text" required>. That’s immediately invalid before the user has done anything....
How to create a client-serverless Jamstack app using Netlify, Gatsby and Fauna
3.12.2020
The Jamstack is a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
The key aspects of a Jamstack application are the following:
The entire app runs on a CDN (or ADN). CDN stands for Content Delivery Network and an ADN is an Application...
How to Animate a SVG with border-image
3.12.2020
Let’s take a look at how to combine the border-image property in CSS with animated SVGs that move around a border. In the process, we’ll cover how to hand-craft resizable, nine-slice animated SVGs that you can use not only re-create the effect, but to make it your own.
Here’s what we’re...
Warning: This Phishing Scam is *Very* Easy to Fall For
3.12.2020
Can you tell the difference between the real site and the fake one?
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‘You might get fired if you don’t own Bitcoin’: CoinShares on CNBC
3.12.2020
There could now be a career-risk for a portfolio manager to not have Bitcoin in their portfolio — the CoinShares chairman talks Bitcoin sentiment on CNBC
Holy Cayde-6, You Can Buy Back Your Old Colors In Destiny 2
3.12.2020
Earlier today, I wrote about how I’ve been playing a whole lot of Destiny 2 these days. I messed around with Bungie’s hilariously good-vs.-evil shooter at launch, then dipped out. Returning after a few years away for the recent Beyond Light expansion meant reacquainting myself with a whole lot...
Scientists Are Trying To Work Out Why You Weirdos Invert Your Controls
3.12.2020
After The Guardian ran a story earlier this year on gamers inverting their controls, a group of scientists—who have shifted their studies into online stuff during Covid—are now going to do a little research and try to find out why some people play video games the normal way while others try...
Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries
2.12.2020
It’s sounding more and more likely that we’re actually going to get real container queries. Google is prototyping a syntax idea from David Baron and refined by Miriam Suzanne. Apparently, there has already been some prototyping done for a switch() syntax which is like container queries...