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WDRL — Edition 308: Mostly CSS, MPAs, and seeing Time and Gifts
1.2.2023
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when I wrote the last summary right before the calm time between years, I thought the next edition will not feature a lot of articles. Since then, so many cool new notes and articles have been published that it’s about time to send this to you.
Personally, I’m working on two web projects...
Ethereum’s Dominance on the Rise: Market Share Increases by 3% Among Global Crypto Assets
11.1.2023
Since Dec. 31, 2022, ethereum’s market dominance has increased by more than 3% among the thousands of crypto assets worldwide, valued at roughly $856 billion on Jan. 11, 2023. According to coinmarketcap.com, a popular coin market capitalization aggregation site, ethereum’s crypto...
BONK Meme Coin Sees Wild Price Fluctuations and Massive Holder Concentration
6.1.2023
After the all-time cryptocurrency price highs in 2021, suffering through the Luna implosion of 2022 and watching countless crypto businesses go belly up, we’ve got a new entrant to the meme coin scene that launched on the Solana network. The crypto asset bonk inu (BONK) has a circulating...
Crypto technology will shift towards 'steadier hands' in 2023: Circle CSO
3.1.2023
Turmoil in the crypto sector in 2022 will see the tech change hands to "more regulated and established institutions," said Circle's chief strategy officer
WDRL — Edition 307: Test Selectors in CSS, image() functions, readable typo, and speeding up JavaScript libraries.
21.12.2022
Hey,
in my last newsletter this year, the 13th, I want to say thank you to all of you: Thanks for being my audience, for reading my emails, and articles, sharing them, and giving me feedback. I really appreciate every single email you write to me. Happy holidays and happy new year!
The web...
WDRL — Edition 306: Icon-Quiz, Dynamic viewports, view transitions, and natural input design.
6.12.2022
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Will you recognize what the icons in the following link want to explain? I thought it’s a good quiz to ask my international friends here to find out how well these icons work. Now think about using only icons for an interface again. The idea of building these icons is to reduce friction...
WDRL — Edition 305: Free, Independent and hand-made. That’s the Internet we like.
17.11.2022
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it’s crazy how much news we get for CSS this year. But along with it, we get tutorials how to use the new things and how to enhance with JavaScript. It’s nice to see how web development evolves, cross-browser support is great for most of the things and we can focus on building great...
Someone Uploaded All 285 Issues Of Nintendo Power To Archive.org
15.11.2022
Few gaming magazines are as beloved as Nintendo Power. In the NES era, it offered many young Nintendo fans their first glimpse of the upcoming games that fired their imaginations, and poring over the detailed maps and tantalizing bits of info was a ritual almost as enjoyable as playing the games...
You Can Now Read All 285 Issues Of Nintendo Power Online
15.11.2022
Few gaming magazines are as beloved as Nintendo Power. In the NES era, it offered many young Nintendo fans their first glimpse of the upcoming games that fired their imaginations, and poring over the detailed maps and tantalizing bits of info was a ritual almost as enjoyable as playing the games...
WDRL — Edition 304: New CSS, an unplugged life, and new Open Source challenges.
4.11.2022
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when I started this newsletter in 2013, I’d never imagined to writing this for nine years, to have thousands of subscribers via email, and many more via the website, social media, and the RSS feed. With many ups and downs, changes in schedule, and ups and downs in motivation, I’m glad to have...
Every U.S. PlayStation 2 Game Manual Is Now Scanned In 4K
25.10.2022
Physical game manuals are hard to come by these days, especially as the industry begins to heavily lean into cloud streaming and digital-first infrastructures. But if you remember those good ole times when game boxes came with chunky pamphlets for you to peruse before jumping into your recent...
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive): když si nedáme pozor, celá literatura 20. století by mohla zmizet
19.10.2022
Digitální knihovník Brewster Kahle si vzal za své celoživotní poslání zajistit univerzální přístup ke všem znalostem. Na rozdíl od mnoha jiných idealistů ale nezůstal pouze u vizí
WDRL — Edition 303: Container query lab, default exports, disabled browser features and Openring.
16.9.2022
Hey,
It’s not been long since the last mail I sent out but I already got so many articles in the queue that it makes sense to send this now. The monthly schedule is a handy reminder for myself but I’m not dogmatic on this. As you know this is a personal, hand-crafted newsletter, so I think it’s...
WDRL — Edition 302: Digital accessibility, learning modern CSS, UI tricks, serving images the right way, and proper waiting in JavaScript.
31.8.2022
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Let's build websites for every one of us: »At the end of 2021, approximately 7.8 million severely disabled people were living in Germany. […] The percentage of severely disabled people in the total population in Germany stood at 9.4%.« – Statistisches Bundesamt
When I first stumbled upon...
Harvard University and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web Plan to Preserve Digital Information
31.7.2022
On July 27, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it will be supporting an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open Knowledge” program. With FFDW’s support, LIL plans to explore...
WDRL — Edition 301: CSS on fire, custom maps, text experience and testing
22.7.2022
Hey,
This week is full of awesome CSS stuff that people have dreamt of only some years ago. And we have other articles that I’ve been long waiting for: Great custom maps, a modern end-to-end testing framework and a fast Electron alternative. But first of all, the topic of the week:
People always...
WDRL — Edition 300: Threehundred and the web still evolves fast
10.6.2022
Hey,
this is number 300 of my article recommendation summaries. It’s crazy to see where this project is now compared to when I started: I always read a lot of resources and missed some sort of summary. Back then, I was blogging more often myself and so I just published my first summary on my blog....
WDRL — Edition 299: Parent selectors, JS concepts, Custom Elements, debugging page reloads and too smart SPAs
7.5.2022
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this week’s links are quite interesting: A couple of web standard (proposals) that would make CSS easier again like CSS Toggles, easy progressive enhancement for form data using the web platform. But also things like a huge list of JavaScript concepts to enhance your knowledge, or simple...
WDRL — Edition 298: Email tech stacks, less CSS duplicates, simple color systems, a custom highlight API, UUID6 and more.
7.4.2022
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if you read this email, it’ll be technically different from the previous. When I recently updated my newsletter service server software nearly everything broke into pieces. I was using mailtrain v1 for a long time now but it’s deprecated and using old node versions. Upgrading to v2 wasn’t...
WDRL — Edition 297: Carbon footprint of ads, JS sorting, PHP the right way and using what we have.
17.3.2022
Hey,
from time to time my intro isn’t entirely web-focused. I always struggle a bit when this is the case because usually it’s about sensitive topics which aren’t easy to discuss in public but this is a personal newsletter. And you can always skip the next paragraph.
personal intro
When I sent...