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Wiki continues to accept crypto donations despite pressure to stop
20.1.2022
Crypto donations will still be accepted at Wikimedia Foundation as the foundation wishes to be “as inclusive as possible.”
Wikimedia Foundation Debates Acceptance of Cryptocurrency Donations Over Environmental Concerns
13.1.2022
Following Mozilla’s decision to pause crypto donations due to environmental concerns, a number of Wikimedia Foundation community members have submitted a proposal that asks the foundation to stop accepting digital currency donations. The proposal explains that crypto donations...
Wiki contributors want to drop crypto donations over environmental concerns
12.1.2022
The Wikimedia Foundation is facing pressure from users over its acceptance of cryptocurrency donations
Topological sort
16.12.2021
Jordan Scales explores the computer science concept of topological sorting, and what it might look like if applied to the concept of z-index in CSS. So, you don’t express what the z-index should be directly; instead, you say exactly …
CSS “decorations”
22.11.2021
A reader wrote to me the other day asking about this bit of CSS they came across in Wikipedia’s Common.css:
.mw-collapsible-leftside-toggle .mw-collapsible-toggle {
/* @noflip */
float: left;
/* @noflip */
text-align: left;
}
What’s that @noflip business? That’s...
Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To ‘Fetish’ Content
16.11.2021
Fandom, the company that now hosts a solid majority of video game and other pop-culture wikis, recently updated its “community creation policy” with a new section stating that it will no longer host pages that contain “fetish” content. Thanks to this policy update, the Monster Girl Encyclopedia...
Some Typography Links VIII
21.10.2021
Do you know what to use the @ sign for something other than email addresses and Twitter handles? I do! —  Pawel Grzybek notes how some old physical typewriters had an “Arroba” on them which was represented with the @
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Napkin
11.8.2021
We took a surface level look at Pipedream the other day, which really does look cool. It’s like a much more modern and fancy version of what Yahoo Pipes was. A better comparison might be Zapier, except you …
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Responsible Markdown in Next.js
10.8.2021
Markdown truly is a great format. It’s close enough to plain text so that anyone can quickly learn it, and it’s structured enough that it can be parsed and eventually converted to you name it.
That being said: parsing, processing, …
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Could You Build a Better Way to Wiki? Free TON Launches Contest With Over $80,000 in Crypto
15.7.2021
Free TON, a decentralized international community of developers and enthusiasts, have launched a brand-new contest to rework the Wikipedia Governance model, and there are thousands of dollars worth of rewards on offer. Freecyclopedia Wikipedia currently boasts over twenty-one million individual...
Hero Erects Entire Switch Game Wiki After Finding Little Online
13.7.2021
The internet is so big and vast and great and terrible that whenever I can’t find something, I just assume I must not be looking in the right place. In actuality, there’s just a lot of stuff that doesn’t exist because it got deleted or nobody wrote in the first place. That’s what one fan discovered...
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
13.4.2021
One of the ways you can classify a programming language is by how strongly or weakly typed it is. Here, “typed” means if variables are known at compile time. An example of this would be a scenario where an integer …
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How Star Wars' Biggest Fan Wiki Found Itself in a Fight Over Trans Identity
30.3.2021
If you’re a Star Wars fan online, there stands a high chance that you’ve not only heard of Wookieepedia—the Fandom-owned community resource archiving eons of material from the franchise—but spent more time than you’d like to admit looking up everything from Ickabel G’ont to the history of the Grysk...
Left 4 Dead Wiki Desecrated To Add Fifth Survivor, Who Is Now Canon, That's The Rules
15.2.2021
In the original Left 4 Dead, there were four survivors: Francis, Bill, Louis and Zoey. Anyone reading through the game’s wiki, however, will think there’s actually a fifth cast member: Purple Francis.Read more
“I Don’t Know”
21.12.2020
I’ve learned to be more comfortable not knowing. “I don’t know”, comes easier now. “I don’t know anything about that.” It’s okay. It feels good to say.
Whether it’s service workers, Houdini, shadow DOM, web components, HTTP2, CSS grid, “micro-front ends”, AVIF… there are many paths before...
MDN on GitHub
14.12.2020
Looks like all the content of MDN is on GitHub now. That’s pretty rad. That’s been the public plan for a while. Chris Mills:
We will be using GitHub’s contribution tools and features, essentially moving MDN from a Wiki model to a pull request (PR) model. This is so much better...
Give Users Control: The Media Session API
14.12.2020
Here’s a scenario. You start a banging Kendrick Lamar track in one of your many open browser tabs. You’re loving it, but someone walks into your space and you need to pause it. Which tab is it? Browsers try to help with that a little bit. You can probably mute the entire system audio. But wouldn’t...
The Best Design System Tool is Slack
4.6.2020
There’s a series questions I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. The questions have to do with how design systems work: Where should we document things? Do we make a separate app? Do we use a third-party tool to document our components? How should that tie into Figma or Sketch?...
How to Tame Line Height in CSS
15.5.2020
In CSS, line-height is probably one of the most misunderstood, yet commonly-used attributes. As designers and developers, when we think about line-height, we might think about the concept of leading from print design — a term, interestingly enough, that comes from literally putting pieces of lead...
WTF is a Static API
15.5.2020
Just like there is a movement to make more websites (and more of websites) from pre-rendered static files (Jamstack), so to might we consider moving content-based APIs to be static. Sean C Davis:
A static API is simply a collection of flat JSON files that live on a content delivery...