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Waiting For Hollow Knight: Silksong? Here's The Perfect Game To Tide You Over
11.5.2022
A sign of a great game is when, no matter how many days I’ve spent with it, I justify yet another morning playing before I start to write. Haiku, the Robot is one such game, an absolutely captivating Metroid-me-do, that I want to be playing right now, instead of finally stopping to tell you to...
COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
11.5.2022
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the …
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XRP Retests $0.50; Should You Wait for Bulls?
11.5.2022
XRP and its SEC lawsuit impact the overall price of the token, and investors keep distancing from XRP tokens. Even if XRP is labeled as a security, the underlying technology that rivals the payment speeds of Mastercard and Visa could be a breakthrough to transfer digital payments. Recent...
You Can Now (Try And) Play The Leaked 2001 Duke Nukem Forever Build
11.5.2022
You know how yesterday we wrote about that 2001 build of the infamous Duke Nukem Forever, and how it was supposed to be released to the public in June? Yeah, by “June”, they meant “the day after”, because it’s now available to download and try out.Read more
Can You Really Build a ‘Crypto Empire’ in the Empire State?
10.5.2022
Can you really build a crypto empire in New York? New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants to lure crypto companies to the Big Apple – but there are a host of obstacles in his way
Bitcoin Is Down, but You Don't Have to Be
10.5.2022
VR Devs Really Want You To Feel Spiders On Your Face
10.5.2022
Off the top of your head, what’s the best way to increase immersion while using virtual reality? Flawless, controller-free hand tracking? Direct brain integration? Maybe some kind of smell-o-vision? Nope, sorry, the answer we’re looking for is “literally being able to feel spiders crawling on your...
Stanley Parable Fans Find Ultra Rare Creeps You Likely Missed
10.5.2022
Starting out in 2011 as a mod for Half-Life 2 before getting its own Source engine release on Steam as a standalone game just two years later, The Stanley Parable has become an undeniable classic. Its bizarre premise of the titular character stuck in an office, hopelessly navigating a labyrinth...
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
10.5.2022
By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:
A programming language is any set of rules that convert
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Your Deepest, Darkest Elden Ring Secrets Will All Be Revealed By 'Make Up A Tarnished Guy'
10.5.2022
It’s not often that you see someone boldly call out Souls players for the silly habits they’ve learned over the years, but this Elden Ring account is doing so with gusto. Read more
Steam's U.S. antitrust lawsuits fail to get dismissed - now what?
9.5.2022
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Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images
9.5.2022
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification …
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Get a Random Array Item with JavaScript
9.5.2022
JavaScript Arrays are probably my favorite primitive in JavaScript. You can do all sorts of awesome things with arrays: get unique values, clone them, empty them, etc. What about getting a random value from an array? To get a random item from an array, you can employ Math.random: const arr =...
How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory
6.5.2022
Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging …
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WWE Superstar The Miz Should Play Johnny Cage In Mortal Kombat II, And You Know It
5.5.2022
WWE superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin is so pumped to play Johnny Cage in the next Mortal Kombat movie, all that’s left is for him to actually get cast. Read more
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About ‘Miladys’ but Were Afraid to Ask
5.5.2022
These anime-inspired NFTs come with some deeply confounding ideological baggage
Joe Rogan: Bitcoin Is Now a Viable Currency and the Government Is Freaking Out
5.5.2022
Joe Rogan, the host of The Joe Rogan Experience, likens bitcoin to the early internet. Noting that now the cryptocurrency is “a viable form of currency” that “You can actually buy things with,” he said, “the government is freaking out.” Joe Rogan, Bitcoin...
New Service Allows You to Get Tipped in Bitcoin to Read Email
4.5.2022
As some estimates indicate that more than 333bn emails are sent every day, a new service, Reacher, aims to allow its users to get paid in bitcoin (BTC) to be reached, and potentially filter out a major share of their spam.
The project presents its functionality in five steps:
Reacher is...
Podcast: Devolver's Clara Sia on the streamer-led discovery process for games
4.5.2022
Listen now (48 min) | How streamers find your content - and how they want to interact with you
Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
4.5.2022
So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the …
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