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Inertia
7.12.2021
I’ve always like Jeremy’s categorization of developer tools:
I’ve mentioned two categories of tools for web development. I still don’t know quite what to call these categories. Internal and external? Developer-facing and user-facing?The first category covers things like …
BTC sentiment 'comparable to a funeral' — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
6.12.2021
Bitcoin has not died for the 500th time, but market fear could easily convince you otherwise as analysts predict a slow return to higher levels
Things to know (and fear) about new IRS crypto tax reporting
4.12.2021
The new law redefines "cash" to include "any digital representation of value" including cryptocurrency, but in an anonymous system, is this going to work?
Dock Life: Using Docker for All The Things!
1.12.2021
I think if you’re a DevOps person in any capacity, the utility of Docker is very clear. Your things run in containers that are identical everywhere. Assuming Docker is working/running, the code will execute in a reliably consistent way whether …
Embrace the Unpredictable
1.12.2021
In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently colored leaves. We can look up at the clouds every minute and watch …
A Look at the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin
30.11.2021
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Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level look at the biggest things this plugin does:
It
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Where will BTC end November 2021? 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
29.11.2021
A classic rebound comes as Coronavirus uncertainty continues and data reveals key insights into Bitcoin support and resistance levels
When is it “Right” to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?
26.11.2021
I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the scroll-position or content) uh, will, change:
.el {
will-change: opacity;
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13 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Death’s Door
24.11.2021
Haven’t you heard? Death’s Door is one of the best games of the year. It’s also one of the toughest. Acid Nerve’s isometric dungeon-crawler, which came out to great acclaim in July on Xbox and PC, landed on PlayStation and Switch this week—just in time for GotY season. How convenient.Read more
GraphQL Editor – The Journey from Initial Release to Version 5.0
22.11.2021
From the very beginning of our adventure with GraphQL, we were impressed by how great its community is. The amount of content, libraries and great tools generated by GraphQL users amazed us from the very start. The more time we spent working with GraphQL the more things we saw that could...
$60K becomes resistance — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
22.11.2021
A headache for Bitcoin bulls is compounded by a raging U.S. dollar, as investors sit on the fence over which way the market will go
Six Things We Learned Today About Halo Infinite
19.11.2021
Halo Infinite has had one hell of a week. On Monday—the sci-fi franchise’s 20th birthday—series stewards 343 Industries surprise-released Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, weeks ahead of schedule, to instant-zeitgeist reception. Today, various sites published glowing previews of the first few hours...
PHP Date and Time Recipes
18.11.2021
Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used from everything from meta and how things are ordered to time-based triggers and …
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Zero Trickery Custom Radios and Checkboxes
18.11.2021
I feel like half of all “custom-designed radio buttons and checkboxes” do two things:
Make them bigger
Colorize them
I always think of SurveyMonkey for having big chunky radios and checkboxes. And indeed, just poking at their interface quickly, even …
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US Infra Act: Cryptoverse Says the Fight Isn’t Over, But Things Could Get ‘Messy’
16.11.2021
Crypto advocates have vowed to keep fighting the controversial Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act despite the fact that the United States President Joe Biden signed the act into law on Monday, leaving much-maligned “digital asset broker” status clauses intact....
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Animal Crossing Players Do Great And Terrible Things With The New Polish Tool
15.11.2021
The item polishing mechanic introduced in the excellent Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons starts off harmlessly enough, giving players a way to add a bit of sparkle to their home furnishings. But when all of the new features’ options are unlocked, including the ability...
'Bull market distribution has begun' — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
15.11.2021
A charge into the weekly close delights analysts as "Moonvember" looks set to continue — can anything spoil bulls' fun?
Altcoin Roundup: 3 Proof-of-work protocols focused on building Web 3.0
13.11.2021
Proof-of-work models are evolving to support the growth of Web 3.0. Here’s 3 projects that offer miners substantial rewards for supporting the network
Quickly Get Alerted to Front-End Errors and Performance Issues
11.11.2021
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Measuring things is great. They say what you only fix what you measure. Raygun is great at measuring websites. Measuring performance, measuring errors and crashes, measuring code problems.
You know what’s even better than …
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11 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Forza Horizon 5
9.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5, the latest massive open-world racer from Playground Games, is officially out now on Xbox and PC. At first glance, playing this racing game might seem fundamentally the same as playing any other racing game: press the right trigger to go fast, left trigger to slow down, tilt...