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Elden Ring Looks Brutal As A PS1 Game
25.2.2022
We’ve featured London-based 3D artist and VFX supervisor Hoolopee a number of times on Kotaku, from his terrifying Zelda work to a Nintendo 64 rendition of Halo Infinite to a DragonBall fight made with...sheep. Tonight, we’re taking a look at his latest work, a PS1-looking take on Elden Ring’s...
My white whale: A use case for will-change
24.2.2022
 Nic Chan:
[…] the will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I’ve been on the lookout for when to use it ever since. It might seem self-evident to apply it to commonly animated properties such
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Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
22.2.2022
That’s a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web browsers to get better, listen up:
Complaining on
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(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022
18.2.2022
I linked to Jay’s front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well. I think he’s got a bit of a knack for that wide-scope look at front-end, including tooling and architecture, as well as browser tech. …
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022...
Add-to-Calendar Button UI Widget
17.2.2022
A useful little UI widget thingy here from Jens Kuerschner. Click the add-to-calendar button, get a list of calendar apps, the user selects which one they actually use, and they get what they need for that calendar. Could be a …
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6 Creative Ideas for CSS Link Hover Effects
15.2.2022
Creating CSS link hover effects can add a bit of flair to an otherwise bland webpage. If you’ve ever found yourself stumped trying to make a slick hover effect, then I have six CSS effects for you to take and …
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
14.2.2022
Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They’ve been blue for so long now that the general advice I always hear is to keep them that way. There …
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Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably)
12.2.2022
Kilian Valkhof:
[…] Mobile Safari increases the default font-size when you switch a website from portrait to landscape. On phones that is, it doesn’t do it on iPad. Safari has been doing this for a long time, as a
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Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
10.2.2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting the days.
See, there was a little smattering of internet drama …
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Here's Everything Shown At Today's Nintendo Direct
10.2.2022
There was a Nintendo Direct held earlier today, which covered everything from Metroid to Mario Kart, and if you missed it and want to catch up on everything, or didn’t miss it and just wanted to revisit the parts that actually interested you, here you go.Read more
Japan-based messaging app will offer trial run of native token starting in March
8.2.2022
LINE Pay said it was considering adding other cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ether to its payments options in the future
Using Different Color Spaces for Non-Boring Gradients
7.2.2022
A little gradient generator tool from Tom Quinonero. You’d think fading one color to another would be an obvious, simple, solved problem — it’s actually anything but!
Tom’s generator does two things that help make a gradient better:
You
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Building a newbie-friendly codebase
3.2.2022
Pedro Santos suggests:
Using naming conventions such that you can learn them once and apply them everywhere
Unidirectional data flows. Make it easy to follow the app flow.
No magic numbers. I’d add they are even worse in CSS
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Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
2.2.2022
Here’s a super classy demo from Michelle Barker over on Codrops that shows how to build a scrollable and draggable timeline with GSAP. It’s an interesting challenge to have two different interactions (vertical scrolling and horizontal dragging) be tied together …
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Shovel Knight Devs’ Next Game Is A Mash-Up Of Link’s Awakening And Castlevania
2.2.2022
Yacht Club Games is working on a new project which, for the first time in the indie studio’s history, has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. It’s called Mina the Hollower, it’s a retro-homage to Game Boy classics like Link’s Awakening, and in a weird twist, Yacht Club is going back to Kickstarter...
Metaphors We Web By
1.2.2022
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper.
Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […]
The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it
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Let's Check Out Ocarina Of Time's PC 'Port'
31.1.2022
In November 2021 a team of fans at Zelda 64 Reverse Engineering—having spent two years on the project—revealed that they’d painstakingly recreated the entirety of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. Now, only a few months later, we’re getting a good look at one of the main goals of that project:...
NES Zelda Map Recreated By One Person Using 25,000 Lego Bricks
30.1.2022
If I dumped 25,000 Lego bricks and pieces in front of you and gave you a few months to build something with them, what would you make? You’d probably be more concerned that I dumped all that plastic on you. But one Zelda fan and Lego builder took all those blocks and created a marvelous looking...
The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
30.1.2022
Jim Nielsen’s mom couldn’t open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
“[…] well it can’t be a browser issue. It’s not like my Mom is using Internet Explorer!
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Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LINK, HNT, FLOW, ONE
30.1.2022
BTC is attempting to form a bottom while LINK, HNT, FLOW and ONE are showing early signs of accumulation