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SVG within CSS
8.2.2021
Stefan Judis has a “Today I Learned” (TIL) post explaining how SVGs filters can be inlined in CSS. The idea is that CSS has the filter property which supports some built-in functions, like grayscale(100%) and stuff like that.
But …
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Can you cheat to get ahead on Steam?
8.2.2021
We... would not recommend it
Can you cheat to get ahead on Steam?
8.2.2021
We... would not recommend it
Would You Ever Get A Video Game Tattoo?
8.2.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
The First Character You Meet In Half-Life Is Gus The Forklift Driver
8.2.2021
You probably know Gordon Freeman is, the silent protagonist of the Half-Life games. And I’m guessing you know other Half-Life characters, like Alyx Vance, Dr. Kliner, the mysterious G-Man, and Barney. But a recent YouTube video pays homage to the very first character you encounter in Half-Life:...
Elon Musk Buys Bitcoin: Everything You Need to Know About Tesla’s $1.5B Purchase
8.2.2021
The implications of Elon Musk’s purchase on bitcoin’s climate narrative, other Fortune 500 treasury management strategies and more
Animating a CSS Gradient Border
8.2.2021
This little trick for gradient borders is super useful:
.border-gradient {
border: 5px solid;
border-image-slice: 1;
border-image-source: linear-gradient(to left, #743ad5, #d53a9d);
}
Here’s some basic demos from our article on the subject. Sephanie Eckles was sharing around the idea...
(Jay Freestone’s) Front-end predictions for 2021
8.2.2021
React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I’ll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay says:
Interestingly, the biggest developments in the front-end are unlikely to be traditionally front-end concerns. Back...
You Musk be joking: Is Elon just messing with us over DOGE?
7.2.2021
Is Elon Musk just trolling the cryptocurrency community with his support of Dogecoin?
Sunday Comics: You're Hired!
7.2.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS
5.2.2021
The following article is co-authored by Uri Shaked and Michal Porag.
Let’s explore the complexities of how CSS computes the width and height dimensions of elements. This is based on countless late-night hours debugging and fiddling with lots of …
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Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support
5.2.2021
Hey, we’re back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas.
In this week’s update, the CSS :not pseudo class can accept complex selectors, how to disable smooth scrolling when using “Find on page…” in Chrome, Safari’s …
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What Your Genshin Impact Crush Says About You
5.2.2021
Anime games are about thirst, and Genshin Impact fans are among the thirstiest. They keep sending the game’s hottest characters to the top of Twitter’s trending topics with alarming frequency. Whether you’re one of these thirsty weebs, or you’re trying to understand why your friends can’t shut...
You No Longer Have To Hear Hate Speech While Playing Destruction AllStars
5.2.2021
Since Destruction AllStars released for PlayStation 5 a whole 72 hours ago, the game has been plagued by reported instances of verbal harassment, exacerbated by a voice chat that’s turned on by default. Today, developer Lucid Games released a fix that switches the default chat to “off.”Read more
The Best New-Ish Movies You Have To Watch This Month
5.2.2021
Top Pick: Tenet (Blu-ray, Digital) | $15 | AmazonRead more
Some React Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
5.2.2021
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later — Ryan Carniato considers hooks to be the most significant turning point in front end in the past five years, but he also says hooks have muddied the waters as well.
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
5.2.2021
The weekend is for going through all the cool indie game demos available in the Steam Game Festival. I would suggest other activities, but there are more demos than there is weekend. Read more
Some Typography Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
4.2.2021
Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property — From Manish Goregaokar in 2017. Of many oddities, I found the one where font: medium monospace renders at 13px where font: medium sans-serif renders at 16px particularly weird.
The good line-height — Since
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Lazy Load Routes in Vue with webpack Dynamic Comments
4.2.2021
The way routing works in JavaScript is usually that you specify which relative URL pattern you want for which component to render. So for /about you want the <About /> component to render. Let’s take a look at how to …
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4.2.2021
Certified Organic CBD Oil | $88 | Cornbread Hemp | Promo code KINJA2020% off CBD | Cornbread Hemp | Promo code KINJA20Read more