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Algolia
4.2.2021
Algolia is for search. Literally any website can take advantage of Algolia-powered search. You put JSON data (“records”) in, and then you can search them at lightning speed. The magic of Algolia is that they help you with both of …
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Some Performance Blog Posts I’ve Bookmarked and Read Lately
3.2.2021
Back/forward cache — I always assumed browsers just do fancy stuff with the back/forward buttons and us developers had very little control. Philip Walton tells us it’s critical that we understand “what makes pages eligible (and ineligible) for bfcache to
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Going From Solid to Knockout Text on Scroll
3.2.2021
Here’s a fun CSS trick to show your friends: a large title that switches from a solid color to knockout text as the background image behind it scrolls into place. And we can do it using plain ol’ HTML and …
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So You’re Not a Bitcoin Whale – But What Kind of BTC Sea Creature Are You?
3.2.2021
You’ve probably heard about the overarching influence of bitcoin (BTC) whales, but it turns out there are plenty more fish in the crypto sea – and they all have an impact on the health of the sector. Are you one of those hard-to-find whales after all, or are you a mere crypto ocean bottom feeder?...
Pulse DeFi LTD Provides a Full Range of Financial Services, With Decentralization at the Forefront
3.2.2021
Pulse DeFi LTD Is a new London-based platform for digital token farming, staking, lending and borrowing. It provides a full range of services that can replace the old established financial system, but with decentralization at the forefront. Pulse DeFi LTD Wants You to Be Able to Trust the Economy...
The Web is for More Than Document Viewing
3.2.2021
I poked at a tweet from Ken Kocienda over the weekend:
“Water not wet” reports man standing in ocean. https://t.co/5oUUdWARTU
— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 31, 2021
I don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. …
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I Saw Two Mega Menus Today…
2.2.2021
One was the footer of an (older) U.S. Government website. The other was the navigation for AWS services from the AWS Console.
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Dynamically Switching From One HTML Element to Another in Vue
2.2.2021
A friend once contacted me asking if I had a way to dynamically change one HTML element into another within Vue’s template block. For instance, shifting a <div> element to a <span> element based on some criteria. The trick was …
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What Facebook's Privacy Policies Don't Tell You
2.2.2021
Folks, I’m gonna be honest with you. Over my (short) tenure covering digital privacy, I’ve seen my fair share of deeply shitty tech companies pulling deeply shitty stunts in attempts to profit off our personal data. Facebook is one of the names that comes up most frequently here, and that’s...
Confessions of a Web Developer XVIII
2.2.2021
It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Sometimes you need to get out of the cult and stop drinking the Kool-Aid to see an organization for what it is. My childhood...
“Cancelable” Smooth Scrolling
2.2.2021
Here’s the situation: Your site offers a “scroll back to top” button, and you’ve implemented smooth scrolling. As the page scrolls back to the top, users see something that catches their eye and they want to stop the scrolling, so …
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Open Web Docs
2.2.2021
Robert Nyman:
Open Web Docs was created to ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on de facto standard resources like MDN Web Docs, independently of any single vendor or organization. Through full-time staff, community management, and
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GameStop’s Stock Can’t Save You
1.2.2021
GameStop’s rollercoaster ride through the absurd machinery of the stock market has been fun to watch. It sent some of CNBC’s finest minds scrambling to Wikipedia to find out what Reddit is and allowed for Very Serious Thought Leaders to peddle all sorts of pet theories, like blaming GameStop’s...
What Games Do You Keep Replaying Over and Over?
1.2.2021
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
Figma Crash Course
1.2.2021
Totally free course from Pablo Stanley. Can’t beat that.
Figma is just blowing up, and for good reason. It’s good software aligned with what digital designers need. It’s fast. It’s on the web, so you can’t lose stuff and …
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The Best Computer Desk Is a Standing Desk: Our Top Picks to Help You Reach New Heights
1.2.2021
Featured Product: Flexispot EC9 Standing Desk | $260 | Amazon | Clip couponRead more
No-Jank CSS Stripes
1.2.2021
My mind goes immediately to repeating-linear-gradient and hard-stop gradients when thinking of creating stripes in CSS. You make one stripe by using the same color between two color stops, and another stripe (or more) but using a different color …
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How to Code the Travelling Particles Animation from “Volt for Drive”
1.2.2021
A coding session where you'll learn how to implement Volt for Drive's travelling particles animation with Three.js.
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A First-Person Shooter Where You Can Fire 8 Guns At Once
31.1.2021
One gun in a shooter is boring. Two guns are a bit more interesting, but still nothing new. Three? You got my attention. Four? Five? Eight?! Whoa... Now we’re talking.Read more
Baseball Almost Had Its Own NBA Jam, And Now You Can Try It
30.1.2021
Midway’s NBA Jam and NFL Blitz are two of the greatest sports game franchises thanks to how they both provide fun, over-the-top experiences that require little knowledge of the pastime in question. The company would eventually set its sights on hockey, boxing, and even professional wrestling,...