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The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
6.1.2025
I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
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Thank You (2024 Edition)
30.12.2024
I'm more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn't even get to write this post. But now that I'm back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There's a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let's tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around...
‘$600M Would Buy a Lot of Bitcoin’: Microstrategy Boss Steers Bezos Wedding Drama Toward Crypto
22.12.2024
Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of Microstrategy, brought bitcoin into the spotlight during an online exchange with Jeff Bezos on X. The Amazon founder found himself in the headlines after firmly rejecting claims he was planning a $600 million wedding with fiancée Lauren...
The New Superman Movie Trailer Is Here And It's A Whole Lot
19.12.2024
Our first extended look at what DC studios boss James Gunn has been cooking for the next Superman movie is finally here, and it doesn’t disappoint. The first trailer gives us a glimpse of all of the comic book character’s staples—the Kent farm, the Daily Planet, and Lois Lane—as well as elements...
Yet Another Anchor Positioning Quirk
9.12.2024
As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.
Yet Another Anchor Positioning...
Fortnite's Premium Monthly Subscription Just Got A Lot Better
20.11.2024
Fortnite Crew, the popular shooter’s premium monthly subscription plan, will now provide players with premium rewards for all future passes—battle and otherwise—as Epic continues to streamline the game’s rewards and leveling systems. The publisher also announced a small price increase for those...
What Does a 60/40 Portfolio Look Like if We Replace Bonds With Bitcoin, a Lot Better: Van Straten
14.11.2024
Bitcoin Has a Lot Going for It, Except the Persistent Slide in Copper-Gold Ratio
28.10.2024
BTC's best years have been characterized by copper's outperformance relative to gold
Come to the light-dark() Side
25.10.2024
You’d be forgiven for thinking coding up both a dark and a light mode at once is a lot of work. You have to remember @media queries based on prefers-color-scheme as well as extra complications that arise when letting visitors …
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Clamp it! VS Code extension
23.10.2024
There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even if you’re comfortable with that, writing the full declaration can be verbose and tough to remember. I know I often …
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Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well
16.10.2024
What’s in a word? Actions. In the realm of user interfaces, a word is construed as the telltale of a control’s action. Sometimes it points us in the correct direction, and sometimes it leads us astray. We talk a lot …
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PS5 30th Anniversary Pre-Orders Have A Lot More Scalper Protection In Japan
1.10.2024
The PlayStation 5 30th Anniversary pre-orders were a bit of a mess last week, at least in the U.S. and some other regions. But Sony seems to be taking a smart tack with fans in Japan, introducing additional requirements for determining who can buy stuff, limiting PS1-style consoles and accessories...
Quick Hit #21
20.9.2024
Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning.…
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The Starfield Planet At The Center Of Its Shattered Space DLC Sounds Like It Has A Lot Going On
6.9.2024
One of my hopes for Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion is that it feels a bit more like a traditional Bethesda RPG. And so far, that’s been the vibe of the pre-release hype. The planet at the center of the new story DLC, Va’ruun’kai, sounds like it might offer something closer to the open-world...
Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links
23.8.2024
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
Turns out, there’s a lot!
That’s an understatement! This is an incredible amount of work, even …
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‘No matter how bad it gets, there’s a lot going on with NFTs’: 24 Hours of Art, NFT Creator
15.8.2024
“There’s a sense of inevitability” that NFTs are the start of a renaissance in digital art says 24 Hours of Art’s RD: NFT Collector
“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries
14.8.2024
Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features we’re getting don’t only solve old problems, they open up new possibilities as well.
Container queries are one of those …
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VanEck Sees Bitcoin Hitting $2.9M by 2050 – but a Lot Has to Happen First
25.7.2024
Bitcoin is benefiting from massive economic imbalances, rising distrust in institutions, fiscal recklessness and mounting debt burden, VanEck's Matthew Sigel said in an interview
SEC’s ETF decision means ETH and ’a lot’ of other tokens are not securities
24.5.2024
That doesn't mean the securities regulator can't still pursue action against actors in the staking domain, industry analysts and lawyers warn
Fired X-Men ‘97 Creator Says He Wrote ‘A Lot’ Of Season Two
20.5.2024
The first season of the widely acclaimed X-Men ‘97 animated series wrapped up last week. The 10-episode run was praised for its writing, understanding of the original ‘90s animated series, and its ability to balance that authenticity with a modern spin. However, the second season in development...