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Damien Hirst burns $10M in art: Nifty Newsletter, Oct 5–11
12.10.2022
Racing league Formula One is positioning its brand in Web3 as it files trademark applications for "F1" covering crypto and NFTs
Early Days of Container Style Queries
12.10.2022
We’re still in suuuuuper early days with container queries. Too early for broad browser support, but Chromium already supports it, Safari started supporting it in version 16, and Firefox is presumably not far behind.
Most early days conversations …
Early Days of Container Style Queries...
Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End
11.10.2022
There’ve been some new tutorials popping here on CSS-Tricks for working with WordPress blocks. One of them is an introduction to WordPress block development and it’s a good place to learn what blocks are and to register them in WordPress …
Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks...
TikTok: practical advice for big discovery wins!
10.10.2022
It's an important network for game discovery, nowadays
Plus: which 'unlikely' PC game subjects are success indicators?
7.10.2022
Also: a look at the slow release week (besides Overwatch 2!) & lots more besides
Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes
7.10.2022
Fluid typography is a fancy way of “describing font properties, such as size or line height, that scale fluidly according to the size of the viewport”. It’s also known by other names, like responsive typography, flexible type, fluid type, …
Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block...
How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
6.10.2022
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve …
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Discounting your games: 7 clear rules!
6.10.2022
Players like buying games when they're cheaper, we hear
Warner Music Group partners with OpenSea: Nifty Newsletter, Sept 28–Oct 4
5.10.2022
Tennis legend Maria Sharapova sat down with Cointelegraph senior reporter Rachel Wolfson at the Binance Blockchain Week in France
Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework)
5.10.2022
In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used …
Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework) originally...
State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open
4.10.2022
The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone’s assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are mainstream. It also codified what many of us want from CSS, from Container Queries to …
State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open...
Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library
4.10.2022
This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the …
Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based...
Stadia's demise - did it have to happen?
3.10.2022
Also: Steam's antitrust lawsuit gets spicier, and lots more!
Plus: a game 'Hype' showdown - vampires, or cute kitties?
30.9.2022
Look, it's been a busy week, we have to wind down somehow
Getting Started With WordPress Block Development
30.9.2022
Let’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the introduction of “Full-Site Editing” (FSE) features, including the Block Editor (WordPress 5.0) and the Site Editor (WordPress …
Getting Started With...
Xbox Game Pass titles in 2022: what's their reach?
28.9.2022
We estimate data to answer that question, and preview a new service
Walmart dives into the Metaverse: Nifty Newsletter, Sept 21-27
28.9.2022
UNICEF Giga used NFTs to help raise funds to give schools in developing countries the ability to connect to the internet
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now
28.9.2022
So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has …
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video...
Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals
27.9.2022
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m really digging into it for the first time.
If this is the first …
Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals originally...
What genres do PC gamers want - and does it change?
27.9.2022
We bring some time-based data to the equation