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How to get to your game's hook, quick!
7.11.2022
A visual point of view. Also: PlayStation Trophy games & all the latest news
Managing CSS Styles in a WordPress Block Theme
7.11.2022
The way we write CSS for WordPress themes is in the midst of sweeping changes. I recently shared a technique for adding fluid type support in WordPress by way of theme.json, a new file that WordPress has been pushing …
Managing CSS Styles in a WordPress Block Theme originally published...
Plus: a new way to estimate Steam Week 1 sales!
4.11.2022
Also: all of our normal
A Couple Changes Coming in Chrome 108
4.11.2022
“A change to overflow on replaced elements in CSS”:
From Chrome 108, the following replaced elements respect the overflow property: img, video and canvas. In earlier versions of Chrome, this property was ignored on these elements.
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A Couple Changes...
The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers
3.11.2022
Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a …
The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers...
How The Long Dark scaled to 10 million players - and what's next
2.11.2022
Also: PlayStation's results, and a whole heap of other discovery news
Steph Curry files trademark for the Curryverse: Nifty Newsletter, Oct. 26–Nov.1
2.11.2022
MyNFT marketplace’s new NFT vending machine aims to make digital art more accessible at a London in-person event
Some Links About CSS Gradients
2.11.2022
Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients …
Some Links About CSS Gradients originally...
Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Back End
1.11.2022
This is a continuation of my last article about “Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End”. In that last one, we learned how to take an external API and integrate it with a block that …
Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Back...
2023 in video games - what do we know already?
31.10.2022
Also: new Steam release dates, Netflix's latest buy, & lots more!
The New CSS Media Query Range Syntax
31.10.2022
The Media Queries Level 4 specification has introduced a new syntax for targeting a range of viewport widths using common mathematical comparison operators, like , and =, that make more sense syntactically while writing less code for responsive web design.
The New CSS Media Query Range Syntax...
Plus: October's big Steam hits, poked at!
28.10.2022
Also: all our regular analysis of the week's big titles and upcoming goodness
Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations
28.10.2022
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img> element. In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the …
Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines...
Steam's regional pricing changes: a big deal?
26.10.2022
Or just clearer for indies? Also: what Xbox's latest results mean, and more
Reddit NFT trading volume hits all-time high: Nifty Newsletter Oct. 19–25, 2022
26.10.2022
Apple published rules for NFT for the first time which included a 30% NFT “tax” and geo-limit exchanges
Holographic Trading Card Effect
26.10.2022
Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)’s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.
Under the hood there is a suite of filter(), background-blend-mode(), mix-blend-mode(), and clip-path() combinations that have been painstakingly tweaked to reach the desired effect....
Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational Pseudo Class
25.10.2022
The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a …
Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational Pseudo Class...
Who's winning game discovery on Discord?
24.10.2022
Also: some intriguing PlayWay stats, and lots of game platform shenanigans
Is There Too Much CSS Now?
24.10.2022
As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s …
Is There Too Much CSS Now? originally...
Plus: how Rimworld shows DLC strategy done right
21.10.2022
Also: a whole heap of insight on this week's big Steam launches