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Designing for Long-Form Articles
10.8.2022
Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.
That’s …
Designing for Long-Form Articles...
Committing CSS Crimes
9.8.2022
The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes!
In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, …
Committing CSS Crimes originally published...
Avoiding ineffective (or scam!) discovery interactions with influencers
9.8.2022
A surprisingly complex situation, explained
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout
8.8.2022
Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.
Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to …
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Plus: next week is massive on Steam, folks!
5.8.2022
Spider-Man, Cult of The Lamb, Farthest Frontier, Two Point Campus.. wowzers
How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline
5.8.2022
CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, …
How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline...
Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font
4.8.2022
Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight…
Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship...
Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
4.8.2022
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?
Well, …
Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS...
Sales comps for your game: how not to do it.
3.8.2022
Alright - and also how to do it better!
Binance pilots NFT ticketing: Nifty Newsletter, July 27–Aug 2
3.8.2022
Almost 1 million ETH were spent to mint NFTs on the Ethereum network in the first half of 2022, according to a Nansen report
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
2.8.2022
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers...
PlayStation's problem: third-party royalties... or PS+ revenue?
1.8.2022
It's a red pill/blue pill issue, really
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
1.8.2022
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement...
Plus: Steam's top 20 for June - did we get close?
29.7.2022
Also: all the goings-on from Steam and console from this week
Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On.
29.7.2022
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint …
Scroll Shadows? Pure...
Call for Creation of Common African Digital Currency, Kenyan Activists Turn to Crypto Funding, Ghana on the Brink
29.7.2022
In Bitcoin.com News’ inaugural newsletter featuring the biggest crypto and economic news stories from Africa, the head of an African regional central bank, Herve Ndoba, implores the bank’s board to introduce a common digital currency. At the same time, the regional bank warned that...
Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect
28.7.2022
It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated …
Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect originally published...
Square Enix to launch FF7: Nifty Newsletter, July 20–26
27.7.2022
The Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 was created by blockchain platforms with the goal of setting standards for NFTs
The evolution of Steam tags (& why we dig 'em!)
27.7.2022
Also: Quest's price hike, Xbox's results & more
Why paid DLC might be the right choice for your PC/console game!
25.7.2022
Also: Stray's Twitch success - and lots more