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So, Is It Safe To Play Returnal Now?
6.5.2021
Over the past 24 hours, Returnal, the PS5-exclusive action game about getting repeatedly bullied by space tentacle monsters, has weathered a serious patch of turbulence. Two patches in 12 hours. Myriad reports of corrupted save data. Me, getting killed over and over again by an irritating boss....
Ode To The Bard Who Saved My FF14 Dungeon Run
15.4.2021
My journey through Heavensward has slowed down considerably. I have other games to play and review. And generally, the steam that powered this expansion leading up to The Vault encounter has petered out significantly. That’s not to say Heavensward’s sluggish back-end pacing wasn’t punctuated with...
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently
6.4.2021
“Good news about display: contents and Chrome” — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem was that, say you had a parent div that is laid out as a grid
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Godzilla vs. Kong Can't Be Saved, Not Even by Good, Dumb Fun
29.3.2021
Monster movies often ride or die by their over-the-top action. One can be willing to forgive failures elsewhere—many of them, even—as long as the bits where the monsters punch the bejesus out of each other are satisfying. But Godzilla vs Kong has a problem: its titanic action heights just come...
Diablo II: Resurrected Will Work With Your Decades-Old Saves
5.3.2021
Have a special Necromancer you’ve been farming Diablo II with for years? There’s good news: Diablo II Resurrected will let you import them to continue commanding armies of the dead over 20 years later.Read more
DeFi Project ArmorFi Awards $1.5M Bounty for Bug Alert That Potentially Saved Its Reserves
5.2.2021
ArmorFi's CTO has also offered to get a tattoo chosen by the ethical hacker who found the bug
WooCommerce Payments, Now with Support for Subscriptions and Saved Cards
20.10.2020
A little while back we shared the news that WooCommerce shipped a beta payments feature as part of its 4.0 release. It’s a free plugin with no monthly costs or setup fees. You only pay when you make a sale.
We’re actually using this right here at CSS-Tricks. In fact, Chris blogged...
Global economy saved: Reddit’s MOON token has a $2.64 septillion market cap
30.9.2020
Despite still being on the Rinkeby testnet, holders of Reddit’s ‘MOONs’ have devised a way to trade the tokens for fiat
OpenBazaar Temporarily Saved From Becoming ClosedBazaar
28.9.2020
The Haven app. Source: a video screenshot, OB1
The decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar has reportedly been saved from having to shut down after an anonymous donor has agreed to cover the costs of operating the platform until “at least the end of the year.”
The marketplace, which allows users...
Down to the Wire: Yam Finance Saved at the Last Minute
13.8.2020
Catastrophe has been narrowly averted by YAM Finance after the DeFi community rallied in support of a campaign to recapture governance over the protocol
Ethereum Saved by DeFi in July, Tron Scores in All Metrics - DappRadar
5.8.2020
A contrast, so to say, between two major blockchains was observed by dapp (decentralized app) data aggregator and analysis firm DappRadar in July: While Ethereum (ETH)'s results were "controversial," Tron (TRX)'s development was positive across the board.
While ETH price increased in July...
Bitcoin Scaling Tech Could Have Saved Companies and Users $500M in Fees: Report
29.7.2020
Implementing transaction batching and SegWit could have saved bitcoin companies and users $500 million in fees – if they'd just use the technology
UAE Resident Who Took Out $100K Crypto Loan Saved by Ex-Coworkers
19.6.2020
A foreign resident of Abu Dhabi who was potentially facing jail time over an unpaid $100,000 loan received $27,400 in donations after his story spread
Bitcoin Users Could've Saved Half a Billion USD in Fees - Report
11.6.2020
Network fees must be paid, but what if you don’t have to pay as much? Bitcoin (BTC) users could've saved around half a billion USD in network fees had there been a full SegWit and batching adoption, according to Bitcoin startup Veriphi.
Per Veriphi’s latest report, almost half a million blocks...
CSS Tips for New Devs
27.5.2020
Amber Wilson has some CSS Tips for New Devs, like:
It’s not a good idea to fix shortcomings in your HTML with CSS. Fix your HTML first!
And…
You can change CSS right in your browser’s DevTools (to open them, right-click the browser window and choose “inspect”...
Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli
30.4.2020
Harry Roberts:
The numbers so far show that the difference between no compression and Gzip are vast, whereas the difference between Gzip and Brotli are far more modest. This suggests that while the nothing to Gzip gains will be noticeable, the upgrade from Gzip to Brotli might perhaps...
Blockvest Saved from Default Judgement in Fraud Case
23.1.2020
A California federal court has reversed a default judgement against two firms accused of running a cryptocurrency scam
This is How Blockchain Industry Can Be Saved from Dangerous Lack of Diversity
26.12.2019
A new report has found that diversity is lacking in the world of blockchain technology – and says that if the balance is not redressed, the industry as a whole could suffer.
Per a study written by the head of non-profit organization Diversity in Blockchain (DiB), Susan Joseph, “The lack...
Don’t Blame China: Why BTC Still Can’t Compete With Fiat
26.11.2019
In the wake of recent price movements, doubts are beginning to crop up more and more around BTC maximalist circles. As focus shifts from Satoshi’s founding vision of the coin as cash to a mere digital gold to be saved and “cashed out” later, valid questions are indeed raised....
93 Days Dark: 8chan Coder Explains How Blockchain Saved His Troll Forum
6.11.2019
A deep dive into the decentralized technology that brought the world's most controversial site back online – for now