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Creating Realistic Reflections With CSS
2.5.2022
In design, reflections are stylized mirror images of objects. Even though they are not as popular as shadows, they have their moments — just think about the first time you explored the different font formats in MS Word or PowerPoint: …
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Hurdle Gives Wordle Addicts Five Times The Hit
8.4.2022
Wordle produces more variants than the most prolific of viruses, with new ones finding their way to wider popularity every day. The one I’ve most recently caught is Hurdle, where you have to complete five of the five-letter word puzzles in a row.Read more
'Sus' Has Made It Onto Jeopardy
8.4.2022
Among Us didn’t invent the word, I know, but it’s certainly responsible for its explosion in popularity over the last few years, so it shouldn’t be too surprising to see “sus” finally make it onto the game show Jeopardy.Read more
Reddit Is Hosting What May Be The Internet's Most Wholesome Fan War
4.4.2022
Who produced this amazing pixel art of Elden Ring’s Ranni sitting next to the protagonist of Hollow Knight, and why? The answer is r/Place, a Reddit battlefield where anyone can place a dot and change the course of meme history. In an era where so much of the modern internet is trash, r/Place...
Wordle Prototype's Obscure Word List Makes Its Current Puzzles Look Easy
26.3.2022
Wordle’s creator, Josh Wardle, gave a talk at this year’s GDC, which has been bringing people joy. Described by one member of the audience as “the opposite of every NFT and Metaverse panel,” during the talk Wardle explained the hit game was created as long ago as 2013.Read more
Hidden discovery insight? Analyzing player review word length!
23.3.2022
There's always more to learn from data
Letter Shuffle Animation for a Menu
23.3.2022
A little animation for a big menu where the letters of a word shuffle to become the first letter of each menu item.
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New York Times Shuts Down Wordle Archive, Bumming Everyone Out
16.3.2022
In a move that’s as unsurprising as it is disappointing, The New York Times is beginning to throw its weight around when it comes to Wordle’s former freedom. The first big sign of this, as spotted by Ars Technica, is their forcing a Wordle Archive to shut down.Read more
It’s Time to Build: Adshares Reveals Exciting New Road Map After Successful 2021
10.3.2022
As one of the most trusted and best evaluated crypto advertising projects – Adshares is doing their best to keep their word. The 2021 road map has been completed as promised. Now it’s time to charter a new map – especially that a part of this year’s plans are already completed. Moving pictures...
Forget Wordle And Quordle, You Should Be Playing Octordle
25.2.2022
As I continue to delight in the deranged conspiracy theories surrounding Wordle, following its purchase by the New York Times, I’m equally thrilled to discover those making increasingly difficult versions of the game. Quordle, a version where you solve four Wordles at once, has become pretty...
A Wordle Math Clone Is Rapidly Becoming My Daily Favorite
21.2.2022
Like everyone else on planet Earth, I’ve been poking at all manner of Wordle-likes for the last few weeks, yet I’ve found all but one to lack the stickiness of the original. The exception? Nerdle, a game in which you have to guess the basic arithmetic that hides behind those blanks.Read more
Uh-Oh, Now Pokémon Has A Wordle, Too
8.2.2022
I promised myself I wouldn’t write about Wordle today. It didn’t matter how clever the spin, how cute the twist on the theme, I was determined. And then I discovered the existence of Squirdle, a Wordle-like guessing game about Pokémon, and I’m helpless.Read more
Wordle's 'Best' Starting Word Has Been Found, And Ruined, By Math
8.2.2022
One of the cutest things about Wordle, and also one of the most important if you value having any kind of success with the game, is the selection of your starting word. For most players this has probably been their own favourite combination of vowels and consonants, but if you really want to...
With Wordle Archive, You Can Play All The Wordles That Came Before Whenever You Want
4.2.2022
The magic behind Wordle is, of course, that there’s only one puzzle a day. Combined with the ease with which players can paste their spoiler-free results to social media and group chats, it’s that the whole world is all playing the same puzzle, the same day, that makes it so alluring. But screw...
Wordle Tips To Help You Nail It In Fewer Guesses
1.2.2022
If you’ve grown green with envy seeing everyone’s green emoji squares on Twitter celebrating their Wordle success, these tips will help you up your game. People go back and forth about whether it takes skill or luck to be good at Wordle, but the truth is it’s both. Every once in a while, you’ll...
Science Has Figured Out The Worst Starting Word In Wordle
29.1.2022
You might think you are good at Wordle, with your favorite starting word and all that. But a real Wordle expert can complete puzzles using the worst starting word as determined recently by a computer and TikTok user.Read more
There Are Many Wordle Clones And Variants And That’s Good, Actually
25.1.2022
Wordle, the browser-based word-guessing game that has overtaken Twitter, is very good. It is so good, in fact, that it has spawned over half a dozen different variants (and some rip-offs) made by fans of the original. These range from the antagonistic Absurdle to the extremely difficult, two-word...
When and why did the word ‘altcoin’ lose its relevance?
23.1.2022
“Altcoin” has referred to all cryptocurrencies other than BTC since the advent of ETH. Today, however, many no longer qualify as altcoins
Don’t mention ‘K’ country: Bitcoin Magazine's YouTube restored after ban
12.1.2022
After Bitcoin Magazine’s YouTube channel was temporarily shut down without prior warning, the livestream’s hosts suggested that mentions of “Kazakhstan” may have been flagged by the platform’s algorithm
Tech Dude Rips Off Wordle, Angers Internet
11.1.2022
Daily word-guessing game Wordle has taken the internet by storm. Despite its huge newfound success, creator Josh Wardle said he wants to keep the hit web browser game demonetized and ad-free. But one app developer had other plans, and he’s now quickly become Twitter’s main character of the day.Read...