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Tencent to Overhaul Overseas Strategy after ‘Honour of Kings’ Failure
28.5.2019
Replicating the success that a mobile game enjoys in one market can be tough when the game is offered to a global audience, and that is what Tencent Holding found out with the failure of the mega-hit mobile game ‘Honour of Kings.’ Before making the game available at a global level, the game...
New Zealand Blockchain Group to Request Government Blockchain Strategy
22.5.2019
The New Zealand-based blockchain collective BlockchainNZ will request that the country’s parliament form a national blockchain strategy
Renewed Market Growth Has Sparked Demand for Crypto-Backed Loans
10.5.2019
With cryptocurrency markets back to life, hodling sounds like a smart strategy once again. Cryptocurrency owners are now more likely to pledge coins to borrow fiat if they need it, rather than sell their appreciating digital assets. The spread of crypto-backed loans could also be a good indicator...
Revisiting the Rendering Tier
5.4.2019
Have you ever created a well-intentioned, thoughtful design system only to watch it grow into an ever-increasing and scary codebase? I've been working in sort of the opposite direction, inheriting the scary codebase and trying to create a thoughtful system from it.
Here's Alex Sanders on the topic...
Breaking CSS Custom Properties out of :root Might Be a Good Idea
27.3.2019
CSS Custom Properties have been a hot topic for a while now, with tons of great articles about them, from great primers on how they work to creative tutorials to do some real magic with them. If you’ve read more than one or two articles on the topic, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that they start...
DRY State Switching With CSS Variables: Fallbacks and Invalid Values
6.12.2018
This is the second post in a two-part series that looks into the way CSS variables can be used to make the code for complex layouts and interactions less difficult to write and a lot easier to maintain. The first installment walks through various use cases where this technique applies. This post...
Collective #416
17.5.2018
Responsive tables, revisited * Screely * Working Type * backdrop-filter * Dumb React * A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties
Collective #416 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
A Strategy Guide To CSS Custom Properties
16.5.2018
CSS preprocessor variables and CSS custom properties (often referred to as "CSS variables") can do some of the same things, but are not the same.
Practical advice from Mike Riethmuller:
If it is alright to use static variables inside components, when should we use custom properties? Converting...
WDRL — Edition 223: Bringing People Together by Strategy, CSSTOM, Security Training And Returning Early
3.4.2018
Hey,
While this edition took a few more days than usual, I hope you all had a nice weekend and could recover your strength for your work. These days it is one of the biggest challenges for people to think long-term. In a world where we live with devices that last a few months, or few years, where...