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De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site
14.6.2022
Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam’s “Am I on the IndieWeb yet?” with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the IndieWeb train. But it’s a good can of worms.
I think …
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4 big discovery takeaways from 'not-E3'
13.6.2022
We examine how the platforms - and the games - fared
Useful Tools for Visualizing Databases on a Budget
13.6.2022
A diagram is a graphical representation of information that depicts the structure, relationship, or operation of anything. Diagrams enable your audience to visually grasp hidden information and engage with them in ways that words alone cannot. Depending on the type …
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Plus: TMNT, Starship Troopers hit Steam next week!
10.6.2022
Also: lots of other neat data and charts, of course
Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
10.6.2022
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
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Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
9.6.2022
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:
The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my
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How V Rising reached 1 million sales in only a week!
8.6.2022
We've got some hints, direct from the developers at Stunlock Studios
Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!
8.6.2022
QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out …
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Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
7.6.2022
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One …
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even...
What happened to the 'growth stock bubble' in video games?
6.6.2022
Perhaps it DID get a bit frothy, in hindsight
Plus: hot pre-orders, and how to use 'em
4.6.2022
All the way up the Steam (or Epic) charts, before the game even debuts? We likee
Please Give Me Some Space
3.6.2022
There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course.
We could do it directly in HTML:
<pWe go from one line...<br<brdown a couple more.</p
But that’s …
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Which platforms should you launch your video game on first?
3.6.2022
It's not as obvious as it looks. Plus: Roblox analysis & latest news
How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0
1.6.2022
Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of …
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SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
1.6.2022
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs):
Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.”
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Sony's multiplatform future - and its discovery effects?
31.5.2022
How PlayStation's wider view might affect its own platform
Plus: YOU get a Steam sales estimate, YOU get...
27.5.2022
And not bees
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
27.5.2022
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as …
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Beautify GitHub Profile
26.5.2022
It wasn’t long ago that Nick Sypteras showed us how to make custom badges for a GitHub repo. Well, Reza Shakeri put Beautify GitHub Profile together and it’s a huuuuuuge repo of different badges that pulls lots of examples …
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Cool CSS Hover Effects That Use Background Clipping, Masks, and 3D
26.5.2022
We’ve walked through a series of posts now about interesting approaches to CSS hover effects. We started with a bunch of examples that use CSS background properties, then moved on to the text-shadow property where we technically didn’t use …
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