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Tactical Breach Wizards: how this tiny team sold >100k in weeks
17.9.2024
Also: Steam's new bundle ordering & lots of discovery news
Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving
17.9.2024
I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much …
Clever Polypane Debugging Features...
Multiple Anchors
16.9.2024
Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
CodePen Embed Fallback
This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials …
Multiple Anchors originally published...
Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher
16.9.2024
I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a treat.
That’s because I had a chance to sit …
Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher originally published...
Havoc Hotel 2: how Fortnite UGC's being disrupted by a roguelike
13.9.2024
Also: a bunch of helpful Steam trend data, and lots of news!
Two CSS Properties for Trimming Text Box Whitespace
13.9.2024
The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line of text and below the last formatted line of text in a text box, making the text …
Two CSS Properties for Trimming...
What’s Old is New
12.9.2024
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It’s a good thing bookmarks are digital, otherwise, I’d need a bigger coffee table to separate them …
What’s Old is New originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Rare Ape CryptoPunk sells for $1.5M, Magic Eden dominates NFT trading volume: Nifty Newsletter
11.9.2024
A group of blockchain advocates urged the United States Congress to clearly define NFTs in response to the SEC Wells notice to OpenSea
Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging for HTML Forms
11.9.2024
HTML forms come with built-in ways to validate form inputs and other controls against predefined rules such as making an input required, setting min and max constraints on range sliders, or establishing a pattern on an email input to check …
Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging...
Quick Hit #18
10.9.2024
PSA: Today’s the day that Google’s performance tools officially stops supporting the First Input Delay (FID) metric that was replaced by Interaction to Next Paint (INP).…
Quick Hit #18 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
Anchor Positioning Quirks
10.9.2024
I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, and at-rule related to the new Anchor Positioning API! For the last month, I have tried to fully understand this …
Anchor Positioning Quirks originally published on CSS-Tricks...
How Shapez 2 surged to 250k copies sold in <a month!
10.9.2024
Also: the PS5 Pro looms into view, and lots more discovery news
Sanding UI
10.9.2024
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim’s case was a bit of dead-clicking between the labels and radio buttons.
The issue? Not the …
Sanding UI originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Time Travelling CSS With :target
9.9.2024
Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that other elements based on user input can be hacked and gamified. There are very cool examples of developers getting creative with CSS...
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
9.9.2024
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls it a “rubber-banding” effect. …
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky...
Quick Hit #17
9.9.2024
“Wrapping the <labelaround the <inputis fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with for and id is still necessary in practice.” —James Edwards…
Quick Hit #17 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
How long should you discount your game for?
6.9.2024
The 7 or 14 day question! Also: big Steam releases probed & lots of news
Quick Hit #16
5.9.2024
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Alex Russell…
Quick Hit #16 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Quick Hit #15
5.9.2024
Almost missed that the WP Twenty Twenty-Five theme was approved a couple weeks ago.…
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OpenSea receives SEC Wells notice, monthly NFT sales fall below $400M: Nifty Newsletter
4.9.2024
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said that the NFT marketplace received a Wells notice from the SEC, suggesting potential enforcement action from the agency