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Plus newsletter example: April 2022's big new winners (& losers?) on Steam
23.5.2022
Just showing what the Plus newsletter does for you!
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own?
23.5.2022
As the author of a library called AgnosticUI, I’m always on the lookout for new components. And recently, I decided to dig in and start work on a new dialog (aka modal) component. That’s something many devs like to …
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own? originally published...
Plus: look at V Rising go, fellow vampires!
20.5.2022
It's a Steam megasmash - and we were vaguely expecting it
Verevolf
20.5.2022
Zeldman:
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
That would be Glenn Davis and the Verevolf site Zeldman’s talking about. The …
Verevolf originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Inline Image Previews with Sharp, BlurHash, and Lambda Functions
19.5.2022
Don’t you hate it when you load a website or web app, some content displays and then some images load — causing content to shift around? That’s called content reflow and can lead to an incredibly annoying user experience for …
Inline Image Previews with Sharp...
Should user-generated content be a key game discovery focus?
18.5.2022
We talk to Mod.io's Scott Reismanis on the promise of the market
Podcast: Mod.io's Scott Reismanis on the impact of UGC in games
18.5.2022
Listen now (41 min) | How user-generated content is a big thing - and may get way larger
An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content
18.5.2022
I was fortunate last year to get approached by Shawn Wang (swyx) about doing some work for Temporal. The idea was to cast my creative eye over what was on the site and come up with some …
An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
Improving Icons for UI Elements with Typographic Alignment and Scale
17.5.2022
Utilizing icons in user interface elements is helpful. In addition to element labeling, icons can help reinforce a user element’s intention to users. But I have to say, I notice a bit of icon misalignment while browsing the web. Even …
Improving Icons for UI Elements with Typographic...
Does a Day 1 Game Pass debut make your game convert worse on Steam?
16.5.2022
Our data says.. not so much!
Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes
16.5.2022
Global styles, a feature of the block themes, is one of my favorite parts of creating block themes. The concept of global style variations in WordPress were introduced in Gutenberg 12.5 which would allow theme authors to create alternate …
Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes...
Plus: Songs of Conquest, We Were Here Forever hit it big...
13.5.2022
We round out your week with some bangers
Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow
13.5.2022
In my last article we saw how CSS background properties allow us to create cool hover effects. This time, we will focus on the CSS text-shadow property to explore even more interesting hovers. You are probably wondering how adding shadow …
Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow...
A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted!
12.5.2022
Braydon Coyer recently launched a monthly CSS art challenge. He actually had reached out to me about donating a copy of my book Move Things with CSS to use as a prize for the winner of the challenge — …
A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted! originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
A Switch game discovery success? Tell us more...
11.5.2022
Also: more on those Steam lawsuits, lots more
COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful
11.5.2022
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the …
COLRv1 and...
Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language
10.5.2022
By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:
A programming language is any set of rules that convert
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Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language originally...
Steam's U.S. antitrust lawsuits fail to get dismissed - now what?
9.5.2022
Also: what do you all think of this newsletter, anyhow?
Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images
9.5.2022
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification …
Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images...
Plus: April's big new winners (& losers?) on Steam
6.5.2022
Time to take a look at a pretty big month for debuts