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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Commentary on Race Is Too Much, and Not Enough
27.3.2021
Beyond simply continuing Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes’ respective superhero stories in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been billed as the studio’s latest foray into social commentary using its larger-than-life characters to reflect some of the real-world...
SEC vs. Ripple: US Judge Orders Both Parties from the XRP Lawsuit to Hold a Discovery Conference
26.3.2021
In a fresh twist to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s fight against Ripple Labs, US judge Sarah Netburn has directed both parties to hold “a telephonic discovery conference on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.” The judge’s order directs the parties to discuss a motion...
What's New on Amazon Prime Video in April 2021
25.3.2021
Amazon Prime Video’s newest original series will dive into a different kind of American horror story. THEM, from creator Little Marvin and producer Lena Waithe (Master of None) is an anthology show that will explore a new story each season, and based on the trailer, the first appears to combine...
This Is Why The Car From Daytona USA Is Kicking Ass In A Fighting Game
24.3.2021
It’s come to my attention that some people on the internet aren’t aware of the greatest character ever to grace a fighting game. So today, we’re going to discuss the Hornet from Daytona USA and what it’s doing punching and kicking people with its tires in the amusing tweet below.Read more
An Epic Timeline of the Rock Willing DC’s Black Adam Into Existence
23.3.2021
In just a few weeks, Dwayne Johnson will finally roll cameras on his DC movie, Black Adam. That statement seems almost unbelievable—because if you can believe it, the actor and the role have been inseparable for over a decade. In that time, Johnson has taken great pleasure in teasing fans about...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Starts By Exploring the Dense, Depressed, Post-Blip World
19.3.2021
Thanks to the Avengers, half the beings in the universe reappeared out of thin air five years after disappearing. While Marvel fans saw how that occurred in Avengers: Endgame, that film, and the ones after it, only scratched the surface of what it all meant in-universe. Well, the premiere...
Streamers Play With Call Of Duty Actor, Get Suspended For Cheating
15.3.2021
Streamer Alex Zedra—the face behind an actual character in Call of Duty—was playing Warzone the other day with two other folks when she noticed some pretty suspect behaviour. And hey, surprise, the two people she was playing with have now had their Twitch channels suspended for cheating.Read more
13 Shows and Movies to Prepare You for the Inevitable Zombie Attack
12.3.2021
The CDC recently released an actual guide for zombie preparedness, with tips and tools for surviving disastrous situations illustrated in a graphic novel. CDC officials might be suffering from a bout of pandemic cabin fever, but I, for one, will take heed of their advice, which can apply to almost...
QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind
1.3.2021
“I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up...
How Film School Helped Me Make Better User Experiences
12.11.2020
Recently, I finished a sixty-day sprint where I posted hand-coded zombie themed CSS animation every day. I learned a lot, but it also took me back to film school and reminded me of so many things I learned about storytelling, cinematography, and art.
Turns out that much of what I learned back then...
To grid or not to grid
20.8.2020
Sarah Higley does accessibility work and finds that “tables and grids are over-represented in accessibility bugs.”
The drum has been banged a million times: don’t use a <table> for layout. But what goes around comes around. What’s the the #1 item in a list...
Quick Tips for High Contrast Mode
27.6.2020
Sarah Higley has some CSS tricks up her sleeve for dealing with High Contrast Mode on Windows, which I learned is referred to as WHCM.
Here’s the first trick:
[…] if the default CSS outline property doesn’t give you the visual effect you want [in WHCM] for focus states...
What is Developer Experience (DX)?
16.6.2020
Developer Experience¹ is a term² that has one somewhat obvious meaning — the experience of developers — but it eludes definition in the sense that people invoke it at different times for different reasons referring to different things. For instance, our own Sarah Drasner’s current job title...
The Hero Generator
30.4.2020
Sarah:
I’ve had to implement the same hero for several years now, so like a good lazy programmer, I figured I’d automate it.
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A Guide to Handling Browser Events
13.3.2020
In this post, Sarah Chima walks us through how we can work with browser events, such as clicking, using JavaScript. There’s a ton of great info in here! If JavaScript isn’t your strong suit, I think this is the best explanation of event handling that I’ve read in quite some time.
When an event...
Vue.js: The Documentary
3.3.2020
Hey how cool! A documentary about Vue! Good timing as it looks like VueConf is happening right now. (Reminder we have a site for conferences to tell you stuff like that).
Sarah appears in it (about 21:13) and talks about CSS-Tricks for a second, so we're officially super famous now and I have...
How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The JAMstack
4.2.2020
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.
Using Vue, Nuxt, axios and Netlify, it's...
Netlify High-Fives
14.1.2020
We've got Netlify as a sponsor around here again this year, which is just fantastic. Big fan. Our own Sarah Drasner is Head of DX (Developer Experience) over there, if you hadn't heard. And if you haven't heard of Netlify, well, you're in for a treat. It's a web host, but for your jamstack sites...
Embrace the Political
21.11.2019
The tech industry has long held the belief that technology is apolitical. People are flawed, but the machines? They are neutral. They are pure.
This is ridiculous, of course. People make the machines. We write the algorithms that can't recognize dark skin tones. We decide to downplay or ignore...
Automatically compress images on Pull Requests
19.9.2019
Sarah introduced us to GitHub Actions right after it dropped about a year ago. Now they have improved the feature and are touting its CI/CD abilities. Run tests, do deployment, do whatever stuff computers do! It's essentially a YAML file that says run this, then this, then this, etc., with...