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Monday's Best Deals: Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Extra 20% off Sephora Sale Items, Studio Ghibli Blu-rays, Cuisinart Knives, Nuatica Sweaters, KN95 Face Masks, and More
21.12.2020
Super Mario 3D All-Stars and an extra 20% off Sephora sale items lead Monday’s best deals.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Comes To Death Stranding On PC, Bringing Items And New Missions
17.12.2020
Given how Hideo Kojima appears in Cyberpunk 2077 as an NPC, it should be no surprise that the world of Red Projekt Red’s sci-fi yarn is coming to Death Stranding in a just-released update. Read more
Spending Sats: A Look at This Year’s Bitcoin Black Friday Deals
26.11.2020
Every year the shopping holiday called Black Friday allows consumers to get better deals on products and services. On November 24, the day also known as ‘Bitcoin Black Friday’ will provide crypto users access to deals when they purchase items with digital assets like bitcoin. Due to...
Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid
19.11.2020
Great tutorial from Alex Trost (based on some demos, like this one, from Andy Barefoot) showcasing how, while CSS grid has straight grid lines across and down, you can place items across grid lines creating a staggered effect that looks pretty rad. Grid-like, but it appears to align to diagonal...
Pewdiepie Joins the Blockchain AR Game Wallem, Players Can Buy Youtube Star’s NFT Skin
1.11.2020
The world-famous gamer and Youtuber, Pewdiepie is getting involved with another blockchain project called Wallem, a 3D augmented reality video game that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for skins and items. The game also rewards players with an Ethereum-based ERC20 token called pteria (PTE)....
The Moss Piglet Dilemma: Paypal Bans Payments to Merchants Using the Word ‘Tardigrade’
14.9.2020
The popular payment provider Paypal has been known for cutting off a number of merchants and organizations over the years. This week, the public found out that Paypal has been censoring merchants that sell items related to the name “tardigrade” just because a Balkan arms dealer uses...
NFT Economy Grows Exponential: $1M in Non-Fungible Token Sales Last Week
14.9.2020
While a number of people are focused on decentralized finance (defi), the non-fungible token (NFT) industry has also exploded in demand in 2020. Last week, NFT sales soared nearing a million dollars in volume, as the blockchain-based Sorare fantasy soccer card game saw over $221,000 in sales during...
Menu Reveal By Page Rotate Animation
8.9.2020
There are many different approaches to menus on websites. Some menus are persistent, always in view and display all the options. Other menus are hidden by design and need to be opened to view the options. And there are even additional approaches on how hidden menus reveal their menu items. Some...
The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables
5.8.2020
Lea Verou digging up the CSS trickery classic and applying it to clip the backgrounds of some code blocks:
The main idea is simple: You write your main rule using CSS variables, and then use :nth-of-*() rules to set these variables to something different every N items. If you use enough...
The Tokenized Metaverse: Non-Fungible Token Sales to Surpass $100 Million
6.7.2020
On July 1, 2020, the partner of Polynexus Capital, Andrew Steinwold, detailed that the sales of blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are about to cross the $100 million mark. The popularity of NFTs has grown massive since 2017, as blockchain cards, collectibles, digital artwork, virtual...
Food and Cash Shortages Push Cubans Toward Permissionless Cryptocurrencies
5.7.2020
The Nation of Cuba is dealing with a national food crisis, as Venezuela has stopped offering aid to the small island nation. Moreover, the coronavirus outbreak has caused a shortage of cash couriers called “mules” and everyday items are becoming scarcer. Amid the crisis, a number...
Grid for layout, flexbox for components
26.6.2020
When should we reach for CSS grid and when should we use flexbox? Rachel Andrew wrote about this very conundrum way back in 2016:
Flexbox is essentially for laying out items in a single dimension – in a row OR a column. Grid is for layout of items in two dimensions – rows AND columns.
Ahmad...
An Infinitely Scrollable Vertical Menu
23.5.2020
A quick look at how an infinitely scrollable menu works based on a looping scroll illusion of cloned items.
An Infinitely Scrollable Vertical Menu was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout
18.5.2020
It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS developers for a long time. Masonry being that kind of layout where unevenly-sized elements are layed out in ragged rows. Sorta like a typical...
Chromium lands Flexbox gap
9.5.2020
I mentioned this the other day via Michelle Barker’s coverage, but here I’ll link to the official announcement. The main thing is that we’ll be getting gap with flexbox, which means:
.flex-parent {
display: flex;
gap: 1rem;
}
.flex-child {
flex: 1;
}
That’s excellent...
List Style Recipes
5.5.2020
Lists are a fundamental part of HTML! They are useful in things like blog posts for listing out steps, recipes for listing ingredients, or items in a navigation menu. Not only are they an opportunity for styling, but they have accessibility implications. For example, the number of items in a list...
My Visual Studio Code Setup: Extensions and Themes
22.4.2020
Matthias Ott’s posted his VS Code setup. I find lists like this (I rounded up some recent updates of my own) irresistible, probably because, like y’all, I spend an awful lot of time in VS Code and wanna make sure I’m getting the most out of it.
Things from the list that stood...
Thinking in Behaviors, Not Screen Sizes
11.4.2020
Chase McCoy wrote a nifty post about the “gap problem” when making a grid of items. His argument might be summarized like this: how should we space elements with margins in CSS? He notes that the gap property isn’t quite ready for prime time when it comes to using it with flexbox, like this:
.grid...
Blockchain to Authenticate Coronavirus-Response KN95 Face Masks From China
9.4.2020
The VeChain blockchain will be used to ensure that authentic KN95 masks are indeed produced by a verified Chinese manufacturer
How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS
7.4.2020
The design for Netflix’s browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to scroll through content and hover on items to see a preview.
One unique characteristic of the UI is its hover behavior. When a show preview...