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The 'Dick And Balls' GameCube Controller Is NSFW
3.12.2021
Ludwig, formerly of Twitch and now of YouTube Gaming, won a small Among Us tournament a while back, and as his prize was offered the chance to receive a one-of-a-kind, hand-made GameCube controller.Read more
Oculus Quest Update Helps You Not Punch Children
2.11.2021
Do you find yourself constantly punching real-world children while playing Resident Evil 4 for the millionth time on your Oculus virtual reality headset? Well, Facebook—or, excuse me, Meta—has got you covered with Space Sense, a new feature heading to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 devices with...
Tonic (Component Framework)
27.9.2021
I enjoy little frameworks like Tonic. It’s essentially syntactic sugar over <web-components /> to make them feel easier to use. Define a Class, template literal an HTML template, probably some other fancy helpers, and you’ve got a component …
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Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think
3.9.2021
We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …
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'Playing Fighting Games On Keyboard Is Fine, Actually' Announces Local Weirdo
2.9.2021
Let me get this out of the way early. I am very new to fighting games. Like very, very new. I played a good amount of Smash Ultimate, even went to a local tournament once, but I was never like, y’know...in it. I regret to inform both you, and past me, that I am now, in fact, in it.Read more
Developers and Designers Work on a Single Source of Truth with UXPin
27.8.2021
(This is a sponsored post.)
There is a conversation that has been percolating for as long as I’ve been in the web design and development industry. It’s centered around the conflict between design tools and development tools. The final …
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Using Web Components in WordPress is Easier Than You Think
12.8.2021
Now that we’ve seen that web components and interactive web components are both easier than you think, let’s take a look at adding them to a content management system, namely WordPress.
There are three major ways we can add them. …
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Report: New PSVR2 Details Leak From Sony Developer Conference
5.8.2021
A video posted today by popular VR YouTube channel PSVR Without Parole purports to have new information about Sony’s next-generation virtual reality hardware for PlayStation 5.Read more
I’m Obsessed With These Low-Rent CSGO No-Scope ‘Hacks’
29.7.2021
People try all sorts of things to get an advantage in CSGO, PUBG, Fortnite, or any competitive game. But recently, I’ve been stuck watching one player’s gloriously low-rent efforts to improve their sniping.Read more
Demystifying styled-components
27.7.2021
 Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey.
styled-components seems like the biggest player in the CSS-in-React market. Despite being in that world, I haven’t yet been fully compelled by it. I’m …
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Awesome Standalone (Web Components)
26.5.2021
In his last An Event Apart talk, Dave made a point that it’s really only just about right now that Web Components are becoming a practical choice for production web development. For example, it has only been about a year …
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Links on Web Components
26.5.2021
How we use Web Components at GitHub — Kristján Oddsson talks about how GitHub is using web components. I remember they were very early adopters, and it says here they released a <relative-time> component in 2014! Now they’ve got a
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Report: Next-Gen PlayStation VR Is Sounding Pretty Impressive
11.5.2021
Sony’s next-generation virtual reality hardware for PlayStation 5 will include a number of fancy features and even some forward-thinking technologies that are not yet available on popular consumer VR headsets, according to a report on UploadVR. Read more
Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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The Razer Kraken X Ultralight Wired Gaming Headset Is Only $40
29.3.2021
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Hello Gamers, Aukey's KM-G12 RGB Keyboard Is Down to $39
26.3.2021
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Interactive Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
25.3.2021
In my last article, we saw that web components aren’t as scary as they seem. We looked at a super simple setup and made a zombie dating service profile, complete with a custom <zombie-profile> element. We reused the element …
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Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
8.3.2021
When I’d go to a conference (when we were able to do such things) and see someone do a presentation on web components, I always thought it was pretty nifty (yes, apparently, I’m from 1950), but it always seemed complicated …
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Get Noise Canceled With Anker's Soundcore Q30 Headphones for $68
26.2.2021
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Giant Motor Gives PC Enough Rumble To Shake The Very Heavens
25.2.2021
Jatin Patel is an iOS developer who works on big, silly projects for his YouTube channel. His latest million-dollar idea was to connect a giant, 2,880 rpm induction motor to his DualShock, magnifying the controller’s comparatively pitiful rumble to extraordinary proportions.Read more