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Have You Ever Successfully Returned To An Ancient Save File?
22.3.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
22.3.2021
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn’t used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try first. And taking the “try it and see what happens” approach …
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Use Logpoints!
22.3.2021
There’s sometimes a tribal attitude about how web developers should be debugging their code and solving problems. There’s the console.log loyalists, then there’s the debugger/breakpoint maximalists. I worked on the Firefox DevTools debugger for years and I can tell you...
NFTs Are Selling for Millions, But How Do You Tell a Diamond From a Dud?
20.3.2021
A fragment of 24 Hours in The City That Never Sleeps by Frank Ape. Last sold for ETH 5 (USD 9,144). With a non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital artwork selling for USD 69.35m, you’d be forgiven for assuming that most NFTs are worth a small — or large — fortune. However, for every...
Invest in Future You in Exchange for a Little Annoyance Now With 30% off an Upright GO 2 Posture Trainer
20.3.2021
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Video Game Companies Keep Coming Up With New Ways To Take Our Money
19.3.2021
Video games are expensive. They have been expensive for a very long time, and they keep getting more expensive. To an extent, it makes sense: Game developers need to eat! But after a certain point, it gets excessive. Loot boxes, gacha, and now NFTs are signs of that excess. On this week’s...
Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG
19.3.2021
AVIF has been getting a lot of tech press, but Jon Sneyers is hot on JPEG XL (which makes sense as he’s the “chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc group in the JPEG Committee”). According to Jon’s comparison, JPEG …
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Platform News: Prefers Contrast, MathML, :is(), and CSS Background Initial Values
19.3.2021
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits, inconsistent initial values for CSS Backgrounds properties can lead to unwanted — but sorta neat — patterns.
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I Feel You, Life Is Strange Teen
18.3.2021
I haven’t played any of the Life is Strange games, because I have no nostalgia for my teenage years. Today’s trailer for the next installment in the series, True Colors, with its moody acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” has only reaffirmed my desire to leave my past in the past. How were any...
Want to be rich? Data and Bitcoin’s supply cap show you only need 0.01 BTC
18.3.2021
In 10 years Bitcoin’s finite supply will be nearly exhausted, meaning holders might only need 0.01 BTC to become filthy rich
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap
18.3.2021
Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile:
[…] CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers’ rosy resource assumptions. If there is unambiguously good news on the tooling front,
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axe DevTools Pro
18.3.2021
I’m going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
axe DevTools includes a browser extension which you need no special expertise to use.
You …
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In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
18.3.2021
I still remember my excitement when I learned how to build a hover-triggered submenu with just CSS. (It was probably after reading this 2003 article from A List Apart.) At the time, it was a true CSS trick. Seriously. …
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Bitcoin 'better than gold' if you study it, fund manager tells mainstream media
18.3.2021
Getting to grips with Bitcoin reveals its benefits over gold as a store of value, says SkyBridge Capital's Anthony Scaramucci
Student Coin Already Raised Over $8.7M in STC Sale
18.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. To bring the crypto area one step forward, a dedicated team developed one of the most intriguing utility tokens that will forever change the way you see crypto – the STC token, available on its dedicated ICO since February 1st. What is an STC token? STC is the core utility...
WW2 Rebuilder Has You Fixing Cities Instead Of Blowing Them Up
18.3.2021
WW2 Rebuilder is an upcoming PC game set after the Second World War where you’re tasked with visiting a number of devastated European cities and, with your bare hands (and some big tools), bring them back to their former glory.Read more
Please Enjoy Breath Of The Wild In 8K (If You Can)
18.3.2021
A few years back I was marvelling at Breath of the Wild in 4K, now we are all free to admire the game running in 8K, and with some (shaded) ray tracing to boot.Read more
Valheim Mod Lets You Tame Any Creature, Including Trolls
18.3.2021
While playing Valheim the other night, a friend and I spent an ungodly amount of time digging a trench and physically pushing Greylings through it, into a house, so they could be our pets. It was fiddly, sometimes infuriating work. Also, deeply unethical. If we had this mod, it would have at least...
PSA: Next Week, You’ll Be Able To Claim A Bunch Of Free PlayStation Games
17.3.2021
Earlier this month, Sony revived last year’s Play At Home initiative, a program designed to provide free games to PlayStation players in the hopes of promoting social distancing. Next week, Sony will expand the initiative by offering a whole bunch of games.Read more
Did You Know About the :has CSS Selector?
17.3.2021
File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in …
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