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CSS Olympic Rings
7.8.2024
It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated 3D Olympic rings. I like it, it looks great, and I love the effect of the rings crossing each other.…
CSS Olympic Rings originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
How Abiotic Factor sold 600k copies in just 3 months!
6.8.2024
Also: July's most-streamed games & lots of discovery news
Plus: what were July 2024's biggest Steam debuts - and why?
2.8.2024
Also: lots more trending charts for recent PC and console games!
(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links
2.8.2024
Heydon on the virtues of hyperlinking hypertext in an anchor element:
Sometimes, the <a> is referred to as a hyperlink, or simply a link. But it is not one of these and people who say it is one are
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(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links originally published...
HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!
1.8.2024
I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the concept of HTML Web Components. This was the “a-ha!” moment for me:
When you wrap some existing markup in a
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HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and...
CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes
31.7.2024
Most days, I’m writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach for Sass tend to be when I need a @mixin to loop …
CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Artists sue SEC over NFT status, DraftKings kills NFT business: Nifty Newsletter
31.7.2024
Two artists have taken legal action to demand clarification from the SEC over the status of NFTs
Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles
31.7.2024
It’s been a few months out since A Book Apart closed shop. I’m sad about it, of course. You probably are, too, if you have one of their many brightly-colored paperbacks sitting on a bookshelf strategically placed as a backdrop …
Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles originally...
Summer special: what generative AI could do... for Pac-Man?
30.7.2024
And in more factual news: Steam demo updates & lots of discovery news
Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert
30.7.2024
Smashing Magazine invited me to sit down for a one-on-one with “Uncle” Dave Rupert to discuss web components, yes, but also check in on Dave’s new Microsoft gig and what the ShopTalk co-host is working on these days.
I first …
Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert originally...
Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe
29.7.2024
This post came up following a conversation I had with Emilio Cobos — a senior developer at Mozilla and member of the CSSWG — about the last CSSWG group meeting. I wanted to know what he thought were the …
Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe...
Plus: what are the hottest unreleased PC games right now?
26.7.2024
At least, those on Steam. (We have a new tool to show that.)
Pop(over) the Balloons
25.7.2024
I’ve always been fascinated with how much we can do with just HTML and CSS. The new interactive features of the Popover API are yet another example of just how far we can get with those two languages alone.
You …
Pop(over) the Balloons originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Pixelverse sends tokens to NFT holders, ApeCoin holders mull hotel proposal: Nifty Newsletter
24.7.2024
An ApeCoin DAO member proposed the renovation of an existing hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, with Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection as its theme
Pixelverse sends tokens to NFT holders, ApeCoin holders mull hotel proposal: Nifty Newsletter
24.7.2024
An ApeCoin DAO member proposed the renovation of an existing hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, with Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection as its theme
What's the country split for players of hit Steam games?
23.7.2024
We researched some intriguing data. Also: Steam's upcoming Next Fest changes & more
Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project
22.7.2024
These sorts of roundups always get me. My wife will flip through Zillow photos of the insides of homes for hours because she likes seeing how different people decorate, Feng Shui, or what have you. That’s her little dip into …
Alvaro Montoro: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project...
Plus: why did (or didn't) this week's Steam launches 'take off'?
20.7.2024
Some musings based on this week's Steam charts. (Also, other charts galore!)
CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting
19.7.2024
From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with a long agenda of new features and improvements coming to language. If 2023 brought us incredible advances like …
CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG...
Pudgy Penguin to debut on Pixelverse, Square Enix backs Soccerverse: Nifty Newsletter
17.7.2024
Pixelverse integrates a Pudgy Penguin character into its game to join characters like Doge and Mew