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Deep dive: how Cosmoteer became a breakout Steam hit
6.3.2023
Lots of numbers attached! Also: a follow-up on Steam keys & more
Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes
6.3.2023
Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the WordPress Customizer settings for a “classic” PHP-based theme. That hasn’t …
Managing Fonts in WordPress...
Plus: Wo Long, Phantom Brigade debut with a flourish* this week!
3.3.2023
*Except PC performance issues for Wo Long. Sigh
Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker
2.3.2023
I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list markers are bullets, ordinal numbers, and letters. The ::marker pseudo-element …
Everything You Need to Know About...
PlayStation VR2: what big launch games, and why?
1.3.2023
Also: a look at Amazon's current publishing strategy & much more
Whale sells 1,010 NFTs in 48 hours: Nifty Newsletter, Feb. 22–28
1.3.2023
NFT whale Machi Big Brother sold off 1,010 NFTs in 48 hours in what some dubbed the “largest NFT dump ever.”
Valve's new stance on Steam keys: what to know?
28.2.2023
Also: a look at the top game legal trends of 2023 & lots more
Plus: Sons Of The Forest: so big it broke Steam?
24.2.2023
Also: yes, Hogwarts is still extremely popular, folks
OpenSea implements 0% fees: Nifty Newsletter, Feb 15–21
22.2.2023
Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal likened NFTs from popular collections like CryptoPunks and BAYC to luxury houses and cars
How Dying Light 2 kept players interested, a year after release
22.2.2023
Also: how streamers find games, and lots more
Your Early Access launch? It (kinda!) is your launch...
20.2.2023
Also: market share stats for subscription platforms, and lots more
Plus: Sons Of The Forest, Kerbal 2, Atomic Heart go massive next week!
17.2.2023
Also: Returnal, Pharaoh and others perform, this time out
A Little To The Left: how tidying (and TikTok!) made a hit
15.2.2023
Also: Supercell's unique biz model on display. And lots more
France’s top museum to display NFTs: Nifty Newsletter, Feb 8–14
15.2.2023
France’s top modern art museum will showcase NFTs from collections like CryptoPunks and Autoglyphs
Steam's biggest Next Fest demos? We rank 'em!
13.2.2023
Also: detail on Switch's end of life conundrums, and more
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
13.2.2023
We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom …
An Approach to Lazy Loading...
Plus: next week goes big with Wild Hearts, Pharaoh, Returnal...
10.2.2023
Also: the biggest current hits on Steam and console, poked at
Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows
10.2.2023
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about …
Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows originally published...
Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience
9.2.2023
Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and …
Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience...
Moving Backgrounds
9.2.2023
We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an <img> anyway, accessibility and whatnot.
But there are …
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