This gets me excited: In addition to providing single and multiplayer thrills at home, the Nintendo Switch system also enables gamers to play the same title wherever, whenever and with whomever they choose. The mobility of a handheld is now added to the power of a home gaming system to enable unprecedented new video game …
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Transit Maps – A Technical Follow-Up
Follow-up to the aforementioned Transit Maps: Six weeks ago, we launched Transit Maps, and wrote this blog post about why we took on the mammoth task of creating automatically-generated yet aesthetically-pleasing maps. […] Today, we’re fulfilling our promise to publish a technical follow-up from Anton, our resident mapping wizard, who explains in much greater detail …
favicon.ico and redirect links as a privacy leak
Without your consent most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in. This allows any website to detect on which platforms you’re signed up. Since there are lots of platforms with specific demographics an attacker could reason about your personality, too. The attack works by loading in a website’s redirect script, with its favicon …
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CSS attribute value less than / greater than / equals selectors
Yesterday Ana Tudor wondered if should could write CSS selectors using less-than and greater-than logic: CSS attribute selector wish:[data-code>2][data-code<19] { /* styles */ }[data-code>=19][data-code<65] { /* other styles */ }and so on… — Ana Tudor (@anatudor) October 12, 2016 Unfortunately this kind of selectors don’t work (yet). Until then one could use JavaScript to tackling …
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You Might Not Need JavaScript
In the spirit of You Might Not Need jQuery, and just like You Don’t Need JavaScript, the website “You Might Not Need JavaScript” contains a truckload of examples with CSS alternatives for interface components that are typically built with/powered by JavaScript. JavaScript is great, and by all means use it, while also being aware that …
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Why I’m excited about Yarn
Today, Facebook – in collaboration with Google and others – released Yarn, a new package manager for JavaScript. Introducing Yarn: a new package manager for JavaScript from @fbOpenSource, @tildeio, @googledevs & @exponentjs. https://t.co/2LfN5OXjOv — Yarn (@yarnpkg) October 11, 2016 In comparison to npm, the Yarn website pushes these three main benefits forwards: Speed Reliability Security …
Louise Delage on Instagram
Starting August 1st, Louise Delage has been posting photos to her Instagram account. The 25 year old Parisian collected over 50,000 likes in just eight weeks. But did her followers even know what they were liking? Like my addiction A video posted by Louise Delage (@louise.delage) on Sep 22, 2016 at 2:07am PDT The end …