Viral pet toy that entertains your furry friend all day hits lowest price of the season

TL;DR: Your cat or dog will love the self-rolling Cheerble ball, now $19.97 with this early Black Friday sale. Pets get bored quickly, but this interactive pet toy keeps things fresh and exciting with its unpredictable movements and engaging play modes. — Read the rest The post V … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 15 hours ago

Are microplastics really destroying our health?

In 2022, scientists found microplastics — pieces of plastic less than five millimeters long — in human blood. Since then, they’ve been discovered throughout the human body, including in our lungs, kidneys, livers, hearts, and brains. So, why do we have all this plastic in us, wha … | Continue reading


@bigthink.com | 15 hours ago

"Pecan Pie Brownies" Are the Cozy Boxed Mix Hack I Make Every Thanksgiving

No one will miss the pie. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 15 hours ago

Art-pop band "The Dream Eaters" creates dark and funny earworms that are perfect for these difficult times

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My current musical obsession is New York-based art project/band called "The Dream Eaters," who describe themselves as "The Carpenters meet Slayer." With an uncanny ability to rock both goth and preppy clothes and makeup … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 15 hours ago

Microsoft is testing a new in-game browser

Microsoft’s new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The “game-aware” ove … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 15 hours ago

Billionaire-proof, day2

Given that the conversation has rightly turned to billionaire-proofness of Bluesky, if they allow devs to build on Bluesky with RSS in and out, that's enough to alleviate the concern about it being billionaire-proof. They already support outbound RSS. Now just let us get into the … | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 15 hours ago

How To: Use CSS Grid Layout to Make a Simple, Fluid Card Grid

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to take one of the most common tropes of web design -- the card grid -- and make it fluid.  | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

How To: A CSS-Only Mobile Off Canvas Navigation

Mobile navigation and the "hamburger nav" pattern aren't going away. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through creating a mobile off-canvas navigation with only CSS and HTML. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

CSS Tip: Use rotate() and skew() together to introduce some clean punk rock to your CSS

I'm still convinced that taking inspiration from punk rock design of the 70s and 80s is going to be a trend. If you want to start small, introduce some angles to your design. This is a simple trick to angle a stripe of content without adding awkward white space. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

The 5 Stages of Grid Love

Looking back on the past year, I've identified the five stages of my love with the CSS Grid Specification. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

3 Strategies for Getting Started with CSS Grid

If you're wondering how to start working with CSS Grid, here are three strategies for adopting it into your workflow. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

How To: Use CSS Grid to Mix and Match Design Patterns

In a previous tutorial, I described how to create a simple fluid card grid with CSS Grid. In this tutorial, we'll take it a step farther and create promotional spaces that morph in interesting ways. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Modern CSS: Four Things Every Developer and Designer Should Know About CSS

Contrary to popular belief, CSS is an absolute delight. Many developers I talk to think the phrase "Modern CSS" is an oxymoron. If you haven’t been watching the growth and maturity of CSS in the past 5 years, you’re doing yourself a disservice.  | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Use CSS ::before and ::after for simple, spicy image overlays

Use :after elements to create the simplest HTML possible to render useful and fun overlays on top of background images. Then extend them with blend-modes! | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Top 3 uses for the ::before and ::after CSS pseudo elements

It’s no secret that I'm a fan of ::before and ::after pseudo-elements. I use them to great effect for creating darkened overlays in this previous post. They have so many uses beyond that, though. Here are my top 3 uses for them in my every-day development process. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Starting a new journey with Code Contemporary

I'm beginning my new journey as an independent creator. I've left the comfortable confines of agency life to see what I can do creating resources for designers and developers. I'll be writing, recording, speaking and consulting. Much of this will be under the headi … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Dynamic Static Sites with Netlify and iOS Shortcuts

An experiment adding dynamic functionality to this site pushed via iOS shortcuts and Netlify functions | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

2019 The Year of Markup-First Development

The state of the web in 2018 has been heavy into the world of JavaScript. We've made amazing advancements in the way our sites work. Every site has the ability to feel like an application. Without HTML, though, our fancy future may have a dystopian layer right beneath the su … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Practical CSS Grid - Launching My First Course

Late last year, I took the plunge and began to work full time on my passion - education. That has led to today. Today, I officially launched my first online course - Practical CSS Grid! | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Build Trust on the Web incorporating User Worries with your User Stories

The web is suffering from a crisis of trust. Every week there’s a new story posted about a data breach or untrustworthy practices (I’m looking at you, Facebook). How can we fix that? When we create user stories for new features, shouldn’t we also create user worries about them? | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Refactoring CSS into a Sass mixin

It struck me recently as I was writing a new Sass mixin that there may be designers and developers out there that haven't translated vanilla CSS into a Sass function. In this article, I want to show how to take often-used CSS and convert it into a DRY (Don't Repeat Your … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back!

In the days before the web was mainstream, it was a place of creation. First for education, then for every random idea that any creator had! As the web transitioned from a network of educational institutions to the consumer force it is today, the early adopters were technologists … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

The Tech Barrier to Entry

I'm grateful for my unique journey to find my professional niche. It's taken a lot of twists and turns. Is my journey replicable in this era of developer tooling and convenience? | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

What Can We Learn from CERN's WorldWideWeb rebuild?

Have you ever wanted to go back in time and see what it was like to browse the web using Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first web browser? I have. Apparently so did the team at CERN. For the 30th anniversary of the world's first web browser, The European Organization for Nuclear … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Using Eleventy's (11ty) JavaScript Data Files

I enjoy building workflows for pure static sites. I enjoy ingesting data into my build process instead of loading my client-side with fetches. In this example, we'll use Eleventy's ability to use a JavaScript file, to execute code to fetch data on site build, negating t … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Grid vs. Flex: A Tale of a "Simple" Promo Space

I love the new layout modes in CSS. Grid and Flexbox are both amazing features. They each have their place. What if I told you that if you used the "wrong" one, you could double your CSS and HTML? Let's take a look at what appears to be a simple promo grid. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Three JAMstack movements to watch in 2020

This article covers three topics I think will help define the JAMstack in 2020. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

New Website, but really is it?

Launched a new version of the website... it's still pretty much the same, but way less complicated | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Netlify Durable Cache: Caching for a third-party world

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at setting up Netlify’s Durable Cache on a third-party API with (artificially) slow returns. We’ll use a proxied dev.to API, throttle it a bit, and see the effects of durable caching on the responses. We’ll also build a function to clear specif … | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

Type-safe environment variables in Astro 5.0

Astro’s 5.0 beta has released a stable version of its astro:env module. This allows for developers to configure a schema for their environment variables and then take advantage of new feature this opens. | Continue reading


@bryanlrobinson.com | 15 hours ago

WHOOP 4.0 Strap Review: 2024 Update

WHOOP 4 Review : Don't want to waste your money? Every PRO and CON - plus the biggest discount available anywhere today The post WHOOP 4.0 Strap Review: 2024 Update appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading


@the5krunner.com | 15 hours ago

[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4MDNM Foynes Forest Find

This checkin to GC4MDNM Foynes Forest Find reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mother and I are out in the West of Ireland in search of geohashpoints. Today’s attempt to find the 2024-11-22 52 -8 hashpoint was blocked by the river Arra breaking i … | Continue reading


@danq.me | 16 hours ago

This Lenovo Chromebook Is Only $149 For Black Friday, And it Can Replace Your $1,000 Old Laptop

If you're using your laptop mainly for browsing the internet, this is the best deal you can get. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

International Space Station evades space junk

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Earlier this week, Progress 89, an uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station, used a 5-minute and 31-second burn to move the ISS to a higher orbit. — Read the rest The post International Spac … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 16 hours ago

The Great AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Processor Is 50% Off, Now at an All-Time Low Price

It is rated 4.8 out of 5 based on over 7,000 reviews on Amazon. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

After A Long Wait, Zimbabwe’s Utility-Scale Solar PV Sector Is Starting To Grow

Zimbabwe has an installed electricity generation capacity of close to 3,000 MW, but there is a huge problem. The Zimbabwe Power Company’s (ZPC) main thermal plants are very old and keep breaking down. There were also three small coal power plants in Harare, Munyati, and Bulawayo … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 16 hours ago

For Black Friday, Babbel Is The Smartest Purchase You Can Make (78% Off Lifetime)

This lifetime subscription to Babbel is a great way to invest in yourself. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

Idris Elba May Join the He-Man Movie, Cuz Of Course He Will

One thing you can count on these days, Elba's gonna pop up in something goofy like Sonic or He-Man and probably be good in it. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

3 Dollar Tree Grocery Finds I’m Stocking in My Pantry for Thanksgiving (They’re All $1.25 or Less!)

It’s a great place to start Thanksgiving prep. READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 16 hours ago

Unusual Gashapons from Tokyo: Hilarious and Weird Capsule Toys You Won't Believe

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In this fun video, we're taken through a day's haul of unusual Gashapons purchased in Tokyo. For anyone who doesn't know, a Gashapon (or Gachapo) is a type of Japanese vending machine that dispenses small capsule toys or … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 16 hours ago

S J Denney embarks on a mellow journey of his life so far in new EP “Happy Ever After”

On this release, four songs, two of them being a previously released single, line up to create a journey through S J Denney's influences and inspirations. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 16 hours ago

Disney taking the ax to MuppetVision 3D and Aerosmith

In August, when Disney announced a host of huge changes and additions to its theme parks, some of the critical details were left out. Disney was happy to announce what was being added, but was cagey in some cases about what was being removed to make room. — Read the rest The post … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 16 hours ago

How gophers and fungi revived Mount St. Helens

LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! On March 27, 1980, after months of earthquakes and minor eruptions, Mount St. Helens erupted explosively, with thermal energy equivalent to 26 megatons of TNT. Rock and ash from the eruption devastated everything within … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 16 hours ago

Joy & Curiosity #16

Interesting & joyful things from the previous week | Continue reading


@registerspill.thorstenball.com | 16 hours ago

New collaborations of SECreTour in Coventry

Collaboration agreement has started between Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University in November 2024 The SECreTour Network is growing! The SECreTour project has established a new collaboration with the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. C-DaRE spe … | Continue reading


@digitalmeetsculture.net | 16 hours ago

Forget Amazon, The Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Is 30% Off at a Major Competitor For Black Friday

Already have an Xbox and looking to score a cheaper Game Pass Ultimate this Black Friday? | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

I Tried Giada De Laurentiis’ “Sweet and Salty Mashed Potatoes”

So delicious! READ MORE... | Continue reading


@thekitchn.com | 16 hours ago

The iMac M4 wasn’t built for this world

Still beautiful. Still good. Still the wrong form factor for basically everybody. Continue reading… | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 16 hours ago