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a plague to end the world (of Warcraft)

last month's mixtape

That Time an Accidental Plague Nearly Killed Everyone in World of Warcraft

As a result of a new boss character in the game that afflicted nearby players with a debuff (an effect that causes harm or hampers the target). Called "Corrupted blood", this debuff damaged the player and was easily transmitted to other nearby players. An unforeseen consequence was that player's pet managed to retain this debuff when dismissed while infected and recalled within villages. These pets "infected" NPCs and the whole thing ran rampant throughout the game.

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10 More Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier

Some great Figma plugins and tricks that are necessary for anyone using the App.

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Stop using margin, use Spacer component instead!

Although I, and most people in the comments section, don't agree with the idea of creating a Spacer component to add "space" between elements in your layout, it is an interesting topic to discuss. One of the issues with this is adding adding empty elements to your markup, therefore changing some of your semantics. The main issue though is scalability and maintenance of this implementation.

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