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Progressive React
A guide by Houssein Djirdeh on how to optimize React apps.
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Pramp – Free frontend mock interview practice
Can you ace an interview? Make sure you can. Pramp, a peer-to-peer mock interviews platform allows you to practice on-demand for free.
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<details-menu> element
GitHub’s menus and dialogs work without JavaScript because of Mu-An Chiou’s great exploration of how to use <details> for JS-less popovers. Check out the version for dialogs and Mu-An Chiou’s notes on <details> at Brooklyn JS.
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Pure CSS Drawing Essentials
CSS art master Diana Smith shares her top 5 CSS properties she uses in order to produce pure CSS art.
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Onelineplayer
A free web video player without branding and quality loss that loads 2x faster than others while supporting HQ previews.
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Der Bunt: Color Harmonies (Alpha 1)
A beautiful way to tinker with color spaces and systems.
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Tech Productivity
Tech Productivity is a short weekly newsletter for tech professionals with productivity-related tools, articles, and other resources. By Louis Lazaris.
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Make your Google Fonts render faster
A tool that generates a small wrapper around Google Fonts that adds font-display support and helps to render text quicker.
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Scandinavian Houses: Free Vector Images
A beautiful set of vector houses made by Tatiana Lapina.
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Try GraphQL
An interactive GraphQL tutorial made by Ryan Chenkie.
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Packing Circles inside a Rectangle
Mike Bostock is exploring a variant on Wang et al.’s circle-packing algorithm to pack circles inside a rectangle.
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Improving WordPress Code With Modern PHP
Leonardo Losoviz gives us a tour of the PHP features newly-available to WordPress and suggests how these can be used to produce better software.
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Explaining Code using ASCII Art
John Regehr collected some wonderful ASCII code embeds.
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personal-website
A repository that gives you the code you’ll need to kickstart a personal website that showcases your work as a software developer.
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Silo
A daring and refreshing layout and design. With dark mode option.
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Exploring a back/forward cache for Chrome
Learn about the back/forward cache (bfcache) prototype in this article with videos by Addy Osmani.
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CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors
Josh Bader shows how to make sure colors have enough contrast with Custom Properties.
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Visual Studio Code Settings and Extensions for Faster JavaScript Development
Tilo Mitra shares some VS Code extensions and settings for better JS development.
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Free Font: Arco
Rafael Olivo Díaz created this playful font.
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Blobby Hill
A fun blobby demo by Alex Zaworski.
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Interactive Typography Cheatsheet
Christian Heilmann created this helpful cheatsheet that explains some typography jargon. Read more about it in this article.
Collective #495 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.