Pedro Botelho | The Blog Pros

November 25, 2019

Global Design Survey 2019

Explore the data behind designer salaries, career trends, and what’s next for your design discipline in these design survey results by Dribbble.

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A resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Backoff, Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback. Inspired by .NET Polly.

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Creepyface

A JavaScript library that makes your face look at the pointer.

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Scaling SVG Elements

Amelia Wattenberger explains the basic principle behind scaling SVG elements.

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Request with Intent: Caching Strategies in the Age of PWAs

Aaron Gustafson dives into modern media caching strategies and shows how to use some Cache API tricks of Service Workers.

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Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems

Matthew Ström’s exploration of how an API for design decisions works.

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How To Run a Proxy Server Inside Your Browser

Danny Moerkerke explains how you can run a proxy server in your browser using just a service worker.

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Quanta Magazine

A wonderful case study of one of the latest projects by Dogstudio.

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HexaBeat

HexaBeat is a sequencer using commits from GitHub to make beats.

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Complex Search-Results Pages Change Search Behavior: The Pinball Pattern

Read why users distribute their attention more variably across a search result page than in the past.

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Avoiding jagged edges on gradients

In case you missed it: Mandy Michael’s tip on how to achieve smooth gradients in CSS.

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CSS Containment Module Level 1 is a W3C Recommendation

The CSS WG has published the CSS Containment Module Level 1 as a W3C Recommendation. It describes the contain property, which indicates that the element’s subtree is independent of the rest of the page.

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Print To CSS

Dan Davies recreates some print work using CSS Grid.

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Fit on a Floppy

A tool for determining if your webpage can fit on a 3.5 inch floppy disk.

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Pure CSS CYBRTRK

Jhey Tompkins recreated the new Tesla Cybertruck in this awesome demo.

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Creating complex layouts using CSS Grid

A practical tutorial on how to create a complex layout using CSS Grid. By Sush Kelly.

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Masked areas in SVG using GIFs

Cassie Evans shows a magical method for creating masked areas in SVGs.

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Blader Runner

Ricardo Cabello’s awesome Three.js Blade Runner demo. View the source code here.

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Simplifying code with Maps in JavaScript

Oleksandr Khomenko explains how to refactor a component using maps in JavaScript.

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BodyPix: Real-time Person Segmentation in the Browser with TensorFlow.js

Read all about BodyPix 2.0 that now comes with a new API, multi-person support and improved accuracy.

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Collective #568 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

November 21, 2019

Collective #567

Inspirational Website of the Week: It’s not violent

A fantastic sharp design that gets the message across using “textversation”. Our pick this week.

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Instanced Line Rendering

Rye Terrell shows how to tackle lines in WebGL using instanced line rendering.

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Adaptive Loading – Improving Web Performance on low-end devices

Addy Osmani explains how to use Adaptive Loading optimally to allow users get an experience best suited to their constraints.

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Lite YouTube Embed

A YouTube embed that renders much faster than a normal embed. By Paul Irish.

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Pika Registry

Pika is a new kind of package registry and code editor for package authors. Open for early access.

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Framer – Web Beta

Exciting news from Framer: Framer will offer a web-based collaborative version and you can request a beta invite now.

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Alex Pierce – Designer. Art Director. Geek.

Alex Pierce’s portfolio is a unique example of “maximalism” that leverages color, bold typography, motion, and pixel art to deliver a surprising and delightful user experience.

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Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2019

Ire Aderinokun’s roundup article that highlights the most interesting ideas and projects from the Chrome Dev Summit 2019.

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Building a Football Ticket With CSS and SVG

Learn some advanced CSS techniques from this tutorial by Ahmad Shadeed.

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Cube.js Templates

Cube.js templates are open-source, ready-to-use frontend analytics apps.

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Illlustrations

A set of 100 free illustrations made by Vijay Verma.

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SVG favicons

An exciting tweet by Mathias Bynens: you can use SVG for a favicon in Chrome now.

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The Firefox UI is now built with Web Components

An interesting article by Brian Grinstead on how the Firefox UI was migrated to modern web standards.

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What are Microservices?

Sarah Drasner breaks down the term of Microservices.

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Lynn Fisher Portfolio

Lynn Fisher’s awesome new portfolio has a super cool resize effect!

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Tetris & Snake

Can you play Tetris and Snake at the same time? Try it in this cool experiment by Grégoire Divaret-Chauveau.

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LegraJS

Legra is a small JavaScript library that lets you draw LEGO like brick shapes on an HTML canvas element.

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Password Guide

A fantastic little checklist for a password input by Andreas Storm.

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Multiple-column Layout and column-span in Firefox 71

In this post Rachel Andrew takes a look at the implementation of the column-span property.

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Inspirational Websites Roundup #10

Get some website inspiration with this set of beautiful and modern site designs freshly picked over the past few weeks.

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Collective #567 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

November 18, 2019

Collective #566

SWR: React Hooks for Remote Data Fetching

SWR is a React Hooks library for remote data fetching. SWR first returns the data from cache (stale), then sends the fetch request (revalidate), and finally comes with the up-to-date data again.

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Gifolio

Gifolio is a brilliant collection of design portfolios presented using animated GIFs. By Roll Studio.

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Masks

An interactive presentation on masking techniques originally created for a Creative Front-end Belgium meetup hosted by Reed. By Thomas Di Martino.

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How to Use Color Blind Friendly Palettes to Make Your Charts Accessible

A guide to color blindness and how to use color blind friendly palettes for charts to make them more accessible.

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Responsible JavaScript: Part III

The third part of an article series on responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner.

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Supermaya

Supermaya is an Eleventy starter kit designed to help you add rich features to a blog or website without the need for a complicated build process.

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Dark Mode

Varun Vachhar shares the challenges he encountered when migrating from Jekyll to Gatsby related to dark mode.

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Pure CSS Russian Bears

An adorable Russian doll demo by Jhey Tompkins.

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CSS Logical Properties

Adrian Roselli shares different approaches to get his head around CSS logical properties.

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Announcing GitHub Security Lab: securing the world’s code, together

GitHub announced GitHub Security Lab to bring together security researchers, maintainers, and companies across the industry for contributing tools, resources and research with the aim to secure the open source ecosystem.

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Build your own React

Rodrigo Pombo’s beautifully animated and updated DIY guide to build React from scratch. You can find the Gatsby theme here: Gatsby Theme Waves.

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How Human Abilities Define Digital Experiences

A fantastic talk by Claudio Guglieri where he discusses how our human abilities, not technology should define our world.

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Pattern Recognition

A mesmerizing demo by Liam Egan. Here’s another variation.

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A Layout Trick for Building a Contact List

In this article Michelle Barker shares a useful layout trick.

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First Commit

A small open source React app for digging up the first commit of any GitHub repo.

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Become An HTML Email Geek With These Videos From Rémi Parmentier

Rémi Parmentier shares what he knows about taming email clients in these two videos.

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Code Surfer

The third version of the React component for scrolling, zooming and highlighting code.

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Fresh Folk

A beautiful mix-and-match illustration library of people and objects made by Leni Kauffman.

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GitHub Archive Program

The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway.

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Hacking Neural Networks

An educational introduction to methods for exploiting neural networks.

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The New Features of GSAP 3

Learn about all the exciting new features of GSAP 3 in this easy-to-follow overview.

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Collective #566 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

November 14, 2019

Collective #565

Inspirational Website of the Week: Bruno Arizio

An outstanding design with some very engaging and elegant interactions. Our pick this week.

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The 2019 Web Almanac

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

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Next-generation web styling

Adam Argyle and Una Kravets cover 20 new and upcoming CSS features in this talk at the Chrome Dev Summit 2019. Check out the demos here.

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Let’s Get Graphic: A Few Ways To Draw On The Web

A great overview by Max Pekarsky on the pros and cons of different techniques to draw on the web.

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Bruno Simon — Portfolio (case study)

Bruno Simon explains how he built his innovative gameplay-based portfolio.

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Design Patterns in JavaScript

Ankita Masand’s excellent article on design patterns and their crucial role in building applications.

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The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 Results

View the results from the 2019 Front-End Tooling Survey where more than 3,000 developers answered 27 questions covering a wide range of front-end tools and methodologies.

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Gauges

Amelia Wattenberger coded up a gauge example from Fullstack D3’s Dashboard Design chapter as a React component.

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Announcing CodeSandbox CI and all-new Embeds

Learn about CodeSandbox CI, a free continuous integration service for open source library maintainers.

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The main thread is overworked & underpaid

Surma’s excellent presentation on off-main-thread architecture at this year’s Chrome Dev Summit.

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String.prototype.replaceAll

Learn about the String#replaceAll method that provides a straightforward mechanism to perform global substring replacements.

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Sketch 60 — your design system starts here

Sketch 60 introduces some important new features that not only make it easier to work together, but also speed up the process of creating, sharing, using and maintaining design systems.

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Pokéfolio

The wonderful portfolio of Ash, a Pokémon trainer.

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HTMHell – Markup from hell

A devilish collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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Free Font: Reborn

A beautiful decorative display font by Attractype free for a subscription.

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My Inner Wolf

An eclectic visual composition of our inner worlds: a project on absence epilepsy seizures by Moniker in collaboration with Maartje Nevejan.

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GSAP 3 Playground

A fantastic collection of GSAP 3 demos by Pete Barr.

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GPGPU cloth simulation

Guilherme Avila made his amazing Three.js GPGPU cloth simulation code public.

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web.dev Metrics

A place where you can find all the latest performance metrics and best practices from Google.

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UI Case study: state styles of card component with accessibility in mind

Nana Jeon’s case study on hover, focus and active states on the example of a card component.

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Race Car Island

Another beautiful example of GSAP 3 magic. By Steve Gardner.

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Video Game Console Logos

A wonderful collection of nostalgic video game console logos by Reagan Ray.

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High-speed Light Trails in Three.js

A creative coding exploration into how to recreate a high-speed lights effect in real-time using Three.js.

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Collective #565 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

November 11, 2019

Collective #564

GSAP 3 Is Available Now!

Read about all the exciting new features of GSAP 3 and give it a try.

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Scroll Snap in CSS Instead of JavaScript

Miriam Suzanne explains how we can manage scroll alignment directly in CSS with only a few lines of code.

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React Conf 2019

Great talks from React Conf 2019. Be sure to check out Anthony Morris’ article 19 Takeaways From React Conf 2019 for an overview.

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Motion Design in UI – Designing in the Browser

Una Kravets shows how to take a design, build it and then tweak it the web browser.

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Dynamic animations

Jhey Tompkins shows how to achieve dynamic animations using CSS variables.

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Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript

An article by Dan Shappir about using iterators, generators, and the upcoming pipeline operator to build a small and simple yet powerful collection manipulation library.

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:is() selector

Adam Argyle gets us excited about the magical :is() selector in this tweet and GIF.

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Day as a Dev

A new tech podcast that takes a practical look at life in the tech industry.

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Paged.js

A blog which advocates for innovative approaches to making books in browsers.

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Mobile Dark Patterns

An interesting article by Steven Hoober on some common dark patterns used in mobile apps.

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What Newspapers Can Teach Us About Web Design

In this article, Frederick O’Brian writes about how newspapers teach us much about the foundations of web design.

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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

Some fascinating insight into how building Discord with React Native made the app very performant. By Miguel Gaeta.

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CSS Grid: Restaurant Website

A really nice grid example by Olivia Ng.

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What I’ve learned about accessibility in SPAs

Nolan Lawson shares some insights on accessibility he gained while working on a Single Page App.

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The web is not dying

Chris Ferdinandi’s view on the current state of the web. Also, check out his related article with some interesting links.

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Inclusive Design And Accessibility: Live Stream With Heydon Pickering

Heydon Pickering talks about the relationship between accessibility and design systems, and introduces his brand new book “Inclusive Components”.

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#codevember AI snake

This AI snake game is a tough challenge!

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Rethinking the Front-end

Shane Yu provides perspectives around the problems and goals of front-end development and discusses how to think about Component Composition.

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Cropping Images to a specific Aspect Ratio with JavaScript

Rik Schennink’s tutorial on writing a tiny JavaScript function that can crop images to various aspect ratios.

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Collective #564 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

November 7, 2019

Collective #563

Inspirational Website of the Week: Born & Bred

Engaging motion makes browsing this website a delightful dynamic experience. Our pick this week.

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Things We Can’t (Yet) Do In CSS — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Rachel Andrew looks at some common layout patterns that we can’t yet do on the web and the CSS Specifications that might let us achieve them in the future.

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React Query

Hooks for fetching, caching and updating asynchronous data in React.

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OK

Super-cool CSS type animation by Adam Kuhn.

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Inspect This Snake

Play the snake game in the web inspector in this cool experiment by Matthew Rayfield.

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Game Off 2019

Game Off is an annual game jam, where participants spend the month of November creating games based on a specific theme.

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Pure CSS Lace

Diana Smith’s latest CSS art: a stunning pure CSS oil painting.

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Spleeter

Spleeter is the source separation library by Deezer. With pre-trained models written in Python and using Tensorflow it allows you to extract vocals, drums, bass and piano from a music track.

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Float Element in the Middle of a Paragraph

Chris Coyier shares a useful trick on how to float an element in the middle of a paragraph.

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The Svelte Handbook

In case you missed it: Flavio Copes wrote this free ebook for everyone who wants to learn Svelte.

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GraphQL Crash Course

A visual guide to GraphQL by Xiaoru Li.

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CSS variables in transforms

Lucas Hugdahl’s great tip on using CSS variables in transforms to avoid rewriting the whole rule for a transition.

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Getting your sites ready for the new Microsoft Edge

Read all about the new Microsoft Edge that is built on the Chromium engine.

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Visual Studio Online

The web-based version of the famous IDE is now in public beta.

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Sidebearings

A collection of typography and lettering resources designed to focus on beginners as well as advanced type designers, graphic designers and enthusiasts.

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CSS Variables With Inline Styles

Ahmad Shadeed explores some use cases of inline CSS custom properties.

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Recursive Sans & Mono

A highly-flexible variable font for design, code, and UI coming soon to Google Fonts.

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Upscale animation to 4k in real-time

Learn about a very cool algorithm called anime4k that can upscale animations to 4k in real-time without deep learning and see how it’s implemented in WebGL.

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Pure CSS Cauldron

Hover to remove the shading in this great demo by Jhey Tompkins.

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Free templates for freelancers

Browse through the largest collection of free templates for freelancers, carefully curated by the FYI team.

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Creative WebGL Image Transitions

A set of interesting looking image transitions including distortion and warp effects made with WebGL.

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Collective #563 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 31, 2019

Collective #562

Inspirational Website of the Week: Wecargo

A truly creative masterpiece with a fantastic scroll effect and lots of innovative interaction details.

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Dune Buggy AR

An open source dynamic AR experiment that can launch across all of the current AR platforms.

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Full Stack Authentication: Cookies and Local Storage

Tania Rascia gives an overview of the various types of vulnerabilities associated with persistent client-side storage (XSS and CSRF) and ways to mitigate potential attacks.

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A workshop on WebGL and GLSL

A repo that contains the source code for Matt DesLauriers’ “Frontend Masters Advanced Creative Coding: WebGL and Shaders workshop”.

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Behind the scenes of We Cargo

Some fantastic tech insights to the new wecargo.be website made by EPIC that we picked as the Website of the Week. An article by Luigi De Rosa.

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Auditing For Accessibility Problems With Firefox Developer Tools

Learn how to use the latest Accessibility Inspector in Firefox to identify and fix common mistakes and practices that reduce site accessibility.

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Generative Haunts

A demo by Adam Kuhn where you can generate wonderful haunted mansions.

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Are There Random Numbers in CSS?

Alvaro Montoro shows an interesting technique for simulating randomness in CSS.

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The Weird — Yet Practical — World of Paint Worklets

A very informative talk by Jeremy Wagner at CSSConf BP 2019.

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A Modern Front End Workflow Part 1: Building a Project Starter with NPM Scripts

Michelle Barker’s three part tutorial on how to build a simple project starter (or boilerplate).

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Fast and Slow: Vintage Projector Animation

A very nice projector animation demo by Kyle Wetton for the Fast and Slow Codepen challenge.

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Creating a rudimentary pool table game using React, Three JS and react-three-fiber

The first part of a tutorial by Manan Joshi on how to code a pool table game.

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Lesser Known Coding Fonts

An overview of some nice, lesser known coding fonts.

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Glaze

A curated royalty-free illustration library great for products, brands and presentations.

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Free for developers

A list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

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Location, Privilege and Performant Websites

Stephanie Stimac shares her insights into profiling the Puget Sound Energy Outage page.

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Serverless Can Help You To Focus

Simona Cotin explains how building serverless applications can help us achieve goals faster.

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5 interesting and not-necessarily-useful JavaScript tricks

A list of 5 interesting and useful JavaScript web development tricks, that aren’t necessarily useful. By Areknawo.

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Neural Synesthesia

An amazing project by Xander Steenbrugge that is an attempt to explore new approaches to audiovisual experience based on Artificial Intelligence.

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Real-time Multiside Refraction in Three Steps

In this tutorial you will learn how to make objects appear glass-like in three steps using Three.js.

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Collective #562 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 28, 2019

Collective #561

Interactive web animation with SVG

Cassie Evan’s inspiring talk on interactive web animations with SVG at CSSCAMP 2019.

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Writing Asynchronous Tasks In Modern JavaScript

In this article, Jeremias Menichelli explores the evolution of JavaScript around asynchronous execution in the past era and how it changed the way we write and read code.

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Mobile-first animation

A repo that contains the source code of the demos for Alex Holachek’s talk about mobile animation in React.

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Automatically lazy-loading offscreen images & iframes for Lite mode users

Read how the first automatic lazy-loading experiments for the Data Saver mode in Chrome went.

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An Illustrated Guide to Some Useful Command Line Tools

A short description and screenshot of some useful command line tools by Wesley Moore.

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Overview

A beautiful project: Overview uses satellite and aerial imagery to demonstrate how human activity and natural forces shape our Earth.

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History of grids: from the printing press to modern web design

Discover the history of grids — from ancient Egypt to modern web design — in this article by Jeff Cardello.

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Variable Color Fonts, how do they work?

Learn what you can do with Variable Color Fonts in this visual guide by Typearture.

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Visual Dividers in User Interfaces: Types and Design Tips

An interesting article on visual dividers that help with the organization of content.

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Spectrum

Adobe’s essential design system, Spectrum, is now public.

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The problems of shared mutable state and how to avoid them

Axel Rauschmayer answers some interesting questions around the problems of shared mutable state.

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pack-spheres

Brute force circle/sphere packing in 2D or 3D by Matt DesLauriers.

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The Most Frequent Emoji

Find out the ranking of the most used emojis based on the median frequency of use of each emoji across multiple sources.

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Understanding searches better than ever before

Read how new advances in the science of language understanding will help you find more useful information in Google Search.

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Better Markdown in Visual Studio Code

Sam Solomon shows how to turn VS Code into an excellent tool for writing Markdown.

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Monster Mashup

A playful monster demo made by Adam Kuhn.

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Pure CSS Range Rover Truck

An awesome monster truck demo by Jhey Tompkins.

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Responsive Pagoda

Watch the pagoda gain or lose layers as you vertically resize your window in this cool demo by Jon Kantner.

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ESNext: Proposals to look forward to

Bram Van Damme’s slides from his talk at Full Stack Europe.

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CLARO

A minimal to-do app without distractions, just your workweek with things to do at a glance. Free for one year if you invite friends.

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Tartanify

A ready-to use collection of seamless tartan patterns in SVG and PNG format.

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Collective #561 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 24, 2019

Collective #560

Inspirational Website of the Week: Spatzek Studio

With an explosive blend of bold typography and slick effects the website of Spatzek Studio gets its message across.

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The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web

A look at what the IndieWeb is, why you should care, and how to get started with it.

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Awesome Design Plugins

A collection of all the best design plugins for Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma, gathered in one place.

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Playing Beat Saber in the browser with body movements using PoseNet & Tensorflow.js

A great tutorial on how to use Tensorflow.js and PoseNet to interact with a 3D game using hand motion in the browser. By Charlie Gerard.

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Plexis.js

A production-ready string manipulation library that’s community driven. Read more about it in this article.

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Credit Card Form – VueJs

A really nice Vue.js credit card form that comes with number formatting, validation and automatic card type detection. Made by Muhammed Erdem. Make sure to check out the GitHub repo.

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Firefox 70 — a bountiful release for all

Read about all the juicy new things that come with Firefox 70.

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It’s the end of web dev as we know it

Gregory Koberger wrote an awesome song about the history of web dev, as he remembers it.

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Bruno Simon

A wonderful portfolio site of creative developer Bruno Simon built with Three.js and Cannon.js.

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RegexGuide

The RegexGuide is a playground helping developers to start writing regular expressions.

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Jsfuzz

Jsfuzz is coverage-guided fuzzer for testing JavaScript/Node.js packages.

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Accessible Drop Caps

Adrian Roselli’s advice on which pattern to use for accessible drop caps.

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Breaking barriers with your CMS

The written version of Hidde de Vries’ talk on how CMSes can bring accessibility benefits.

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Using the Platform

Tim Kadlec on the incredible amount of thought and care that go into deciding the future of the web platform.

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Fata Morganas in Accessibility

Marcus Herrmann on how some new accessibility techniques turn out to be solutions that are not yet ready for prime-time.

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The two-value syntax of the CSS Display property

Rachel Andrew explains what the two-value syntax of the display CSS property is all about.

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Saturn

A beautiful demo of the Spacekit.js library.

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Spooky

A great flowy typography demo made by halvves.

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Making Gooey Image Hover Effects with Three.js

Learn how to create gooey reveal hover effects on images with Three.js using noise within a shader.

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Collective #560 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 21, 2019

Collective #559

Gridsome

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25 Days of CSS Animations: Teaching Myself CSS through Motion Design

Béthy Diakabana shares her fantastic journey of 25 Days of CSS coding.

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Webwide

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Stop Giving Control Hints to Screen Readers

Adrian Roselli explains why you do not need to add instructions for screen readers on how to use standard HTML controls and standard ARIA patterns (widgets).

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TinaCMS

In case you didn’t stumble upon it yet: Tina is an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based frameworks – Gatsby and Next.js

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Build Command-Line Spinners in Node.js

Chidume Nnamdi shows how you can practice your Node.js-terminal skills by building your own CLI spinners.

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Box alignment and overflow

Chen Hui Jing shares a fix for an alignment bug she encountered in one of her recent projects.

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Accessible icon buttons with masks and SVG

Mattia Astorino shows a techique for making accessible icon buttons with SVGs and CSS masks.

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Introduction to NuxtJS

Jeffrey Biless’ tutorial on NuxtJS that covers most of the major features.

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The problem with dropdown fields (and what you should use instead)

The dropdown is often used in a way that makes user input more difficult. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using them.

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Svelte Crash Course

A visual introduction to Svelte by Xiaoru Li.

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Image orientation on the web

In this article you will learn about the current status of image orientation on the web, how to correct orientation of images using Node.js, and how browsers will handle this in the future.

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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid (and Subgrid!)

Miriam Suzanne’s excellent video tutorials on CSS Grid and Subgrid.

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Zero

Zero is a small graphics app that uses JavaScript to replicate the functionality of a GPU and uses the terminal to display its rendered output via nodejs’ stdout.

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CoBeats

CoBeats helps you keep and organize all web things like bookmarks, screenshots, videos, files, images and more.

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Jeroen van Eerden’s formula for designing perfectly balanced logos

In this interview Jeroen van Eerden shares very valuable insight into his logo design process.

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Bringing text to life v4

An amazing demo by Kyle Shook.

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typical

Animated typing in ~400 bytes of JavaScript and zero dependencies.

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Introducing ECSY: an Entity Component System framework for the Web

Learn all about the new and highly experimental Entity Component System framework for Javascript.

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TIL – The power of JSON.stringify replacer parameter

Pawel Grzybek shares how he encountered a challenging problem with JSON stringify and how he solved it.

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Improving form controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium

Greg Whitworth gives a sneak peak into the refreshed controls that the Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome team worked together on.

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From Our Blog

Awesome Demos Roundup #9

A collection of creative coding experiments and innovative demos for your inspiration.

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From Our Blog

How to Create Motion Hover Effects with Image Distortions using Three.js

In this tutorial you will learn how to achieve interesting looking hover effects with image distortions using Three.js.

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Collective #559 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 17, 2019

Collective #558

Inspirational Website of the Week: Princeton University Press

A truly classy website design that is a pleasure to browse. Our pick this week.

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The Freelance Life

A wonderful guide by Sidesupply on starting, surviving, and growing your freelance business.

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The World-Wide Work

Ethan Marcotte’s talk on automation, power, justice, and labor in the tech industry.

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Open Doodles

Fantastic free sketchy illustrations by Pablo Stanley.

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Can we please style the <select> control?!

Some interesting survey results that reveal the frustrations among front end devs with the limited styling possibilities of the select element.

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Laying out Forms using Subgrid

Miriam Suzanne shows how to align form elements inside labels using CSS Subgrid.

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Beyond automatic accessibility testing: 6 things I check on every website I build

Manuel Matuzović shares a small collection of accessibility checks that he performs on every site he audits and builds.

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React-three-fiber game

A game written in React and Three.js using react-three-fiber by Paul Henschel.

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Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?

A beautifully simple game you’ll become obsessed with. The aim is to draw a perfect circle..

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Designing accessible color systems

Learn how the stripe team designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.

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CSS Whack-a-Mole

The fun classic made just with CSS. By Alvaro Montoro.

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GIPHY Arcade

Play and create your own games with GIFs from GIPHY.

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Spars

A general toolkit for creating interactive web experiences containing everything from an asset loader to a frame scheduler, persistent caching and thread pooling. By Tim van Scherpenzeel.

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Web Components Have Already Won Whether You Like It Or Not

Justin Ribeiro explains that Web components already “won”.

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Running Lighthouse on Authenticated Pages

A short guide with demo on how to audit authenticated pages with Lighthouse and Puppeteer.

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CSS Circles

Tyler Sticka explores all things circle in this article.

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Memories of web development past

A wonderful blast from the past by Christian Heilmann.

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How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

A great talk about recreating the first ever web browser.

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Making Tables Responsive With Minimal CSS

Learn how to easily implement responsive table layouts with only CSS in this article by Bradley Taunt.

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Picture player

A cool experiment by Nick Watton where you can “listen” to a pixel row of an image.

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Skybox

A very creative Three.js experiment by masuwa.

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Korean Poster Recreation

Kristopher Van Sant made this impressive recreation of a Korean poster.

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From Our Blog

How to Create an Interactive 3D Character with Three.js

In this in-depth tutorial you will learn how to create an interactive 3D character that follows the mouse and performs random animations on click.

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From Our Blog

Case Study: Chang Liu Portfolio V4

Get insight on how to add 3D to a website using Three.js and make a wavy distortion effect in this case study of Chang Liu’s new portfolio.

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Collective #558 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 14, 2019

Collective #557

How to design delightful dark themes

In this article Teresa Man shares how to design dark themes that are readable, balanced, and delightful.

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roughViz

A reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser.

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Spotify TUI

A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust. By Alexander Keliris.

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Design System Playground

Play with typography, colors and themeable components in your design system. By John Polacek.

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Mini Tokyo 3D

A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo’s public transport system. By Akihiko Kusanagi.

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The wondrous world of CSS counters

An in-depth look at CSS counters, how they’ve expanded with better support for internationalization and how it’s possible to implement a pure CSS Fizzbuzz solution with them.

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GitSheet

GitSheet is a simple git cheat sheet reference for common git commands.

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100% CSS Mario Kart

Stephen Cook creates an interactive version of Mario Kart using only CSS.

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Dynamic CSS Components Without JavaScript

Learn how pure CSS components are achievable with custom properties.

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Clip-path converter

A very useful tool if you want to prepare SVG paths to be used with CSS clip-path. By Yoksel.

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CSS is Awesome – Variable fonts Edition

A fun demo by Mandy Michael that shows how variable fonts can fix CSS 😜

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The “P” in Progressive Enhancement stands for “Pragmatism”

Andy Bell explains progressive enhancement in a more practical way.

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Advanced JavaScript Node.js Promises chaining collections

Learn how to use advanced features of JavaScript Promises using Node.js with this programming tutorial.

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Intro to SVG for React Developers

A tutorial by Daniel Matarazzo where you’ll build a colorful spinning loading indicator as a React component, using some very simple SVG markup.

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The W3C At Twenty-Five

In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how the W3C works and shares her “Web Story” to explain why the Web Standards process is so vitally important for everyone to have an open web platform where they can share their stories and build awesome things for the web together.

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The Open Book Project

Joey Castillo is on a mission to create a simple book reading device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves.

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Able

Able is a bootstrapped community for people to read and write about software.

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Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use

Tyler Childs shows some examples of patterns for Custom Properties from his Cutestrap framework.

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1 element card background patterns (see description)

A pure CSS technique for creating patterns that doesn’t use SVGs or images other than CSS gradients. By Ana Tudor.

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The SQL Murder Mystery

Use SQL queries to solve the murder mystery. Suitable for beginners or experienced SQL sleuths.

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js13kGames Winners

Check out the winners of this year’s Js13kGames competition.

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Blocke: Social web UI kit

A free social UI kit from Blocke that includes 3 ready-made screens with 30+ components that might come in handy for building a social feed.

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From Our Blog

Create Text in Three.js with Three-bmfont-text

A short tutorial on how to create animated text in Three.js with three-bmfont-text and give it a nice look using shaders.

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Collective #557 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 10, 2019

Collective #556

Inspirational Website of the Week: Lafaurie Paris

A super-slick and smooth scroll experience with sharp typography and excellent color choices. Our pick this week.

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Cascading Cache Invalidation

Philip Walton discusses how some caching best practices can actually backfire, and presents some techniques for solving the problem.

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A Guide To New And Experimental CSS DevTools In Firefox

In this article by Victoria Wang you’ll learn about all the CSS DevTools in Firefox.

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Clipping, Clipping, and More Clipping!

Some great new techniques for using CSS clip-path to create interesting effects. By Mikael Ainalem.

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Top-level await

Read about top-level await that makes it possible to use the await keyword outside of async functions in JavaScript modules.

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The Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report Case Study

Sara Soueidan’s case study on a recent micro-site project for Khan Academy.

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Introducing Sass Modules

Read all about the new module system feature of Sass in this article by Miriam Suzanne.

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The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI

Some useful insights on which mobile navigation pattern works best.

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Dark mode

Jeremy Keith shares how he implemented a dark mode for his website.

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Designing a focus style

Zell Liew shares his thoughts on default focus styles and collects some focus styling ideas from around the web.

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Why the Box Model is Integral to Web Design

In this article David Leger explains how the box model works.

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dashdash

Dashdash is a new spreadsheet tool with access to business data and APIs through integrations with Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Mailchimp, Google Maps data, easily usable with the fresh templates feature.

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Image to Orange and Blue Stencil

With this little tool by Jon Kantner you can turn images into stencil art of orange and blue.

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Moveable

In case you didn’t know about it: Moveable is draggable, resizable, scalable, rotatable, warpable, pinchable, groupable and snappable. A super useful script.

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JavaScript Broughlike Tutorial

A tutorial about writing a broughlike (a small roguelike game similar to 868-HACK or Cinco Paus) from scratch in JavaScript.

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TakeNote

Tania Rascia’s plain text notes app in progress. Built with React, Redux and TypeScript.

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Announcing WebAssembly.sh

After the release of Wasmer-JS, Aaron Turner now introduces WebAssembly.sh, an online WebAssembly Terminal to run WASI modules directly in your browser.

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Layout-Fun with CSS Grid

Some fun demos made with CSS Grid by Tobi Reif.

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Images done right: Web graphics, good to the last byte

Learn the essentials of image formats in this article by the folks of Evil Martians.

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The box model is not layout

Kilian Valkhof argues that if we keep referring to our imaginary perfect layout system in design tools as “box model”, we risk getting the wrong thing.

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cursorOS

A Figma-ready collection of original macOS cursors to be used in design projects.

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From Our Blog

Creating a Water-like Distortion Effect with Three.js

Learn how to achieve a water-like ripple distortion effect with Three.js and postprocessing.

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From Our Blog

Inspirational Websites Roundup #9

A hand-picked selection of outstanding website designs from September 2019 for your inspiration.

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Collective #556 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 7, 2019

Collective #555

Understanding This, Bind, Call, and Apply in JavaScript

In this article by Tania Rascia, you’ll learn what this refers to implicitly based on context, and you’ll learn how to use the bind, call, and apply methods to explicitly determine the value of this.

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Editorial Design Patterns With CSS Grid And Named Columns

Rachel Andrew writes how by naming lines when setting up CSS Grid layouts, we can tap into some interesting and useful features of Grid — features that become even more powerful when subgrids are introduced.

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Adaptive Photo Layout with Flexbox

Tim Van Damme shows a lightweight technique for creating a horizontal masonry grid containing arbitrarily sized pictures.

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Spacing, Grids and Layouts

Learn how to define baseline grids, column grids, spacing and layouts in this article by Elliot Dahl.

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Screen Size Map

An interactive map of popular screen sizes illustrating the responsive and adaptive device landscape.

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Imagededup

Imagededup is a python package that simplifies the task of finding exact and near duplicates in an image collection.

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Guided by style

An article on how the Dropbox design team keeps their content style guide current and use-worthy.

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Creating custom JavaScript syntax with Babel

Tan Li Hau shows how forking babel parser and creating your custom JavaScript syntax isn’t as hard as you think.

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Legendary cursor

Inspired by Nathan Gordon’s tutorial, Domenico Bruzzese created this legendary cursor effect.

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Powerful New CSS for Styling Bullets, Numbers, and List Markers

Learn how to style list markers in this video by Miriam Suzanne.

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Raw WebAssembly Demos

Hand-written raw WebAssembly demos by Ben Smith.

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How to Make 3D Charts for the Web Using D3 and X3DOM

A tutorial by Adrian Sureshkumar where he shows a practical example of how the D3 and X3DOM libraries can be used together to build dynamic 3D charts for the web.

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Free Font: Grifter Bold

A strong, versatile font made by Hanson Method.

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Improving V8 regular expressions

The V8 team describes how they take advantage of the upsides of interpreting regular expressions while mitigating the downsides.

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A long way

A fantastic neon demo by Al Ro. Also, check out his other interesting experiment.

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CSS Rock-Paper-Scissors

The classic game made with CSS only by Alvaro Montoro.

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I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. [2019 Edition]

A very interesting and practical comparison between Ract and Vue. By Sunil Sandhu.

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Possibly the Most Useful CSS Trick

An interesting CSS trick using the :not() and :placeholder-shown pseudo classes. By Fred Adams.

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Voronoi Slices

Marco Fugaro created this animated Voronoi cells demo.

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Free Font: Architectural

A font made by Igor Stepanchenko suitable for headings and small passages of text.

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Collective #555 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

October 3, 2019

Collective #554

Inspirational Website of the Week: Rand

A beautifully fluid web experience with a unique design. Our pick this week.

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Framer Guide to React

An e-book for learning React and ES6 by Koen Bok.

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Sara Soueidan on Applied Accessibility

In this SmashingConf session — a series of macro case studies from real client projects — Sara shares some frustrations, many lessons learned, and a lot of practical tips and tricks for building accessible front-end foundations that you can take and apply in your own projects right away.

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Preact X – Virtuous DOM and the Fragments of Suspense

Read about the release of this fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API, components and Virtual DOM.

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react-three-fiber

Version 3 of the React renderer for Three.js is out.

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CTRL-Z Flyer

An amazing interactive party flyer for CTRL-Z made with Three.js. Click and drag to glitch.

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Building a Scrapbook Layout with CSS Grid

A tutorial by Michelle Barker on how to create a scrapbook layout using CSS Grid.

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Inertia.js

Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

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Video Shorts from Mozilla Developer

Read about the new resource from Mozilla Developer for people who build the web.

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Same-Site Cookies By Default

Read about Chrome’s team clever and bold plan to change the recipe for cookies. By Eric Lawrence.

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Terseness tension

Read why Christian Heilmann started not believing in short code as a goal any longer.

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Reverse Knockout Text Mask Effect with SVG

A simple approach for knocking-out portions of an image with text.

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A Modern CSS Reset

Andy Bell shares a minimal CSS reset of sensible defaults.

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The league of evil designers

Linnéa Strid tells the uncomfortable truth about “evil” designers.

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Download Button Animation

Some amazing animations for download buttons made by Aaron Iker.

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react-genie

A set of React components for animating elements as they scroll into the viewport.

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JAMstack Themes

A growing list of themes and starters for JAMstack sites.

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Interior Visualization

Showcase of illumination possibilities using WebGL and made with PlayCanvas.

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fBM

Inigo Quilez tackles a very complex, beautiful topic: Fractional Brownian Motion. It’s one of the most popular constructs for procedural modeling of nature.

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Animated Icons

Add user delight to your site with this free pack of 166 animated icons in JSON (Lottie), GIF, and After Effects formats.

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Jake Quits

Jake Albaugh made this site to keep track of how long he has been free of nicotine.

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From Our Blog

Simulating Depth of Field with Particles using the Blurry Library

Learn how to create a geometrical scene with a depth effect using the Blurry library.

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Collective #554 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

September 30, 2019

Collective #553

Voidcall – Making of

Dominic Szablewski shares the making of Voidcall, a WebGL real-time strategy game in just 13kb of JavaScript.

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Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach

Denys Mishunov explains the “Frankenstein Migration” technique which is a new, framework-agnostic approach to the process of migration. Make sure to read the first part, too.

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Text Rendering Hates You

Alexis Beingessner on the challenges of rendering text.

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Design Tips

A collection of great design tips by Steve Schoger and Adam Wathan.

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Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web

Read why Progressive Web Apps work much better than your typical mobile website in this white paper by Jason Rzutkiewicz and Jeremy Lockhorn.

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Create a semantic “breakout” button to make an entire element clickable

Andy Bell explains how to make an element fully clickable, while also using proper semantic elements and JavaScript and as an enhancement.

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Working with GitHub Actions

Jeff Rafter explores some fun ways to use GitHub Actions in Typescript covering building, testing, lint configuration and more.

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How to exit vim

Some dead simple methods for exiting vim.

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Directionally blooming words

Some great direction-aware fill animations by Jhey.

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Work Responsibly

In case you missed it: a collection of resources for a healthy and balanced approach to work.

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Uiprint

Collection of printable wireframe, mockup and dot grid sketchpad templates.

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sdnotes.com

Probably the world’s easiest website maker. Yet another great project by Unfounded Labs.

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Build a PWA Using Only Vanilla JavaScript

A tutorial by Sayan Mondal where you’ll learn how to build a Progressive Web App (PWA) from scratch.

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Devices

Updated images and Sketch files of popular devices from Facebook Design.

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Revelation

A beautiful liquid reveal effect made by Damien Montastier.

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3D Boxes Loader CSS only

A really nice box loader made by Aaron Iker.

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HTTP Toolkit

Intercept, debug and build with HTTP using this cross-platform HTTP(S) proxy, analyzer and client. Free for hobbyist.

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10x Faster Nuxt builds on Netlify

Learn how to create faster Nuxt builds on Netlify without affecting UX or site performance.

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Winning Vector Icons

A set of free vector icons in three different styles.

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Dots

An amazing particles experiment by Yi-Wen Lin. Best viewed with a powerful CPU. You can find the code here.

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Collective #553 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

September 26, 2019

Collective #552

Inspirational Website of the Week: Zhenya Rynzhuk

First-class design meets creativity excellence in this portfolio of Zhenya Rynzhuk. Our pick this week.

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Into the web multiverse

Christian Heilmann’s article version of a talk he gave at Web Unleashed and Halfstack.

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Generative art, creative code, and the world around us!

A generative art/creative code podcast with a great tool for more detailed transcriptions and annotations. By Tim Holman and Ruth John.

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The Weird World of Infinity in JavaScript

Some examples and demos explaining the quirks and facts surrounding the numeric value Infinity in JavaScript. By Louis Lazaris.

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3D planets with Three.js

A minimal Three.js example of a textured sphere with controls. By Vladimir Agafonkin.

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An Explanation of How the Intersection Observer Watches

Travis Almand shares his study of how the Intersection Observer works under the hood.

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Performance metrics for blazingly fast web apps

Learn how to build performance metrics and how to use them for making fast web apps.

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More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search

Learn how you can let Google know about your snippet and content preview preferences.

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Amazon’s Beautifully Designed And Failed Three vs. Two Column Layout Experiment

Read about the two column UI design experiment by Amazon that was rejected.

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Pure CSS Book Loader

A wonderful book loader animation created by Aaron Iker.

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Productdesign.tips

A curated collection of product design articles, lessons, tools, videos, podcasts, courses and more.

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Paper Quilling Art Generator

An amazing paper quilling art generator made by Yi Shen.

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Animated Verbs III

Ryan Mulligan’s third edition of super smart verb animations.

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Investigate animation performance with DevTools

In this article you’ll learn how browser rendering works and how to navigate DevTools to diagnose animation performance issues.

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WebGL Wavy Image Hover Reveal (TWGL)

A beautiful demo by Ash Thornton.

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Zero Divs! Pure CSS pixel art animation!

Pure CSS black magic by Ben Evans.

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Variable font resize on device orientation

A demo that increases the font weight depending on the gamma orientation of the device. Load in debug mode to see it in action. By Mandy Michael.

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Spinning Arrows Illusion

A fantastic canvas animation made by Jon Kantner.

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unity-webgl-responsive

Responsive layout template for Unity WebGL applications, intended for websites that have more going on than the application itself.

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Arrows Defense Game (Challenge)

A great arrow shooting game made by Faisal Jawed.

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Crafting Stylised Mouse Trails with OGL

A tutorial on how to create a mouse trail effect using the OGL library, a minimal and effective WebGL framework.

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Mouse Flowmap Deformation with OGL

A set of WebGL demos using OGL that show an interactive fluid distortion hover effect.

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Collective #552 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

September 23, 2019

Collective #551

The perfect responsive menu

A great responsive menu solution that is accessible and keeps your HTML simple, without duplicating markup.

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Collective #551 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.