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May 9, 2019

Inspirational Website of the Week: Lusion

A futuristic website design that plays with amazing illumination effects. Our pick this week.

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Hybrid Lazy Loading: A Progressive Migration To Native Lazy Loading

Learn how you can progressively replace your JavaScript-driven lazy loading with its native alternative, thanks to hybrid lazy loading.

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SVG Will Save Us

Sarah Drasner shows some great things we can do with SVGs in this PerfMatters Conference 2019 talk.

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Building a JavaScript guitar pedalboard

Trys Mudford shares how he created a guitar pedalboard in JavaScript.

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Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS

Rachel Andrew’s presentation at An Event Apart Boston in May 2019.

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Hands-on with Portals: seamless navigations on the Web

Learn how to build good navigation UX with the Portals API in this article by Yusuke Utsunomiya.

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CSS-Only Chat

An insane project that shows how it’s possible to achieve an asynchronous chat that sends and receives messages in the browser with no reloads and no JavaScript.

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Why, How, and When to Use Semantic HTML and ARIA

Adam Silver looks over the benefits of using HTML and ARIA, why starting with semantic HTML is the way to go, and why ARIA ought to come in as a last resort.

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Windows Terminal

The repo for the new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host.

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‘font-display’ for Google Fonts

Addy Osmani announces that Google Fonts will soon support setting ‘font-display’ via a new query parameter.

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Formation

Formation is a shell script to set up a macOS laptop for design and development.

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cssfx

A collection of click-to-copy CSS effects.

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enFont Terrible

A fun project by Javier Arce that lets you generate weird looking, “nervous” OpenType fonts.

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Building a D3.js Calendar Heatmap

A tutorial where you’ll learn how to create an interactive calendar heatmap using D3.js for visualizing StackOverflow’s usage statistics.

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Prototyping with Web Components: Build an RSS Reader

Learn how to prototype an application using web components, ES6 modules and more in this tutorial by Doron Tsur.

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Motion detection with camera feed

A Three.js motion detection experiment by Machado Jordan.

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Skeleton Screens Concept

A page placeholder implementation for SPAs.

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Story of one animation: WebGL and not WebGL

Yuri Artiukh shares his journey of picking a method for showing a complex animation.

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Sun & Earth

A very nice planetary demo by Jesper Lauridsen.

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Brand cut zoom

A nice demo by Mikael Ainalem where a logo is zoomed to reveal an image.

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Inspirational Websites Roundup #4

Another collection of original and inspiring website designs to ignite your creativity and give you an overview of current trends.

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Collective #514 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

May 6, 2019

Making Future Interfaces: ES Modules

Learn all about native ES modules, and whether it’s safe to use them today in this brilliant video by Heydon Pickering.

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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

Chris Zacharias tells the fascinating story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.

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The SOUL programming language and API

SOUL (SOUnd Language) is an attempt to modernize and optimize the way high-performance, low-latency audio code is written and executed.

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Digging Into The Display Property: Box Generation

Continuing a series on the display property in CSS, this time Rachel Andrew takes a look at the values which control box generation, for those times when you don’t want to generate a box at all.

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Night Mode with Mix Blend Mode: Difference

A clever use of mix-blend-mode: difference for switching to night mode. By Wei Gao.

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Debugging CSS Grid: Understanding implicit tracks

The first part of a series on debugging CSS Grid, beginning with Understanding Implicit Tracks. By Michelle Barker.

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Gameboy.Live

A basic gameboy emulator with terminal “Cloud Gaming” support.

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PixiJS v5 lands

Read all about the major v5 release of the 2D WebGL renderer, PixiJS.

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Implementing a Mockup: CSS Layout Step by Step

Dave Ceddia shows you a way to approach layouts wholistically, as a cohesive problem to be solved.

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Pts 0.8 Sound

Pts 0.8 simplifies a subset of Web Audio API to help you visualize sounds.

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Improving third-party web performance at The Telegraph

Gareth Clubb explains how The Telegraph is improving their site’s performance impact of third-party scripts.

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Brevis

A CSS toolkit engineered for high performance and scalable web applications.

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Utility: Convert SVG path to all-relative or all-absolute commands

Lea Verou shares a little tool that convert an SVG path to all-relative or all-absolute.

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SynthWave ’84 – VS Code theme

An experimental theme with neon colors from the 80ies made by Robb Owen.

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Reintroducing React: every React update since v16 demystified

From lifecycle methods to advanced React patterns with Hooks, this article (and accompanying book) demystifies every React update since v16. By Ohans Emmanuel.

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Create a responsive grid layout with no media queries, using CSS Grid

Andy Bell shows how to create a fully responsive grid that uses no media queries to work across all viewports.

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Found color

Found color is regularly updated resource of unique color schemes, sourced from minimal photography of everyday objects and encounters.

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Animating Links

A tutorial where you’ll learn how to style and animate the underlines on links in detail.

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CSS Transform Playground

A CSS transform functions playground created by Jorge Moreno.

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Tips to use VSCode more efficiently

Sebastian Andil shares a collection of VSCode settings, extensions and shortcuts that are particularly useful for web developers.

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IsometricSass

Morgan Caron created this interesting Sass library for isometric visuals.

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Free Font: Loki

A handwritten brush script font made by Ieva Mezule.

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Collective #513 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 29, 2019

Let’s Make A Design System! Live Coding at Smashing Conf

Watch Brad Frost live-code a design system on stage at Smashing Conf San Francisco.

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Moving from Gulp to Parcel

Ben Frain explains how to use Parcel instead of Gulp for application bundling.

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Getting To Know The MutationObserver API

Louis Lazaris shows how to use the MutationObserver API to make observing for DOM changes relatively easy.

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CSS Spatial Navigation Level 1

The first public working draft of the specification that defines a general model for navigating the focus using the arrow keys, as well as related CSS, JavaScript features and Events.

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3D Projection

Jordan Santell writes about the fundamentals of 3D projection and frustums with lots of visuals and math cheats.

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Using React Router for a Single Page Application

A tutorial by Tania Rascia on how to use the react-router-dom library.

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Musical Bubble Sort (CPC Bubble Sort)

In this great demo by Stephen Sparling you can actually listen to Bubble sort!

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Line Drawing

A hypnotizing pattern demo that changes according to the mouse position. By Liam Egan.

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DRAG AND JUUUMP!! AND DROP

Have some fun with a click and drag interaction.

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Create an animated scroll cue

Learn how to add a subtle cue to the bottom of the page that lets people know that they can scroll to see more content.

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The Billion Ways to Display an SVG

An exploration of the various ways there are across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for getting a SVG to display in the browsers.

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Angled Background CSS-only “Mixin”

A demo by Miriam Suzanne that shows how to create Sass-like “functions” and “mixins” in plain CSS.

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Base Web React Components

Base Web is the React implementation of Base, Uber’s design system comprised of modern, responsive, living components.

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Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data

Learn about the importance of structured data in this article by Daniel Waisberg on the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

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Building a pure CSS animated SVG spinner

Glenn McComb’s tutorial on to create a SVG spinner powered by CSS animations.

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Lorem Picsum

Easy to use, stylish placeholders where you just need to add your desired image size after the URL, and you get a random image.

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Free Font: Pippa Handwriting

A playful handwriting font made by Queenie Appleyard.

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Rushing rapid in a forest by Three.js

A beautiful Three.js demo by Yiting Liu.

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Mirrorball

A very creative way of showcasing projects.

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A Designer’s Guide to Animating Icons with CSS

Shannon Thomann shows how to approach CSS animations for animating SVG icons.

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City Life Icons Collection

50 SVG and PNG icons with a city theme by Freepik. Free for a subscription.

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Collective #512 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 25, 2019

Collective #511

Inspirational Website of the Week: Burnish Creative

A very modern design with great scroll effects and great typography.

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Privacy UX: Privacy-Aware Design Framework

A series of articles about privacy-related design patterns by Vitaly Friedman.

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HTTP headers for the responsible developer

Stefan Judis explains HTTP headers in detail.

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The CSS Handbook: a handy guide to CSS for developers

Flavio Copes explains the fundamental concepts of CSS in this extensive guide.

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Random Forests for Complete Beginners

Learn what Random Forests are and how they work from the ground up in this easy to follow tutorial by Victor Zhou.

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Faster input events with Facebook’s first browser API contribution

Read about the new isInputPending API by Facebook that will be included in Chrome 74 as origin trial.

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Widget of the Week

Eder Díaz takes a GIF or video of an awesome UI/UX component and brings them to life with code.

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A linguistic introduction to d3.js

In this article Matt Oxley describes the top-level concepts of d3.

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New Life: A Week Long Creative Experiment in Storytelling

Read about how the folks at Fiasco Design created something beautiful on a mini creative sabbatical.

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mailtolink.me

A quick and easy way to generate markup for mailto links without having to worry about the annoying formatting.

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Our grid pro quo: Everything you need to know about layout grids in Figma

An in-depth guide to layout grids in Figma by Thomas Lowry.

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Win95 Media Player

Ben Wiley created this React clone of the ancient Windows Media Player app.

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After three years of silence, a new jQuery prototype pollution vulnerability emerges once again

Read all about the jQuery security vulnerability referred to as prototype pollution in this article by Liran Tal.

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Sortraits

A wonderful project that showcases portraits of a variety of sorting algorithms.

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The Case for WordPress Governance

Morten Rand-Hendriksen writes about the WordPress Governance Project and explains why it’s so important.

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How to Build an Underwater-Style Navigation Using PixiJS

A tutorial on how to create a visually distinct and accessible WebGL menu that builds from any given HTML navigation.

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Collective #511 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 22, 2019

Collective #510

What is a Design System?

Varun Vachhar and Catherine Maritan take the conversation of Design Systems past style guides and component libraries and get into breaking down silos between development and design.

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Svelte 3: Rethinking reactivity

Read all about the new Svelte 3, the component framework that runs at build time.

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Commit messages guide

A guide to understanding the importance of commit messages and how to write them well.

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Only CSS: 3D Scan

A stunning demo of a 3D scan animation made only with CSS. By Yusuke Nakaya.

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Inclusively Hidden

Scott O’Hara highlights the methods of hiding content that are most appropriate for modern web development, and notes the accessibility impacts of each.

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Sketch vs Figma, Adobe XD, And Other UI Design Applications

Ashish Bogawat summarizes the unique features of the new Sketch alternatives.

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MockIt

MockIt gives you an interface to configure and create mock APIs for your applications.

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CORS Tutorial: A Guide to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Learn all about Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, how it protects you, and how to enable CORS in your applications. By Steve Hobbs.

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Tiny Mirror

Davy Wybiral made an insane little webcam, right inside of a favicon! Check out the demo.

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Introducing Mozilla WebThings

Ben Francis introduces Mozilla WebThings, an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web.

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Fading out siblings on hover in CSS

Trys Mudford shows how to make a special hover effect with a neat trick.

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Getting started with Javascript – The right tools and resources

Chris Heilmann talks about how to get started with Javascript, and where to find the right resources. You can read the transcript here.

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Mouse Trail

Noah Yamamoto explains how to create an artsy mouse trail animation.

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GB Studio

A free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.

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Giving Generative Art Its Due

Jason Bailey writes about Automat und Mensch, a show on the history of generative art.

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Naming things to improve accessibility

Hidde de Vries explains how browsers decide on the names for links, form fields, tables and form groups.

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AI4Animation – for JavaScript & Three.js

A port of the AI4Animation project, for use with Three.js on the web. It explores the possibilities of using artificial intelligence to generate realtime character animations.

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Direction aware hover effect

Tobias Reich made this great hover effect that starts from where you hover with the mouse.

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How to Create and Animate Rotated Overlays

A tutorial on how to create and animate rotated overlays, or “reveal” elements, for interesting page transition effects.

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Collective #510 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 18, 2019

Collective #509

Inspirational Website of the Week: Greater Than Avatars

A stunning design with great balance and details. Our pick this week.

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Web Design Trends 2019

A very inspirational list of fundamental web design trends for 2019.

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Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints

Learn how you can use Resource Hints to help the browser stay one step ahead of the user in this article by Drew McLellan.

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Solar CSSystem

All the solar system’s planets made with CSS by Rob DiMarzo.

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Diagonal Containers in CSS

A tutorial by Sebastiano Guerriero, where he shows how to create full-width, diagonal sections in CSS using the clip-path property.

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Limitation Breeds Creativity

Cassie Evans’ great talk at Bytes Conf 2019.

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js-cloudimage-360-view

A simple, interactive resource that can be used to provide a virtual tour of your product.

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Simulating Mouse Movement

Louis Hoebregts shows how to simulate a moving mouse using the Simplex noise algorithm.

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Why Notre-Dame Was a Tinderbox

An scrollable WebGL presentation that visualizes why Notre-Dame was all but assured to go up in flames.

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cube.js

In case you didn’t know about it: Cube.js is an open source modular framework to build analytical web applications.

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Animated grid

A hypnotizing animated grid demo made by David A.

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A graphical introduction to dynamic programming

Avik Das wrote and illustrated this visual introduction to dynamic programming.

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HTML Includes That Work Today

Scott Jehl describes an experimental technique for including another file directly into a page.

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ASCII WARP GITHUB

Ibrahim Tanyalcin shows how you can use LexiconMonoSeq to animate ASCII.

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ToneJS + canvas-sketch

An interactive and generative site made with canvas-sketch and Tone.js. By Matt DesLauriers.

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Fullscreen Scroll Slideshow

Yoichi Kobayashi created this useful fullscreen slideshow that works on scroll.

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Solid Template

Solid is a simple and responsive HTML landing page template for startups.

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Particles 101

Tibix’s tutorial on how to make animations based on moving particles.

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Only CSS: STARFOX Arwing Drone

Yusuke Nakaya created this stunning CSS-only flying drone demo.

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URL equalizer

So much coding goodness in just a couple of tweets. A realtime favicon waveform follows.

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Nicedoc.io

Nicedoc.io aims to reduce the documentation friction, converting any markup file hosted on github.com into great looking documentation.

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IMGBIN

A place to find free PNG images for your next wild collage.

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Awesome Demos Roundup #3

The third collection of beautiful, creative experiments that we’ve found around the web.

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Collective #509 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 15, 2019

Collective #508

Front-end Developer Handbook 2019

Cody Lindley wrote this guide that outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering, how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2019.

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Generative Art with CSS

The translation of Yuan Chuan’s CSSConf talk by Chen Hui Jing.

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CodeGuppy

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Art Direction For The Web Using CSS Shapes

A tutorial by Andy Clarke where he goes beyond basic CSS Shapes and shows how you can use them to create five types of distinctive and engaging layouts for your art-directed designs.

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Typora

A very minimal Markdown editor with a seamless writing and reading experience.

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Controlling leftover Grid items with pseudo-selectors

Michelle Barker describes a technique for taking care of leftover grid items.

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Inline an SVG file in HTML, declaratively & asynchronously!

A fast and easy way to inline some remote SVG or HTML into your page. By Scott Jehl.

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CSS Grid: Style Guide

Olivia Ng created this great style guide with CSS Grid.

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Deno, a new way to JavaScript

A presentation by Ryan Dahl on the new TypeScript runtime for Node called Deno.

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Domain-Oriented Observability

Pete Hodgson describes a pattern for adding business-relevant observability in a clean, testable way.

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CSS masonry with flexbox, :nth-child(), and order

Tobias Ahlin describes a CSS-only way of creating a masonry (or mosaic) layout.

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Free Font: Postertoaster

A very artsy monospace typeface by Vsevolod Abramov.

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Accessibility Events

An article by Mat Marquis about why we don’t want a way to know when a user has a disability.

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Chasing

Yuan Chuan’s awesome animation with a 3D look.

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Three.js Boilerplater for CodeSandbox

Francesco Michelini created a really useful Three.js boilerplate to easily quickstart a project on CodeSandbox.

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GLSL: Blinn-phong shading

An incredible GLSL sphere demo by Liam Egan.

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Free Font: Deutschmeister Moderne

Rick Lewik created this typeface as a homage to the Grobe Deutschmeister font.

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Get a CSS Custom Property value with JavaScript

Andy Bell shows a trick for getting a CSS variable value with JavaScript.

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Editor

In case you didn’t know about it: a real-time, responsive HTML/CSS/JS code editor.

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Whirling

A fantastic spiral demo by Yuan Chuan. Support on Chrome and Firefox.

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Instagram Layout built in CSS Grid, Flexbox and Vue

A fully responsive take on the Instagram app layout using CSS Grid and Flexbox for the implementation of the layout and VueJS for the processing of the data.

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Pixel borders

A SASS mixin to add pixelated borders to HTML elements.

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React Hooks Cheat Sheet

A React hooks cheat sheet with live editable examples.

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Pulling Apart SVGs with Reusable WebGL Components Using React-three-fiber

Learn how to pull apart SVGs in 3D space with Three.js and React, using abstractions that allow us to break the scene graph into reusable components.

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Collective #508 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 11, 2019

Collective #507

Inspirational Website of the Week: Home Société

A delightful and refreshing scroll experience with some experimental elements. Our pick this week.

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The results of Stackoverflow’s survey that was answered by nearly 90,000 developers on how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

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Well-aimed?

Test how well you know CSS selectors with this interactive quiz by Paulina Hetman.

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Digging Into The Display Property: The Two Values Of Display

Rachel Andrew takes a closer look at the CSS display property, a workhorse of a property that doesn’t get a lot of attention.

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Citybound

An amazing city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals.

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What design tools get wrong

An interesting article by Kilian Valkhof on the limitations of modern design tools.

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Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products

Stéphanie Walter shares some useful resources, tips and tools she regularly uses to build and check the color accessibility of products.

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Free Font: Public Sans

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Floating heart

A mesmerizing demo by Yuan Chuan.

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How to create a custom radio switch in CSS

Claudia Romano shows how to create a custom accessible radio switch.

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Rocking JS data structures!

Areknawo explores the new data structures in JavaScript that came with ES6 and shows how useful they can be.

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Spider

A Chrome extension by Amie Chen that lets you turn websites into organized data without coding.

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Writing a Snake Game for the Terminal in Object-Oriented JavaScript (Node.js)

A tutorial by Tania Rascia where you’ll learn how to code a Snake game in JavaScript.

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UX Agenda

A website that collects design conferences, workshops and meetups.

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Long-form websites and typography

A very interesting article by Eric Lawler on the art of creating stable, long-term websites and content.

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GitHub got rickrolled

Follow this tweet by GitHub and check out Muhammad Mustadi’s amazing GIF hacked GitHub profile.

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Why you should use CSS env()

Harry Nicholls explains how you can use the upcoming CSS env() feature.

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Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there’s no choice but to use it

An unsettling review of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).

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Perflink

Live JavaScript benchmarking where you can see results graphed out as you type.

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Nails

Teeny-tiny, satisfying scratchy hand. Simply epic. By Char Stiles.

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JavaScript vs. CSS – More control means more responsibility

Chris and Sadek talk about when is it best to use JavaScript over CSS, and should we all learn CSS as we learn JavaScript? Read the transcript here.

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Don’t trust the locals: investigating the prevalence of persistent client-side cross-site scripting in the wild

Some valuable insights into the vulnerabilities of local storage.

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How to Create a Sticky Image Effect with Three.js

Daniel Velasquez shows how to code a recreation of the sticky image effect seen on the websites of MakeReign and Ultranoir using three.js.

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Collective #507 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 8, 2019

Collective #506

Native image lazy-loading for the web!

Addy Osmany takes a look at the exciting loading attribute which brings native <img> and <iframe> lazy-loading to the web.

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An AI Experiment to draw the world together using the same technology behind QuickDraw and AutoDraw. Read more about it in this tweet by Active Theory.

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Illustrated.dev

Illustrated.dev explains web development through illustration. By Maggie Appleton.

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Unicode Art Gallery

A generative Unicode art gallery made by Monica Dinculescu.

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Course Clear!

A Super Mario Maker-like Course Clear screen built with Splitting.js. By Stephen Shaw.

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Water.css

Water.css is a just-add-css collection of styles to make simple websites look nicer.

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El Grapho

El Grapho is a high performance WebGL graph data visualization engine that can support millions of interactive nodes and edges in any modern browser.

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How to create clipped, blurred background images in CSS

Sebastiano Guerriero shows how to apply blur effects to images using CSS filters, and how to confine these effects to specific image areas.

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Animating SVG with CSS

Hope Armstrong shows how to make lightweight, scalable animations using SVGs and CSS.

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A set of vibrant icons with an Asian theme made by Darius Dan. Free for a subscription.

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A super tiny 80×23 terminal Tetris game.

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Getting Started with CSS Battle

If you haven’t tried the highly addictive CSS Battle yet, you should definitely do so. Read this article by Sarthak Batra to understand how to approach the first challenge.

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Getting creative with the Console API!

Some tips on how to make your Console.log() output prettier.

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What Does Dark Mode’s “supported-color-schemes” Actually Do?

Thomas Steiner explains the functionality behind the meta tag <meta name=”supported-color-schemes”> and the CSS property “supported-color-schemes”.

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Reverse Engineering the Blending Mode of Gilbert Color

Wei Gao reconstructs the blend mode effect of the Gilbert Color display font.

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Creating a full bleed CSS utility

Andy Bell explains how to break components out of their constraints by using the “full bleed” utility.

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How We Used WebAssembly To Speed Up Our Web App By 20X (Case Study)

In this article, Robert Aboukhalil explores how web applications can be sped up by replacing slow JavaScript calculations with compiled WebAssembly.

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Web Components will replace your frontend framework

Danny Moerkerke argues that the modern Web API has evolved to the point where we don’t necessarily need a framework anymore to create reusable frontend components.

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UI/UX Patterns You Literally Cannot Design: Design Patents From Tech Companies

In this article, Christie Tang lists some interesting design patents.

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Inspirational Websites Roundup #3

A fresh selection of unique web designs from around the web. Our third creative websites compilation to get you inspired.

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Collective #506 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 4, 2019

Collective #505

Inspirational Website of the Week: Dogstudio

A perfect symphony of exciting WebGL, modern typography and great layout. Our pick this week.

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Yet Another JavaScript Framework

A wonderful article by Jason Hoffman on the history of JavaScript frameworks and the legacy they left behind.

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Accessibility for Vestibular Disorders: How My Temporary Disability Changed My Perspective

Facundo Corradini shares his experience with temporary vertigo and how it changed his mindset on accessibility for good.

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Managing Z-Index In A Component-Based Web Application

Pavel Pomerantsev describes an approach for successfully managing stacking in a web app.

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Some dogstudio.co insights

Kevin Chapelier provides some valuable insight into the initial implementation of the WebGL/three.js dog scene on dogstudio.co.

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A progressive disclosure component

Andy Bell discusses some key elements of a progressive and accessible disclosure component.

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Editor.js

The next generation block styled editor got a major update.

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Grass

A stunning grass shader with three.js by Al Ro.

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You probably don’t need that hip web framework

Owen Williams explains why obsession with finding better frameworks is killing ideas before they reach the world.

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Upcoming WebHID API – access Bluetooth/USB HID devices in web applications

Robat Williams takes a look at the exciting, yet to be released WebHID API and shows what you might be able to do with it.

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How I failed the <a>

Remy Sharp shares how and why you should be extra careful when adding onClick to a component.

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Gimli

A promising looking Visual Studio Code extension enabling smart visual tools for front-end developers. You can back it on Kickstarter.

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combine-pagination

A JavaScript library for paginating across multiple data sources at once, whilst retaining the sort order.

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Dan Abramov teaches me React Hooks

Watch Mattias Petter Johansson get a React Hooks master class by Dan Abramov in this Fun Fun Function live stream recording.

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x-ray

In case you didn’t know it: A simple HTML debugger, executable by bookmark, that let’s you visualize the HTML structure of a website.

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Remix Icon

A great set of open source neutral style system symbols.

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Free Font: Explorer

A playful uppercase typeface by Kristaps Zelmenis.

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Color theory for designers – a crash course

An infographic that will teach you some important aspects of color theory applied to web design. By Micah Bowers.

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With shoperr you can create your own custom shop in minutes, and stock up on referral links to your favorite products.

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Crossroads Slideshow

An experimental slideshow with an inclined look, three slide previews and a content view on click.

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Collective #505 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

April 1, 2019

Collective #504

Responsible JavaScript: Part I

Jeremy Wagner plots a course to avoid the unnecessary bloat and inaccessible patterns of current JavaScript trends.

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Announcing CodeSandbox v3

Read all about this major CodeSandbox update that includes VSCode extensions, many design tweaks, and a new devtool pane.

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Enforcing Accessibility Best Practices with Automatically-Generated IDs

Brad Frost describes a useful technique for auto-generating IDs to help with accessibility.

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How To Align Things In CSS

Rachel Andrew shows different ways of aligning elements in CSS.

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Name It, and They Will Come

An interesting read by Dan Abramov on the importance of telling a story when sharing a new project.

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Free Font: En Garde

Andros Souza shares his first font project.

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Building a dependency-free site in 2019

Michelle Barker shares how she built her site in HTML, CSS and nothing else.

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JavaScript Grammar

Get the PDF version of this JavaScript book by Greg Sidelnikov for a retweet.

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codetalks.tv

Codetalks.tv puts together the best dev talks in a categorized video platform, made by developers for developers.

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Designing And Building For Systems

Daniel Eden gives some advice on building for design systems.

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Generative Poster

Create a generative art poster in this demo by David A.

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code-server

Code-server is VS Code running on a remote server, accessible through the browser.

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UITerminal

UITerminal is a Terminal-style CSS framework.

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VexChords

A JavaScript guitar chord renderer.

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oneliners.js

Some useful coding one-liners put together by Mike Skowronek.

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Scroll Anchoring in Firefox 66

Ryan Hunt writes about the new scroll anchoring feature in Firefox.

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How an MIT Research Group Turned Computer Code Into a Modern Design Medium

The fascinating story of how code became a design medium.

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Alien Invasion by Gal Shir: Web Animation by Kono

A CSS-only implementation of the “Alien Invasion” animation by Gal Shir. Made by Kono.

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Vue.js and D3: A Chart Waiting To Happen

Simon Wuyts shares this summary of a talk he gave at the Vue.js Antwerp meetup.

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Everything I know about freelancing

Andy Adams offers some valuable insights to freelancing.

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Collective #504 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 28, 2019

Collective #503

Inspirational Website of the Week: ContraryCon IV

A functional design with unique elements and great typography. Our pick this week.

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Mosaic

Mosaic is a declarative front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

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NEORT (Beta)

NEORT is digital art platform for creators to share artworks and learn the skills beyond technology.

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Why Build Progressive Web Apps: Track offline, or it didn’t happen

In this episode of “Why Build Progressive Web Apps”, Thomas Steiner shows how you can add offline analytics tracking with the Workbox libraries to your PWA to track events while the user is offline.

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The Boolean Game

A game for learning how to use boolean operations in Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Figma, and other vector editors.

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ethical.net

An open, growing list of 150+ vetted resources for ethical living.

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An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods

Una Kravets’ creative way to explain map, reduce, and filter.

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Friendly Faces

An inclusive, illustrative avatar creator made by Chris Vasquez and Sean Metzgar.

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Generative.fm

Endlessly unique ambient music with AI. Read more about the project in this article.

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Multiscale Turing Patterns

A fantastic WebGL powered implementation of a multi-scale Turing pattern simulator. Read more in this article.

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How To Organize Files In A Design Agency

An article that highlights the file organization method of a design agency.

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Design Titles

A satirical title generator for designers seeking a title apart from other designers.

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EU Copyright Directive Approved – Without Amendments

Read about the final decision of the European Parliament to approve the controversial copyright directive.

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How to create a dark/light mode switch in CSS and JavaScript

Sebastiano Guerriero shows how to create a dark theme for a web project, and how to switch from a default (light) theme to a dark one with the help of CSS Custom Properties.

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Breaking CSS Custom Properties out of :root Might Be a Good Idea

Kevin Powell shows when locally scoped custom properties can be useful.

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Magical Light Tunnel

A 1024 bytes small demo by Jani Ylikangas for the JS1k 2019 edition.

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Building Real-Time Charts With GraphQL And Postgres

A tutorial by Rishichandra Wawhal on how to create real-time charts using GraphQL and Postgres.

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indigo-player

A highly extensible, modern, TypeScript video player with support for the most popular stream formats, subtitles, out-of-the-box advertising, picture in picture, thumbnails and more.

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Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD

Kyle E. Mitchell explains why it’s time to retire thirty-year-old academic licenses.

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Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

Lin Clark writes about the new standardization effort?for a WebAssembly system interface, WASI.

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Illustration Gallery

Royalty-free illustrations that you can use in commercial projects.

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Add AR Effects to Products & Places with Tracked Images

Learn how to use Torch for layering contextually relevant information in 3D space with augmented reality.

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Exploding 3D Objects with Three.js

A set of WebGL demos that show an exploding 3D object animation inspired by “Kubrick Life Website: 3D Motion”.

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Collective #503 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 25, 2019

Collective #502

All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS

A great article by Richard Rutter on how to control hyphenation with CSS.

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Advanced Map Shading

Learn the basics of hillshading, soft shadows and ambient lighting in this WebGL tutorial by Rye Terrell.

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The Plastic Ocean

A three.js demo of jellyfish swimming in an ocean of plastic.

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Everest.agency WebGL Infinite Scroller deconstruction

Daniel Velasquez breaks down Aristide Benoist’s infinite scroll effect for the Everest website.

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Build a Vue.js SPA on Top of Headless WordPress

Mathieu Dionne experiments with using WordPress as a headless CMS with Vue.js.

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Displaying numeric CSS vars in generated content

A neat trick by Cassie Evans to use numeric variables in generated content with the help of counters.

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Writing Resilient Components

Dan Abramov takes a look at style guides and the principles that are really useful for React components.

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Web design & art history by Webflow

A beautifully made immersive scroll experience by Webflow.

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Vibe

A UI dashboard framework built with React.js and Bootstrap 4.

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Griffith

A React-based web video player that makes streaming easy.

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HTML, CSS, and the Path to Accessible Web Design

An article by Jennifer Riggins with some tips on how to get started with making a design accessible highlighted at this year’s Monki Gras conference.

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Advanced Tooling for Web Components

The final article in a series that will help you understand and build web components. By Caleb Williams.

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Lights on or off?

A theming experiment with CSS Dark Mode, Geolocation and Ambient Sensor API. By the team of De Voorhoede.

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SVG Circle Decomposition To Paths

Bryan Rasmussen shows how to turn SVG circles into paths which you can use in animation and text paths.

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Connor Bell: “Here’s how I make my GIFs”

The mesmerizing process of creating beautiful Shadertoy animations by Connor Bell.

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A Future Without Webpack

Read how @pika/web installs npm packages that run natively in the browser, for a faster and less complex web app.

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Stop using so many divs! An intro to semantic HTML

Ken Bellows shows on a hands-on example how to make HTML more semantic.

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Podcasts Repo

A collection of podcasts around the web.

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Best of Machine Learning

A collection of the best resources in Machine Learning and AI.

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Rules for Autocomplete

Jeremy Mikkola notes down a set of rules for auto-completing text that often get broken.

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Pyright

A static type checker for the Python language.

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From Our Blog

How to Create Smooth WebGL Transitions on Scroll using Phenomenon

A tutorial on how to transition WebGL instances in a smooth way based on the scroll position using three.js and Phenomenon.

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Collective #502 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 21, 2019

Collective #501

Inspirational Website of the Week: Visions

A beautiful retro design with innovative touches. Our pick this week.

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Humane by Design

Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being. By Jon Yablonski.

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Who has the fastest website in F1?

An extensive analysis and great case study of website performance with invaluable insights. By Jake Archibald.

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The Impossible CSS Layout: Grid? Flexbox? Floats? Columns? JS!

Join Wes Bos on an adventure to code a seemly simple layout in CSS.

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Encapsulating Style and Structure with Shadow DOM

Caleb Williams shows how to add the shadow DOM to a dialog component.

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How To Make A Speech Synthesis Editor

A tutorial by Knut Melvær where he shows how to make a What You Get Is What You Hear (WYGIWYH) editor for speech synthesis.

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You probably don’t need input type=”number”

Brad Frost explains why using input of type “number” is not always a good idea.

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The big list of three.js tips and tricks

While writing Discover three.js, Lewy Blue collects some very useful WebGL and three.js tips.

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Everything you need to know about Loading Animations

A thorough guide to loading animations by Lisa Dziuba.

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construct-js

A library for creating byte level data structures that focuses on a declarative API and simplicity of use.

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Testing and debugging JavaScript sites for Search

Martin Splitt explains what tools exist to test and debug your JavaScript sites for Google Search.

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Things nobody ever taught me about CSS

Charlie Gerard shares some very useful concepts that are important to better understand and write CSS.

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How we built the fastest conference website in the world

Some great insight into making a fast website by Malte Ubl.

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Scope in CSS

In this article, Peter-Paul Koch treats the knotty problem of CSS selector scope.

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Typography in Design Systems

Dan Mall shares how he works with typography in a design system.

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A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Vue

Ali Spittel will help you get started with Vue.js.

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Build your first AWS Serverless app

Pawel Grzybek shares what he has learned during his initial exploration into serverless apps on the AWS platform.

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Tifi

Tifi is a library for functional programming in TypeScript that solves the problem of the existence of both undefined and null, inspired by the OCaml/Reason utilities for the option data type.

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Blurred Borders in CSS

Ana Tudor shows how to create a stylish blurred border in CSS.

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Geenes

A tool to create harmonious color themes with code and sketch file export.

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Flexulator

A tool to visualize flexbox space distribution. By Nick Lyons.

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DropCSS

DropCSS is a simple and compact unused CSS cleaner. By Leon Sorokin.

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Collective #501 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 18, 2019

Collective #500

CSS Nesting Module

The draft of a new CSS module that introduces the ability to nest one style rule inside another.

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Seeking a common language for design & engineering

How design and engineering work together is evolving. From blueprint to building, and the changing nature of developer handoff.

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Color.review

A great way to test the contrast between background and text.

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lax.js

A light-weight JavaScript library to create smooth and beautiful animations when you scroll.

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7 Tricks with Resting and Spreading JavaScript Objects

Joel Thoms presents six lesser known tricks when using rest and spread with JavaScript objects.

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CSS Grid: Floor Plan

A terrific CSS grid demo by Olivia Ng.

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Core

A responsive front-end feature kit in React. By the folks of Mason.

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An Introduction to Web Components

The first article in a series that dives into Web Components. By Caleb Williams.

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Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing On using WebGL1

Reinder Nijhoff shares his experiment on real-time ray tracing in WebGL.

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Lumina

A beautiful WebGL game made by the folks at Goodboy Lab.

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How to create a continuous colour range legend using D3 and d3fc

Ronan Graham shares how to implement a legend for a D3/d3fc heatmap chart.

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Bach SVG Music Animation

A demo by Steven Estrella where he synchronizes SVGs to music.

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Three.js NodeMaterial introduction

Don McCurdy explains what node-based materials are.

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Be a Tourist!

An outdoor themed icon pack with 64 vector icons.

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Making Sense of Chrome Lite Pages

Tim Kadlec demystifies Chrome Lite Pages and points out some unanswered questions.

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HTML periodical table

A periodical table for HTML built with CSS grid. By Chen Hui Jing.

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Stop Chat Pop Ups

“Hello, Goodbye” blocks every chat or helpdesk pop up in your browser.

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Free Font: Reno Mono

A minimal monospace font designed by Renaud Futterer.

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Building a ‘Homebrew’ Video Game Console

Sérgio Vieira shares the fascinating story of how he built his own video game console.

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Art of Noise #8: Noisy Blobs

As part of their “Art of Noise” collections, Tibix created this great demo.

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Awesome Demos Roundup #2

The second edition of our collection of creative demos and experiments for your inspiration.

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Collective #500 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 14, 2019

Collective #499

Inspirational Website of the Week: greeeg

A seamless web experience with great animations and shapes. Our pick this week.

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30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on how the web has changed our world and what we must do to build a better web that serves all of humanity.

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Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS

Rachel Andrew writes about the exciting new aspect ratio unit for CSS, how it was designed and how it will work.

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How to design an accessible color scheme

An article by Katie Riley on building a more accessible color scheme for Envoy.

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ColouriseSG

An amazing tool that lets you colorize black and white images with deep learning.

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The Value of Inconvenient Design

An article by Jesse Weaver where he investigates at what cost technology makes seemingly inconvenient tasks easier.

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Radicle

A peer-to-peer stack for code collaboration. Currently in alpha.

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KV Storage: the Web’s First Built-in Module

Philip Walton explains what built-in modules are and introduces the asynchronous key/value storage module called KV Storage.

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Accessibility Insights

A powerful accessibility tool for creating simple tests or in-depth audits of websites.

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Cube World

Tibix created this demo as part of the “Art of Noise” series, a collection dedicated to canvas animations using Perlin and Simplex noise.

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If statements and for loops in CSS

Peter-Paul Koch takes another look at CSS as a programming language and shows the analogues for if statements and for loops.

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A JavaScript-Free Frontend

Matt Reyer shares how he uses as little JavaScript as possible when rebuilding his app Slimvoice.

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Firefox Send

In case you didn’t know about it: Firefox Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.

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JavaScript “loose” comparison step by step

A tool that will help you understand how == works in JavaScript.

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A Complete Guide to useEffect

A very thorough guide to useEffect in React by Dan Abramov.

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Branded

A free tool to create and maintain style guides. By Muno Creative.

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Particles Field

A fantastic particles demo by Ricardo Mendieta.

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Stuff

A simple alternative to Facebook events. With distribution of invitations and collection of RSVPs.

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Questions in the Sky by Air France

A promo game implementation for Air France.

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How to manipulate CSS colors with JavaScript

Adam Giese takes a look at CSS color notations and shows how to manipulate the values with JavaScript.

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Harry Potter Movies Quiz

In this project Dmytro Barylo is experimenting with localStorage, SVG animations and vue.observable.

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From Our Blog

Image Distortion Effects with SVG Filters

Three distortion effects powered by SVG filters that are applied to an image when hovering a link.

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Collective #499 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

March 11, 2019

Collective #498

iro.js

Iro is a lightweight, SVG-based color picker library. By James Daniel.

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