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February 28, 2019

Inspirational Website of the Week: Mirage Festival

An unconventional design with inspiring forms and shapes. Our pick this week.

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Web Accessibility Guide

A curated collection of web accessibility tips, tricks, and best practices.

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How to render 3D in 2D canvas

Louis Hoebregts shows how to render a 3D shape using only the Canvas 2D API.

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The CSS mental model

A series of article snippets that aims to explain CSS to JavaScript developers.

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8 Little Videos About the Firefox Shape Path Editor

Mikael Ainalem demonstrates how to use the shape path editor in the DevTools of Firefox.

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We Need Chrome No More

A very interesting article on how we should foster browser diversity and step away from using the browser of the world’s largest advertising company.

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Space Type Generator

A fascinating kinetic type generator by Kiel Mutschelknaus.

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New Math Functions for CSS

Benjamin De Cock’s tweet on all the new math functions that are being added to CSS.

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CSS selectors cheatsheet

A visual CSS selectors cheatsheet made by Nana. There’s also a game version of it.

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Content-based grid tracks and embracing flexibility

An article by Hidde de Vries on how content-based sizing works in a CSS Grid layout.

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The Dribbble Experiment

Robert Williams analyzes the performance of a job post on Dribbble and compares it to using the advanced search tool.

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FrenchKiss.js

FrenchKiss.js provides a simple and fast solution for handling internationalization.

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Our new land [SVG]

Gerard Ferrandez created this demo as part of a plottable SVG series for his AxiDraw plotter.

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Codevember 2018

A fantastic compilation of loops for Codevember 2018 including source codes and breakdown gifs. By Jaume Sanchez Elias.

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Polygon Surface

Liam Egan created this awesome demo for a Codepen challenge.

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WebGL Wonderland #5

A mesmerizing demo by Colin van Eenige.

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React-three-fiber

React-three-fiber is a small React renderer for three.js.

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Environment-based lighting and reflections in three.js and Looking Glass

Matt Hughes writes about his approach on getting real-world reflections and illumination on virtual objects.

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Kiss The Sky

A beautiful evolution game by Matthew Main.

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TypeScript introduction

Get started with TypeScript with this practical introduction by Areknawo.

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Subsync

Language-agnostic automatic synchronization of subtitles to video, so that subtitles are aligned to the correct starting point within the video.

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Text Trail Effect

A text trail effect for a slideshow inspired by the “Abstract is hiring” Dribbble shot.

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Collective #496 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 25, 2019

Progressive React

A guide by Houssein Djirdeh on how to optimize React apps.

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GitHub’s menus and dialogs work without JavaScript because of Mu-An Chiou’s great exploration of how to use <details> for JS-less popovers. Check out the version for dialogs and Mu-An Chiou’s notes on <details> at Brooklyn JS.

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Pure CSS Drawing Essentials

CSS art master Diana Smith shares her top 5 CSS properties she uses in order to produce pure CSS art.

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Onelineplayer

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Der Bunt: Color Harmonies (Alpha 1)

A beautiful way to tinker with color spaces and systems.

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Tech Productivity

Tech Productivity is a short weekly newsletter for tech professionals with productivity-related tools, articles, and other resources. By Louis Lazaris.

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Make your Google Fonts render faster

A tool that generates a small wrapper around Google Fonts that adds font-display support and helps to render text quicker.

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Scandinavian Houses: Free Vector Images

A beautiful set of vector houses made by Tatiana Lapina.

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Try GraphQL

An interactive GraphQL tutorial made by Ryan Chenkie.

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Packing Circles inside a Rectangle

Mike Bostock is exploring a variant on Wang et al.’s circle-packing algorithm to pack circles inside a rectangle.

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Improving WordPress Code With Modern PHP

Leonardo Losoviz gives us a tour of the PHP features newly-available to WordPress and suggests how these can be used to produce better software.

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Explaining Code using ASCII Art

John Regehr collected some wonderful ASCII code embeds.

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personal-website

A repository that gives you the code you’ll need to kickstart a personal website that showcases your work as a software developer.

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Silo

A daring and refreshing layout and design. With dark mode option.

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Exploring a back/forward cache for Chrome

Learn about the back/forward cache (bfcache) prototype in this article with videos by Addy Osmani.

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CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors

Josh Bader shows how to make sure colors have enough contrast with Custom Properties.

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Visual Studio Code Settings and Extensions for Faster JavaScript Development

Tilo Mitra shares some VS Code extensions and settings for better JS development.

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Free Font: Arco

Rafael Olivo Díaz created this playful font.

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Blobby Hill

A fun blobby demo by Alex Zaworski.

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Interactive Typography Cheatsheet

Christian Heilmann created this helpful cheatsheet that explains some typography jargon. Read more about it in this article.

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Collective #495 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 21, 2019

Collective #494

Inspirational Website of the Week: Sterling

A very innovative and modern design with clever animations. Our pick this week.

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JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome

Addy Osmani shares an up to date summary of script scheduling in Chrome.

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How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web: A Smashing Video

Join Léonie Watson (a blind screen reader user) as she explores the web in this Smashing TV webinar recording.

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A tool to simplify the process of finding and generating common SVG icons for your project.

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GSAP 2.1 Released

The exciting highlights of the new version of GSAP including advanced staggers.

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Regex Cheat Sheet

Emma Wedekind’s useful cheat sheet for creating regular expressions.

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Amino

A live CSS editor for writing user style sheets. Customize your favorite sites, save and sync your styles.

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Color wheel (CSS)

Louis Hoebregts’ mind-boggling shape animations that are controlled by a timing-function.

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Breaking Down JavaScript Solutions To Common Algorithmic Questions (Part 1)

A short tutorial by Emma Wedekind where she breaks down three top algorithm coding questions.

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Context and Optimizations – HTTP 203

Jake and Surma talk about the importance of context when making performance optimizations.

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Loader turbulence

A turbulence loading animation made by Damien Montastier.

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Designing for Conversions

Brandon Gregory writes about what’s important when designing for conversions.

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How @supports Works

A great summary by Chris Coyier on using @support in CSS.

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Vue Trend Chart

Simple trend charts for Vue.js. By Dmytro Barylo.

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How Facebook Designs Microinteractions for Feature Discovery

A very thorough write-up by Jonathan Doron on how to re-create one of Facebook’s microinteractions.

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An in-depth journey into how Node works. By Jamie Corkhill.

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NPM Uninstall Facebook

A list of alternatives to Facebook apps and software.

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Blob study

Liam Egan’s interesting blob demo.

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Free Font: Throne

A paintbrush font with SVG and regular OTF by Anna Zakharchenko.

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SVG Filter Effects: Creating Texture with <feTurbulence>

Learn how you can use the powerful SVG filter primitive <feTurbulence> to create your own textures and distortion effects.

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How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL

Learn how to create an interactive “fake” 3D effect for images with depth maps and plain WebGL.

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Collective #494 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 18, 2019

Collective #493

Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

Brad Frost’s essential list of dos and don’ts for login forms.

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2018 – A Year In Review from Green Chameleon

A fantastic look back at the works of the amazing folks at Green Chameleon.

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Replacing a hot path in your app’s JavaScript with WebAssembly

Surma writes about how they replaced a JavaScript hot path in squoosh with WebAssembly to get predictable performance across all browsers.

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How I created a physical Sketch Panel to enhance my Design System thinking

Erik Fanki shares how he made a real shortcut panel for Sketch for his everyday workflow.

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Trust is Good, Observation is Better—Intersection Observer v2

Thomas Steiner explains what Intersection Observer v2 is all about.

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Using CSS Grid the right way

Some interesting and useful advice by Violet Peña on how to master CSS Grid.

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Awesome Design Tools

An open list of the best design and design-related tools.

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Raster Simple Grid System

Minimal and straight-forward CSS grid system utilizing descriptive HTML rather than semantic CSS.

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ES5 to ESNext?—?here’s every feature added to JavaScript since 2015

Flavio Copes wrote this article to help you move from pre-ES6 knowledge of JavaScript and get you quickly up to speed with the most recent advancements of the language.

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Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

The fascinating story of Lena Forsen, the mythic figure behind the testing image so widely used.

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A Designer’s Little Helpers

A list of useful tools, extensions and features from Milo Pete’s bookmark bar to ease your day at work and beyond.

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Meteorite

Like an assistant for your GitHub notifications, Meteorite helps you to focus on the most important issues and pull requests.

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Getting Started with Angular Elements

A full video course on Angular Elements by Juri Strumpflohner.

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This Person Does Not Exist

AI-generated images of faces that you can use as placeholder in your projects. Refresh the page to generate a new one.

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How To Secure A Linux Server

An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.

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Get Ready for Priority Hints

Read about the new experimental feature known as Priority Hints now available through an Origin Trial in Chrome Beta which will allow you to tell the browser how resources should be prioritized.

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Shooting Star

A lovely demo by Ko.Yelie.

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DOM performance case study

Learn about some DOM optimization techniques for your JS/React/Vue/DOM-based app.

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Pong

Grégoire Divaret-Chauveau made a fun variation of Pong, where you are the ball.

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Awesome Demos Roundup #1

The first roundup in a series that gathers cutting-edge demos and experiments from around the web.

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Grid Reveal Effects with Anime.js

Some experiments with the new staggering system of Anime.js where we try different effects for hiding and showing thumbnails in an image grid.

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Collective #493 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 14, 2019

Collective #492

Inspirational Website of the Week: Florian Monfrini

Smooth animations on scroll and modern typographic elements made us chose Florian Monfrini’s website as inspiration for this week.

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An Introduction To WebBluetooth

Read all about WebBluetooth which makes it possible to create PWAs that can control your lights, drive a car or even control a drone.

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Announcing the #StateOfCSS 2019 Survey

Read about the launch of the first ever State of CSS survey. By Sacha Greif.

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MIDI CITY 2000

An interactive art experiment where MIDI songs become cities. Made by Monica Dinculescu.

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To Grid or to Flex?

Michelle Barker’s tips on how to pick the best layout method for the job: grid or flexbox.

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Bluetooth Anywhere

The folks at de Voorhoede made some experiments to see if it’s possible to control a device over Bluetooth, from a JavaScript app, on iOS and Android.

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Pure CSS Still Life – Water and Lemons

Ben Evans created this absolutely incredible CSS only artwork.

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Building a modern carousel with CSS scroll snap, smooth scrolling, and pinch-zoom

Nolan Lawson shares how he built a carousel with native browser APIs.

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Making Future Interfaces: Inline SVG

A fantastic video by Heydon Pickering on inline SVG, how to hand code SVG, and how to make generative art with SVG and JavaScript.

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Intro to Font Metrics

An article by Weston Thayer where he takes a look at font metrics.

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How I got rid of the new sponsored Facebook posts

Maurizio Carboni shares how he wrote a script that descrambles the DOM structure created by Facebook to confuse AdBlockers.

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instant.page

Instant.page preloads a page right before a user clicks on it and thereby helps to make a page feel more “instant”.

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Ludwig

Ludwig is a toolbox by Uber that allows to train and test deep learning models without the need to write code.

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Solar System 3D Animation (Pure CSS)

A fantastic demo by Fabricius Seifert.

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Understanding Service Workers and Caching Strategies

Aayush Jaiswal’s guide will help you understand service workers and when to use which caching strategy.

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Constructable Stylesheets: seamless reusable styles

Jason Miller writes about Constructable Stylesheets which are a new way to create and distribute reusable styles when using Shadow DOM.

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Tips for making interactive elements accessible on mobile devices

Ire Aderinokun covers some of the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines that relate to interactive elements on a web page.

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CSS Scroll Snap – How It Really Works

Learn how to use CSS Scroll Snap in this article by Itzik Pop.

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Miu Miu Twist

A great little pixel art promo game.

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Uppy

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Free Font: Karton

A decorative typeface made by Elena Voynova.

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Rainbow Tunnel

A mesmerizing demo by Tiibiix.

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SVG Filter Effects: Conforming Text to Surface Texture with <feDisplacementMap>

Learn how to make text conform to the texture of a surface using feDisplacementMap in this fifth article of our SVG Filter series.

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Collective #492 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 11, 2019

Collective #491

New JavaScript Features That Will Change How You Write Regex

Faraz Kelhini explains the new JavaScript features that enhance text processing capabilities.

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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need

A very interesting article by Eric Bailey Every on how adjustments to the appearance and behavior of the features browsers can come at the expense of alienating users.

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Vue 2.6 released

Evan You writes about all the new features that come with this update of Vue.

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capture-website

A tool that lets you capture screenshots of websites.

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Vixel

A WebGL path tracing voxel renderer built with regl.

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The Story of Technology Built at Active Theory

Read about the interesting tools that were developed at Active Theory for streamlining their workflow.

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Hacker Tools

Learn to make the most of the tools that hackers have been using for decades.

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Position: stuck; – and a Way to Fix It

Dannie Vinther writes about the shortcomings of position: sticky when working with overflow.

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SVG Filters are 💕

An amazing SVG filters demo by yoksel as part of her latest talk.

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CSS Remedy

Start your project with a remedy for the technical debt of CSS.

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Contrast illusion, negative space animation

A beautiful collection of demos by Kunuk Nykjaer.

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Make it Boring

Jeremy Wagner explains why “boring” can be preferable to “exciting” when it comes to front-end development.

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Qoa

Lightweight and without any external dependencies, qoa enables you to receive various types of user input through a set of intuitive, interactive and verbose command-line prompts.

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Third Party Web

A summary of which third party scripts are most responsible for excessive JavaScript execution on the web.

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User owned projects—your personal workspace

Learn about user owned project boards, GitHub’s latest release.

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GitHub Organization Issues Link

A Chrome extension that adds an Issues tab and lets you browse all issues of an organization.

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Canvas Times Tables (Circles)

A fantastic demo for the February 2019 CodePen Challenge on shapes.

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Vue.js App Performance Optimization Part 1

Filip Rakowski’s first article in a series on Vue performance optimization techniques.

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Dear web developers: set the font color, too

Steven Luu on the importance of setting the text color and background color of form inputs.

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How to set up your Mac for Web Development

Michael Uloth guides us through the minimum setup for getting up and running with JavaScript-based web development on a Mac.

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Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js

Some text distortion experiments using the Blotter.js library. The idea is to distort text as we scroll or move the mouse.

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Collective #491 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 7, 2019

Collective #490

Inspirational Website of the Week: A Gauche de la Lune

A beautiful, clean design with many stylish details. Our pick this week.

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Rendering on the Web

Jason Miller and Addy Osmani explain the crucial terminology around web rendering.

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An illustrated guide to the table anatomy and how to build one, keeping in mind its future elaboration.

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Textblock

A JavaScript tool for adjusting size, leading, and grades to cast continuously responsive typography. It works over your current CSS as a progressive enhancement.

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A Very Brief Introduction to the Construction of Shaders

A practical reference for creating shaders. By webdva.

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FormVuelar

FormVuelar is a set of predefined Vue form components which are designed to automatically display errors coming back from your backend.

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Mixkit

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vue-examples

A collection of Vue examples for front end beginners.

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Vanilla WebGL Shader

A basic WebGL mouse move demo made without dependencies by Dave DeSandro.

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What Hooks Mean for Vue

Sarah Drasner explores the hooks concept for Vue in this great article.

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not-paid

A brilliant little script that adds opacity to the body tag and increases it every day until the site completely fades away.

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GitHub History

Browse the history of any file from GitHub with style. By Rodrigo Pombo.

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Three.js Butterflies

A beautiful butterfly experiment made by Kevin Levron.

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Free Font: Inter

A new version of the Inter UI font family which is now called Inter.

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rymd

In this demo by Hakim El Hattab you can move your mouse, or swipe on a touch device, to navigate through the stars.

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Nomadic Tribe – makemepulse

Experience “Nomadic Tribe”, an interactive tale made by the folks of makemepulse.

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30 Seconds of Knowledge

A great Chrome extension that will help you become a better developer, one new tab at a time.

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Links that don’t go anywhere should be buttons

An article by Chris Heilmann on when to use an anchor or a button.

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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Read about the changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound.

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CSS-Tricks: Upcoming Conferences

A list of upcoming conferences related to front-end design and development.

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A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers

In this article, Rachel Andrew details the different types of browser support issues, and shows how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them.

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this or that? component names: index.js or component.js

Brad Frost explores different ways of naming components.

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CSS Position Sticky – How It Really Works!

Elad Shechter explains how position: sticky works.

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Third Attempt at a Fire Shader

Matthew Willox’s demo where he experiments with a fire shader.

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Bubble Toggle

A fun bubble toggle made by Chris Gannon.

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SVG Filter Effects: Duotone Images with <feComponentTransfer>

This fourth article in our SVG Filter series will show you how to use feComponentTransfer to create a duotone filter effect.

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Inspirational Websites Roundup #1

The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.

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Collective #490 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

February 4, 2019

Collective #489

React as a UI Runtime

An in-depth article by Dan Abramov that will help you understand the React programming model and runtime environment.

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The curious case of disappearing buses

Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee analyzes the mysterious case of disappearing buses in the real-time traffic information shown on Bristol’s bus display boards.

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

Harry Roberts shares a DevTools tip to determine whether your assets would benefit most from an increase in bandwidth or a reduction in latency.

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Learn React App

A tutorial with hands-on exercises to get you started with React.

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WOWA

The Unplash for audio: free (do whatever you want) music that you can use in your projects.

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Animated Boxes

A demo showing how the stagger feature in anime.js works. By the folks of Staak.

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The Many Ways to Change an SVG Fill on Hover (and When to Use Them)

Cassie Evans shows the different ways of changing the color of SVGs.

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Lemon-JS

An accessible 3D rendering engine in JavaScript.

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useHooks

Easy to understand React Hook recipes by Gabe Ragland.

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Limiting JavaScript?

An article by Tim Kadlec where he discusses the controversial idea of limiting the amount of JavaScript a website can load.

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dailydevlinks

A new site for a daily dose of web dev related articles.

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Avatars

A pixel-art avatar generator in JavaScript for browsers and NodeJS.

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MiniSearch

A tiny but powerful in-memory fulltext search engine for JavaScript. Read more about it in this article.

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Playing with sound and three.js

A three.js sound visualizer made by Sarah Drasner.

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Let’s talk JS ?: unit testing

A useful collection of tools for doing unit tests by areknawo.

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Free Font: US Blaak Bold

A sharp serif font with a glamorous look made by Unidaas. The bold style is for free.

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ASCII renderer

An interactive 3D world rendered in ASCII.

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Tubes

An interesting tubes animation made by soju22.

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Free Font: Gorod

A wide uppercase serif typeface by Ilya Zakharov.

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Custom Cursor Effects

A collection of five demos and a tutorial on how to create animated custom cursor effects for interactive elements like navigations, galleries and carousels.

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Collective #489 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 31, 2019

Collective #488

Inspirational Website of the Week: Next Level Fairs

A great exhibition of artwork with wonderful animations. Our pick this week.

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Simulating blobs of fluid

Peeke Kuepers’s article on implementing the double density relaxation algorithm.

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Firefox 65: WebP support, Flexbox Inspector, new tooling & platform updates

Read what’s new in this coming FireFox version.

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THREE.Phenomenon

THREE.Phenomenon is a 900b wrapper around three.js built for high-performance WebGL experiences.

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Taotajima.jp WebGL deconstruction

A great deconstruction of the effects seen on the taotajima.jp website.

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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points

Rachel Andrews on the importance of HTML and CSS as entry points into the web industry professions.

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New Year, New Website

Meagan Fisher shares her motivations and struggles behind redesigning her own website.

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Future JavaScript: what is still missing?

Axel Rauschmayer explores the missing features in JavaScript that he finds most important.

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How I Learned to Stop Self-Sabotaging Design Critiques

Stuart Norrie shares some great advice on how to get the best of a design critique session.

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WebAudio Polyphonic Synthesizer

A WebAudio polyphonic synthesizer with three different audio oscillators, filter and low frequency oscillator for modulation and MIDI support.

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Pure CSS lettering, a bad and fun idea

Kenneth Ormandy shares how he created letters using only CSS.

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JavaScript Tip

A useful JavaScript tip by Wes Bos.

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Animated CSS burger components

A collection of animated burgers for React or as plain HTML/CSS.

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Why isn’t the internet more fun and weird?

Jarred Sumner writes on how the internet used to be more fun when publishing content and how Codeblog helps to bring that fun back.

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fakeit.digital

A fun digital handbook for the ones who choose agency life and have no idea what it’s all about.

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socialsizes.io

Image and video sizes for social media with templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop.

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How to setup Webpack config

Learn how to create your very first Webpack config from scratch.

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Designing for Tomorrow – A Discussion on Ethical Design

Product designer Lu Han shares her thoughts on ethical design.

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x-spreadsheet

A JavaScript (canvas) spreadsheet for the web.

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Awesome Podcasts

A list of important podcasts for software engineers.

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SVG Filter Effects: Poster Image Effect with <feComponentTransfer>

Learn how feComponentTransfer works and how you can posterize images with this powerful SVG filter primitive.

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Collective #488 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 28, 2019

Collective #487

Creating SVGs using Processing

Marc Edwards shows how to use Processing to create complex SVG shapes. Find the GitHub repo here and explore the code experiments in this Twitter moment.

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Exclusive Design

Vasilis van Gemert wrote his Master thesis trying to find the answer to the question “What if we design websites exclusively for people with disabilities?”.

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The “Bug-O” Notation

Dan Abramov writes about the idea of the “Bug-O notation” that describes how much an API slows you down as your codebase grows.

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Webauthn.Guide

A resource for the tech world for learning about the Web Authentication API to enable passwordless authentication.

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Volume Controlled Variable Fonts

A fantastic demo by Peter Barr where you can control a variable font with the microphone.

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SCRIPT-8

SCRIPT-8 is a fantasy computer for making, sharing, and playing tiny retro-looking games (called cassettes).

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Photo Creator

A tool for creating stock photo scenes by the folks of Icons8.

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Destructuring

A free chapter from the book “JavaScript for impatient programmers” by Axel Rauschmayer.

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Terminal CSS

A modern and minimal CSS framework for terminal lovers.

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Dropbox Paper as a headless CMS

Read how the team at De Voorhoede turned Dropbox Paper into a headless CMS for publishing content elsewhere.

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Cycle

A mesmerizing pure CSS tetrahedron made by Ana Tudor.

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My Grid Layout

Roman Komarov shares some insights into how his website’s layout was reimplemented using CSS Grid.

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How do you figure?

Scott O’Hara takes a look at the figure element, how to use it and how screen readers handle it.

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GitHub Spray

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Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator

A tutorial by Darrell Huffman where he shows how to create a simulation of the inner region of our solar system with JavaScript.

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WordArt

Recreated some WordArt in pure CSS with this demo by Katherine Kato.

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Free Font: Venn Variable

A free variable font from the versatile Venn font family designed by Bruno Maag.

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Awesome Mobile Web Development

Resources for creating great mobile web experiences.

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What’s New in JavaScript for 2019

David Neal talks about what’s in store for the next version of JavaScript.

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Simple Opt Out

Simple Opt Out is drawing attention to opt-out data sharing and marketing practices that many people aren’t aware of (and most people don’t want), then making it easier to opt out.

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Collective #487 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 24, 2019

Collective #486

Inspirational Website of the Week: Everest

A supreme design with a unique image slider. Our pick this week.

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Table Design Patterns On The Web

Chen Hui Jing shows how to create tables the modern way.

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Web Page Usability Matters

Addy Osmani walks us through the progressive journey of loading a page which is comprised of four key moments.

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What is tree shaking and how does it work?

An article by Ire Aderinokun where she explains how to use tree shaking in JavaScript to optimize code.

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What Parallax Lacks

An article by Katie Sherwin on how Parallax-scrolling can often create usability issues.

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console.chat

Create a chat room inside your browser’s console with this script by Dalton Edwards.

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Browser Preview for VS Code

Browser Preview for VS Code enables you to open a real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug.

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JavaScript iterator patterns

Luciano Mammino shows various ways to create iterators and iterable values in JavaScript.

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Infinite Repeating Dashed Lines in SVG

A tutorial on how to created a dashed line animation in SVG by Maximilian Alexander.

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10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed

Arun Venkatesan explores how popular website designs changed over the last decade.

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Layered Water

A beautiful WebGL water experiment by Vicente Lucendo.

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Using Content Editable Elements in JavaScript (React)

Tania Rascia shares her experience with using contenteditable.

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Banditø immersive experience

Jesper Vos takes us through the process of creating the immersive Banditø experience, from concept to technical execution.

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mhy

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SVG Filter Effects: Outline Text with <feMorphology>

In this second part of our SVG Filter series you’ll learn all about the feMorphology filter, how it works and how you can use it to create interesting effects.

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Collective #486 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 21, 2019

Collective #485

UX in the Age of Personalization

Colin Eagan’s article on personalization strategies that can be employed for creating better user experiences.

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Animating CSS Grid

Michelle Barker shares her CSS Grid animation experiment (Firefox Nightly only).

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Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site

Jim Nielsen shares how he implemented an accessible search.

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Lucid

A Chrome Developer Tool designed to help engineers debug React-GraphQL applications.

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Web Performance Mini Series: Responses

The first video in a mini series on web performance by Paul Lewis.

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How to Stop Using Browser Dev Tools and Start Using Your Editor’s Debugger

A great article on utilizing the debugger of your code editor.

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Animating URLs with Javascript and Emojis

Matthew Rayfield explores the fun possibilities of animating Emojis in an URL.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Jack Lenox writes about how our work as web developers has an impact on our carbon footprint.

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Microsoft by the Numbers

An interactive infographic-like site by Microsoft with nice animations.

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Beyond the interface

Thomas Byttebier shares his thoughts on the intriguing question of why all apps and websites look the same nowadays.

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TypeScript ESLint

Monorepo for all the tooling which enables ESLint to support TypeScript.

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Double exposure depth experiment

A web experiment combining modern CSS properties and JavaScript with photography. By Cody Lindsay Gordon.

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font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums

A super-useful discovery by Tyler van der Hoeven.

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Handling Time Zone in JavaScript

An article that discusses the JavaScript time zone APIs and their issues.

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Typewrite Something

An interesting minimalistic typewriter simulator.

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Browser Rendering Optimizations for Frontend Development

Some useful tips for enhancing performance by Jordan Irabor.

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2019 Slack logo with 2019 code

Ana Tudor’s take on the new Slack logo. With magical CSS.

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Free Font: Chappa

A unique looking display font designed by Lucas Mercado. Licensed under a Creative Commons license.

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The YouTube Redesign That Got Me Hired

Pramiti R Khan shares an interesting case study on a YouTube redesign that landed him a job.

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Snippet generator

In case you didn’t stumble upon it yet: Snippet generator is a tiny React app to help you create Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text and Atom snippets.

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Interactive Particles with Three.js

A tutorial on how to draw a large number of particles with Three.js and make them interactive.

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Collective #485 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 17, 2019

Collective #484

Inspirational Website of the Week: Archi Graphi

A beautiful scroll experience with special effects. Our pick this week.

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HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now?

Drew McLellan writes about the state of the HTML5 input types in 2019, which can be used, and which should still be avoided.

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Tastemaking: 2019 Design Trends

Jon Moore’s summary of current design trends and predictions for 2019 and beyond.

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Shiny

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40075.world

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Emscripten and npm

Surma writes about how to make Emscripten and npm play nicely together using Docker.

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CSS Grid for Designers

Johna Paolino’s quick start guide to CSS Grid.

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Use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector for language-specific styles

Ire Aderinokun explains why and how to use the :lang pseudo-class.

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JavaScript Modules: From IIFEs to CommonJS to ES6 Modules

Tyler McGinnis walks us through the history of JavaScript modules and explains how they work now.

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Security Checklist

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Rels

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CSS Grid: Train Ticket

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Free Font: Gutenberg

An inky, sketchy typeface made by Unio Creative Solutions.

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SVRF API

An API that can be used for searching the largest database of immersive face filters, 360 videos, and 360 photos. The SVRF API is free to use across all types of apps: camera, messaging, chat, dating, creation, community, and more.

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Spectrum

Spectrum is a cross-platform image transcoding library by Facebook that can easily be integrated into an Android or iOS project to efficiently perform common image operations.

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Coalesce 12 – Phosphorescence 6

A fascinating demo by Liam Egan.

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A more complicated web

An interesting read by Chris Heilmann on how the web became complicated, especially when it comes to self-publishing.

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The mistake developers make when coding a hamburger menu

Jared Tong explains a trick for making a flawlessly scrollable menu.

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Augmented Reality and the Browser – An App Experiment

A deep dive into creating an Augmented Reality app by Anselm Hook.

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SVG Filters 101

The first article in a series on SVG filters. This guide will help you understand what they are and show you how to use them to create your own visual effects.

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Collective #484 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 14, 2019

Collective #483

2018 JavaScript Rising Stars

The third edition of the JavaScript Rising Stars that looks at which projects got traction in 2018 by comparing the numbers of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months.

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The Flexbox Holy Albatross

Heydon Pickering shares the solution to a particular Flexbox layout problem.

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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

A fantastic tutorial on Fourier transforms by Jez Swanson. Find the GitHub repo here.

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When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout

Rachel Andrew explains why the Multi-column Layout is different to other layout methods, and shows some useful patterns and showcases.

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Infinite SVG Triangle Fusion

Rob DiMarzo’s hypnotizing SVG triangle demo.

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Slice and Dice a Disc with CSS

An in-depth article on how to pull off a sliced disc design with CSS. By Ana Tudor.

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JournalBook

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Mapping and Visualization

The stunning works by graphic designer Scott Reinhard.

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Designing the Flexbox Inspector

Victoria Wang shares a behind-the-scenes look at the UX patterns and processes that drove the design of the Firefox Flexbox inspector.

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Build Better Component Libraries with Styled System

A great article by Alan B Smith on Styled System which provides a simple API for solving common component library problems.

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WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial

A practical tutorial on rendering water in WebGL by Chinedu Francis Nwafili.

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An introduction to CSS Containment

Manuel Rego Casasnovas talks about the css-contain feature and its state of the art.

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Free Font: Runa

A beautiful decorative font made by Elena Voynova.

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Piecing Together Approaches for a CSS Masonry Layout

Chris Coyier’s overview of various solutions for a Masonry layout using CSS only.

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Conversations with Robots: Voice, Smart Agents & the Case for Structured Content

Andy Fitzgerald writes about the role of structured content for voice search, artificial intelligence, and smart software agents.

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Why we need CSS subgrid

An interesting article on the power of the CSS subgrid by Ken Bellows.

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destyle.css

An opinionated reset stylesheet that provides a clean slate for styling HTML. By Nicolas Cusan.

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uncanny valley studio

In case you didn’t stumble upon it yet: this website is a great tunnel like scrolling experience.

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Birthday Pure CSS Pen

Julia Muzafarova created this adorable animated CSS scene.

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101 Bash Commands and Tips for Beginners to Experts

Andrew Watson shares a comprehensive list of useful bash commands for all levels.

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Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time

Ruben Verborgh encourages us to take back the Web for good, and leverage its full potential as envisioned by its creator.

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Childhood Flat Icons Set (AI, SVG, PNG)

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Collective #483 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 10, 2019

Collective #482

Inspirational Website of the Week: Radical Everything

A playful web experience with a vivid design. Our pick this week.

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Anime.js v3.0.0

The great animation library anime.js was updated with lots of new features, like spring easing, built-in staggering helper, new keyframes system, new callbacks and more.

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New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering

Read about the two major updates that will make GitHub more accessible to developers.

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Bg Painter

A fantastic background image generator made by Frank Hsu with three.js.

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The Ethics of Performance

Tim Kadlec writes about how performance is an ethical issue.

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CSS doesn’t suck

Andy Bell’s article in defense of CSS.

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Dimensions.Guide

Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019

An extensive list of everything you need to know to create fast web experiences. By Vitaly Friedman.

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New horizons in CSS: Houdini and the Paint API

Una Kravets writes about the CSS Houdini spec and the new browser APIs that are coming out as a part of it.

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Liquified image

A fantastic image distortion demo by Louis Hoebregts.

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A coding project a day for 20 days

Angela He shares her experience with a 20-day web dev challenge.

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30 Days of Vue

The repository of the entire source and content for the article series of 30 Days of Vue hosted by the Fullstack Vue team.

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Defensive JavaScript

A JavaScript January article by Mike Samuel on JavaScript security.

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Slidey radios (swappy radios remix)

A curious sliding radio button concept by Liam Johnston.

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2019 – with love from Mazarine

A minimalistic musical game with various interactions.

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Stepping away from Sass

Cathy Dutton writes on how and why she replaced Sass with pure CSS in her recent website rebuild.

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React Kawaii

React Kawaii is a library of cute SVG illustrations that give some personality to your ReactJS application.

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Styling a Web Component

Chris Coyier explains how web component styles work.

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Four years at Microsoft

Chris Heilmann shares some thoughts on his experience of the past four years at Microsoft.

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Web A Skeb

Remember this game? Now you can play it online You can find the repo here.

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Pages UI Web Kit (2019 update)

A sample of the “Pages UI Web Kit” containing 5 home pages, about us pages, contact pages and portfolio pages. By Mark Thomas McEwan.

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Collective #482 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 7, 2019

Collective #481

SVG Gradient Map Filter

A great tool by yoksel for creating filters with Gradient Map allowing for Duotone effects.

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The Most Hearted Pens of 2018

The one hundred most loved Codepen demos of 2018.

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Linzi Berry shows how to design accessible escape hatches for modals.

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FBT

FBT is an internationalization framework by Facebook designed to be both powerful and flexible, but also simple and intuitive.

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Algorithms

A free electronic version of a soon to be published textbook by Jeff Erickson, along with other lecture notes he has written for various theoretical computer science classes at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 1998.

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A Beginner’s Guide to GraphQL

Leonardo Maldonado explains how GraphQL works in practice.

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All Gone (No Escape II)

A mesmerizing demo by Gerard Ferrandez.

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The Elements of UI Engineering

An insightful summary by Dan Abramov on the challenges of user interfaces.

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omniclone

An isomorphic and configurable JavaScript utility for objects deep cloning.

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Fancy Function Parameters

Jake Dohm shows how to refactor a function to make its declaration and uses cleaner and more readable.

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Free Font: Biasachxua

Inspired by old Vietnamese book covers, Hiep Tong designed this typeface. It’s free for personal use and commercial use if you credit the author.

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WebsiteVoice

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Flipping Out

Jon Kantner created this demo of arrays of animated table flipping text emoticons.

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HTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScript

Learn how to build the animated note display from the Awwwards website in this tutorial by Marina Ferreira.

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Why Founders Should Start With a Website, Not a Mobile App

Julia Enthoven shares her opinion on why founders should *almost* always build a website first instead of a native app in the early days of a startup.

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Understanding Bits, Bytes, Bases, and Writing a Hex Dump in JavaScript (Node)

Tania Rascia shares what she learned when writing a command line program that outputs a hex dump.

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How I stumbled across a niche hobby I never knew existed: Drawing (and animating) in CSS

Kyle Wetton shares how he found a great new hobby on Codepen.

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Free Font: Justice Regular

Described as “rough monospace type with cowboy boots”, the Justice font family is an outstanding gem. The regular style is free.

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Collective #481 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops.

January 3, 2019

Collective #480

Inspirational Website of the Week: IN FOCUS

Innovative shapes and details made us pick IN FOCUS this week.

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UI Sounds

A great library of sounds from popular apps. Read more about it in this article.

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Making Future Interfaces: Algorithmic Layouts

Heydon Pickering’s fantastic video will show you how to create CSS layouts that are self-governing, using Flexbox and Grid.

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The History of Everything

Guido Rosso from 2Dimensions announces the release of the source code of “The History of Everything” built with Flutter.

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rrweb

Rrweb is an open source web session replay library that provides easy-to-use APIs to record interactions and replay them remotely.

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How To Learn CSS

Rachel Andrew shows which fundamental things are important the learn so that using CSS becomes easier.

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Learn JavaScript

A new platform for interactively learning JavaScript. By Jad Joubran.

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Blobmaker

This app lets you create, tweak and download organic SVG shapes.

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Paint on Mouse Move

Angela He created this stunning demo of an animated drawing.

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Gradient Borders in CSS

Some ideas on how to pull off gradient borders in CSS.

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New Year 2019

A great three.js demo by Yoichi Kobayashi for the new year.

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Crossy Road with three.js

An adorable road crossing game made with three.js by Hunor Marton Borbely.

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Learning #threejs & (a little bit of) #webgl

Shirley Wu shares her journey of learning three.js by creating various experiments.

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Designers Talk: How to Be Unique in 2019?

A very nice article with interviews of designers on how to get inspired for making unique creations.

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Free Font: Shnobel

An extraordinary font with interesting shapes. Free for a subscription.

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Blendy

A little tool for previewing CSS blend modes on images.

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Buddience

Students from Nara University in Japan have created this project where your face is matched to a Buddha statue image using Microsoft’s emotion analysis technology.

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