Collective #164
Inspirational Website of the Week: Beagle
Beagle by Podio is an explosion of perfectly timed smoothness and creativity. Our pick this week.
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Pay Me...or Else!
A free eBook for freelance web designers on how to deal with shitty clients.
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layzr.js
A small, fast, modern, and dependency-free library for lazy loading images. Made by Michael Cavalea.
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Building 60 FPS Web Apps
Learn how to make apps super fast and smooth with this free Google online course by Paul Lewis.
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Righteous gestures (AI, PNG, PSD)
Martin Cajzer designed this fantastic set of commonly used gesture icons. Give the designer a shout on Twitter if you use them.
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Git Large File Storage
An open source Git extension for versioning large files by GitHub.
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Bough: Hand-Drawn Typeface (OTF)
A beautiful hand-drawn typeface made by Pavel Korzhenko for Pixel Buddha.
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Dragula
A really easy-to-use and simple drag and drop script with great browser support made by Nicolas Bevacqua.
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A Visual Guide to CSS3 Flexbox Properties
A great visual guide to Flexbox by Dimitar Stojanov.
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cta.js
cta.js or "Call to Animation" is a light-weight performant library to animate your "action-to-effect" paths. Made by Kushagra Gour.
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Cut and Copy Commands
Matt Gaunt explains the ‘cut’ and ‘copy’ commands through the Document.execCommand() method and shows how to use them.
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Lumen
Lumen by Laravel is a fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax.
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Using Sketch For Responsive Web Design (A Case Study)
Ashley Bennett shows you why she thinks Sketch is the best tool for UI design, including responsive web design.
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Placeholder Polyfill with Password Support
A JavaScript polyfill for placeholders by Osvaldas Valutis.
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500,000 Icons and why the Number Matters
A fantastic article by the Iconfinder team on an impressive milestone and some interesting insights.
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MOSH
Glitch yourself with this cool app by Felix Turner.
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Trianglify Generator
A cool triangle pattern generator by Quinn Rohlf.
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300+ Free Flat Color Icons (SVG)
A great set of 312 free icons for personal and commercial use made by Icon8.
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Responsive Logos, Part 2: Making Logos Truly Responsive with Inline SVG
The second part of a article series about making logos responsive by Jeremy Frank from Viget.
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free-for-dev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to developers.
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