Collective #231
Inspirational Website of the Week: Connect Lisboa
A lovely layout with some slick transitions makes Connect Lisboa our pick this week.
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Hack Reactor: The Best Choice for Your Programming Career
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Compressify
Upload any video format file to compress to web-compatible WebM with a 20-60% reduced size.
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React.js in patterns
Krasimir Tsonev shares his invaluable React design patterns and techniques. Also, check out his GitHub repo.
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Conversational Interfaces: Where Are We Today? Where Are We Heading?
A very insightful article by Cosima Mielke on the current and possible future state of conversational interfaces.
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An open letter to design students
If you are just starting out with design, this is for you. An excellent article by Brett Bergeron
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The performance benefits of rel=noopener
Jake Archibald shows how using rel=noopener does not only provide a security benefit, but also a performance benefit.
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Why object literals in JavaScript are cool
Learn how ES2015 improves the JavaScript object literal with additional goodies. An article by Dmitri Pavlutin.
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Vimgifs
An awesome growing collection of GIFs that will teach you useful Vim commands.
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The Fonts of Star Trek
Yves Peters takes us on journey through the exciting history of the typography of Star Trek.
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Capitalist Website Templates (PSD, Sketch)
A great freebie by PixelBuddha: three super-stylish website templates.
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Free Font: Lorano (ExtraLight)
A beautifully designed all-caps typeface by Valerio Dell'Edera with the ExtraLight style freely available.
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Adapting to Input
Jason Grigsby points out how important it is to be adaptive when it comes to the plethora of new web input types.
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A practical security guide for web developers
A very useful work-in-progress security guide for developers by Fallible.
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5 Actual Web Designs Trends for 2016
Nils Sköld's useful reference of actual design trends for this year. Valuable list.
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Serious Study
An overly cool site where commands have to be entered for showing the content.
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Free Font: Kano
An elegant geometric font design by Frederick Lee.
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Richer command line interfaces
A very interesting read by Thomas Ballinger that will show you some insight to the world of command line interface building.
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Emojillate
Create emoji-powered pixel art with this fun tool by Monica Dinosaurescu.
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Freebie: Olympics Sports Icon Set (EPS, PDF, PNG, SVG)
45 colorful icons all about the Olympics designed by Icons8 for Smashing Magazine.
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Using blend if for masking
Some useful tips on how to use Photoshop's blend if for masking by Marc Edwards.
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