Collective #235
Inspirational Website of the Week: Elastique
A fantastic design with an interesting morphing element. Our pick this week.
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Segment: Analytics for Lazy Developers
Write once, send everywhere. Use one API and access over 160 different analytics, marketing, and data warehousing services.
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Design Better Data Tables
Matthew Ström shows some insight on how to tackle table design for lots of data.
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CSS Function Syntaxes (color and otherwise)
Tab Atkins explains the change for writing CSS colors which will follow the format rgb(0 255 0 / 50%) instead of rgba(0, 255, 0, 50%).
Amium
Amium turns any file into a real-time activity feed and conversation for a better collaboration.
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The History of Email
A very interesting article on the history of email by Zack Bloom.
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Landing Animation for BBAE
The fantastic landing animation seen on BBAE. A pen by Dolphin Wood.
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Let's build a URL Shortener with Node, MongoDB and Hapi.js
Learn how to build a simple URL shortener in this in-depth tutorial by Luis Garay.
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Service worker meeting notes
Jake Archibald's report on the latest meeting of browser vendors to discuss the core service worker spec.
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Creating An Accessible Modal Dialog
Some practical tips and thoughts on creating accessible modal dialogs by Ide Aderinokun
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How I Built a Progressive Beer App
Dean Hume walks us through a web app that he built with hot modern web tech.
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Precedence in CSS (When Order of CSS Matters)
Chris Coyier explains precedence in CSS, something very important for understanding the essence of CSS.
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Extensible Web Components
After Adam Onishi's writeup on web components, Jeremy Keith shares some thoughts on the topic.
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Turi
Turi is a fast, scalable machine learning platform for developers and data scientists.
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Pricing Pages
Great inspiration for well designed pricing pages around the web. A curated collection by Thomas Chrétien
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Free Font: St. Jacques
A free font with a unique and elegant design made by Pixel Surplus.
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Baffle.js
A tiny JavaScript library for obfuscating and revealing text in DOM elements. Made by Cam Wiegert.
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Agantty
Agantty helps you keep track of all your projects and tasks. Made by the folks of herrlich media.
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The Headless Web
A very interesting article by Paul Kinlan on "Headless Browser" and what role the idea plays for the future web.
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Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
Russell Graves documents his awesome project of building a solar powered off-the-grid office shed.
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Hidden Expectations
Dave Rupert dives into some invisible, yet crucial parts of the web.
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fastText
Facebook's fastText is a library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification.
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Arbitrary Awards
A humorous take on the problem of paid design awards. Made by Charlie Smith and Brian Maier Jr.
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