Collective #256
How To Develop A Chat Bot With Node.js
A great tutorial by Slobodan Stojanović on how to create a chat bot with Node.js
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Materialette
A little program for easily getting Google's material design colors. Made by Mike Schultz.
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CSS Icon
A nice project and web app by Wenting Zhang: CSS only icons that you can customize easily.
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Creating the Periodic Table with Grid CSS
Justin Avery shows how to put CSS Grids to use and build the periodic table.
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@supports will change your life
A great article by Charlotte Jackson where she shows the power of @supports and how to use it.
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Free Font(s): Scamper & Scamper Snowy
A gorgeous font duo of handwritten holiday fonts designed by Missy Meyer.
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JavaScript for Web Designers: DOM Scripting
Chapter 5 of Mat Marquis' new book, JavaScript for Web Designers, on DOM scripting.
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Building a Website Performance Monitor
Eduardo Bouças shows how he built a practical website performance monitor.
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CSS Only iPhone 6
An incredibly detailed iPhone 6 made with CSS only by Fabrizio Bianchi.
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Graphic Design Icon Set (EPS, AI, SVG, PNG)
Some great graphic design icons made by Ecomm Design for Pixel Buddha.
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Best Of Halloween: All Things Spooky
Get some first class Halloween inspiration from this great collection on Smashing Magazine.
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Stupid ES6 tricks
Emil Ong shares a couple of handy ES6 tricks
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Reactive Animations with CSS Variables
The awesome slides of David Khourshid's CSSDevConf talk on reactive animations.
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"Instant Loading" with IndexedDB (Building a PWA, Part 2)
The second part of Ire Aderinokun's series on building a Progressive Web App; this part is on how to work with IndexedDB.
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Pure CSS Content Filter
An interesting CSS-only content filter experiment utilizing the :target pseudo-selector by Harry Roberts.
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Progressive Misconceptions
An insightful contribution to the progressive enhancement discussion by Aaron Gustafson.
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SVG Filter Effects—3 Simple Filter Primitives
Steven Bradley dives into SVG filter primitives, continuing a great series of posts on the topic.
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BLACK
An impressive series of high-resolution wallpapers rendered using Cinema 4D. By Jean-Marc Denis
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Understanding the SVG viewBox
Learn the essential workings of the SVG viewBox in this article by Dudley Storey.
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Quantity Queries and Flexbox (Part 2)
Charlotte Jackson shows how to get the most out of quantity queries and flexbox in this second post she writes on the topic.
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iOS 10 GUI (iPhone)
A new iOS 10 GUI Kit by Facebook for Sketch, Photoshop, and Figma.
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