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Welcome to Day 8 of “Frontend Rewind 2023”!
Today brings a fresh batch of links, a dose of inspiration, and a great discount code if you would like to get into the Vue ecosystem!
🌺 Fun fact: In Hawaii, the festival of Makahiki was an ancient winter celebration dedicated to the god Lono. Lasting around four months, it marked a period of peace and festivities, including sports competitions, feasting, and religious rituals. During Makahiki, warfare was forbidden, and the people engaged in joyful expressions of gratitude for the land’s abundance. The festival reflected the Hawaiian value of harmony with nature and community well-being.
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Article
How to Make a Website
This article provides insights on creating a good website, emphasizing writing meaningful HTML for document structure, careful use of CSS, consideration of accessibility, and adopting a progressive enhancement approach, along with personal tooling recommendations and tips on interactivity and complex animation using JavaScript.
Tutorial
Water Wave Simulation
In this interactive tutorial you will learn how to use the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm to create a realistic water wave animation and simulation.
Website Design: Plantica
UI Interaction & Animation: Digital Archive
Tool
Aniso – ASCII Tool
An open-source ASCII tool built by Studio Freight to generate and customize character-based imagery.
Freebie
Free Font: Geist
Geist Sans and Geist Mono are a font family by Vercel, designed in collaboration with Basement Studio, for legibility and simplicity, with the sans-serif typeface suitable for headlines and display, and the monospaced typeface tailored for code editors and text-based interfaces.
Web Experiment
FBO – dynamic particles
Michal Zalobny made this fantastic demo showcasing physics computed in a fragment shader on 40k+ particles running at 60FPS.
Video: Water Reflection using Three.js
Thank you for unwrapping today’s advent joy with us; can’t wait to share more with you tomorrow! 👋🎄
