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Pingy CLI
A simple front end build tool without many configs or plugins. Read more about it here.
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Do You Build WordPress Sites?
Earn top commissions by promoting the Jetpack products millions of WordPress professionals love.
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Why the Next 10 Days Are Critical to the Internet's Future
An important article that explains why net neutrality is in jeopardy once again.
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Unsplash API
The most amazing resource site for CC0 images just opened up their powerful API. Read more about it in this article.
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Luke Wroblewski - Conversions@Google 2017
A full-fledged 3 hour mobile design workshop by Luke Wroblewski.
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Archetype
A very useful web typography tool with many feature, like a CSS export functionality.
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gofccyourself.com on ProductHunt
The ridiculous attempt by the FCC to make the submission of your opinion on net neutrality just got pawned by John Oliver. Read Niv Dror comment to understand what's going on and watch the episode. Hilarious and extemely important if you care about the future of the open web.
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Accessibly labelling interactive elements
Hidde de Vries explains implicit and explicit labelling methods and discusses how to future-proof your labels.
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Component architecture recipes for Angular's reactive forms
A great tutorial by Todd Motto on how to employ useful patterns when creating reactive forms with Angular's component based system.
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Get started making music
Learn the basics of music making right in the browser.
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I Got Rejected by Apple Music… So I Redesigned It
Jason Yuan shares his experience of redesigning Apple Music.
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Design Better Data Tables
Andrew Coyle shows what the ingredients of a successful data table UI are.
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Fair Analytics
Fair Analytics is an open, transparent, distributed and fair Google analytics alternative. By Alessandro Arnodo.
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Tracing the history of CSS fonts
A fascinating deep dive into the history of the CSS font specification. By Chen Hui Jing.
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Announcing SyntaxNet: The World's Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
Google open sources its powerful human language parser.
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Buttons
A collection of interesting button styles by Louis-Olivier Brassard. Find the GitHub repo here.
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Methods for Contrasting Text Against Backgrounds
Ana Tudor shows some techniques for contrasting text against irregular backgrounds.
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Inclusive Components: Menus & Menu Buttons
A new article and a new component in Heydon Pickering's pattern library.
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Writing Tidy Code
Some great guidelines for writing tidy CSS by Harry Roberts.
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IPv6 as a metadata store
Donatas Abraitis gives an overview of IPv6 as metadata storage.
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Understanding Node.js Event-Driven Architecture
Samer Buna's article explains the fundamental architecture of Node.js.
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Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?
Learn what Mozilla's Project Quantum is all about.
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