Collective #347
Inspirational Website of the Week: Heartbeat Agency
Bold typography, interesting layouts and organic shapes make this design our inspiration of the week.
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New Master's in Communication Design at Parsons
Parsons School of Design in NYC has launched a 1-year Master's for design professionals focusing on digital product design.
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Learn How To Debug JavaScript with Chrome DevTools
Brandon Morelli shows how to ditch console.log debugging once and for all and learn how to use breakpoints to debug code within the Chrome Developer Tools.
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The zen of Just Writing CSS
An article by Rich Harris where he lays out how the biggest problems with CSS can be solved without CSS-in-JS.
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Meet XRespond Testing Tool: Let's Make Building Responsive Websites Simpler
Indrek Paas introduces XRespond, a virtual device lab for designing, developing and testing responsive websites.
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Lozad
A performant JavaScript lazy loader with no dependencies for images, iframes and more. By Apoorv Saxena.
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Every JavaScript framework tutorial written more than 5 minutes ago
The sad story of every developer trying to learn a JavaScript framework. A witty article by Roger Collier's.
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Innerself
A tiny view and state management solution using innerHTML.
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Screen Readers and CSS: Are We Going Out of Style (and into Content)?
Some excellent research on the behavior of different browser-screen reader combinations when it come to CSS rendering.
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LÖVR
A cross-platform, open source framework for creating VR with Lua.
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Lazy async SVG rasterisation
Jake Archibald shows a great way to rasterize SVGs lazily with the help of createImageBitmap.
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Free Font: Pool Riders
A fun typeface coming in three weights designed by Guerillacraft.
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Cities Slider (React)
A beautiful slideshow demo made by Nikolay Talanov.
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I wanted real time GitHub push notifications. So I built a Chrome extension.
Stacy Goh implemented an interesting extension for receiving real time GitHub push notifications.
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Building a Small PWA with Preact and Firebase
Dan Denney shares his process of learning how to build a Progressive Web App.
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Wired Dots
A resource for free Bootstrap 4 themes and components.
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Interlocked blocks
One of Louis Hoebregts' impossible shape demos.
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Angular vs. React vs. Vue: A 2017 comparison
Jens Neuhaus' objective and informative comparison of the most popular JavaScript frameworks.
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Oxipng
Oxipng is a multi-threaded lossless PNG compression optimizer written in Rust. It can be used via a command-line interface or as a library in other Rust programs. Made by Josh Holmer.
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For the love of God, please tell me what your company does
Kasper Kubica's criticism on the current state of non-explanatory landing page jargon.
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Responsive LEGO
Responsive animated LEGO pieces by Chris Gannon.
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The State of the Web
In case you missed it: A guide to impactful performance improvements by Karolina Szczur.
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react-awesome-scroll
An easy to customize styled scrollbar with native behavior.
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