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Inspirational Website of the Week: Jafen Art
Smooth effects with a slick design. Our pick this week.
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The History of Connection
A beautiful interactive WebGL experience that takes you on a historical journey of telecommunications.
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Free Font: Kotori Rose
A beautiful and unique typeface designed by Brian Jacob.
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Priority Nav Scroller
A JavaScript plugin for the priority+ navigation pattern that hides items that don't fit into a horizontal scrollable container with controls.
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Keeping Node.js Fast: Tools, Techniques, And Tips For Making High-Performance Node.js Servers
An article by David Mark Clements where he gives some useful advice on how to make high-performance Node.js servers.
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Downplaying Empty States in Design
Moses Kim writes about the important role of empty states in design.
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Combining the Powers of SEM and BIO for Improving CSS
An article by Ryan Yu where he explains how to use an interesting CSS technique, SEM and BIO.
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Free Font: Bertha
A wonderful font family with many lovely styles. Free for a subscription.
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10 Things I Regret About Node.js
Ryan Dahl's eye opening JSConf talk about things he regrets about Node.js.
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Libmoji
A small library for making Bitmoji images. By Matthew Nau.
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Specificity in :not(), :has(), and :matches()
Eric A. Meyer shares some updates on the specificity of the negation pseudo-class.
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Wimbledon Toggle
A fun toggle made by Chris Gannon.
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Supercraft
A tool for creating VR content with your hands in the virtual reality browser Supermedium.
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A Modern Prometheus
A great article by Casey Reas and Ben Fry on the history of Processing.
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Arrow Head: Pattern Brushes & Vector Arrows
Over 160 hand-crafted vector arrows for your design toolbox.
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G6
G6 is a graph visualization framework in JavaScript.
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Github XP
To "celebrate" Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, Mårten Björk created this hilarious project.
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1 Element CSS Rainbow Gradient Infinity
Ana Tudor shares how she recreated a gradient infinity logo with just one HTML element and some CSS goodness.
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The Story Behind Susan Kare's Iconic Design Work for Apple
Read the fascinating story behind some of Apple's icon designs.
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Sketch.systems (Alpha)
With Sketch.systems you can explore how your product should work before building it.
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Level up your CSS selector skills
David Gwyer dives into CSS selectors and shows some practical examples.
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Sing App Lite
A free admin dashboard template built with Bootstrap 4.
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