Collective #445
SVG Filters
An excellent drag and drop tool for generating SVG filter code with a preview of the result. By Yoksel.
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UX And HTML5: Let's Help Users Fill In Your Mobile Form (Part 1)
An extensive list of useful techniques to make forms better. By Stéphanie Walter.
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A Modern Builder For A New Era
The new visual builder interface in Divi 3.0 has been re-built from the ground up using React, the modern JavaScript library for user interfaces.
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Designing Illustrations for Small Screens
Meg Robichaud shares some useful tips for designing illustrations for mobile screens.
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Code Surfer
A React component for scrolling, zooming and highlighting code. By Rodrigo Pombo.
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Shrink Me
Filipe Santos Correa created this tool that optimizes images of JPG and PNG format.
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Service Worker Caching Strategies Based on Request Types
Thomas Steiner shows how you can use the Request.destination property in your service worker to determine the type and caching strategy of requests.
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Heard at Work
Heard at Work is a collection of overheard exclamations that aims to capture what it’s like to work in a New York design studio. By Justine Braisted.
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Size-plugin
Prints the gzipped sizes of your webpack assets and the changes since the last build.
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Chris Kelly on Designing an Award-Winning Brand for Adobe Live
Read the inspiring background story behind Adobe Live's brand design by Chris Kelly.
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Turbo-json-parse
Mathias Buus created this really fast JSON parser for type stable JSON data.
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CSS Grid in 45 Minutes!
Wes Bos' great talk on CSS Grid at Laracon.
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Designer+Developer Workflow: Head-Down Work
Watch Brad Frost do some head-down development work in this video.
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Extending the Browser with WebAssembly
Alex Danilo walks us through an example of how to take the existing AV1 video codec source code, build a wrapper for it, and try it out inside your browser with the power of WebAssembly.
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How I Recorded User Behaviour on my Competitor's Websites
A very interesting article by Dan Petrovic on how he manipulated the browser back button to track what users did on mirror sites of competitors.
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Windows95
Felix Rieseberg's crazy recreation of Windows 95, running in an Electron app for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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Pure CSS The Carlton Dance
Grzegorz Witczak brings a pixel version of Carlton to life in just CSS.
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Using CSS Clip Path to Create Interactive Effects, Part II
Mikael Ainalem shares another tutorial on CSS clip-path awesomeness.
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The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features
An overview of all CSS OpenType features in one place. Work in progress. By Tunghsiao Liu.
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Git-bug
A distributed bug tracker embedded in Git that uses git's internal storage so no files are added in your project.
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OpenStax
Rice University's free educational books on various topics.
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