Collective #607
Inspirational Website of the Week: SEMP.AI
The portfolio of Ernesto Aguirre has a super-cool design with a futuristic touch and nice effects.
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8 Great WordPress Plugins You Need to Try Out Now
There are so many fantastic WordPress plugins on the market. The WordPress plugins we bring you today are the MUST-HAVE tools.
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PureCSS Gaze
A pure CSS oil painting by Diana Smith inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
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Tailblocks
An great project of ready-to-use Tailwind CSS blocks.
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Responsive web design turns ten
Ethan Marcotte remembers the first article on responsive web design and the history of the term and idea behind it.
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Windups
A really nice typewriter effect library for React.
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Modern Touch-Friendly Design
Addy Osmani shares what he learned from Steven Hoober about designing for touch interfaces.
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Today's Javascript, from an outsider's perspective
Lea Verou writes about how difficult the experience with today's JavaScript workflow can be for novices.
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Untools
A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
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CSS-only Slide-up Caption Hover Effect
Michelle Barker shows how to create a caption transition for an image. If you enjoy this, you might also like these demos on Codrops.
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RoughNotation
A small JavaScript library to create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page.
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Figma Plugins
Some great insight into Figma plugins by Varun Vachhar.
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On fixed elements and backgrounds
Chen Hui Jing dives into containing blocks, rendering and scroll performance.
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The Git Commit Hash
Mike Street writes about the magic 40 character string that is attached to every commit you do.
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Boids
Marius Ballot made this wonderful boid simulation with Three.js.
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Ask an expert: Why is CSS ...the way it is?
Chris Lilley unpacks the histories and mysteries of CSS in this great article.
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Here's what I didn't know about "content"
Manuel Matuzovi? is sharing what he I didn't know about the 'content' property.
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Sorted CSS Colors
A tool to sort the named CSS colors for showing related colors together.
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Free Font: Ephemera
Inspired by ephemera from the printing tradition, Barrett Reid-Maroney designed this font.
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Single div CSS “Six”
A great single-div demo by Lynn Fisher.
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Safe/unsafe alignment in CSS flexbox
Learn how safe alignment can prevent data loss in CSS flexbox layouts.
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Water
A lovely water effect demo made by Kasper De Bruyne.
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Svelte, why so much hype?
In this article, Anthony Le Goas answers some questions related to Svelte.
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Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health
Brian Kardell argues that we actually have a very healthy and open web ecosystem.
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Browsers are not rendering engines
Stuart Langridge's perspective on the narrative of Brian Kardell's article on the web ecosystem.
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Htmx
Htmx allows you to access AJAX, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext.
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The Buggiest Site On The Web
Check out the horror in your browser's developer console.
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An Infinitely Scrollable Vertical Menu
A quick look at how an infinitely scrollable menu works based on a looping scroll illusion of cloned items.
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