Collective #234
Using A Static Site Generator At Scale: Lessons Learned
Stefan Baumgartner explores the latest hype of static site generators and provides some useful insights and tips.
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No Joke... Download Anything You Want
GraphicStock is giving Codrops users 7 days of free access to 300,000 fully-licensed images, infographics, backgrounds, and more.
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PNG optimisation
A very helpful analysis of how various design tools generate PNGs with different file sizes.
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Monograph
A great demo by Oleg Solomka that shows the power of mo.js. Also, the tutorial section on mo.js got updated!
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Beating Heart
An amazing heart animation made with CSS and SVG in a low-poly style. Made by morkett.
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3 Weird SVG Browser Inconsistencies
Una Kravets points out some strange browser bugs related to SVG.
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Dummi.io
Need some dummy data for your project? With Dummi you can generate fake user data in many supported files formats.
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High Performance SVGs
A great article by Sara Drasner on how to manage and optimize SVGs for better performance.
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Free Font: Honeycomb
Katrina Sutton designed this exquisite looking honeycomb font.
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Web Components and progressive enhancement
An article by Adam Onishi on Web Components with some insightful thoughts.
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Fancy 3D Letter PSD Text Effect
A great PSD resource by Pixeden: a strong 3D text effect with an easy way to customize colors.
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CSS background-clip: text has landed in Firefox Nightly
Great news: background-clip: text has landed in Firefox! Take a look at this demo by Šime Vidas.
JavaScript Systems Music
Learn Web Audio by recreating the works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno. By Tero Parviainen.
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lightgallery.js
A full featured JavaScript lightbox gallery without dependencies. Made by Sachin N.
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"Put On The Sunglasses, Frank": An Interactive with SVG Masks
A cool SVG demo and tutorial by Dudley Storey as a tribute to the classic John Carpenter film "They Live".
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Postleaf
A new open source blogging platform with inline editing with a responsive admin interface.
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Neat uses for CSS's awesome viewport units
A great article by Martin Falkus that shows some awesome and clever viewport unit use cases.
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Waves
A lovely animated waves demo by Hakim El Hattab.
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Detailed overview of well-known symbols
Learn about the new ECMAScript 2015 primitive type "Symbol" which allows to create unique identifiers. An in-depth article by Dmitri Pavlutin.
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Take a Selfie With JavaScript
A tutorial by Danny Markov on how to code a JavaScript photobooth app that takes images using the camera on your phone, laptop or desktop.
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Guacamole 3-in-1 UI Kit (PS, Sketch, XD)
Some gorgeous UI elements to get you started with your next app design.
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