Collective #255
Inspirational Website of the Week: Offf Italia
Lovely details combined with some geeky effects make the "Offf Italia" website our pick this week.
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Tesseract.js
Tesseract.js is a pure JavaScript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine that gets words in almost any language out of images.
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Notification Logger
Notification Logger helps provide desktop notification for your console messages so you don't have to open the console.
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Styled Components
Visual primitives powered by ES6 and CSS to style your apps. Made by Glen Maddern and Max Stoiber.
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Taking Pattern Libraries To The Next Level
A brilliant article by Vitaly Friedman on how to get the best out of pattern libraries and tackle common problems.
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Stripe.com Navigation in CSS and jQuery
Claudia Romano from CodyHouse re-implements the pretty navigation of the new Stipe website.
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Your Social Media Fingerprint
Robin Linus raises awareness with this demo where you can see how most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in without your consent.
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Pure CSS Minesweeper
An awesome demo by Bali Balo where he built a fully functioning Minesweeper with some serious Sass magic.
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Chrome DevTools Masterclass
A insightful masterclass on using Chrome DevTools efficiently by Prashant Palikhe.
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Enhancing a comment form: From basic to custom error message to BackgroundSync
Michael Scharnagl shows how to pimp your forms with BackgroundSync.
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Progressive enhancement isn't dead, but it smells funny
Nolan Lawson dissects the subject of Progressive Enhancement with the conclusion that "the web platform is for everyone" and that there's no need for shaming when choosing JavaScript as primary tool.
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CopperSmith
CopperSmith is a very simple static site builder that uses markdown files, primarily built for rolling out documentation. Made by Charl Gottschalk.
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Stateful and stateless components, the missing manual
Learn all about stateful and stateless components in this in-depth article by Todd Motto.
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Sketch Viewer
A useful tool to view, version, and share your .sketch files on the web.
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You Might Need JavaScript
Hugo Giraudel shares his thoughts on when and why to use JavaScript and when it's okay not to.
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Free font: Klasik Sans
A great typeface with three styles designed by the folk at FDR.
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Smartlook
A service that records everything visitors do on your site so that you can look at your website through your visitor's eyes.
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We need JavaScript to fix the web
Christian Heilmann's thoughts on the recent JavaScript debate.
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ViewedIt
A free tool for creating, sending and tracking videos. Built by Vidyard.
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Taking PHP Seriously
An interesting article by Keith Adams on developing with PHP.
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Free Font: Kulag
A bilingual display typeface designed by Pavels Lavrinovics.
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