Collective #271
Inspirational Website of the Week: 10x16
A beautiful color theme combined with super-smooth movements make 10x16 our pick this week.
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See GraphicStock's New Holiday Photo Collection
GraphicStock is giving you 7 days of free access to 350,000 fully-licensed images, including their new holiday photo collection.
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JavaScript30
A fantastic 30-day challenge that will make you master Vanilla JavaScript. By Wes Bos. Check out the GitHub repo, too.
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Siema
Siema is a lightweight carousel plugin with no dependencies and no styling. Built by Paweł Grzybek
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IO – A space to publish freely
IO is a lightweight and powerful writing tool where you can publish your thoughts anonymously, under a pseudonym, or as yourself. Made by Bold.
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Dumb Password Rules
A shameful collection of not-so-intelligent password rules encountered on the Web. By Nicholas Duffy.
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Gitscout
Gitscout is a beautiful GitHub Issues experience for macOS.
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Progressive Web AMPs
Paul Bakaus shows the power of combining the ideas of Accelerated Mobile Pages with Progressive Web Apps.
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[Insert Clickbait Headline About Progressive Enhancement Here]
Aaron Gustafson responds to Josh Korr's article on Vidget and explains what progressive enhancement really is.
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Server Side React
Remy Sharp decided to give React a go and used it for server side rendering. Read about his insights.
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Four Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network
Fantastic interactive visualizations for understanding how machine learning works at the example of handwriting experiments.
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React-instantsearch
React-instantsearch is a set of widgets and connectors to add instant-search experiences in your React application, using Algolia search engine.
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Get the Balance Right: Responsive Display Text
Richard Rutter shows how to handle responsive display text properly with the right balance.
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Inspirational UI Elements vol. 2 (PSD)
A beautiful set of UI elements in PSD format.
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Free Font: Ossem
A beautiful free typeface with various styles designed by Kiril Semkov.
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Imzy
A new kind of community that aims to embrace diversity and simplicity.
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Mobirise Icons
A free, open source set of 124 elegant, pixel-perfect icons from Mobirise Builder.
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Git Notify
Get daily code diffs from public GitHub repos. Made by Sai Ram Kunala.
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CSS Shorthand Syntax Considered an Anti-Pattern
Learn why the use of shorthand syntax in CSS can beautiful problematic. By Harry Roberts.
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Saving the internet 2000 terabytes a day: fixing Font Awesome's fonts
An interesting article on optimizing the Web's most famous icon font.
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The State of Babel
A very interesting article on the current state of Babel, the powerful JavaScript tooling suite. By Henry Zhu.
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The major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
A great summary of this year's research progress in Deep Learning.
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Interactive Musical Instruments
Experimental ideas for playful musical interactions powered by MIDI.js and the Web Audio API. Play instruments or make sounds by interacting with content.
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Geeky Christmas Vector Set + Patterns
A free hand-drawn vector set plus two bonus patterns with a geeky Christmas related theme. Includes vector files and ready-to-use, optimized PNGs.
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