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Inspirational Website of the Week: Listeners Playlist
Wonderful colors combined with some extraordinary, smooth hover effects. Our pick this week.
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Big Data Visualization with Meaning
An interesting article by Byron Houwens on mastering data visualization with meaning.
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Hex Naw
Hex Naw is a tool that helps designers and developers test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility.
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The Freelance Contract
The standardized service agreement to build fair and strong relationships between people and companies.
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Neutrino
Neutrino is a companion tool which lets you build web and Node.js applications with shared presets or configurations.
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We Need More Shitty Work
A great article on the importance of shitty work. By Femke.
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An Animated Intro to RxJS
Learn about RxJS, or ReactiveX, in this hands-on tutorial by David Khourshid.
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Terminals Are Sexy
A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources for CLI lovers. By Nikolaos Kamarinakis.
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Paticons: Icons And UI Patterns (PSD, PAT, Sketch, JPG)
A great set of minimalistic seamless UI patterns ready to use and easy to modify.
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Re-designing Sketch
Eder Rengifo takes on the challengin task of improving the desin of Sketch.
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txt.fyi
Write something, hit publish, and it's live. By Rob Beschizza.
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An Alphabetical Adventure
A fantastic animated journey exploring all letters of the alphabet. By Studio Lovelock.
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DatoCMS
DatoCMS is a fully customizable administrative area for your static websites.
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Why I Love Element Queries & You Should Too!
An article by Tommy Hodgins on how useful and powerful element queries are.
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Free Font: Bella
A lovely and casual handwritten typeface designed by Zoe Bockasten.
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A Trick: Individual CSS Transform Functions
Dan Wilson shows how to use CSS Variables for manipulating transform functions at an individual level.
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JavaScript Errors and Stack Traces in Depth
Lucas Fernandes da Costa writes about errors and stack traces and how to manipulate them.
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2016 Web Design Trend Report
Learn about last year's insightful trends based on 1,127,302 of Photoshop and Sketch designs that have been uploaded to Avocode in 2016.
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The Unexpected Power of Viewport Units in CSS
Thomas Lattimore shows some great use cases for viewport unit.
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Movies For Hackers
A curated must-watch list of movies for hackers and cyberpunks. Another resource by Nikolaos Kamarinakis.
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Get Started with Variable Fonts
An intro by Richard Rutter on how to start working with variable fonts.
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