Collective #296
Inspirational Website of the Week: DESCENTE 2017
Interesting transitions with some striking effects. Our pick this week.
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Scrimba
An engaging new platform for communicating and learning code with screencasts.
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Password Rules Are Bullshit
A very interesting article why common password rules are terrible and what to do about it. By Jeff Atwood.
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Numscrubber.js
A great plugin for changing input number values by dragging the mouse to the sides.
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Playing with CSS Grids
Marco Barbosa shows the power of CSS Grids on a beautiful print-like layout.
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Using CSS Transitions on Auto Dimensions
Brandon Smith shows some solutions for the problem of transitioning to auto dimensions.
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hyperHTML: A Virtual DOM Alternative
Andrea Giammarchi introduces hyperHTML, a fast and light virtual DOM alternative.
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We need to talk about Opera Mini
An insightful article on Opera Mini by Hui Jing Chen.
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A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode
Nathan Reed demystifies Unicode once and for all in this great article.
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Animista
A great new tool for generating CSS animations on demand. Built by Ana Travas.
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The System Design Primer
An organized collection of resources to help you learn how to build large scale systems. By Donne Martin.
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The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Libraries
Tim Kadlec's summary of last week’s NDSS Symposium's whitepaper on vulnerabilities of client-side JavaScript libraries.
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Free Font: Connoisseurs
An elegant brush typeface by Pixel Buddha.
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A horizontal scrolling navigation pattern for touch and mouse with moving current indicator
A step-by-step tutorial on how to build a navigation by Ben Frain.
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Practical Design Discovery
An excerpt from Dan Brown's new book, Practical Design Discovery.
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colorfonts.wtf
Learn about the amazing color fonts and how you can use them.
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I analyzed every book ever mentioned on Stack Overflow. Here are the most popular ones.
Vlad Wetzel took up the challenge to find the most popular programming books. Check out the results on dev-books.
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Hassle-free Full Bleed with *:not()
Dave Rupert shows an interesting way to use the negation CSS pseudo-class.
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Service Worker Toolchain
A collection of utilities for creating, testing and experimenting with service workers.
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3D Earth
A stunning 3D globe demo by Bryan Jones powered by three.js.
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From student to professional
Vicky Gao shares her experience on how real world UX differs from school project UX.
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Free Sparkly Icons To (Literally) Make Your Designs Shine
30 free icons from the new Ballicons 3 pack by Pixel Buddha.
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