Collective #300
Inspirational Website of the Week: Héloïse Thibodeau Architecte
Smooth interactions combined with subtle animations and an interesting layout. Our pick this week.
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Building performant expand & collapse animations
Some great advice on how to make expanding and collapsing animations performant. By Paul Lewis.
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No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter
Great article on the annoying anti-pattern of unprompted modal windows.
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Building a Conversational Bot with JavaScript and Node.js
An in-depth tutorial by Brian Rinaldi where you'll learn how to implement a conversational bot.
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Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
A gentle introduction to modern JavaScript for old-school backend devs. By Gina Trapani.
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Case Study: My First Practical CSS Grid Layout
Tyler Sticka shares his experience on creating a first practical CSS Grid layout.
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Keyshape
Keyshape is a 2D vector graphics and animation software for Mac that lets you export SVG animations or video files.
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100 Bold Purple Line Icons
A set of versatile line icons in the formats SVG, EPS, AI, PNG, Sketch, IconJar. By Kirill Kazachek for Pixel Buddha.
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A new CSS Grid demo on mozilla.org
Ali Spivak introduces a new demo that showcases the powers of CSS Grid as a layout tool.
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Free Font: Cookit
A tasty and friendly font designed by Sérgio Haruo.
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Pretty Printing
Matt Gaunt writes about how to log in a developer friendly and informative way.
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JavaScript vs. Python in 2017
An honest comparison between using JavaScript vs. Python in your project. By Michael Bolin.
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Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources
Arun Agrahri shares a fantastic list of AI and ML resources.
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A11Y Style Guide
A living style guide, generated from KSS documented styles, with an accessibility twist.
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4 Approaches To Natural Language Processing & Understanding
Mariya Yao writes about the challenges of NLP and making programs understand what we mean.
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iterare
ES6 Iterator library for applying multiple transformations to a collection in a single iteration.
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Practical CSS Grid: Adding Grid to an Existing Design
Eric Meyer shows how to simplify your current layout with the powers of CSS Grid.
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JavaScript. But less iffy.
Part three of a great series of articles on reducing complexity in JavaScript code. By James Sinclair.
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Playcode
Desktop client for the Playcode Online Javascript Editor.
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polychrome
A super-compact JavaScript library for parsing and manipulating colors. By Chad Donohue.
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Writing modular CSS (Part 2)
Some more thoughts on writing modular CSS and why BEM is only part of the solution. By Zell Liew.
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Free Font: Prensa
A slick compressed typeface designed by Fabio Brust.
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cwiki
Command line Wikipedia searching by Christopher Hannah.
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Expanding Bar Navigation Concept
An experimental tab-like navigation concept where a content area is opened with an animation once an item is clicked.
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