Collective #308

Inspirational Website of the Week: Carbon Beauty
Interesting scroll action with some nice, exemplary reveal animations. Our pick this week.
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It's Time To Start Using CSS Custom Properties
Learn about CSS custom properties and how to use them in this article by Serg Hospodarets.
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Real Time Design in WordPress
Divi 3.0 introduces a completely new visual interface that will forever change the way you build websites.
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Forall.js
Expressive static types and invariant checks for JavaScript.
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Handle Mouse And Touch Input With The Pointer Events API
Danny Markov shows how to use the Pointer Events API.
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Get Started With Analyzing Runtime Performance
Kayce Basques shows how to use the Chrome DevTools Performance panel to analyze runtime performance.
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The variable state of the browsers, early 2017
A summary of the current capabilities of major browsers in handling variable fonts.
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Free Font: Avene
A free brush font with unique details designed by Krišjānis Mežulis from Wildtype.
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Think you know the top web browsers?
Find out why our traditional idea of the top five browsers may be over-simplified, outdated and skewed. By Peter O'Shaughnessy.
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
A fascinating article by James Somers on the tragic fate of Google Books.
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Putting comments in code: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Great article by Bill Sourour on proper code commenting.
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A World With No Heroes.
The behind the scenes of making a living WebGL map for a video game campaign. By William Mapan.
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Let's Build a Web App with Vue, Chart.js and an API
The first part of building a small web app which interacts with the npm API and generates nice charts. By Jakub Juszczak.
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Organizing the World of Fonts with AI
Read about the creation of Font Map, and interactive font visualization experiment. By Kevin Ho.
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Morphing SVG Slider
A great slideshow demo with some morphing SVG line drawings. By Sullivan Nolan.
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Yeah, redesign
A two part series by Jingxi Li on how to approach redesign in the mobile world.
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Vuejs 2 Authentication Tutorial
A tutorial on how to add authentication to your Vuejs 2 app by Prosper Otemuyiwa from Auth0.
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Things nobody will tell you about React.js
Gianluca Guarini shares his thoughts on working with React.
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How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis
A very interesting example of a NLP analysis of Reddit comments.
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Free Font: Brownhill Script
A lovely font with soft strokes designed by Faisal Tanjung.
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Why TypeScript Is Growing More Popular
Mary Branscombe analyzes why TypeScript is gaining popularity.
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68 Resources To Help You To Create Programming Languages
Gabriele Tomassetti's collection of resources that you need to create your programming language from scratch.
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Developer/Designer Page Layout Concept
An experimental page layout concept with a developer/designer theme and a special image reveal effect.
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