Collective #314
Inspirational Website of the Week: Trüff
An interesting and artful web experience with beautiful animated illustrations.
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Online Master's in Information Design and Strategy
This online, part-time program at Northwestern University is taught by industry leaders and top professors.
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Breaking Out With CSS Grid Layout
Tyler Sticka shows a CSS Grid powered technique for breaking out of a fixed width container.
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Moments of Happiness
Moments of Happiness is a super-cute series of WebGL experiments developed using Three.js and GSAP Library. Made by Karim Maaloul.
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Designing Purpose
Read about the motivation and idea behind The Purpose Project in this fascinating article by Minnie Bredouw.
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An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly
Lin Clark illustrates what it is about WebAssembly that makes it fast.
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CockroachDB 1.0 is Production-Ready
Read all about the release of the first open source, cloud-native SQL database.
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Outline
Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable by removing ads, related links, and comments.
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Introducing Stack Overflow Trends
David Robinson introduces the new Stack Overflow Trends tool for tracking interest in programming languages and technologies.
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Experiments in fixed aspect ratios
Stephanie Liu shows how to maintain embed aspect ratios in a responsive site.
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Material Components
The open source library of modular and customizable UI components for Android, iOS, and web apps by Google.
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Rosid
A Node.js static site generator that transforms your files on-the-fly before serving them to the browser.
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SpreadShare
A place to explore community-curated spreadsheets for startups and professionals.
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Free Font: Starway
Meriton Salihu designed this interesting two-line font.
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TypeScript React Starter
A starter template for TypeScript and React with a detailed tutorial on how to use the two together.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to d3.js
A great introduction and road map to d3.js by Ian Johnson.
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The Many Faces of Functions in JavaScript
Leo Balter and Rick Waldron give an illustrative overview of the existing syntactic forms for functions in JavaScript.
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Approaching a Truly Natural Interface
A very nice read on the history and challenges of designing GUIs. By Tyler Waite.
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Hasty
A code snippet generator for custom WordPress code like shortcodes, custom post types and more.
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CSS and the First Meaningful Paint
An in-depth talk by Patrick Hamann on the current, past, and future best-practices for loading CSS in the browser.
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One build tool to rule them all — Blendid!
Dan Tello introduces Blendid (formerly known as Gulp Starter), a stand-alone blend of tasks and build tools poured into Gulp to form a full-featured modern asset pipeline.
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Butternut
Butternut is a fast JavaScript minifier that works with the latest version of JavaScript (ES6, and beyond). By Rich Harris.
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Infinite Tubes with Three.js
Louis Hoebregts built some WebGL experiments where the viewer seemingly travels through a textured tunnel. Powered by Three.js and inspired by the effect seen on fornasetti.com.
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