Collective #318
Inspirational Website of the Week: Nicolet Schenck
A great portfolio design with beautiful colors and details. Our pick this week.
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Beautifully Animate Points with WebGL and regl
After animating thousands of points in Canvas and d3.js, Peter Beshai is showing now how to use WebGL with regl to animate even more points super smoothly.
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Build Things Visually with Divi 3.0
Divi 3.0 introduces a completely new visual interface that will forever change the way you build websites.
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A Unified Styling Language
A comprehensive article by Mark Dalgleish on what "CSS in JS" is all about and why writing your styles in JavaScript isn't such a terrible idea.
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How to design for emotions: A starter's guide
A fantastic article on the importance of emotions in design and a more "art inspired" approach to the whole process. By Henry Daubrez.
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Storyframes before wireframes: starting designs in the text editor
Fabricio Teixeira shows how beneficial screenwriting techniques are for the design process.
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JavaScript & The Spread Operator
Learn about the spread operator by means of four practical examples in this article by Brandon Morelli.
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Face classification and detection
Real-time face detection and emotion/gender classification using fer2013/IMDB datasets with a keras CNN model and openCV.
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pix2code
Some very exciting research by Tony Beltramelli: generating code from GUI screenshots.
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If You Want to Be Creative, Don't Be Data Driven
Bill Pardi gives his readers a reality check on data and shows how to use it in a meaningful way.
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Webpack: The Basics
Learn how to set up a project with JavaScript and Sass in this tutorial by Kari Sabine Malmin.
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Who Cares?
A nice reminder by Patrick Johnson that we shouldn't care too much about what others think.
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Harmony UI Kit for Sketch
A well designed Sketch UI kit for location oriented apps. By Dawid Młynarz.
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Stuff at the Top of an SVG
Peter Nowell explains the details and purpose of things at the top of an SVG in plain English.
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The problem with maps
A really great read on the problematic of 2D maps with interactive examples. By Michael Davis.
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npm v5.0.0
Read about all the new features and improvements of this major npm version.
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100 Free EGO Icons
A set of 100 free icons from the new EGO collection by Webalys.
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Ludus (Beta)
A new presentation tool with lots of creative possibilities. Open for beta access.
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Data Gif Maker
Make your own data gifs with Google's new tool. Learn how to use the tool in this article.
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Little Things I Like to Do with Git
Harry Roberts shares some useful little Git snippets that he uses most frequently.
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Graphcool
Graphcool gives developers a production-ready GraphQL back end. Free during development.
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Mocka
A simple and easy-to-use content placeholder for your web project. Made by Angelos Chalaris.
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Free Font: Rogue
A display font ideal for posters and titles. Designed by Alt Type Foundry.
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Tisp
Tisp is a "Time is Space" functional programming language that aims to be simple, canonical, and practical.
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On-Scroll Morphing Background Shapes
A decorative website background effect where SVG shapes are morphing and transforming on scroll.
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