Collective #321
Fuse: A Better Way To Make Native Apps
Making cross-platform, native apps for iOS and Android is needlessly complex — especially when you're working with others. Fuse aims to end the friction.
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Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All?
Matt D. Smith response to Adam Silver's article Floating Labels Are Problematic.
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Locally Scoped CSS Variables: What, How, and Why
Una Kravets shows how powerful CSS variables are and how we can use them.
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How the minmax() Function Works
Learn all about the interesting minmax() function of CSS Grid in this article by Ire Aderinokun.
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Color blends are back in fashion, and these 30 will give you a colorgasm
Isabela Carvalho gives us some fantastic inspiration for color blends.
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Pix2Pix
Pix2Pix uses a neural network to create a portrait from a drawing. The AI system behind the tool learned from thousands of images of Lara Rense, an achor at Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO. Read more about it here (Dutch).
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A day without Javascript
Charlie Owen turned off JavaScript in the browser and checked how some large sites show their content.
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JavaScript: What the heck is an Immediately-Invoked Function Expression?
Brandon Morelli explains what an IIFE is an shows why it's useful.
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JSC loves ES6
An in-depth article on the development of WebKit's first ES6 benchmark, ARES-6.
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Color Accessibility Workflows
An excerpt from Chapter 3 of Geri Coady's new book, Color Accessibility Workflows.
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The Designer's AI Study Guide
A great getting started guide to Artificial Intelligence with useful links for designers. By Huge.
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Creating an interactive SVG metro map with JointJS
Przemek Maszczynski shows how to use JointJS and make an interactive SVG metro map.
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Beesandbombs/davidope Inspired Three.js Animation
A mind-blowing Three.js demo by Matt Rothenberg.
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LiquidPro UI kit for Sketch
A lovely UI kit for Sketch by DtailStudio.
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SVGI
A very useful CLI tool to inspect the content of SVG files.
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How to get the most out of the JavaScript console
Darryl Pargeter shows how to fully harness all methods of the console.
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Google not, learn not: why searching can sometimes be better than knowing
A very interesting article by Jeremy Gunter where he shows how searching is actually a good thing.
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How to Code: Collision Detection — Part I
Christopher Lis offers some fantastic Dev tutorials on Youtube. In this one he teaches about collision detection.
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Awesome Design Systems
A curated list of awesome design systems, pattern libraries, and everything inbetween. By Alex Pate.
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Fun with Viewport Units
Some great examples for using viewport units. By Miriam Suzanne.
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VolumeNobProjectile
A fun volume control demo where you "shoot" a volume projectile.
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Best websites a programmer should visit
If you haven't seen this one yet: a great collection of useful websites for programmers.
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Typography as Base: From the Content Out
Francisco Baila shares his process of structuring his typography approach for any web project.
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Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8: a real-world performance comparison
David Gilbertson shares his performance comparison he did when upgrading to Node 8.
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