Collective #357

Inspirational Website of the Week: A friend of mine

Innovative details and some awesome organic shape morphs make this site our pick this week.

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There IS a better way to manage Apple devices...

Jamf Now is a mobile device management solution for iPad, iPhone and Mac devices at work. We make managing Apple devices simple and affordable; no IT required.

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Let There Be Peace on CSS

Cristiano Rastelli's written version of a talk on a war that is dividing the CSS community.

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Froala Design Blocks

A set of 170+ Bootstrap based design blocks ready to be used to create clean modern websites.

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Google is really good at design

Joshua Topolsky writes about how Google has finally figured out good design.

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Rebuilding slack.com

Mina Markham writes about the Slack.com redesign that is powered by CSS Grid and optimized for performance and accessibility.

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Animating a Blur

Read about how to use a smart work-around for animating a blur.

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Colorizing B&W Photos with Neural Networks

Emil Wallner reproduces and documents the fascinating deep learning bot by Amir Avni that colors black and white photos.

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Setting up Webpack, Babel and React from scratch, revisited

An updated tutorial by Stanko on getting Webpack, Babel and React set up.

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React Sight

React Sight is a live view of the component hierarchy tree of your React application with support for React Router and Redux.

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audio-visualizer-torus

The repo of an audio visualizer using cubic interpolation.

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You can get pretty far in making a slider with just HTML and CSS

Chris Coyier shows how to make a nice looking functional slider with HTML and CSS alone.

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6 myths of Progressive Web Apps

Peter O'Shaughnessy clarifies what's behind the concept of PWA's, and what's not.

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Amoeba

A great demo by Varun Vachhar that lets you drag a little Amoeba.

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How to create floating Sketch plugins, part I

Marc Bouchenoire shows how to create a Sketch plugin with a floating panel and make its WebView communicate with Sketch.

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Sunboxlabs

A great platform for sharing DIY solar projects.

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Mini Tetris

A tiny JavaScript Tetris version with just 512b.

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How I used Python to find interesting people to follow on Medium

Read how Radu Raicea created a Python script for Medium that returns a list of users that are active and post interesting responses on the latest posts of people you are following.

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