Collective #358
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Metaballs
A fantastic write up on how those organic looking squishy gooey blobs work with SVG path-only manipulations. By Varun Vachhar.
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Design Beyond a Screen: A Primer for VR, AR and the Multiverse
A great introduction to the different types of realms we can potentially work with. By Graeme Fulton.
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Introducing PayPal's open-source cross-domain JavaScript suite
Paypal has open sourced a set of tools to make the integration on third-party sites easier and more reliable.
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Schnack.js
Schnack.js is an ad-free, open source Disqus clone that comes with a very minimal, hackable code base.
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Design for Developers: Specific Steps to Improve Your Website Design
Some clear tips on how to become better at critiquing and improving ones own site as a non-designer.
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Naming Things In CSS Grid Layout
Rachel Andrew takes an in-depth look at the various ways to name lines and areas in CSS Grid Layout.
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sketch-to-react-native
Automatically create React Native components out of Sketch designs.
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Key Reinstallation Attacks
Mathy Vanhoef has discovered an extremely crucial security weakness in all modern WPA2 protected Wi-Fi networks.
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Only CSS: Creamy <3
A fun CSS-only demo by Yusuke Nakaya.
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How open source licenses work and how to add them to your projects
Radu Raicea gives an overview of popular open source licenses and teaches how to apply them to your GitHub projects.
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While Apple is taking away buttons, we found a way to add one
Savannah Reising introduces the brilliant solution for Luna Display that adds another "button" to the iPad using the camera.
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The Art of Comments
Gread read by Sara Drasner on the necessity of commenting code.
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Image Trace Loader
Based on Mikael Ainalem's interesting idea, this library loads images and exports traced outlines as image/svg+xml URL-encoded data. By Emil Tholin.
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Sequence Creator with Web Audio API
An Excel-like sequence creator made with canvas and the Web Audio API. By Jon Kantner.
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How to structure components in React
An article by Bartek Witczak on how to properly structure React component.
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Geometrical Birds Slideshow
A slideshow with morphing geometrical birds by Mikael Ainalem.
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Web Typography: Numerals
An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Richard Rutter's new book, "Web Typography".
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Experiments
A repo for collecting Audio/VR/AR/GL experiments. By Jordan Santell.
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Fontplop
An OSX/macOS application that takes ttf and otf files and outputs a webfont bundle with woff2, woff, tff, svg, and eot.
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Hillclimber
Hillclimber is a curated machine learning mashup resource.
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Monopoly board
John Coppola made this Monopoly board with CSS grid.
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Library Symbol Replacer
A Sketch plugin for replacing symbols in an existing document with library symbols
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