Collective #371
Inspirational Website of the Week: Supercrowds
Some very exciting slice effects with lots of interesting transitions. Our pick this week.
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Do your clients worship you? They will now!
Woo your clients in 6 unusual ways with 1 domain name. Serenade them now!
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VR/AR prototyping for everyone
An in-depth tutorial with a nice intro on how to get started with virtual and augmented reality. By Pavel Laptev.
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A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study
Read about Pinterest's Progressive Web App and how they managed to make their new app load fast on mobiles. An article by Addy Osmani.
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How to prototype websites quickly with CSS Grid
Per Harald Borgen shows how to use CSS Grid as a powerful website prototyping tool.
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GiraffQL
An interactive GraphQL schema visualization tool built with React.
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The Internet is under attack. This is the Battle for the Net.
A great animation by Louis Wesolowsky that explains what net neutrality is and how to save it.
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A Journey to <10% Word Error Rate
Reuben Morais introduces DeepSpeech, the open source speech recognition model by Mozilla.
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Superstruct
With Superstruct you can easily define interfaces for validating JavaScript data against them. By Ian Storm Taylor.
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Merchant.js
Merchant is a system for creating programs that manage changing numbers over time which is particularly useful for idle or incremental games.
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Blurred Images Are Everywhere
Artem Syzonenko shows a small hack to make resized images more sharp looking in Chrome.
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DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next
A great article that explains what DRM is all about. Well worth a read.
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Cascading Web Design with Feature Queries
Chen Hui Jing writes about feature queries and how to use them in your stylesheets.
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Akaunting
Akaunting is a free, open source and online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. Check out the GitHub repo here.
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3D Printing
A fantastic demo by Shaw.
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Vuetron
A Vue testing and debugging app for the desktop built on top of Electron.
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Free Font: Glamora Stencil
Oliver Hardman designed this beautiful typeface and offers the stencil style for free.
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Christmas XP
This year's edition of the fabulous Christmas Experiments has begun!
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Image loading effects
Some beautiful image loading effects by Michal Niewitala.
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Best practices for site search design
An article by John Moore Williams where he highlights some best practices for site searches.
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Direction Reveal
A plugin for direction aware content reveal effects.
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How to Start With Static Sites
A useful collection of static site generators.
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Font-display
A small explainer for a talk on web fonts and performance by Monica Dinculescu.
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Decorative WebGL Backgrounds
A collection of decorative shapes displayed as backgrounds using WebGL. The shapes are created with Three.js and animated with the TweenMax library.
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