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Inspirational Website of the Week: Antoni
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Pigment
One of the fantastic design tools made by ShapeFactory.
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CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
An excerpt from Chapter 19, "Filters, Blending, Clipping, and Masking", of "CSS: The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl.
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Let's make multi-colored icons with SVG symbols and CSS variables
A great technique by Sarah Dayan for multi-colored SVG icon symbols.
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Grandchild elements in BEM
Luke Whitehouse writes about the unpleasant issue of grandchild elements in BEM and some options for dealing with it.
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Grid Examples
A place to get inspiration for CSS Grid layout examples in the wild.
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mdn-browser-compat-data
A repository that contains browser compatibility data that describes which platforms support particular Web APIs. Read more about it in this article.
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Caire
Caire is a content aware image resize library that leaves the most important part of the image.
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Stimulus 1.0: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
Read about the Stimulus JavaScript framework in this article by David Hansson.
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Sketching in the Browser
Mark Dalgleish shares the great journey of the work that aims to bridge web design and development.
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The Power of Serverless for Front-End Developers
Useful info and resources on serverless for web developers.
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I shall resist
A beautiful demo for snake lovers by Gerard Ferrandez.
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Shittiest Project Ever
Smile Studio presents the shittiest project ever to waste your time ;)
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Digital in 2018: World's internet users pass the 4 billion mark
Some very interesting report insights from We Are Social and Hootsuite.
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Dribbble Color Palette Generator
Generate a .sketchpalette file from any Dribbble shot's color palette to be loaded in the Sketch-Palette plugin. By Amie Chen.
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One File, Many Options: Using Variable Fonts on the Web
Ollie Williams shows how to use variable fonts in your web projects.
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EasyTimer.js
An easy-to-use timer library compatible with AMD and NodeJS.
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An introduction to Progressive Web Apps
A great guide to Progressive Web Apps (PWA) by Flavio Copes.
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Web AR with smart plugs using A-frame
First part of an article series about using Web AR using A-Frame to visualize energy consumption using Wemo smart plugs connected to home appliances. By Gemma Vincent.
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Deep-copying in JavaScript
An interesting guide for copying an object in JavaScript.
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How to use variable fonts in the real world
An interesting article by Richard Rutter on the challenges of using variable fonts.
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GLSL: Underwater Sun
A great GLSL demo by Liam Egan.
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