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Inspirational Website of the Week: The Shift
An innovative design with beautiful effects. Our pick this week.
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The Fastest Way to Build a Custom Website
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Creating Themeable Design Systems
Brad Frost dispels the myth that design systems impose stifling rigidity on design teams.
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Lazy Loading Images and Video
Jeremy Wagner explains how lazy loading helps lower initial page payload and load time.
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Are Mobile Pop-Ups Dying? Are They Even Worth Saving?
A very insightful analysis of the mobile pop-up pattern by Suzanne Scacca.
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Here are examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018
A guide to the new features of modern ECMAScript.
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Unfolding Cube Recursion
An amazing recursive cube animation created by Jon Kantner.
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Generated Maps
A fantastic Twitter thread by Jason Grinblat where he shares a collection of amazing map generators and their creators.
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Beautiful and Functional Interfaces
An interesting read on the design of professional interfaces. By Moses Kim.
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The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign
Read all about the interesting story of Reddit's epic redesign that about one percent of Redditors can currently see.
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JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A wasm-bindgen Tale
Alex Crichton dives into wasm-bindgen, a project for facilitating high-level interactions between wasm modules and JavaScript.
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The Node.js Ecosystem Is Chaos
Casper Beyer reminds us how critical dependency bears many risks in the Node.js ecosystem.
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Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting user names into text with Zero-Width Characters
Read about zero-width characters and how they can be used to fingerprint text. Check out the Chrome extension here.
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Focusing on Focus Styles
Eric Bailey writes about the importance of focus styles for other forms of input.
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Introduction to HTML
A course that will teach you the basics of HTML in less than an hour. Read more about it in this article.
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Perlin Noise
A beautiful Perlin Noise demo created by yasaisai.
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Streamline Emoji
A gigantic free collection of cute emoji made by Webalys.
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Draggable House
A fun demo where you can drag the roof of a house to expand the building.
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Free Font: Odessa
A very creative font designed by Theodore Kapogiannopoulos.
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Free Mockups
Some great free mockup images by MockupPhotos.
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