Collective #408
Inspirational Website of the Week: Charles Simon
Smooth transitions and a unique design made us pick "Charles Simon" as inspirational website this week.
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Everything IT requires and Developers love
HelloSign API's robust SDK, amazing support, detailed documentation, and super clean dashboard is sure to make your entire team happy.
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Oh Man, Look at Your API!
Alexey Kuznetsov's complete guide for building and improving APIs.
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Creating a Panning Effect for SVG
Great article by Louis Hoebregts on how to achieve panning on an SVG.
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How browsers position floats
A nice visualization by Monica Dinculescu that shows how browsers position floats.
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Matrix Vision
A project that livestreams from your webcam to put you inside the Matrix. Made by Emily Xie.
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How To Create An Audio/Video Recording App With React Native: An In-Depth Tutorial
An extensive tutorial by Oleh Mryhlod where you will learn to create video/audio recording functionality with React Native.
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Creating smooth sequential animations with Sass
Glenn McComb shows a technique for creating CSS animations using the power of Sass' for loop.
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<link rel="prefetch/preload"> in webpack
Read all about webpack's support for prefetching (and preloading) in this article by Tobias Koppers.
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Bagan: Discover a heritage site at risk
A fantastic Google Arts & Culture project where you can join a technological tour of the earthquake damaged temples of Bagan.
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Only CSS: 404 Rolling Box
Great CSS demo made by Yusuke Nakaya.
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Me Too Rising
A visualization of Google Search interest in the "MeToo" movement over time.
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Instagram of Louis Ansa
The inspirational and artistic creations of Louis Ansa.
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An Introduction to VuePress
Learn how to get started with VuePress in this article by Joshua Bemenderfer.
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Scrollbars & CSS Custom Properties
Louis Hoebregts' solution for getting rid of unnecessary scrollbars in Windows.
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Mission Critical: optimizing CSS for CDN
An overview of how to handle critical CSS to accommodate different CDNs and their features.
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Science Slider
A very creative custom slider made by Chris Gannon.
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Free Font: Loka Regular
A geometric slab serif font family with a semi-humanist touch. The regular style is for free.
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CSS/SVG Blobby Background
Cassie Evans created this demo with SVG filters and masks.
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Why is not using the CSS cascade a problem?
Peter-Paul Koch asks an interesting question about JavaScript developers not using the CSS cascade.
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Semantic Experiences
Experiments in understanding language by Google.
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