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Cards and Composability in Design Systems
An excellent article by Nathan Curtis on structure, content, style and behavior of composed components.
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React in patterns
A free book about common design patterns used while developing with React. By Krasimir Tsonev.
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Replace Animated GIFs with Video
Jeremy Wagner shows how to replace large animated GIFs with lighter videos.
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pico.js
A compact face-detection library in JavaScript with real-time detection capabilities.
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Slugify
Convert a string into a slug. Useful for URLs, filenames, and IDs. By Sindre Sorhus.
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Sketchize
With Sketchize you can print sketch sheets for designing apps for mobile, tablet and desktop devices.
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The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
Jessica Kerr's fascinating keynote for Mob Programming Conference where she uncovers why great teams make great people.
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GitHub Learning Lab
GitHub Learning Lab takes you through a series of fun and practical projects for building your skills.
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How we designed page previews for Wikipedia?- and what could be done with them in the future
Read all about the new desktop page previews for Wikipedia's readers.
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Syntax Theme
A free minimalist theme for Atom and Visual Studio Code inspired by Framer's code editor.
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VS Code can do that?!
Some very useful and interesting things you can do in Visual Studio Code.
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All the Buildings in Manhattan
An interactive 3D visualization of the all the buildings in Manhattan.
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Layers and how to force them
Read about some gotchas of will-change in this article by Surma.
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Permit
An unopinionated authentication library for building Node.js APIs. By Ian Storm Taylor.
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Lessons Learned - A Year Of Going "Fully Serverless" In Production
Tal Bereznitskey shares his insights on going fully serverless at Torii.
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Nike React
A fantastic three.js powered campaign site for Nike where you can create your own Nike React runner. Made by the folks of DPDK.
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Free Font: Lazy Marker
A relaxed marker typeface designed by Luz Mariana Torres.
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What You Need To Know To Increase Mobile Checkout Conversions
Suzanne Scacca gives advice on how to improve checkout conversions for mobile sites.
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Free Font: MD Tall
A great slim display font designed by Mariano Diez.
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BBC Sound Effects
The BBC offers more than 16,000 sound effects for free usage in personal, educational or research work.
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Password Strength Visualization
Visual feedback for password strength on an image based on Colibro's sign up form.
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