Collective #420
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UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?
A brilliant write-up on time for programmers by Zach Holman.
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From Beautiful Maps to Actionable Insights: Introducing kepler.gl, Uber's Open Source Geospatial Toolbox
Shan He from Uber Engineering introduces kepler.gl for creating beautiful maps.
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Sculpting Software Animation
Pasquale D'Silva's interesting guide to designing animations.
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Proppy
ProppyJS is a small JavaScript library for composing props (objects that components receive to render themselves) which can then be used in a components-based UI framework like React or Vue.js.
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Critters
A Webpack plugin to inline your critical CSS and lazy-load the rest.
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Whimsical Wireframes
Whimsical includes a rich library of configurable elements for fast mockup creation with collaboration in real-time.
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Goat
A private URL shortener just for your team.
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Why is Front-End Development So Unstable?
Jimmy Breck-McKye analyses why front-end technology changes so quickly.
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Jeeliz Face Filter
A face detection and tracking library in JavaScript based on WebGL deep learning.
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Pawtastic UI Kit for Adobe XD
A beautiful UI Kit to get you started with Adobe XD.
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Building a responsive image
A step-by-step guide for creating a responsive logo by Nils Binder.
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Free Font: Bedebah
A unique looking display typeface designed by Holis Majid.
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Solving Life's Problems with CSS
A great article where Diana Smith shares a nifty CSS technique she used for creating Francine.
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Scantron Answer Sheet
A realistic looking Scantron answer sheet replication powered by CSS grid by Jon Kantner.
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Prerender-loader
Pre-rendering describes the process of rendering a client-side application at build time, producing useful static HTML that can be sent to the browser instead of an empty bootstrapping page.
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Buttons falling apart
A playful shattering button demo by Mikael Ainalem.
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code.xyz
An embeddable development environment for easily building APIs, webhooks, and workflow automation tasks that run atop StdLib infrastructure. Read more about it here.
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Deno
A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 that supports TypeScript 2.8 out of the box. By Ryan Dahl.
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Grid System Library
KK UI Store's library of grid systems for iOS, Android and Bootstrap.
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Bolsters Design Project
Some wonderful and inspiring UI design work by Tai Chen.
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36 Days of Type Video
In case you missed it: Ben Huynh's amazing compilation of this year's creative type challenge.
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