Collective #429
Shotsnapp
A fantastic tool for creating mockup presentations for your design. Made by Gaddafi Rusli.
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Use pre-built websites to avoid making unforgivable design mistakes
Even the best web designers make mistakes. A solution to this problem is using pre-built websites. Be Theme offers over 350 of them, each of them at one click away from being installed on your website.
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Designing for accessibility is not that hard
Pablo Stanley shows us seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web.
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Tenori-off
A smart music sequencer that uses Machine Learning to try to match drums to a synth melody. Made by Monica Dinculescu.
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Scrolling Gradient
Mike Riethmuller created this demo where a background gradient changes according to the scroll position.
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Reduce JavaScript Payloads with Tree Shaking
Jeremy Wagner explains how to use tree shaking, a form of dead code elimination, to improve JavaScript performance.
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SVG Pattern Doodler
Niklas Knaack created this fantastic demo where a simple algorithm draws patterns and doodles into an SVG element.
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An adventure in sparse arrays
Remy Sharp explores sparse arrays and shares some common pitfalls when dealing with them.
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Singlie
A progressive and minimal implementation of the circular and linear singly linked list data structures in modern ES6.
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Free Font: Leira
A playful brush font designed by Evita Vilaka.
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Interneting Is Hard
In case you missed it: A resource of friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners.
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fakeScroll
A lightweight and robust custom-looking HTML scrollbar script.
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React From Zero
A simple yet comprehensive React tutorial.
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What is the CSS 'ch' Unit?
Eric Meyer explains the ch unit in CSS.
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Generative WorldCup
An experiment with the world cup statistics API and canvas to generate abstract patterns for each soccer match.
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Pixels vs. Ems: Users DO Change Font Size
An interesting article with data on how many users actually change the font size in their browsers. By Evan Minto.
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ChartGen
An SVG chart generator that utilizes the Box-Muller transform to generate random trending data for realistic SVG line and bar charts.
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Everything You Need To Know About Transactional Email But Didn't Know To Ask
Some advanced best practices for transactional emails by Garrett Dimon.
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Fitting Text to a Container
Chris Coyier explores the different ways of making a text size itself to fill a container.
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Where is CSS4? When is it coming out?
Jen Simmons explains why CSS4 does not exist.
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'Fire' visual effect in JavaScript
A short tutorial on how to create a pixel fire effect in JavaScript with just about 20 lines of code.
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More
A nice link animation made by Chris Gannon.
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The guide to integrating and styling icon systems?- inline SVG and icon components
In this two-part series, Claudia Romano explains integration techniques for icon systems using practical code examples.
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The Vue Handbook
A guide to Vue written by Flavio Copes. Free for a subscription.
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The simpleton's guide to CSS Grid
An easy-to-follow guide to CSS Grid by Dennis Gaebel.
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