Collective #434
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Create your own Serverless API
Sarah Drasner's tutorial on how to build a Serverless API with Microsoft Azure.
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Gliding Gallery
David Khourshid and Stephen Shaw build an image gallery with beautiful transitions.
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Color Wheel Generator
A fantastic tool that generates a color wheel. Made by Hayk An.
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UIengine 1.0
Read about Dennis Reimann's open sourced UIengine that started out as a tool to build pattern libraries and documentation for design systems.
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Building the Google Photos Web UI
An excellent in-depth article by Antin Harasymiv on how the Google Photos Web UI was built.
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Halftone Effect
Misaki Nakano's wonderful demo of bouncy boxes with a configurable halftone effect.
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3D City with Matter.js
A demo by Michael Iriarte that lets you view a 3D city from 2D physics using matter.js. Read the tweet here.
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Zippity Zappity (SVG)
Steve Gardner created this fun demo of a dynamically drawn SVG that follows your mouse or touch.
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Grabient
A gigantic collection of well blended gradients for your next project.
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Totoro Toggle
A super cute animated toggle made by Adam Kuhn as part of a Codepen challenge.
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Mariano Pascual's Portfolio
A fun site design with lots of inspiring goodies.
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Foundations of Machine Learning
A training course that was initially delivered internally to Bloomberg's software engineers as part of their "Machine Learning EDU" initiative.
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Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
David Bryant Copeland explains how Brutalism in Web Design means "raw content true to its construction".
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Airdrop - Technical casestudy
An article by Luigi De Rosa and Thierry Michel where they explain how they created Airdrop, a Facebook Instant Game for Red Bull.
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The Complete Illustrated Flexbox Tutorial
A visual guide to flexbox magic by Greg Sidelnikov.
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Jasper
A flexible and powerful issue reader for GitHub.
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Free Font: Austra
A lovely uppercase brush font designed by Gatis Vilaks.
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Create your design system, part 1: Typography
An article by Sebastiano Guerriero as part of a series on design systems inspired by CodyHouse's upcoming library of web components.
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Variable Fonts in Firefox DevTools
Patrick Brosset's tip for playing with variable fonts in the Firefox DevTools (Nightly).
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9 Biggest Mistakes with CSS Grid
Jen Simmons lists the 9 biggest mistakes she sees people making when using CSS Grid.
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Moon Grid
Ana Tudor's coding solution to an interesting problem.
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