Collective #468
Inspirational Website of the Week: Mathieu Lévesque
A portfolio with nice typographic effects and interesting details. Our pick this week.
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Northwestern's Online MS in Information Design & Strategy
Build skills to translate data into compelling visuals and narratives and learn how research and analytics can drive communication strategies and tactics.
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Web.dev (beta)
A new site by the Chrome Developers team that aims to help developers learn and apply the web's modern capabilities to their own sites and apps.
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Web High Level Shading Language
WebKit introduces a new graphics shading language for the Web inspired by HLSL. Follow the interesting discussion on HN about this.
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Squoosh
This great web app by Google lets you optimize images and reduce their size dramatically by editing the advanced options of various image compressors.
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A Brief History of Flickering Spinners
An interesting article by Mikael Ainalem on the troublesome case of too quickly ending loading animations.
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Inlining or Caching? Both Please!
Scott Jehl explores caching inlined files and shows a proof of concept.
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VisBug
Make any webpage feel like an artboard with this browser extension by Google. Watch the video.
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Turtletoy
Turtletoy allows you to create generative art using a minimalistic JavaScript Turtle graphics API. By Reinder Nijhoff
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Why using 'tabindex' values greater than “0” is bad
Karl Groves lists the reasons why defining a number for tabindex should be avoided.
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Developer page concept (digital design)
Dulov Evgeniy's delightful developer page concept.
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State of Houdini — Director's Cut (aka. Honest Edition)
The uncensored version of a great Chrome Dev Summit 2018 talk by Surma.
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Why Facebook's api starts with a for loop
A very interesting article by Antony Garand on the JSON hijacking vulnerability.
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Free Font: Wanderlust
A unique looking slab serif font designed by Jan Henkel.
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Head: Free header starter kit (Sketch)
A nice set of hero starter templates by Stefano Peschiera.
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#codevember 7/2018
A lovely jellyfish demo by Noel Delgado.
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The Writable Files API: Simplifying local file access
Pete LePage explains what the idea of the Writable Files API is and what you could do with it.
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Emojious Free Icons
More than a hundred free icons from the adorable Emojious icon set.
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Icons 8 Beta
An update of the useful icon web app with thousands of free icons.
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What is First Input Delay?
Ire Aderinokun's summary on the First Input Delay (FID) metric.
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The 1.1.1.1 App
Private internet by Cloudflare now as a mobile app.
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My journey had lasted seven hours
Gerard Ferrandez created this demo of randomly and recursively generated trees.
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Page Flip Layout
A template with a two-sided, magazine-like layout and a flat page flip animation. The layout is powered by CSS Grid.
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