Collective #474
Inspirational Website of the Week: Elias Tinchon
A minimal design with great function and nice details. Our pick this week.
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Divi Leads A/B Testing & Conversion Optimization
Did you know that Divi comes with an integrated split testing and conversion rate optimization system backed by powerful stats and insights?
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Going Offline First (Video Series)
An insightful video series by Ire Aderinokun where she shows how she updated her blog in order to allow saving articles for offline viewing.
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DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration
The first article of a two-part series that shows how to use the power of CSS variables for complex layouts. By Ana Tudor.
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Shapy
Shapy is a gradient shape editor that helps you discover and explore the power of CSS gradients.
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Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
Read about the rumors around Microsoft's plans to let go of Edge.
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Screenshoteer
With Screenshoteer you can make website screenshots and mobile emulations from the command line.
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Building a Simple Virtual DOM from Scratch
A typed-out version of Jason Yu's fantastic talk where he live-codes a virtual DOM from scratch.
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Xmas Tree
Point and shoot to decorate your Christmas Tree in this Christmas Experiment.
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Risking a Homogeneous Web
Tim Kadlec's thoughts on Google's rising influence on the web and Microsoft's plan to build their next browser around Chrome.
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A CSS Venn Diagram
Adrian Roselli shows how to use CSS Shapes, Grid and Custom Properties to create a Venn diagram.
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ncc
A simple CLI for compiling a Node.js module into a single file, together with all its dependencies, gcc-style.
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
A very interesting long-read on the distinct friendship between Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.
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Elements To Ditch Or Repurpose On Mobile
Suzanne Scacca gives some useful advice for cleaning up mobile websites.
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Mistletoe Offline
Jeremy Keith writes how to utilize a service worker to make a custom offline page.
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Pika
A searchable catalog of modern "module" packages on npm.
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Introducing Background Fetch
Jake Archibald shows what Background Fetch is and how to use it.
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Hatsumode
Another beautiful Christmas Experiment in honor of Hatsumode, the first shrine visit of the Japanese New Year.
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ForgJs
ForgJs is a lightweight JavaScript object validator.
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Blue Startup Template
Blue is a free HTML landing page for startups made by Cruip.
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Measuring the "Filter Bubble": How Google is influencing what you click
DuckDuckGo's study that reveals the disturbing way Google shows search results.
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UI Logos
A plugin that helps you get dummy logos directly into Sketch.
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Free Image Resizer
A tool for resizing images to fit social media and web formats.
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