Collective #537
Inspirational Website of the Week: Drink Cann
A refreshing and colorful design with a bubbly motif. Our pick this week.
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Writing a Simple MVC App in Plain JavaScript
A tutorial by Tania Rascia where she shows how to write an MVC app in plain JavaScript using the model-view-controller architectural pattern.
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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget
Chris Ashton puts himself in the shoes of someone on a tight data budget and offers practical tips for reducing our websites' data footprint.
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The Ultimate WordPress Page Builder
You've never built a WordPress website like this before. Divi is more than just a WordPress theme, it's a completely new website building platform that replaces the standard WordPress post editor with a vastly superior visual editor.
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The Real Dark Web
A refreshing read by Charlie Owen on the "boring" majority of the web dev world.
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Components AI
An experimental platform for exploring generative design systems. You can cycle through generated designs one or many at a time until you find something inspiring.
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Truths about digital accessibility
Some things to keep in mind when creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology. By Eric Bailey.
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Deep sea (Chrome only)
Yuan Chuan made this wonderful demo of an animated abstract underwater scene.
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Planet
Nadieh Bremer shares a magnificent project that visualizes how Planet's satellites create a full image of Earth's landmass in one single day. Read more about it in this tweet.
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React + Redux + Comlink = Off-main-thread
Surma investigates if and how React and Redux workings can be go off the main thread.
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Making a Realistic Glass Effect with SVG
A tutorial by David Fitzgibbon on how to make a creative glass effect with SVG.
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WebGL Month summary
Andrei Lesnitsky summarizes all tutorials he wrote in the past month for learning WebGL from scratch.
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The Best Newsletters to Subscribe to for a Frontend Developer
Brian Rinaldi shares a list of newsletters relevant for frontend developers.
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Aurora web elements for Adobe XD and Sketch
The Aurora UI kit is a free set of 24 web screens with a modern design.
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A Message to GitHub
A repo that raises awareness on GitHub's banning of Iranian and other users from sanctioned countries.
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Creating my logo animation
Cassie Evans explains how she created the slick SVG path animation of her logo.
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What I Like About Vue
Dave Rupert shares a list of things that make him enjoy Vue.
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Verby
A tool for creating and downloading natural voices as mp3 audio files.
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New CSS Features in Firefox 68
Rachel Andrew introduces all the exciting CSS features released with the new Firefox.
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Imperial Star Destroyer animated in 3D using only CSS
An impressive CSS only demo made by Hai Le.
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Figuring out CSS animation properties with a magic kittencorn
Chen Hui Jing writes about how the mascot for SingaporeCSS was brought to life with CSS animations.
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Using CSS Custom attributes generated by JavaScript as a handover mechanism
Chris Heilmann writes about CSS Custom Properties and shows how to only use JavaScript to read a value and leave the rest to CSS.
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