Collective #557
How to design delightful dark themes
In this article Teresa Man shares how to design dark themes that are readable, balanced, and delightful.
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roughViz
A reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser.
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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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Spotify TUI
A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust. By Alexander Keliris.
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Design System Playground
Play with typography, colors and themeable components in your design system. By John Polacek.
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Mini Tokyo 3D
A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system. By Akihiko Kusanagi.
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The wondrous world of CSS counters
An in-depth look at CSS counters, how they've expanded with better support for internationalization and how it's possible to implement a pure CSS Fizzbuzz solution with them.
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GitSheet
GitSheet is a simple git cheat sheet reference for common git commands.
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100% CSS Mario Kart
Stephen Cook creates an interactive version of Mario Kart using only CSS.
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Dynamic CSS Components Without JavaScript
Learn how pure CSS components are achievable with custom properties.
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Clip-path converter
A very useful tool if you want to prepare SVG paths to be used with CSS clip-path. By Yoksel.
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CSS is Awesome - Variable fonts Edition
A fun demo by Mandy Michael that shows how variable fonts can fix CSS 😜
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The “P” in Progressive Enhancement stands for “Pragmatism”
Andy Bell explains progressive enhancement in a more practical way.
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Advanced JavaScript Node.js Promises chaining collections
Learn how to use advanced features of JavaScript Promises using Node.js with this programming tutorial.
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Intro to SVG for React Developers
A tutorial by Daniel Matarazzo where you'll build a colorful spinning loading indicator as a React component, using some very simple SVG markup.
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The W3C At Twenty-Five
In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how the W3C works and shares her “Web Story” to explain why the Web Standards process is so vitally important for everyone to have an open web platform where they can share their stories and build awesome things for the web together.
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The Open Book Project
Joey Castillo is on a mission to create a simple book reading device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves.
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Able
Able is a bootstrapped community for people to read and write about software.
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Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use
Tyler Childs shows some examples of patterns for Custom Properties from his Cutestrap framework.
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1 element card background patterns (see description)
A pure CSS technique for creating patterns that doesn't use SVGs or images other than CSS gradients. By Ana Tudor.
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The SQL Murder Mystery
Use SQL queries to solve the murder mystery. Suitable for beginners or experienced SQL sleuths.
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js13kGames Winners
Check out the winners of this year's Js13kGames competition.
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Blocke: Social web UI kit
A free social UI kit from Blocke that includes 3 ready-made screens with 30+ components that might come in handy for building a social feed.
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Create Text in Three.js with Three-bmfont-text
A short tutorial on how to create animated text in Three.js with three-bmfont-text and give it a nice look using shaders.
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