Collective #576
Inspirational Website of the Week: Obys
The team of Obys created a very artful portfolio with great typography and layouts using the fantastic gooey and motion hover effects.
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Color Theory and Contrast Ratios
A great guide by Christopher Schmitt that will give you valuable insight to the concept of color contrast ratios.
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Start your own freelance business in 2020 by becoming a Divi developer
Learn how to develop websites with the most popular WordPress theme in the world and secure your success as a freelancer.
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Just JavaScript
Learn the JavaScript mental models in this email series by Dan Abramov. Also, check out his latest article What Is JavaScript Made Of?
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Flexible Captioned Slanted Images
A master class by Eric Meyer on how to create slanted images using clip-path.
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Bundling JavaScript for Performance: Best Practices
David Calhoun looks at three approaches for bundling a simple React.js app.
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Free Font: MAK
An experimental contrast typeface, inspired by Ukrainian music. By Valentyn Tkachenko.
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RTL Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS by Ahmad Shadeed.
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Acoustic activity recognition in JavaScript
Charlie Gerard shares a prototype of a browser-based acoustic activity recognition system.
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Top Pens of 2019 on CodePen
A collection of the 100 most liked Codepen demos of 2019.
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Thoughts On Svelte
Some interesting thoughts on why Svelte is becoming so popular. By Dwayne Charrington.
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What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me
Sara Soueidan shares some valuable lessons and core values that drive her work on accessibility.
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Generative Placeholders
A really cool placeholder images tool that uses generative art images. By Stefan Bohacek.
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Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust
The first part in a series on how to do a complete port of a web application from React+Redux written in JavaScript to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust.
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ImTui
ImTui is an immediate mode text-based user interface library. Check out the Hacker News terminal example.
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This is my new favorite (free) programming tool – GitHub Actions Tutorial
A practical video tutorial by Kristian Freeman where he explores the what, the why, and the how of GitHub Actions.
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chl.li URL shortener
A simple, modern, free and privacy-friendly URL shortener.
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Krabby
Krabby is a web extension (for Chrome, Firefox and surf) for keyboard-based navigation, inspired by Kakoune.
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Accessibility tools for designers and developers
A guide by Lisa Dziuba with accessibility testing tools, color contrast checkers and color blindness simulators.
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How tracking pixels work
Julia Evans explains how advertisers track people on the internet using tracking pixels.
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Color Picker From Image
A tool that generates a color palette from an image with a color picker.
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
A tutorial on how to re-create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube animation using WebGL.
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