Collective #593
The Markup
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Tailwind UI
Fully responsive, beautiful UI components, designed and developed by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, the creators of Tailwind CSS.
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Open Peeps
A mix-and-match hand-drawn illustration library by Pablo Stanley.
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How does the Virtual DOM work?
An animated explainer by Sarah Drasner on how the Virtual DOM works.
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Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images
Daniel Aleksandersen highlights the differences of implementation of native lazy loading in browsers.
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Revealing Hero Effect in CSS and JavaScript
Learn how to create a section that reveals its content when the previous element scrolls away. A tutorial by Claudia Romano.
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Heroicons
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
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What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean?
A very interesting read on foldable devices and the ideas around a "foldable web". By Frederick O’Brien.
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Drag–and–Drop: How to Design for Ease of Use
Learn how clear signifiers and feedback at all stages of the interaction make drag–and–drop discoverable and easy to use.
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Iconset
Iconset is a free SVG icon organizer and manager app for designers, developers and teams for both, macOS and Windows.
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Booklets.io
A place that collects hundreds of booklets on design, business, freelancing and more.
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Why write vanilla JS when you can just use [insert library or framework here]?
Some good points on why writing your own vanilla JS instead of using a framework can be a better option.
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Mosquito JS
A fun creation by Tim Holman: an annoying mosquito noise, generated with JavaScript.
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Buttono
A flexible Sass mixin for creating BEM-style buttons. By Hasan Aydo?du.
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Your website probably has a memory leak
Memory leaks are common in Single Page Apps and this article will show you how to find and fix them.
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The Tuner
Eric Karjaluoto has a very distinct view on the role of the designer. He writes: "It's hard to produce suitable work when you think about design as a form of expression."
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CSS Specificity calculator
Quickly calculate any CSS selector specificity score along with explanations.
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5 Common Web App Accessibility Issues And How To Fix Them
Some useful tips on how to fix common accessibility issues in web apps.
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Share images to your website using the Web Share Target API
Learn how to use the Web Share Target API on the example of a grayscale converter for images. By Michael Scharnagl.
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Pure CSS Responsive Browser Template
A really nice and responsive browser template by Adam Marsden.
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Animating SVG Text on a Path
A demo that shows how to animate SVG text on a path on scroll using the Intersection Observer API and SVG filters.
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Audio-based Image Distortion Effects with WebGL
Some experiments that show how to use audio-based distortion effects on images with p5.js and its sound library.
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