Collective #665
Inspirational Website of the Week: Aristide Benoist
The website of Aristide Benoist is an interaction gem that shines with novel details and unique touches. Our pick this week.
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The New Super Fast Way to Build a Website
BeTheme’s new Muffin Builder is like upgrading from a Ford to a Ferrari. You’ll be shocked at how quickly you get your website (or one of Be’s 600+ pre-built websites) to the finish line.
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Cognitive Bias and the Design Process
A look at the systematic errors in thinking that affects decisions and judgment during the design process. By Jon Yablonski.
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Visually Explained: MVP Transformations
An interactive sandbox that shows the 3 basic matrix transformations that are essential for understanding vertex shaders in Three.js.
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Best practices for fonts
Learn how to optimize web fonts for Core Web Vitals in this article by Katie Hempenius.
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How to Find and Remove Dead CSS
Justin Searls' screencast on how to go about identifying and removing unused styles.
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3D Force-Directed Graph
A web component to represent a graph data structure in a 3-dimensional space using a force-directed iterative layout. It uses Three.js for 3D rendering.
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New CSS functional pseudo-class selectors :is() and :where()
Adam Argyle explains the new pseudo class selectors :is() and :where() are going to have a big impact.
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Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries
Temani Afif shows how to create a fully responsive hexagon grid made without media queries.
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Getting Started With Webpack
Take a deep dive into what webpack is and how to use it in your development workflow. By Nwani Victory.
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The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML
Sophie Koonin explains why it's paramount to use semantic HTML.
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Fig
Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal.
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Helix
A "post-modern" modal text editor where the whole design is based around multiple selections as an editing primitive.
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Disabling a link
Learn how to disable a hyperlink in this article by Scott O'Hara.
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Assistive Technology: Fixing contrast issues, on your own site and elsewhere
Learn how to fix the insufficient text contrast issue for better accessibility using a browser extension.
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Request Quest
The game is pretty simple: look at some code & decide if it would trigger an HTTP request in the latest stable release of particular browsers.
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NocoDB
A free and open source Airtable alternative that can turn any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.
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Why We Should Throw Out React and Pick Up Angular
Sam Redmond shares the largest issues he faced when dealing with a variety of React projects and explains how Angular solves most of them.
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All you need is 5 fonts
Matej Latin shows how you only need 5 fonts for good web typography.
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Kalker
Kalker is a calculator that supports user-defined variables, functions, ambiguous syntax, derivation and integration. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and in web browsers (with WebAssembly).
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Inspirational Websites Roundup #26
Get updated on the latest trends in web design with this new collection of super creative websites.
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Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Beyond Triangles
In part three of our series we’ll look at how to create more interesting shapes with trigonometry, and how to draw them with the Canvas API.
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Thumbnail Hover Effect with SVG Filters
A simple thumbnail hover effect with a caption slide out animation and an SVG filter distortion on the image.
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