Collective #699
Inspirational Website of the Week: ThoughtLab
Very sharp typography and an interesting bubble motif. Our pick this week.
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Offscreen Canvas
A fantastic new weekly WebGL and creative coding newsletter. By Daniel Velasquez.
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The State of JS 2021
The 2021 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem.
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gsap-video-export
A very handy tool for easily exporting GreenSock (GSAP) animations to video. By Chris Johnson.
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Hello, CSS Cascade Layers
In this article, you'll learn how cascade layers work, and how they will help you write CSS with more confidence, along with use-cases and examples.
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Cowsay
A supercool cowsay web interface made with Svelte and HTML Canvas. Copy the ASCII art, or save it as an image. By Shajid Hasan.
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Getting Started With the File System Access API
In this article you'll learn all about the File System Access API, the web API that allows read and write access to a user's local files. By Charlie Gerard.
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Minze
Minze lets you rapidly build native web components. Create encapsulated, reusable, cross-framework web components and scale your component library with ease.
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CSS Polka Dot Generator
A great tool for generating CSS-only polka dot patterns and corresponding CSS custom variables for you to reuse.
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Ripped paper
A beautiful ripped paper hover effect made with OGL. The code can be found here. By Clément Roche.
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Move over JavaScript: Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
A new crop of tools is helping developers build web UI components on the backend, all without JavaScript.
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pppointed
An SVG arrow builder where you can customize the arrowhead style, curves of the arrow and add some stylistic dashes.
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UI Icons
Many essential icons for user interfaces, based on a tiny 14px grid. Licensed under CC 4.0.
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Maximilian Berndt
Creative Developer Maximilian Berndt has a beautiful new gallery view of his experiments made with OGL.
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Tally Forms
In case you didn't know about it: a code-less forms & surveys maker that is free.
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hue.tools
An open source color toolkit with color mixer, blender, info and modifier.
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How does UTF-8 turn “😂” into “F09F9882”?
Seth Michael Larson explains how UTF-8 works in wonderful diagrams.
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A shell command to create JSON: jo
Jan-Piet Mens created "jo", a very useful shell command to create JSON easily.
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Jahneration Game
A nice game created already a while back but put live now for Jahneration's concert. Read more about it here.
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Digital Curator
An impressive fine art exploration by computer vision.
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Sha256 Algorithm Explained
A visual step-by-step explanation of the Sha256 algorithm.
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Single-file PHP file manager, browser and photo gallery
Files is a single-file PHP app that can be dropped into any folder on server, instantly creating a beautiful gallery of folders, files and photos.
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