Collective #705

Inspirational Website of the Week: Nul

A fantastic design that enhances the product meaningfully in every little detail. The menu is a true hit!

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Understanding Layout Algorithms

Josh W Comeau pops the hood on CSS and explains how the language is structured, and how to learn it effectively.

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Spruce CSS

Spruce CSS is a modern, minimal CSS Framework built on Sass. Read the introduction by Adam Laki to learn more.

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Awwwards Conference

Three exciting days with some of the most influential speakers of the industry, who inspire, teach, and guide us as we face the many challenges and opportunities which lie ahead in the future of the web.

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Optimising Largest Contentful Paint

Harry Roberts looks at some more technical and non-obvious aspects of optimising Largest Contentful Paint.

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Building like it's 1984: Scrollbars in web applications

Michael Villar's deep dive into scrollbars, their history and usage.

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Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them

Roman Shamin and Travis Turner write about the awesomeness of variable fonts, how they work and why we are all ready for them.

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Tricks to Cut Corners Using CSS Mask and Clip-Path Properties

Temani Afif shows how to cut the corners of elements using CSS mask and clip-path.

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Canvas + Text

Paul Henschel made a demo that shows how to form self-contained components with their own state and user interaction.

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Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices

Aaron Hertzmann challenges the notion that photography records and displays objective information in this fascinating article.

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Rhea

Rhea is a geometry-shader based grass for Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP).

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Color Morph

Randomly generate beautiful mesh gradients, export them as an SVG or copy the generated CSS code into your project.

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Bionic Reading

An amazing project: Bionic Reading revises texts so that the most concise parts of words are highlighted which enables faster, more efficient reading.

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Resetting Inherited CSS with “Revert”

Scott Vandehey shares how using all: revert in CSS can come to the rescue when dealing with inherited styles.

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PWA Resources

A curated collection of resources to learn about Progressive Web Apps. Also, a super cool site design.

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Building a Vaporwave scene with Three.js

A step-by-step tutorial documenting Maxime Heckel's attempt at reverse-engineering the vaporwave WebGL scene from the Linear 2021 release page using only fundamental concepts of Three.js like textures, lights, animations, and post-processing effects.

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