Collective #716
Inspirational Website of the Week: Jorge Toloza
An excellent design with a unique feel and smooth animations. Our pick this week.
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Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
Patrick Clancey summarizes the advantages of the mobile first approach and some alternate solutions if mobile-first doesn’t seem to suit a project.
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The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox
Some great insight into how the (Not Boring) Habits app became Apple Design Award winner with a game feel approach.
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Fresh
Just in time edge rendering, island based interactivity, and no configuration TypeScript support using Deno.
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Untools
A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.
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Software Engineering
Addy Osmani shares some of the software engineering soft skills he has learned from his first 10 years on Google Chrome.
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CSS Shadow Gradients
A generator for supercool shadow gradients with pure CSS. By Alvaro Trigo.
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In circles and spheres
In this Offscreen Canvas edition, you'll learn all about looping over circles, sines, cosines, and spheres.
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Simple CSS solutions
Kevin Powell shows some straigh-forward CSS solutions using pseudo-classes.
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Aspects of Accessibility (a11y) - Semantics, Contrast and... Anxiety?
An article by Sara J. Wallén that covers some a11y issues, also looking at anxiety-inducing design.
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Plain text. With lines.
Kartik Agaram writes about an app he made that allows to write and draw.
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Stack Tower Game
Michal Zalobny made this Stack Tower Game with THREE.js and React based on Hunor Márton Borbély's tutorial.
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The End of Localhost
Learn why swyx thinks that in the future, most development will not be done on localhost.
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Tooll 3 - A realtime animation toolkit
An open source software for motion design and procedural content generation. Makers are calling for folks to help and try it out!
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Three.js Particle Skull
Anderson Mancini made this interactive skull in Three.js. Watch the breakdown and check out the code.
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Better scrolling through modern CSS
Learn all about improving scrolling through CSS in this article by Mayank.
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Useful utilities and toys over DNS
Free and useful services over DNS accessible on command line.
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How to: Make your multilingual website suitable for RTL
Some knowledgeable things to make your website suitable for RTL and LTR languages with just HTML and CSS.
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I’ve locked myself out of my digital life
A very interesting article by Terence Eden on a situation that shows the limits of the "Code Is Law" movement.
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Calendar.txt
Keep your calendar in a plain text file with Calendar.txt. It is versionable, supports all operating systems and easily syncs with Android mobile phone.
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Patterns
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) shares some essential patterns for understanding when and why to use ARIA.
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Dialogs and shadow DOM: can we make it accessible?
Nolan Lawson takes another look at getting dialogs to play nicely with shadow DOM.
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Sake
Sake is a command runner for local and remote hosts. You define servers and tasks in a sake.yaml config file and then run the tasks on the servers.
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