GSAP Site of the Week: Phantom Land
GSAP names Phantom Land Site of the Week for its sleek, polished design using CustomEase, Three.js, WebGL, and React.
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6 advanced TypeScript tricks
Oleg Wock shares advanced type-level programming tricks to improve your TypeScript codebase.
AI Is Flipping UX Upside Down: Navigating the New Era of Design
Jan Nikka A. Estefani explores how AI is transforming UX design, challenging traditional tools and pushing designers to rethink roles, skills, and the future of interface.
Why is quality so rare?
Karri Saarinen reflects on why true quality feels rare today and makes the case for craft as both a creative pursuit and a business advantage.
The best new app for newsletter reading
Meco is a distraction-free space for reading and discovering newsletters, separate from the inbox. Add your newsletters in seconds and liberate your inbox today!
The no-nonsense approach to AI agent development
Malte Ubl shares a practical code-first guide to building reliable AI agents using clear logic and real software patterns.
Physicality: the new age of UI
Sebastiaan de With explores Apple’s rumored UI overhaul and imagines a future where interfaces feel alive through dynamic interactive glass.
I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
Glyph reflects on their deep discomfort with generative AI, why they’re stepping away from the discourse, and the emotional toll of unresolved skepticism.
The UX butterfly effect
Martin Tomitsch explores how small design choices can lead to big, unintended consequences—and what designers can do about it.
The 2025 Pinterest Midyear Trends Report
The 2025 Pinterest Midyear Trends Report reveals Gen Z’s shift toward nature, digital detoxing, and astrology-inspired aesthetics.
Build a Product Card with Tailwind CSS
Discover intermediate and advanced styling techniques using Tailwind CSS and craft a fully responsive, professional product card for a web store in this Scrimba course. Codrops readers get 20% off Pro plans!
Human coders are still better than LLMs
Antirez argues that while LLMs are helpful, human coders still surpass them in creative problem-solving.
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog
Andy Clarke shows how to creatively style HTML <dialog> for branded, accessible UI with CSS and animations.
Quarkdown
Quarkdown is a versatile Markdown-based typesetting tool for building print-ready books or interactive slides with scripting and live preview.
Fragments
A curated collection of resources and tools for exploring creative coding and shaders with Three.js and TSL.
GSAP Site of the Week: Navigate
GSAP has named Navigate by Resn its Site of the Week, celebrating its playful scroll and text animations powered by ScrollTrigger and SplitText.
Shipixen
Website, blog, or product boilerplates. One-click deploy to Vercel. SEO-ready MDX blog with Next.js 14, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and Shadcn UI.
Animate a mesh across a sphere’s surface
Learn how to move 3D meshes smoothly across a sphere’s surface with three.js and GSAP using spherical paths and quaternions.
ForesightJS
ForesightJS predicts user intent via mouse movement to prefetch smarter—before clicks or hovers.
What’s new in web UI
Una Kravets explores powerful new web UI features that let developers build rich interfaces with minimal HTML and CSS.
Staying Code Visualization Platform
A zero-config tool to visualize code execution and data structures in Python, JavaScript, and C++ — no installs or setup needed.
WeatherStar 4000+
A web-based recreation of the classic WeatherStar 4000, offering retro local forecasts powered by NOAA, now modernized with HTML/CSS.
A visual builder like no other
Build stunning websites effortlessly with Divi – the world's #1 premium WordPress theme and visual builder.
The col element
A scathing and humorous critique of HTML’s <col> and <colgroup> elements—how they work, why they’re confusing, and why you’re probably better off avoiding them.
Eleventy LibDoc
A clean, accessible documentation starter for 11ty, focused on performance and usability.
Password Basket
Catch falling characters in a game to generate strong, secure passwords.
A Brief History of JavaScript
This article traces the 30-year journey of JavaScript, highlighting its rise from a quick browser hack to the most influential language in web development history.
191 Social Proof Examples
A place to browse social proof examples grounded in psychology, with real-life applications in business and marketing.
RenderHooks
RenderHooks is a small, innovative React library that allows you to use React hooks inline, right next to the JSX where they’re needed, without breaking the Rules of Hooks.
Reinvent the Wheel
Matthias Endler argues that rebuilding existing tools is a powerful path to learning, creativity, and deeper understanding.
So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything.
Jon Daiello pens a reflective letter from the future, offering a glimpse into a world where designers trade pixel perfection for something far more transformative.
GSAP Site of the Week: Meet Your Legend
GSAP's Site of the Week is Meet Your Legend, a beautifully crafted experience by Beaucoup Studio featuring a slick mouse follower, thoughtful transitions, and a logo/menu/loader combo.
You can style alt text like any other text
Andy Bell shows how to style <img> alt text and enhance fallback UX with CSS and JS when images fail to load.
90s.dev
A new web-based gamedev platform for building game-making tools using a retro OS-style GUI and a 320×180 canvas API.
Crosspost
Crosspost lets devs post to Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, and more from one JavaScript API or CLI. Streamline your social automation.
Styling the icon for HTML date and time types
Cassidy Williams shares how to style input[type="date"] icons using ::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator, solving dark mode issues.
A simple search engine from scratch
A hands-on guide to building a lightweight blog search engine using word embeddings and client-side cosine similarity.
Patrick Heintzmann’s Lab
Patrick Heintzmann launches a personal lab to preserve and share his creative WebGL sketches, demos, and shader experiments.
New Digital HQ — pt 1
Basement shares part 1 of a case study on their PS2-inspired 3D site—covering design choices, performance tricks, and custom workflows post-launch.
Masonry, Item Flow, and… GULP?
A promising CSS proposal called Item Flow may finally bring native masonry layout support—and a unified layout model—to the web.
Painting With the Web
Matthias Ott's inspiring talk at the "beyond tellerrand" festival 2025 in Düsseldorf.
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Ed Zitron eviscerates modern leadership, arguing tech and business are ruled by clueless, performative execs detached from real work and people.
Web animations today and tomorrow
Bramus Van Damme explores new and upcoming web animation features at Google I/O 2025, including View Transitions and @starting-style.
Visualizing 100,000 Years of Earth in WebGL
Bouke Stam built a WebGL globe that visualizes 100,000 years of Earth's geography, sea levels, climate, and ice sheets using shaders and scientific data.
Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU
Nikita Lisitsa explores life-like particle simulations in the browser using WebGPU, covering modeling, GPU binning, prefix sums, and rendering.
Antoine Wodniack’s Open Source Portfolio
Antoine Wodniack open-sources his Webby-winning Astro portfolio for others to learn from.
GSAP Site of the Week: Andres Briganti
GSAP named Andres Briganti its Website of the Week—a fast, focused, and brutally intentional experience powered by Observer, SplitText, and React.
Building my childhood dream PC
Fabien Sanglard restores his dream 90s IBM PC in a deep, nostalgic series covering hardware, DOS setup, peripherals, and classic PC gaming.
