Collective #619
Inspirational Website of the Week: Next Big Thing
Excellent layout explorations with very nice details. Our pick this week.
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The Divi Summer Sale
Now it’s your chance to get a huge 20% discount on the most powerful WordPress theme in the world. Don’t miss out!
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The Animated Web
A wonderful resource site by Steve Gardner that collects animations from around the web.
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The Just in Case Mindset in CSS
Ahmad Shadeed writes about the “just in case mindset” which aims to educate designers and developers to think ahead of time of some possible failure scenarios for a component.
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Accessibility In Chrome DevTools
This article Umar Hansa demonstrates some useful features in DevTools which can help you improve the accessibility of your website.
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theheadless.dev
Free and open-source guides for learning Puppeteer & Playwright.
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Generative art by Manolo
Generative artist Manolo shares all his sketches including code and generated images for free. Absolutely stunning work!
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#s3e34 ALL YOUR HTML, Four Icosahedron geometries
A fantastic video tutorial by Yuri Artyukh on how to create four different icosahedron geometries.
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Custom Select Styles with Pure CSS
Stephanie Eckles shows how to style native select elements with CSS only.
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Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
Read how an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps.
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Creating 3D Illustrations with CSS
Learn the process of creating 3D illustrations with CSS only.
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Infinity Search
A new search engine where you can search with privacy and efficiency.
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Fixing Safari’s back button browser cache issue with vanilla JS
Learn how to fix a weird cache quirk in Safari in this article by Chris Ferdinandi.
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Impossible Checkbox v2
A supercool little checkbox that will make it impossible for you to leave it checked 
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Making Maisel Marvelous
A beautiful, immersive web experience for the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series.
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Single Page Applications using Rust
An easy to follow guide to building SPAs using Rust, WebAssembly and Yew.
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I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action
Peter-Paul Koch shares why he finds I Love MDN demeaning to technical writers. Also, read The cult of the free must die to understand more on the topic.
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Mozilla Lifeboat
A list of Mozillians actively hiring kind, passionate, awesome humans.
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Tip on inputmode
Álvaro Trigo shows a great trip on using “inputmode” to hint browsers what virtual keyboard to show.
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Kinopio
In case you didn’t know it yet: Kinopio is the visual thinking tool for new ideas and hard problems.
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Paper plotter
Such a cool thing: create 3D plots out of paper!
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Natively Format JavaScript Numbers
A great explainer on how to format JavaScript numbers by Elijah Manor.
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Thumbnail to Full Width Image Animation
An experimental animation where an image goes from thumbnail to full width, allowing for a classy entry to an article view.
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