Collective #656
Inspirational Website of the Week: Studio Sentempo
Harmonious, unique typography and stunning effects combined with thoughtful details. Our pick this week.
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Instant websites for your clients with Divi Layout Packs
With the Divi Layout Packs you’ll get world-class designs ready to be used for your client projects.
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Swipey image grids
Cassie evans shows how to make use of the features of SVG for building interesting UIs.
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Vanilla JavaScript Code Snippets
A guide to vanilla JavaScript code snippets — with resources and lightweight libraries to help you solve a problem without a large overhead or third-party dependencies.
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Kaboom!!!
Kaboom.js (beta) is a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun! Read more about it in this article.
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Fixing a slow site iteratively
Learn how to improve site performance step-by-step in this article by Kealan Parr.
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Building a Simple Image Gallery with Eleventy
Learn how to use the Image plugin with Eleventy to build a simple gallery. By Raymond Camden.
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Web Browser Engineering
In this book Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson explain how to build a basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a thousand lines of Python.
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Minimum Viable Dice Wars
Learn how to code a minimum viable version of Dice Wars.
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An accessible toggle
Kitty Giraudel shares a HTML + CSS only implementation of an accessible toggle that you can copy in your own projects and tweak at your own convenience.
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Paper Snowflakes: Combining Clipping and Masking in CSS
Michelle Barker explains how she built the paper snowflakes demo.
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Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software
Kilian Valkhof explains what the advantages of prescriptive software are.
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Inspect Element As A Way To Feed Your Curiosity
A really great idea: inspect elements in the DevTools to learn new things and make yourself a better front-end developer.
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Mario Carrillo
The cool temporary site by Mario Carrillo.
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Integration Tests with Jest, Supertest, Knex, and Objection in TypeScript
Learn how to set up and tear down a database for integration tests using Jest and Supertest in a TypeScript API. By Tania Rascia.
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Lipgloss
Style definitions for nice terminal layouts. Built with TUIs in mind.
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Coolify: Heroku & Netlify alternative
An open-source, hassle-free, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative.
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Sortable Table Columns
Adrian Roselli dives into accessible sortable table columns that are usable.
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Classic Windows Calculator
A cool calculator made by Jon Kantner.
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3 Ways to Merge Arrays in JavaScript
Read how to merge arrays in JavaScript using the spread operator, array.concat() and array.push().
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React + D3.js
Amelia Wattenberger on using D3.js inside of a React.js application.
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SvelteKit is in public beta
After five months and hundreds of commits, you’re finally invited to try out the SvelteKit beta.
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Deletion Day
Although it’s from April 4th, there’s lots of valuable information here: Deletion Day challenges the prevailing notion that “more is more”. In a culture that strives for permanence, we celebrate ephemerality, growth, and change.
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Poulette, the color palette
Proof of concept for a color mixer interface.
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How to Create a Globe and Add Cities using Three.js
A coding session where you’ll learn how to create a globe and add cities to it with Three.js.
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Preview to Full Content Page Transition
An experimental page transition concept for magazines and blogs where an excerpt item opens for a full page view.
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