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Inspirational Website of the Week: THIRD by Kenjiro
This design is like a painting that came to life! The soft color theme and beautiful typography make it a joy to browse.
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15 Cool Tools and Resources for Designers and Agencies
These 15 tools and services as providing the best foundation for building an online presence.
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Contra: The State of Independence Report 2021
Contra surveyed over 10,000 freelancers across design, engineering, product, writing, marketing, and social to gather insights on the future of work.
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Media Queries in Times of @container
Max Böck asks an important question: With container queries now on the horizon – will we need media queries at all?
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Million
Current Virtual DOM implementations are inadequate — Ranging from overcomplicated to abandoned, most are unusable without sacrificing raw performance and size. Million aims to fix this, providing a library-agnostic Virtual DOM to serve as the core for JavaScript libraries.
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Edmond Ng
On Edmond Ng’s website you can browse through a variety of experiment.
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snk
Generates a snake game from a Github user contributions graph and outputs a screen capture as animated SVG or GIF.
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GSAP 3.7 Released
GSAP 3.7 is here! Check out all the new things it brings.
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High performance storage for your app: the Storage Foundation API
The Storage Foundation API resembles a basic file system, with direct access to stored data through buffers and offsets. Learn all about it in this article by Thomas Steiner.
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The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains
An interesting article by Ed Zitron on why it has become so painful to bosses to let their employees work from home. Spoiler: it has nothing to do with productivity.
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Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript
Private fields are a language feature being added to the JavaScript language through the TC39 proposal process. Learn all about it in this article by Matthew Gaudet.
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Health Icons
Completely free, open source health icons that you can use in your next commercial or personal project.
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Let’s Learn About Aspect Ratio In CSS
Learn how to use the native CSS aspect-ratio property in this article by Ahmad Shadeed.
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Wayfinder
A game of poetry and animated exploration across the land. Made by by Matt DesLauriers.
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When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements For Accessible Components
Learn why components like tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus are some of the user interface components that require more than CSS in order to ensure accessibility of your interface.
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Serving sharp images to high density screens
A very interesting article by Jake Archibald on how to target images at the user’s device pixels, rather than their CSS pixels in order to provide sharp images.
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Prestige
In case you didn’t know about it: Prestige is a powerful, text-based, in-browser, HTTP client app built by Shrikant Sharat Kandula.
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Mega Creator
Create instant designs for social media online with a wast library of resources.
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Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
Learn all about Astro, a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
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Component-Specific Design Tokens
Danielle Romo explains what component-specific tokens are and how to use them.
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GraphCDN
With GraphCDN you can scale, inspect and protect your GraphQL API. Cache your queries at the edge, get insights into its usage and protect it from malicious queries.
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