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Inspirational Website of the Week: Sandland Sleep
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Demystifying styled-components
Josh W Comeau explains how styled components work under the hood by building a mini-clone.
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Towards a better responsiveness metric
Learn about our thoughts on measuring responsiveness and give the web.dev team some feedback.
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Setting up a Decentralised Website (ENS + IPFS = dWeb)
Ire Aderinokun’s introduction to ENS names and the concept of decentralized websites.
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Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking
Louis Hoebregts shows how to do use CSS Clipping and Masking to create awesome tooltips.
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Building Generative Grid Layouts With Quadtrees
Learn to create harmonious generative grids based on random numbers, source images, user input, and more. By George Francis.
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A Complete Guide To Accessibility Tooling
Nic Chan looks into different kinds of tools to help you streamline your accessibility testing process.
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React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application
An opinionated guide to setting up the architecture for a new React application by Tania Rascia.
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Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
Tim Kadlec on the mystery and challenges of memory usage on the web.
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Custom Scrollbars In CSS
An article by Ahmad Shadeed where you’ll learn about the old and new way to style custom scrollbars in CSS.
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Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback
Erin Casali on the advantages of asynchronous feedback to collaboratively improving designs.
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Beat Burger
A really cool playable burger demo by Steve Gardner.
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Concentric Circle Spinner
A cool spinner made only with divs, some border tricks, and one CSS animation.
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How to Create CSS Charts With Interesting Shapes, Glyphs and Emoji
Preethi shows how to create CSS charts with interesting shapes.
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GitHub Issues
With the new GitHub Issues you can break issues into tasks, track relationships, add custom fields, and have conversations.
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Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
A super interesting article on byte size of emojis by Andy Salerno.
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Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
Learn about the hidden superpower of variable fonts in this article by Roel Nieskens.
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A 3D Hover Effect Using CSS Transforms
A tutorial on creating a 3D hover interaction with JavaScript and CSS.
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OMG, SVG Favicons FTW!
Austin Gil explores the fun new world of SVG favicons.
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Drawing Graphics with the CSS Paint API
A practical introduction to the CSS Paint API with hands-on code examples including particles, noise buttons and curvy dividers.
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Inline to Menu Link Animation
An experimental inline-to-menu-link animation based on a concept by Matthew Hall.
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