Collective #624

Inspirational Website of the Week: Brews & Grooves

An excellent design with some interesting animations and great typography! Our pick this week.

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Learn about spring physics animation in JavaScript

Josh W Comeau explains the magic behind Spring Physics and why they are the secret ingredient that make animations “taste better”.

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Simplify Your Stack With A Custom-Made Static Site Generator

In this article, Bryan Robinson explores how to take a humble HTML page and make its content editable in a CMS with no frameworks and no client-side JavaScript.

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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D

Ryan Kaplan posted a WebGL demo on Twitter and now he explains how it works under the hood.

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filters.css

In case you missed it: a supercool CSS only library to apply color filters.

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Blacklight

A great real-time website privacy inspector that will reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on any given website.

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Buttons that Spark Joy

The web certainly can’t have enough of these: Aaron Iker’s buttons that are mini celebrations. In this article you’ll learn how they are made.

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#s3e38 ALL YOUR HTML, Fancy colors shader and GSAP ScrollTrigger

In this video Yuri Artyukh dissects and recreates the amazing animations seen on mav.farm.

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3D Room

Amazing CSS work by Ricardo Oliva Alonso: a 3D room with great lightning.

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Finding The Root Cause of a CSS Bug

Great article on debugging CSS by Ahmad Shadeed.

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adidas – CHILE20

Outstanding WebGL work for adidas by Active Theory.

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Content delivery networks (CDNs)

This article provides a comprehensive overview of content delivery networks (CDNs). In addition, it explains how to choose, configure, and optimize a CDN setup.

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