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Inspirational Website of the Week: fanfanfan
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Jim Nielsen hopes that browser makers can find a way forward in improving the deficiencies of APIs like alert without setting further precedent that breaking the web is the price of progress.
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Imba
Imba is a programming language for building web applications with insane performance. You can use it both for the server and client. Read the backstory in HN.
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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future — Smashing Magazine
Take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade. By Mike Neumegen.
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Pop
Seamless remote pair programming with multiplayer control, crystal-clear voice and high-quality video.
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Nightmare DX (Developer Experience): Shopify
The first article in a series about poor developer experience (DX). Silvestar Bistrović writes about Shopify and its developer (un)friendliness.
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Psst
Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust. Very early in development.
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The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties
A very interesting gotcha with custom properties and valuable solutions. By Chris Coyier.
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Alda 101
Alda is a text-based programming language for music composition. It allows you to write and play back music using only a text editor and the command line.
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Furry ball
A fluffy furry ball demo by Louis Hoebregts.
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Vytal
Vytal shows you what traces your browser leaves behind while surfing the web. This scan allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser even while using private mode.
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Accessibility from the Ground Up
Kitty Giraudel helps with the daunting task of ensuring accessibility in a project.
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Does shadow DOM improve style performance?
Nolan Lawson explores if shadow DOM could improve style performance and explains the background.
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GitNFT
Autograph and sell your GitHub commits as NFTs. Build your collection and support the contributors you love.
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Micro frontends: Cross-application communication with Single-Spa and RxJS
Oleh Baranovskyi’s tutorial shows how to organize micro frontend interaction (component communication) with RxJs.
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Shaper
A fantastic tool for setting interface styles.
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Diagnosing common colour management issues
A quick cheat sheet to diagnose and solve colour management issues for designers and developers.
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Design Thinking: Study Guide
A collection of articles and videos to learn about design thinking.
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UI cheat sheet: Spacing friendships
Tess Gadd’s great cheat sheet where she explains how to space elements in a proper way.
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how-i-experience-web-today.com
Guangyi Li shows how he experienced the web in a fun interactive way.
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JavaScript Method Chaining… It’s All So STUPID!
Jason Knight has a strong opinion when it comes to chaining methods. Read why he thinks it can result in bloated, slow, and inefficient code.
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On the <dl>
Ben Myers explains why the description list element is underrated and how you can use it.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #18
A new roundup of the most impressive UI interactions and animations we encountered on Dribbble in the past couple of weeks.
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