Collective #709
Inspirational Website of the Week: Exo Ape
Exo Ape’s website design is a class of its own: a super smooth scroll experience with lots of meaningful details and impeccable visuals. Our pick this week.
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CSS Day conference, June 9–10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Also prefer fundamental CSS knowledge over hypes? Then join CSS Day, a deep-diving CSS conference in Amsterdam, NL. Our speakers treat CSS topics that the attendees can geek out on. On 9th & 10th of June, after a two-year silence, we’ll host our 8th edition.
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CSS Toggles Explainer & Proposal
Explainer and proposal of CSS toggles by Miriam Suzanne and Tab Atkins Jr.
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HyperUI
Free Tailwind CSS components that can be used in your next project. Perfect for Laravel, Rails, React, Vue and more.
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SVG generative mountain ridge dividers
Learn about creating generative mountain ridge dividers using videogame terrain generation techniques, JavaScript and SVG. By Alistair Shepherd.
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Childish Font Sizes
Tyler Sticka provides some reasons to go even larger than the 16 pixel font size for body copy.
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Flexibly Centering an Element with Side-Aligned Content
Eric Meyer shows how to solve a specific layout problem using a modern CSS technique.
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Progressive Enhancement and HTML Forms: use FormData
Learn how to use FormData to apply Progressive Enhancement on HTML forms. By Bramus Van Damme.
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Insanely Useful Websites
Discover super useful websites you didn’t know existed.
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Web color is still broken
A visual guide and some interesting insight into why web color is broken.
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WebGL project
Michal Zalobny created a fantastic Three.js project based on a course by Luis Henrique Bizarro.
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Earth Reviews
Help improve the earth simulation with these humorous reviews.
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A Practical Guide to Centering in CSS
How do you center a div in CSS? This reference explains various methods to center elements using CSS, including techniques for Grid and Flexbox.
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Slow Social
A social network built for friends, not influencers.
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FortuneSheet
A drop-in JavaScript spreadsheet library that provides rich features like Excel and Google Sheets.
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Progressively Enhanced Builds
Some thoughts on progressively enhanced builds Jim Nielsen.
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One-line drawings
Zack Scholl shows how he created software to reconstruct one-line drawings.
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Fleet (beta)
Fleet is the blazing fast build tool for Rust. Compiling with Fleet is up-to 5x faster than with cargo.
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Look Scanned
Look Scanned is a pure frontend site that makes your PDFs look scanned.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #23 – Codrops
A fresh set of selected motion design shots for your inspiration.
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Case Study: Windland — An Immersive Three.js Experience
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