Collective #720

Inspirational Website of the Week: Sapporo Nishiyama

An artful design with lovely typography and smooth effect details. Our pick this week.

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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders

Robb Owen shows how to get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL, but CSS blend modes only.

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The Public APIs List

A community-curated and updated resource for public APIs.

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Siter.io

Build a website visually with a powerful no code online editor tool. Design websites in the browser and host them online.

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Lost Geometry 3D Illustrations

Huge set of 91 abstract 3D objects in various styles to bring a modern touch to your interfaces. PNG version is available for free.

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The CSS behind Figma

A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app by Ahmad Shadeed.

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Statements Vs. Expressions

In this blog post, you’ll learn about statements and expressions, and see how building an intuition about this can help solve practical problems.

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Where’s the button? Designing for mode confusion

An interesting article on modes and when they can be useful or confusing.

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Avoiding <img> layout shifts: aspect-ratio vs width & height attributes

Jake Archibald explores what’s the best technique to use in order to avoid layout shifts with images.

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Building your website using Jigsaw

Learn how to build a website with the static site generator Jigsaw.

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The Many Faces of Themeable Design Systems

Brad Frost takes a look at themeable design systems that are used to provide a flexible foundation for many diverse products.

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GitHub Copilot and Open Source: A Love Story That Won’t End Well?

With Copilot, is Microsoft/GitHub taking too many liberties with the open source software that has been entrusted in their repositories? A very interesting read by Sasha Medvedovsky.

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musicForProgramming();

Really great resource for good programming music! Also, a very nice website.

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Funnel Easy

Create and export a funnel in seconds with this tool.

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Clever CSS tricks

A very interesting thread by Steve Sewell where he collects cool CSS tricks employed by great sites.

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Godlike

Godlike is a production-ready website component library for Framer that will save you tons of time on your projects.

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PocketBase

PocketBase is an open source Go backend with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard.

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Designers Lobby

Designers Lobby is a curated collection of more than 1200 design resources and tools with over 60 categories handpicked from the web. By Nitin Singh.

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Serve

Serve is a tool for developers to generate authenticated API endpoints with database queries.

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The History of User Interfaces

A collection of classic user interface from 1973 to 2007. By Victor Ponamariov.

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Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors

If a state is important enough to indicate visually, it’s probably important enough to expose to assistive technologies. Learn how we can use that to create more robust styles. By Ben Myers.

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CSS complexity: it’s complicated

There’s lots of places in CSS to have complexity, but we tend to focus on selectors most of the time. In this article, Bart Veneman takes a look at other places too.

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