Collective #635
Inspirational Website of the Week: Grove Lust
Beautiful simplicity, unique colors and a fun interactive effect made us pick Grove Lust this week.
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Back/forward cache
Learn how to optimize your pages for instant loads when using the browser’s back and forward buttons. By Philip Walton.
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Pattern Collect
A curated gallery of patterns by awesome designers and illustrators
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Simple pie charts with fallback, today
Lea Verou shows a modern solution for pie charts with a fallback for older browsers.
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A Deep Dive Into CSS Grid minmax()
Learn how CSS grid minmax() works, with a detailed visual explanation for auto-fit and auto-fill keywords.
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ThreeJS starter
A fantastic Three.js boilerplate made by Francesco Michelini. It uses Parcel to create the bundle and Tweakpane for live updates. Here’s the demo.
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Tailwind CSS v2.0
Read about the new Tailwind CSS version that includes an all-new color palette, dark mode support, and a lot more.
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upptime
An uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub.
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Masonry Layout
Level 3 of the CSS Grid Layout specification includes a masonry value for grid-template-columns and grid-template-rows. This MDN guide details what masonry layout is, and how to use it.
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SvgPathEditor
A very useful online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths.
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Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83
An article that explains how Warp works, a significant update to SpiderMonkey.
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Standardizing <select> And Beyond: The Past, Present And Future Of Native HTML Form Controls
In this article, Stephanie Stimac dives into the past by going back to the beginning of HTML and tracing the evolution of form controls through to the present and the current state of working with them.
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Railroad switches game
A simple remake of an 8 bit minigame in ~150 lines of pure JavaScript.
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Simulating color vision deficiencies in the Blink Renderer
This article describes why and how we implemented color vision deficiency simulation in DevTools and the Blink Renderer.
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Draggable Blend Generator
A generator that lets you experiment with the background-blend-mode and mix-blend-mode CSS properties.
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GSAP Believe – Collage Animation
A very beautiful collage animation made by Shunya Koide.
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Interstellar
A tweakable demo made by Arnaud Di Nunzio.
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Inside the Mind of Samuel Day
What an awesome scroll experience!
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Building My First PC
Tania Rascia shares how she built her own PC in this great article.
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Kode Sports Club
A really cool interactive 3D tour for a spots club. Made by the folks of Merci-Michel.
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PAC-MAN Password Reveal w/ GSAP
A fun password reveal effect made by Jhey.
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Romanizer
A great project made with Vue.js: a roman numerals converter.
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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #12
Some fresh UI interaction and animation concepts for your inspiration.
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Coding the Golden Spiral City from the Creative Cruise Website with Pixi.js
Dive into a remake of Creative Cruise’s amazing golden spiral city using Pixi.js.
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