Collective #435
23.7.2018
ndb * The Future of WebAssembly * Fractional * Farewell, Google Maps * 3D Toggle * Scaling Microservices * Front-End Performance Checklist
Collective #435 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Script & Style Show: Episode 16: JavaScript & LEDs with Kristina Durivage
23.7.2018
In this episode: Todd’s back from an amazing conference and David sees this week’s guest as being the ticket to making his kids thing he’s a super hero. The amazing Kristina Durivage stops by to talk JavaScript, electrical engineering and unusual uses of LEDs for programming...
Adding Particle Effects to DOM Elements with Canvas
23.7.2018
Let’s take a look at how to make web pages more visually capable by combining the freedom of <canvas> with HTML elements. Specifically, we will be creating a basic HTML-to-particle effect, but the same technique could be used for many kinds of effects.
Before we begin, feel free to grab...
Designing A Usable Contact Page In WordPress: Tips & Trends
21.7.2018
Every great website needs a contact page. You can set this up on a static HTML site or a CMS like WordPress which offers a lot of flexibility &...
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Your Body Text is Too Small
21.7.2018
Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text sizing today. Take this post by Christian Miller, for example, where...
Font Playground
20.7.2018
This is a wondrous little project by Wenting Zhang that showcases a series of variable fonts and lets you manipulate their settings to see the results. It’s interesting that there’s so many tools like this that have been released over the past couple of months, such as v-fonts, Axis-Praxis...
Weird things variable fonts can do
20.7.2018
I tend to think of variable fonts as a font format in which a single font file is capable of displaying type at near-infinite variations of things like boldness, width, and slantyness. In my experience, that's a common use case. Just check out many of the interactive demos over...
Building “Renderless” Vue Components
20.7.2018
There's this popular analogy of Vue that goes like this: Vue is what you get when React and Angular come together and make a baby. I've always shared this feeling. With Vue’s small learning curve, it's no wonder so many people love it. Since Vue tries to give the developer power over components...
WDRL — Edition 236: Dream Big But Stay Small; Simple, Correct, Fast; And 4 Days Per Week Work.
20.7.2018
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Building technology and software has become a very responsible job. We not only need to think about building an inclusive solution but also need to incorporate ethics, reliability and security. As developers we need to stand up for these factors and sometimes even need to stop other from...
CSS: A New Kind of JavaScript
19.7.2018
In this wacky and satirical post, Heydon Pickering describes a wild new technology called Cascading Style Sheets that solves a lot of the problems you might bump into when styling things with JavaScript:
A good sign that a technology is not fit for purpose is how much we have to rely on workarounds...
Accessibility for Teams
19.7.2018
Maya Benari:
Accessibility is a crucial part of government product design. First, it’s the law. Federal agencies face legal consequences when they don’t meet accessibility requirements. Second, it affects us all. Whether you have a motor disability, you sprained your wrist playing dodgeball,...
Collective #434
19.7.2018
Building the Google Photos Web UI * Color Wheel Generator * Jasper * Totoro Toggle * Grabient * 3D City with Matter.js * Halftone Effect
Collective #434 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops