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Collective #551
23.9.2019
The perfect responsive menu * jsonbox.io * rgbShiftSlider * navi * Optimize Images for Web * Resume Builder
Collective #551 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Crypto and the Latency Arms Race: Crypto Exchanges and the HFT Crowd
21.9.2019
B2C2's Max Boonen discusses the convergence of high-frequency trading and the crypto market in the second of a three-part series
Collective #544
29.8.2019
SVG Artista * Optional chaining * Color Palette Generator * Label Studio * Perfect loops in Processing
Collective #544 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
The Making of an Animated Favicon
15.8.2019
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs.
That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is a much more precious screen real-estate than what most assume. If done right, besides being a label with icon, it can be the perfect billboard to represent what’s...
Ignore Crypto Twitter – Life as a Nocoiner Isn’t That Bad
18.7.2019
Crypto Twitter (CT) is filled with half-witted commentary and price predictions by so-called luminaries, maximalists, and influencers. As the price of BTC has dropped to four figures, the usual tweets from CT thought leaders has insisted that this is the last chance to buy bitcoin for under...
Wala Was Africa’s Perfect Crypto Success Story – Until It Collapsed
11.7.2019
Wala went from serving customers in Uganda to shuttering its payments app. Here's what sources say happened
Disruptive Projects Leveraged Networking Opportunities at Pitcher Perfect
27.6.2019
Innovative projects fail most of the time because they don’t receive the visibility. Brand visibility is imperative for any startup to stride the road to success. For that reason, events such as demo days and investor meets are held, so as to offer these projects a platform where they can put their...
Building a Conference Schedule with CSS Grid
24.6.2019
It’s hard to beat the feeling of finding a perfect use for a new technology. You can read every handy primer under the sun and ooh-and-ahh at flashy demos, but the first time you use it on your own project… that’s when things really click.
I gained a new appreciation for CSS Grid when building...
Pitcher Perfect On-Boards the Social Betting & Gaming Platform YOUnited
18.6.2019
YOUnited, a project revolutionizing the online gaming and betting industry, is all set to attend Pitcher Perfect organized by UCIM on June 21 in Hong Kong. Pitcher Perfect is a platform that connects nascent projects with high-impact investors in an intimate setup where they can network, connect...
How I Use CleanMyMac X
21.5.2019
[Chris]: I'm a lifelong Mac user. Ever since our family upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Apple Macintosh Performa 636 (CD) when I was in middle school, I've never owned or worked on anything other than a Mac. I'm pretty dedicated to running a clean, fast, optimized, safe, and organized machine....
Iterating a React Design with Styled Components
16.5.2019
In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs. There would be consensus among developers about the best way to approach styling. There’d be one or more CSS gurus on the team who could ensure...
Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project
14.5.2019
Creating CSS-based animations and transitions can be a challenge. They can be complex and time-consuming. Need to move forward with a project with little time to tweak the perfect transition? Consider a third-party CSS animation library with ready-to-go animations waiting to be used. Yet, you might...
Flow Object.values(…)
2.5.2019
JavaScript typing utilities, like Flow and TypeScript, have become popular in JavaScript apps of all sizes. As I mentioned in our Script & Style Show typing podcast, typing is a great way to implicitly implement documentation and validation. Flow isn’t always easy to perfect, however,...
TheWestTour: Ice, Products, and 2G
26.3.2019
“Do people speak English in Africa?”, “Do high school students have access to smartphones and computers?” These series of challenging questions made me know I was amongst the right crowd and the lo
Perfect Image Optimization for Mobile with Optimole
14.3.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
In 2015 there were 24,000 different Android devices, and each of them was capable of downloading images. And this was just the beginning. The mobile era is starting to gather pace with mobile visitors starting to eclipse desktop. One thing is certain, building...
Would You Watch a Documentary Walking Through Codebases?
22.1.2019
This resonated pretty strongly with people:
I’d watch a documentary series of developers giving a tour of their codebases.
— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) January 6, 2019
I think I was watching some random Netflix documentary and daydreaming that the subject was actually something I was super...
Three Questions to Ask of Every Bug You Encounter
19.11.2018
Bugs. Errors. Exceptions. Problems. Issues. Whatever you call them in the moment, bugs are deeply associated with failure. Specifically, our own failure to write perfect code. These “failures” can
Create the Google Button Effect with CSS
27.7.2018
I always found Google’s branding simple but grew to realize that was the beauty in their design; there’s something about “just enough” that is the perfect balance between bland and over the top. GMail’s design grew old over the years and Google just got around...
Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 2
19.6.2018
Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an "initial" version. I took some...
Here’s the thing about “unused CSS” tools
18.6.2018
There are a lot of tools that aim to help you remove "unused CSS" from your project. Never a week goes by that I don't see a tool for this being shared or promoted. It must strike some kind of perfect chord for some developers. I care about performance, and I know that reducing file sizes is good...