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Rotating Words with CSS Animations

Cool effect. Lots of manual work though (per word you have to define a delay) — Now, where are those CSS functions and variables? Rotating Words with CSS Animations →

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Conversations are not competitions

Conversations are not competitions. Just because someone else is right doesn’t mean that you are wrong. An opinion that differs from yours is not an attack on your rightness. Failing to see that often leads you in the wrong direction. — By Nicholas C. Zakas, from Being right doesn’t matter

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Napkin for Mac

Napkin is the ultimate tool for concise visual communication. Painlessly annotate images or create diagrams and share the results quickly. Not only does it and the results look good, it also some contains some interesting user interactions. Napkin →

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Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

Extensive JavaScript Style Guide by Airbnb about just about everything in JavaScript: Types, Functions, Naming Conventions, Whitespace, Comments, Constructors, Performance, etc. — A must read for anyone who scripts the JavaScript. Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide →

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Adobe Creative Suite 2 now Free

Adobe’s now offering Creative Suite 2 (Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, …) for free. Sounds like a perfect deal for (my) students who are still learning the tools and are still learning (and most likely will only need) the basics. Adobe Creative Suite 2 Downloads →

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Spark SVG

Easily integrate sparklines into your website. Host it yourself, or embed the hosted version. <embed src="//sparksvg.me/line.svg?10,12,3,4,8,20,15,9,7,9,10,6,4,0,4,7,10,8,12,9,7,3,0" type="image/svg+xml"> Results in: The service also offers charts with bars and dots. Spark SVG →Spark SVG Test Page →

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Super Resize Me

Very fun browser game in which you have to constantly resize your browser window to have it match the box shown on screen. Simple, and therefore awesome. Super Resize Me →

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Elusive Icons

Extra icons for use with Bootstrap Elusive Icons →

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Flickable — A Zepto Plugin to Enable Touch Gestures on Any HTML Element

Zepto is great for handling basic gesture events, but for more complex touch interactions it can be lacking. Flickable allows you to make any element touchable; useful for flicking between sections, or sliding elements around the page. Flickable → Flickable Thumbnail Slider Demo → Looking for a jQuery flickable plugin? Check out jQuery.flickable. Note that …

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Trap Streets

From the cartographer’s book of tricks: deliberately introduce small errors — such as kinks in rivers, or the addition of small buildings, or exaggerated curves in roads, or the systematic alteration of minor digits in geographic coordinates, or even the introduction of entire fake villages — in your maps to know if a competitor has …

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