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Category: dev

‘aims to provide user interaction with very little or no Javascript at all’

css / design / dev / resources / tools
April 10, 2023

Ellegant CSS
[tehwill]

‘accessibility acceptance criteria testing checklist generator…’

accessibility / design / dev / resources
April 7, 2023

Accessibility Acceptance Criteria
[angusm]

a game for devs – ‘test your JavaScript knowledge’

dev / games / scripting
March 28, 2023

Save Indy using JavaScript!
[eric-ruser]

an alternative with ‘advantages’ and a ’possible drawback’

alternatives / design / dev / placeholders
March 27, 2023

ThumbHash: A very compact representation of an image placeholder [audionerd]

‘collection of 120+ basic SVG shapes for your upcoming project’

design / dev / graphics / resources / svg
March 23, 2023

Copy-Paste SVG Shapes
[garrettc]

‘create and test bookmarklets in your browser’

bookmarklets / dev / generators / resources
March 22, 2023

Make Bookmarklets
[linuslundahl]

Related resource: Bookmarklet Editor (dwt)

‘system font stack CSS organized by typeface classification’

design / dev / resources / type
March 20, 2023

Modern Font Stacks

‘simple CSS scrollbar editor’

css / design / dev / generators / resources
March 13, 2023

Scrollbar

Note:
“It’s recommended to use Scrollbar.app with a WebKit or Blink based browser for the best experience eg. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Opera, Brave etc..”

Information is provided regarding other standard CSS selectors which work similarly in other browsers, such as Firefox.

‘a structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax’

cli / dev / open-source / tools
March 12, 2023

Difftastic (github)
[rossburton]

Open source software (MIT license).

‘a lightweight note-taking tool to make your own’

cli / dev / open-source / software / tools
March 9, 2023

Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend (github) (demo)
[earth2marsh]

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