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Luna's Digest 8

The Digests are back, once again to keep track of my discoveries this week, whether they're articles, tutorials or just images I like. I'm going to try and add a bit more to them, but I'm not going on a fixed schedule.

Unfortunately I haven't found the source of this mesmerising gif.

Nine women don't make a baby in a month

Frederick Brooks, in his book The mythical Man-Month

A few links

  1. How I Sped Up My Site 68.35% With One Line of Code This title is not a clickbait! Good article on perfs and the use of rel-prerender
  2. Finda.photo collection of 10,000 royalty-free photos, potentially very useful!
  3. The Github danger Consideration of the relevance of entrusting open-source projects to a proprietary tool.
  4. 3 Typography Trends for 2016 (With Examples) of course, I have a weakness for watercolour effects on typography.
  5. Influencing Web Layouts with Print Layouts
  6. Mlle Karensac made a calendar with her watercolors that we can print, and it's very pretty <3
  7. Vertically Align Content With CSS Using This One Weird Trick "Front-end devs will hate me for revealing the secret."
  8. Vivus.js is a JavaScript class which allows you to animate SVGs to give the impression that they are being drawn. See also Walkway.js and SVG Animations with Clip path.
  9. 404sites a pretty collection of 404 pages
  10. High performance HTML A performance article that looks at HTML rather than JavaScript and image optimisation, that's a change!

A feast for the eyes

Lois Van Baarle

Pixel & paper