Collective #810

☑️ In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

Nikita Prokopov shows the evolution of checkboxes and radio buttons across operating systems, noting their traditional square and round shapes, respectively, until Apple’s recent departure from this convention with round checkboxes in visionOS.

🎴 Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS

In this edition of Reality Check, Andy Bell takes on an engaging grid layout, highlighting a unique treatment of background images that adds an interesting twist.

🧞‍♀️ Fake Glow Material for R3F

A new material by Anderson Mancini’s for R3F. With this you can create glow effects through GLSL shaders and meshes without any post-processing effects.

🖍 Web Components in Earnest

David Bryant Copeland writes about his experience building Ghola, a palette generator using Web Components, focusing on the Custom Elements API, design considerations, and insights gained from the process.

🦙 Ollama releases Python & JavaScript Libraries

The Ollama team announces the release of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries, which allow easy integration with Ollama’s features via code. Ollama allow you to use large language models locally.

🎨 Animating Font Palette

Mandy Michael highlights an exciting update in Chrome 121 that enables the animation of font palettes for color fonts, using CSS properties to define and transition between color sets.

🗜 Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

Daniel Janus discusses creating a lossy CSS compressor, using binary matrix factorization to reduce CSS rules, aiming to streamline and optimize CSS codebases, potentially identifying redundancy and optimizing stylesheets.

💥 Random Animations

Just a stunning random animation every time you refresh! Made by Etienne Jacob.

Subterranean Dreams

Nicolas Tilly crafted this interesting project using React Three Fiber, offering a unique fusion of sound and visual elements within a 3D environment.

Toggle Neon

Alvaro Montoro created this cool toggle based on a Jon Kantner’s work.

Outer Wilds Planetary

A beautiful Three.js demo created by Haris that made it into the Three.js Journey selection.