The Collective #888
Advent calendars * Love, derivatives and loops * Steel * Vince
Codrops
December 02, 2024
Olá, creative makers! 👋
Happy Monday, and welcome to December! You know what that means—advent calendars galore, and not just the chocolate kind. Whether you’re solving puzzles with Advent of Code, exploring daily surprises in Advent of Svelte, diving into challenges in Advent of TypeScript, or contributing to Advent of Open Source, there’s plenty to keep your brain buzzing this month.
Speaking of creative energy, Yuri Artiukh’s story about crafting a perfect looping animation—fueled by math and maybe a bit of romance—is both heartwarming and inspiring.
Wishing you all a fantastic start of the week!
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Yuri Artiukh's journey of using math and motion graphics to create a perfect looping animation in an effort to impress someone, blending love, persistence, and creative coding.
The Svelte team has launched "Advent of Svelte," a challenge to release one feature or improvement each day until Christmas.
Advent of Open Source is a community-driven event that aims to introduce newcomers to Open Source Software development, and to help all participants to create or enhance their repositories.
Advent of Code is back, offering its usual set of daily programming puzzles throughout December—perfect for honing coding skills, competing with friends, or simply enjoying the yearly challenge, with puzzles accessible for all skill levels and solvable in any language.
The second installment of Advent of TypeScript is here, featuring daily challenges and leaderboards.
An in-depth exploration of anti-aliasing techniques, covering traditional approaches like SSAA, MSAA, and FXAA, and presenting a new "Analytical Anti-Aliasing" method that uses signed distance fields for smooth, artifact-free rendering, offering a more efficient solution for achieving high-quality visuals.
An exploration of the pros and cons of structured editing versus incremental parsing, highlighting how incremental parsing can offer the flexibility of traditional text editing while maintaining the advantages of syntactic awareness.
Nolan Lawson delves into the subtle complexities of disconnectedCallback in web components, offering advice on optimizing cleanup tasks and improving component performance.
Sergei Nozdrenkov shared a prototype of a 3D "Street View for Coral Reefs," featuring a significantly expanded model that uses thousands of images to create a detailed, high-resolution digital representation of coral ecosystems for monitoring and research.
Hervé collaborated with Course Hero to create "Buddy Bear," a mascot designed as a comforting and supportive guide for students using the platform.
The Kolors-Virtual-Try-On Demo on HuggingFace lets you try out swapping clothes with AI.
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(From our blog) A simple yet cool image reveal effect created with React Three Fiber/Drei and animated using Framer Motion. By Colin Demouge.
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Animation Spotlight
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❓Did you know that…
…the first text message was sent on December 3, 1992? Engineer Neil Papworth used a computer to send the message “Merry Christmas” to a colleague’s phone via the Vodafone network. This simple act marked the beginning of SMS, sparking a revolution in global communication.
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