The Collective #913: 90s.dev, Web animations today and tomorrow
Your weekly digest of dev & design links
Codrops Publication
May 26, 2025
Olá, frontend friends! 👋
Here’s a fresh roundup of the latest frontend news, links, and resources to inspire and inform you. Whether you're looking for new ideas or just something interesting, we hope you'll discover something exciting in this edition!
Happy exploring! 💙
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GSAP's Site of the Week is Meet Your Legend, a beautifully crafted experience by Beaucoup Studio featuring a slick mouse follower, thoughtful transitions, and a logo/menu/loader combo.
gsap / web-trends
Andy Bell shows how to style <img> alt text and enhance fallback UX with CSS and JS when images fail to load.
accessibility / css / tutorial
A new web-based gamedev platform for building game-making tools using a retro OS-style GUI and a 320×180 canvas API.
game-development / tool
Crosspost lets devs post to Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, and more from one JavaScript API or CLI. Streamline your social automation.
javascript / library / social-media
Cassidy Williams shares how to style input[type="date"] icons using ::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator, solving dark mode issues.
css / tutorial
Join Penpot Fest in Madrid (Spain), Oct 8-10, 2025 — a celebration for open source, design, and code lovers. Enjoy workshops, talks from top speakers like Blender and GitHub, and great networking. Early bird tickets available!
open-source
A hands-on guide to building a lightweight blog search engine using word embeddings and client-side cosine similarity.
ai / python / search / tutorial
Patrick Heintzmann launches a personal lab to preserve and share his creative WebGL sketches, demos, and shader experiments.
three-js / webgl
Basement shares part 1 of a case study on their PS2-inspired 3D site—covering design choices, performance tricks, and custom workflows post-launch.
3d / article / web-design / webgl
A promising CSS proposal called Item Flow may finally bring native masonry layout support—and a unified layout model—to the web.
css / opinion / web-design
Matthias Ott's inspiring talk at the "beyond tellerrand" festival 2025 in Düsseldorf.
accessibility / video / web-design / web-standards
Ed Zitron eviscerates modern leadership, arguing tech and business are ruled by clueless, performative execs detached from real work and people.
ai / leadership / opinion / satire
Bramus Van Damme explores new and upcoming web animation features at Google I/O 2025, including View Transitions and @starting-style.
animation / css / video
Bouke Stam built a WebGL globe that visualizes 100,000 years of Earth's geography, sea levels, climate, and ice sheets using shaders and scientific data.
data-visualization / tutorial / webgl
Nikita Lisitsa explores life-like particle simulations in the browser using WebGPU, covering modeling, GPU binning, prefix sums, and rendering.
particles / physics / tutorial / webgpu
Antoine Wodniack open-sources his Webby-winning Astro portfolio for others to learn from.
astro / portfolio
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