Add Instant awesomeness to your interfaces with this insanely large icon set

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When you need to add icons to your interface, the whole process can really suck. “Should I use all these default bootstrap icons? Maybe I’ll just use the same Google Material icons for the hundredth time?”

Some important yet often overlooked things to consider when choosing an icon set includes, the size of the icons, style, consistency, and quantity. It’s frustrating to find icons that only cover half of the use cases you need.…

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20+ Best Science & Technology PowerPoint Templates

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of science and technology PowerPoint templates for making more compelling arguments in your tech and science related presentations. Every science presentation needs charts and graphs to engage and entertain the audience. Same goes for tech-related presentations. A presentation at a tech conference or startup meeting won’t be complete without […]
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Icon Fonts in WordPress – What They Are and How to Use Them (Manually/Plugin)

Icon fonts can be a very useful tool for WordPress sites. They allow you to add symbols and images to your website without slowing it down. That and other reasons are why icon fonts have become popular in recent years. If you are not sure about this topic, this blog post is here to help …
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Sharing React Components With Gutenberg

The new WordPress block-based editor Gutenberg is coming to the WordPress soon. While no one has yet defined where Gutenberg will next be used, its been well architected for reuse, which is great, because plugin developers can now use these components in other interfaces, in the WordPress admin and beyond. Because the Gutenberg team is …
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Swipeable card stack using Vue.js and interact.js

I recently had an opportunity to work on a fantastic research and development project at Netguru. The goal of project (codename: “Wordguru”) was to create a card game that anyone can play with their friends. You can see the outcome here.

One element of the development process was to create an interactive card stack. The card stack had a set of requirements, including:

  • It should contain a few cards from the collection.
  • The first card should be interactive.
  • The

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Exclusions will hopefully be like more powerful grid-friendly floats

Exclusions (which are currently in a “working draft” spec as I write) are kinda like float in that they allow inline content to wrap around an element. But not exactly a float. Chen Hui Jing has an excellent explanation:

An exclusion element is a block-level element which is not a float, and generates an exclusion box. An exclusion element establishes a new block formatting context.

An element becomes an exclusion when its wrap-flow property is computed to something …

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10 Tools & Apps for Testing Your Responsive Design

It’s never been more important to ensure your design is ready for every type of user—and device—before launch. While it can be tough to physically test on every device, there are some tools and apps to help you replicate a variety of responsive scenarios. With free and premium tool options, there’s no reason not to […]
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Prettier & Beautify

Aww, what a cute blog post title, right?

Prettier is an “opinionated code formatter.” I highly suggest using it. They have a document going deeper into the reasons, but their three marketing bullet points say it best:

  • You press save and code is formatted
  • No need to discuss style in code review
  • Saves you time and energy

But Prettier doesn’t do all languages. Notably HTML. It’s great at JSX, and I’ve gotten really used to enjoying that. But then when …

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ExpressionEngine Goes Open Source after 16 Years

In a post titled “Open Source Has Won,” EllisLab founder Rick Ellis explained why ExpressionEngine is going open source after 16 years. The content management system is an evolution of the pMachine blogging software first released in early 2002. EllisLab previously required a license fee to use the full version (more…)
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