The Collective #890

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The Chrome team gave us a look at how CSS absolutely leveled up in 2024—think scroll-driven animations, justify-self: center, and other cool tricks to make web design simpler and more interactive.

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Introducing the Windsurf Editor, the first agentic IDE. All the features you know and love from Codeium’s extensions plus new capabilities such as Cascade that act as collaborative AI agents, combining the best of copilot and agent systems. This flow state of working with AI creates a step-change in AI capability that results in truly magical moments.

The Chrome DevRel team shared a detailed recap of CSS advancements in 2024, highlighting features like cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, justify-self: center, anchor positioning, and more, all contributing to simpler, more interactive, and innovative web design possibilities.

Muzli highlights 2024’s most creative and unique portfolio websites, celebrating innovative design and showcasing cutting-edge trends across various industries.

The Pantone Color of the Year 2025, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, celebrates warmth, comfort, and sophistication, serving as a versatile foundation for creative expression across diverse industries.

Temani Afif shares a CSS technique for centering block elements with justify-self: center, highlighting its simplicity but noting limited browser support.

World Labs, co-founded by Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson, is a spatial intelligence company developing Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with 3D environments. This first article in their blog discusses their AI system that creates 3D worlds from a single image.

Henrik Karlsson reflects on the valuable lessons he learned about agency, collaboration, and aligning values with practical actions during his transformative three-and-a-half-year journey working at an art gallery.

Raymond Camden discusses using Transformers.js for running AI tasks directly in the browser, showcasing its potential through examples like sentiment analysis and object detection, while highlighting its simplicity, use cases, and trade-offs.

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A relaunch (in Astro) of the curated list of commerce products and services for modern store builders. By Jamie Barton.

Immersive Garden’s latest creation offers a unique journey into the poetry of David Whyte, capturing the most profound moments of his life.

Create isometric screenshots with this great tool by Shayan.

(From our blog) Meet Andrea Binski, co-founder and art director of UNIKO™, an award-winning design studio specializing in innovative branding and web design.

(From our blog) Learn how to create this powerful morphing effect with only JavaScript using the Canvas2D API.

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