Collective #802

Welcome to Collective #802

This week served as a gentle nudge to embrace a slower pace. The holiday vibes are floating around, and many hardworking devs and designers are rightly taking some well-deserved time off. It does mean, though, that the usual whirlwind of writing, coding, and publishing has taken a bit of a snooze 😉

Hence, there was no Collective this Monday, and there will be only one more to wrap up the year next Thursday.

Wishing you the coziest of holidays! Remember to take it slow—sometimes, just kick back, hit play, and enjoy the show!

Happy reading!

Inspirational Website of the Week: Mita

Mita’s website has an overall sexy look with modern details. The scrollable “timeline” is very interesting and transmits an immersive feel. Our pick this week.

Standout Web Design Picks

The Kintone Developer Program provides a seamless tutorial for integrating ESP8266 with Kintone’s web database, making IoT integration a breeze!

Try it now 👉

🏎 Getting started with Web Performance

In Alistair Shepherd’s lively exploration of web performance, readers are playfully introduced to the importance of a fast-loading website through the dramatic tale of Ryūji’s encounter with murderous tortoises, followed by a user-friendly breakdown of web performance metrics.

🐈‍⬛ Using Generative AI to Detect Cat Breeds

In a cat-centric coding adventure, Raymond Camden set out to create a web app using generative AI to identify cat breeds from images, showcasing a playful front end with Alpine.js and a Cloudflare Workers back end hooked up to Google’s Gemini AI.

🌄 AI for Web Devs: AI Image Generation

In this 6th post of series about AI for web developers, Austin Gil is adding a slick dialog component to showcase AI-generated images, complete with button-controlled and programmatically-triggered features.

💬 Telegram – The mysterious messenger app

Itay Dreyfus explores the design of noteworthy products and this time he looks at Telegram, the cloud-based messaging service founded by the Durov brothers in 2013.