The Collective #888

Hey, creative maker! 👋

Happy Monday and welcome to December! You know what that means. There are so many advent calendars to choose from, and not just chocolates. Whether you’re solving puzzles with Advent of Code, exploring daily surprises with Advent of Svelte, taking on challenges with Advent of TypeScript, or contributing to Advent of Open Source, this month will keep you on fire There are many things like that.

I hope everyone has a great start to the week!

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Yuri Artiukh’s journey uses math and motion graphics to combine love, persistence, and creative coding to create the perfect looping animation to impress someone.

The Svelte team has launched the “Advent of Svelte” challenge to release one feature or improvement every day until Christmas.

Advent of Open Source is a community-driven event designed to introduce beginners to open source software development and help all participants create or enhance their repositories.

Advent of Code is back. A set of regular daily programming puzzles will be provided throughout December. Accessible at all skill levels and solvable in any language, puzzles are perfect for honing your coding skills, competing with friends, or just enjoying an annual challenge.

The second installment of Advent of TypeScript is here, featuring daily challenges and leaderboards.

A thorough exploration of anti-aliasing techniques. Covers traditional approaches such as SSAA, MSAA, and FXAA, and introduces a new “analytical antialiasing” technique that uses signed distance fields for smooth, artifact-free rendering, providing more efficient rendering . Solutions for achieving high-quality visuals.

We explore the pros and cons of structured editing and incremental parsing, highlighting how incremental parsing can provide the flexibility of traditional text editing while retaining the benefits of syntax awareness.

Nolan Lawson delves into the film’s subtle intricacies. disconnectedCallback Web Components provides advice on optimizing cleanup tasks and improving component performance.

Sergey Nozdorenkov has created a 3D “Reef Street” featuring a significantly enhanced model that uses thousands of images to create detailed high-resolution digital representations of coral ecosystems for monitoring and research. I shared a prototype of “View”.

Mr. Hervé worked with Course Hero to create a mascot, “Buddy Bear,” designed to be a comforting and supportive guide for students using the platform.

HuggingFace’s Kolors-Virtual-Try-On demo lets you swap clothes with the AI.

Open source browser API for AI agents and apps. Steel Browser is a battery-powered browser instance that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.

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Real-time screen sharing application built with Next.js, WebRTC, and PeerJS. Create or join a room to instantly share your screen with others.

litdb includes a LINQ-like type-safe SQL builder for TypeScript/JavaScript to create type-safe representations of SQL that are parameterized and portable between SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

(From the blog) A simple and cool image reveal effect created with React Three Fiber/Drei and animated using Framer Motion. Written by Colin Demouges.

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…Was the first text message sent on December 3, 1992? Engineer Neil Papworth uses a computer to send the message “Merry Christmas” to a colleague’s phone over the Vodafone network. did. This simple act marked the beginning of SMS, which revolutionized global communication.