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Worth Reading
David Walsh writes about 5 ways that CSS and JS interact that you may not know about
Viljami S. published a dive into plain JavaScript
Nicolas Bevacqua talks about how to design great programs
LESS vs Sass? It’s time to switch to Sass according to Zing Design
Evan Brooks wrote about how to make syntax highlighting more useful
Håkon Wium Lie shares CSS regions considered harmful
Wireframing is NOT prototyping according to Vandan Desai
Denis Potschien wrote about the capabilities and limitations of styling SVG with CSS
Umar Hansa wrote about working with LESS and the Chrome DevTools
CatsWhoCode published a bunch of handy and reusable jQuery code snippets
We published a tutorial on building a simple Reddit API webapp
Vectortuts published their A to Z of Illustrator
Elena Simionescu shares 15 powerful social media tips
New Resources & Services
TmTheme Editor – A color scheme editor for SublimeText
jQuery.keyframes – Generates and plays CSS3 keyframes quickly and easily
scrollReveal.js – Declarative on-scroll reveal animations
nanoGALLERY – Easy to implement jQuery image gallery
highlight.js – Javascript syntax highlighter
jquery-lazyload-any – A jQuery plugin for lazyloading anything
Designer Freebies
Meroo Flat-Styled Icon Set (110 Icons, PSD)
Twitter GUI Template (PSD)
Inspiration
Minimalist FIFA World Cup Poster Series
…and finally…
Comic Sans Criminal – There's help available for people like you!